08:43 BST

  Yesterday was not as horrible as the forecast suggested. Rain was predicted for different times every time the forecast was revised. There was no rain until late in the evening, and instead of thick clouds during the day, they were thin enough for the sun to almost break through a few times. Mostly it was no more than a blindingly bright patch of cloud, but at least once the sun actually managed to pole a few fuzzy rays through the clouds. With an afternoon temperature of just 9° C it was a cold day, and during the evening it got a lot colder.

  

  The one definite thing about today is that at 7am it was just 1.2° C, and it is quite probably that the forecast for 8° C this afternoon, albeit for a single hour, seems consistent across the recent revisions. Other than that, everything keeps changing. The latest forecast shows dark clouds, and rain for 10am, 11am, and Midday, but as in the screenshot above, the rest of the day will be cold but sunny.
  To show how the forecast keeps changing, this is how the forecasters thought part of today would be like last night. They predicted light snow for 9, 10, and 11am ! It is only 5 minutes away from 9am as I type this, and I can see some dirty clous in the sky, and yet we have just had a few minutes of strong sunshine ! My thermometers say the outside temperature is now 3.5° C, and that is too warm for snow, but sleet could still be a possibility. All I hope now is that I will be able to remember what the weather was really like when I describe it tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning could start at just 1° C, and later it will rise to about 8° C again. There might be some sunny spells, and it will probably be a dry day.
 
  I can't say it with too much conviction, but I think that while the air temperature was quite low yesterday, and there was hardly any sunshine, there did seem to be a lot of infra red radiation coming through the clouds early yesterday afternoon. It is the only explanation I can suggest for why I felt hot in my black leather(like) coat as I walked part of the way to the pub to meet Angela yesterday. The rest of yesterday is described, along with my night, and this morning in my full archived page for today.

08:05 BST

  Yesterday was so horrible I seemed to have blanked most of it from my mind....well, sort of. I do remember that a fair amount of the day was more mildly dull rather than gloomy, and I am sure it didn't rain at any time. The temperature was around that awkward figure that is neither warm, cold, or mild - maybe I shall describe it as not that cold. It reached about 10° C in the afternoon, and only dropped a couple of degrees in the evening.

  

  I tagged the screenshot of the early morning version of the forecast (the picture above) as "almost like it is winter again", but maybe that should have been reserved for tomorrow, or some of the following days. Today has indeed started at about 7° C, and by mid afternoon it should have climbed to a glorious (sic) 9° C. It may have been raining before 7am, but there seemed to be no rain at 7am. A scattering of hours have a 20% chance of rain until 6 or 7pm when the chance goes up to 50% of higher, and it seems a wet evening is almost a definite. The whole day is going to be slightly gloomy. At the moment it is definitely duller than yesterday's worst. By midnight the temperature will have fallen to a level that can definitely be called cold - just 2° C, and the rain could fall as sleet at 2am. The highest temperature tomorrow could be just 6° C, and there could be a shower or two, but oddly enough, a lot of the day will be less dull than today, and there could even be a couple of sunny spells in the last couple of hours before the suns sets.
 
  I didn't do much yesterday, but I achieved a lot. I finally got around to replacing the "spinning rust" * hard disk in my best laptop with a solid state hard drive. It turned out to be a very simple job. I first used a bootable CD containing the hard disk partitioning tool gparted to copy the partitions of the old hard disk to the new Solid state drive. I  was fitting a bigger drive, and so I also used gparted to increase the size of the home partition to fill the new disk. The rest of yesterday is described in my full archived page for today, and it also includes my night and the start of this morning.

09:27 BST

  Yesterday started off very miserable. It was cold and very grey. Although forecasts on the day said no mist or fog, forecast from the day before did say there would be mist and fog. The reality was a thin mist that was part mist and part very fine drizzle. It did clear up, although a bit later than forecast - I think it was near to midday when the sun finally broke through. The afternoon was mainly sunny, and it did warm up to about 14° C.

  The forecast shows medium dark grey skies nearly all day now, but the chance of rain has dropped to just 20% at 1pm, and no rain is actually shown on the latest forecast. I am doing my best to be optimistic and see the clouds as only light grey, but they are sort of between definitions. It was a mild morning at 8° C, and it will be a mild afternoon at only 9° C according to the latest forecast revision. Oh well, it could get worse, and it looks like it will tomorrow when most of the day will be rather grey with rain falling from 3pm.

  Thursday's weather is currently looking "interesting". The BBC (Meteogroup) weather forecast for Thursday says sleet showers all morning, and the temperature as low as 2° C rising to maybe 5° C by midday. The Met Office is tending more towards sunny spells on Thursday morning, with a similar span of temperatures

08:17 BST

  Yesterday started off cold, grey and horrible. Unfortunately it set the tone of the day, and even when the sun broke through mid afternoon it still felt cold, and a bit miserable. Even the full sunshine for the last couple of hours of daylight didn't seem to bring the cheer it might have done. The afternoon temperature did reach 12° C, but without supporting sunshine it still felt chilly.

  All previous forecasts for this morning predicted mist, or even fog, but the early morning forecast (screenshot above) said no fog, and no mist - which of course meant it was actually quite misty !The temperature is not as low as shown in the forecast. At 8am it was between 7 and 8° C (I think the lower value was at ground level, and the higher at about 12ft off the ground). Upon refreshing the forecast web page I now see that the first sunny spells should start from 9am. That looks unlikely to me, but maybe we will get to see some of the predicted sunshine, or sunny spells, before the predicted 2pm finish. By late afternoon it could be 14° C (in the latest revision). Assuming there is enough sun to warm my front rooms up it might be good enough. At least the return of the clouds this afternoon will keep the temperature up tonight, and the latest revision says it could still be 11° C at 11pm. It's best not to think about tomorrow or you will be thinking of lots of dark cloud and a maximum temperature of 11° C.

08:11 BST

  Yesterday was the final sunny day in a string of sunny of sunny days, and it was like the best was saved for last. Maybe I only say that after looking at the start of today. Anyway, there was non stop sunshine from dawn to dusk, and the afternoon temperature reached a nice warm feeling 17° C. The only problem is that the sky stayed clear beyond the end of the day, and by 11pm the temperature had fallen to 9° C, and continued to fall.

  Maybe the temperature only fell to 6 or 7° C this morning, but the dark and gloomy sky make it feel even colder. Earlier forecasts for this morning predicted mist or fog. This morning's early forecast said not even mist, and yet it is misty, and it is condensing into dew fast enough to make it seem like there is a very fine drizzle out there (enough to make it a waste of time to water the flower beds last night). This misery may continue until 3pm when the sun may break through to give some sunny spells, and raise the temperature to 12° C. 6 and 7pm could feature full sunshine. The current prediction for tomorrow is for 3 hours of fog followed by three hours of mist. The middle of the day could feature 2 hours of sunny spells, but then white cloud will fill the sky. The only good thing is that the temperature in the afternoon could be 15° C.

08:05 GMT

  I'll just change a couple of temperatures, and what I wrote yesterday stands for today ! Yesterday was another warm and bright sunny day, but in one respect it is still falling short of being like summer. In the sun it felt very warm. The south side of my house, bathed in sunshine, was warm. The back of my house, the north facing side, still felt very chilly. The air temperature reached about 16° C during the afternoon after a cold start, and the temperature was forecast not to drop too far at night. 11pm was still expected to be 9° C, but I am sure it was lower.

  Today may be the last sunny day for several weeks. Today has started bright and sunny, and it will be like this all day until sunset. The afternoon should reach 17° C, and that will feel quite warm in the sunshine. The temperature may only drop to 9° C by 11pmm and it will continue to drop to 7° C by this time tomorrow when mist is forecast, and there will be a 20% of rain. The afternoon temperature should reach 12° C, and that is probably not bad considering it is going to be very cloudy. From 5pm there could be some sunny spells until sunset at 7.24pm because the clocks change to BST at 2am (or 1am ?) tomorrow morning.

07:55 GMT

  Yesterday was another warm and bright sunny day, but in one respect it is still falling short of being like summer. In the sun it felt very warm. The south side of my house, bathed in sunshine, was warm. The back of my house, the north facing side, still felt very chilly. The air temperature reached about 18° C during the afternoon after a cold start, and the temperature was forecast not to drop too far at night. 11pm was still expected to be 12° C, but I am sure it was lower.

  Today should be nice and sunny, but this current round of sunshine will end after tomorrow. This morning seemed to start colder than the 7° C shown in the forecast. It seemed to be barely 5° C to me, and it was either heavy dew, or frost on next doors shed roof (a large dark coloured roof tilted to radiate away any heat into space at night). This afternoon is forecast to hit 16° C, or a couple of degrees less than the last few days. It should still be nice, just not as nice as 18° C. Tomorrow, the last of the all sunny days for some time to come, will see the temperature rise to 17° C as a final hoorah ! Sunday could see several hours of sunshine, but also some overcast hours. The temperature may only reach 13° C, and in the days after that it just gets worse.

09:35 GMT

  It was a lovely day yesterday - almost like summer come early. The sky wasn't always pure blue. There were a few small fluffy clouds floating around, and on a few rare occasions one would pass in front of the sun for a minute or so, but generally it was a bright sunny day. The temperature reached a warm 18° C.

  Today's weather, and possibly the following two days, will be almost the same as yesterday, although today the temperature could be a degree lower at 17° C (according to the latest revision to the forecast). There will be no more than a very light breeze today, and that 17° C should feel very pleasant in the full sunshine.

08:46 GMT

  Yesterday was another nice day. After a slightly cloudy start the sun broke through at about 8am, and from then on it was a lovely sunny day. It was also warm with the temperature hitting 17° C.

09:25 GMT

  Yesterday was another nice day, and as per later revisions of the weather forecast there was almost non stop sunshine until sunset. It wasn't quite that good - an occasional small cloud would pass in front of the sun, but at a rather vague guess, it probably only blocked the sun for a few minutes once per hour, and than maybe only half of the hours of daylight. The temperature was originally forecast to reach 16° C, and it may have actually done so, but later revisions said 15° C.

10:31 GMT

  It was almost nice yesterday. There were a good scattering of sunny spells through a lot of the day, but the temperature never made it above 11° C. With a very light wind it didn't feel too bad, but except behind glass, it didn't feel any better than mildly mild.

09:35 GMT

  Yesterday was very sunny, and the air temperature reached about 12° C. Indoors, with the sun streaming through the windows, it felt nice and warm, but outdoors it was a different story. There was quite a gust windy, and that made it feel a fair bit cooler.

09:01 GMT

  Yesterday was generally very nice, but not always as good as it seemed. There was plenty of sunshine - almost non stop between dawn and dusk - and the temperature reached a nice sounding 14° C. The catch was that there was a fair bit of wind. It was light wind in the main, but particularly in the shade, it blew away any warm feelings, and could feel a bit chilly.

09:22 GMT

  Yesterday was very nice. There was plenty of sunshine, and the temperature rose to 13° C.

09:31 GMT

  Yesterday can only be described as wet, but it wasn't as bad as the weather forecast predicted. Until 1pm there was no more than a brief very light sprinkle of rain. Between 1pm and 2pm there was a heavier shower, and nothing until maybe 3pm. For the rest of the day there were no obvious heavy showers, but the light rain was fairly persistent. The temperature ranged between 8° C at the ends of the day to 11° C during the afternoon.

08:53 GMT

  Yesterday was like a nice spring day - which is what it probably was. It was very mild, almost warm, with the temperature reaching 14° C, and still 10° C at midnight.

09:20 GMT

  Until about 11am it was bright with lots of sunny spells yesterday.The afternoon was generally dull, but the sun almost broke through the clouds a few times. It stayed dry, and the late morning/afternoon temperature reached 12° C.

12:15 GMT

  Yesterday's bright, and often sunny morning lasted longer than the most optimistic version of any forecast. The rain predicted for some time (the actual time kept changing) never happened, and I think there were even a few brief sunny spells instead. There may have been some rain last last night. The temperature was highest in the late morning when it was 11° C, and then the forecast said it would drop a degree or so, but I have a feeling it actually went up a degree or two for a while before falling to 8° C as the day ended.

09:57 GMT

  Yesterday featured rain in the late evening, but most of the daylight hours were bright, and there were quite a lot of sunny spells through the day. It was only 12° C at best, and yet somehow it didn't seem to be as cool as 12° C on previous days.

08:24 GMT

  Yesterday featured quite a lot of rain, but very little, if indeed any was what I would call heavy rain as predicted in the weather forecast. I think I would describe it as frequent falls of drizzle. It was enough to water the garden, and that almost excuses it. If it wasn't rain the sky was still rather dull. The temperature reached 12° C, and for a while, in the morning, when it was dry, it felt almost comfortable.

08:13 GMT

   Yesterday morning was a bit dull, but the afternoon was bright, and frequently sunny. It was a dry day, and the temperature peaked at a fairly pleasant 14° C.

08:28 GMT

   Yesterday was a great disappointment. The forecast for the temperature, 12° C, was about right, but it was a bit windy, and so felt a fair bit cooler. It was the amount of sunshine that was very wrong in the forecast. Instead of clear blue skies, and non stop sunshine, there were just a few hours of sunny spells in the early afternoon, and just a couple in the morning. From late afternoon the sky was very cloudy with just a few small blue patches visible now and then. The clouds looked heavy enough for rain, and maybe there was a light shower sometime in the night.

09:09 GMT

   Yesterday was nice and sunny, but it still seemed to feel very chilly. The morning started with a frost, and it seemed to take ages before the temperature hit 10° C. The peak temperature was 11° C, but I think it only reached that for an hour or two. The threat of some late evening rain disappeared from the forecast by the 9 or 10am revision, and I am sure it did stay dry, but it was cloudy enough to keep some of the warmth in.

08:10 GMT

   One the one hand it was nice yesterday because of all the sunshine, and on the other hand it was nasty because of the low temperature, and biting wind. The day ranged between 4° C in the morning, 3° C in the late evening, and a poor high of 5° C in the afternoon.

07:53 GMT

   Yesterday's weather was closer to the forecast for today than the forecast for yesterday. The temperature forecast was about right - it was a mostly chilly day with the temperature only reaching 7° C for a short while. The thing which was very wrong was that amount of sunshine. There were some quite long sunny spells, and some shorter ones popping up through the afternoon. It could almost have been described as a sunny day instead of the rather gloomy picture painted by the weather forecast.

10:16 GMT

   The main feature of yesterday's weather was that it was ruddy cold. The afternoon temperature was only 6° C, and by midnight it had fallen to 4° C. It was  a very dull day, but there was not as much rain as forecast. It wasn't really until very late evening that there was any significant rain, and even that didn't seem heavy.

08:02 GMT

   The weather forecast, even the later revisions, got the weather rather wrong yesterday. The forecast said rain starting from 9am, and continuing until midnight. Some of it was supposed to be heavy rain. In reality the first rain, which was just a few minutes of very light drizzle, barely enough to wet the ground, started around 2pm. By 4pm it was obvious that some light rain had been falling, and from then on there was more light rain. I am not aware that there was any heavy rain at all yesterday. The temperature forecast was similarly wrong. It said the temperature would fall from 9° C at 8am to 7° C by 2pm. The starting temperature was close to 10° C, and it was still 10° C at 4 or 5pm. It is even possible it was higher than 10° C at times. Sadly the forecast for sunshine was correct - there was none !

08:44 GMT

   Yesterday's weather was considerably better than the forecast predicted. The most important thing was that there were many more sunny spells than forecast. Most were during the morning, but there were some in the afternoon, and even when the sun wasn't actually shining it was still fairly bright outside - particularly when compared with some of the recent very gloomy days. The other thing was that the temperature reached 12° C earlier, and for far longer than the forecast predicted. For a while my thermometers agreed that it had hit 13° C, and one even said 14° C for a short while.

08:18 GMT

   Once again it was another filthy day yesterday. There was some full rain, but mostly it was drizzle that drizzled for much of the day. To make matters worse. with the temperature hanging around 7° C, it was also a cold day.

07:47 GMT

Yesterday was a bloody horrible day. It was grey. It was wet, and it was cold. Rain, mostly in the form of a very light drizzle, persisted through most of the day, although there were a few periods when no rain fell. The temperature was a cold and clammy 8° C.

08:04 GMT