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Quite the opposite actually. I'm usually in a better mood on a cloudy day. Unless it's uncomfortably warm and humid, I enjoy being out and about on cloudy days. I also like the "coziness" of home on cloudy/rainy/snowy days. Of course my life doesn't revolve around whether it's sunny or cloudy, but I'm often in an elevated mood on those days.
I don't mind overcast, windy, wet and dark days in early winter at all until we get to five or six in a row with no sun or until we get to February and I'm bored with it all, because winter in my mind is meant to be dull and grey, though I've loved the 80-90% sunshine we've had today. The worst days for me in terms of depressing weather would be the 15C, sunless and wet days in midsummer you get a lot of up north, but thankfully there aren't anywhere near as many down in London. On days like that in July you just feel cheated.
So sorry to criticise your beloved “ugly” sunny and dry conditions.
Not everyone shares the same preferences as you.
It’s funny considering you’re not a big fan of wet and cloudy weather yet Wellington doesn’t exactly provide the opposite.
Wellington was the wettest out of all NZ main centres last year – over 1500mm of rain to be exact – lucky you and around 2000 (give or take) hours of sun too which makes you even more luckier, not to mention the highest number of NIL days of sun.
That kind of amounts would suit me just fine.
OK, will try again.
(1) I know W'gton doesn't provide all I want weather wise.
(2) As a realist, I don't complain about it, though if the place went into several years of sunshine decline (unlikely) I would consider moving.
(3) 2010 was the cloudiest year since 1992 - in fact the 2nd cloudiest since 1983 -more noticeable because of the large overall surplus in the intervening years.
(4) Despite 2010 being the 4th even-numbered year in a row with a rainfall surplus, the 30-year average has dropped from 1249mm to 1219mm (loss of the very wet period 1974-1980)
(5) Don't care about nil sun days for a given sunshine total - it also means more days at the other end of the spectrum. Even at 80% of possible I'd be happy with a couple of nil days in a month to up the blue dome count.
London's coldest July day in the past 30 years was on 27th July 2005, when the high only reached 16C.
Shows the microclimate between north London and Heathrow then. As well as the extra 100+ sun hours a year they somehow get there it's nearly always cooler here at 120m asl. That day only got to 14.5C. There have only been a handful of 15s in July in the past 30 years here, though two real shockers I've found were 12.0C on 27/6/97 and 12.9C on 9/7/80. July 1980 had a mere 9 days above 70F, which must have been pretty miserable.
While I agree long stretches of cloud can be drab, I won't want every day to be sunny. Some mostly cloudy or bright overcast days can have an interesting character to them. I like cloudy days where a bit of sun peaks through and you can see the shapes of clouds. Especially if the vegetation is green. Here's some examples of cloudy skies I like:
I don't mind overcast, windy, wet and dark days in early winter at all until we get to five or six in a row with no sun or until we get to February and I'm bored with it all, because winter in my mind is meant to be dull and grey, though I've loved the 80-90% sunshine we've had today. The worst days for me in terms of depressing weather would be the 15C, sunless and wet days in midsummer you get a lot of up north, but thankfully there aren't anywhere near as many down in London. On days like that in July you just feel cheated.
Overcast, windy, wet, dark days...I feel oddly elated reading that. Strange, I know. I especially love the darkness and eeriness that comes right before thunderstorms or heavy rain.
I appreciate those cool, wet, sunless days during the summer even more since the summers here are generally warm and sunny. I can understand that would annoy you considering summers are pretty marginal in parts of the UK. 15 C days where I live are very rare during the summer, but are more likely to occur in Upstate New York or parts of Northern New England. Lowest high temperatures we might see during the summer are around 65 F, but only a couple times at most. After weeks of sunshine and highs in the 80s and 90s, those sort of conditions are welcomed and refreshing.
Last year on June 9th we had a high of 15 C and a low of 6 C.
While I agree long stretches of cloud can be drab, I won't want every day to be sunny. Some mostly cloudy or bright overcast days can have an interesting character to them. I like cloudy days where a bit of sun peaks through and you can see the shapes of clouds. Especially if the vegetation is green. Here's some examples of cloudy skies I like:
(all in southern Vermont)
The first pic would count as a sunny day in Toronto.
While I agree long stretches of cloud can be drab, I won't want every day to be sunny. Some mostly cloudy or bright overcast days can have an interesting character to them. I like cloudy days where a bit of sun peaks through and you can see the shapes of clouds. Especially if the vegetation is green. Here's some examples of cloudy skies I like:
Overcast, windy, wet, dark days...I feel oddly elated reading that. Strange, I know. I especially love the darkness and eeriness that comes right before thunderstorms or heavy rain.
I appreciate those cool, wet, sunless days during the summer even more since the summers here are generally warm and sunny. I can understand that would annoy you considering summers are pretty marginal in parts of the UK. 15 C days where I live are very rare during the summer, but are more likely to occur in Upstate New York or parts of Northern New England. Lowest high temperatures we might see during the summer are around 65 F, but only a couple times at most. After weeks of sunshine and highs in the 80s and 90s, those sort of conditions are welcomed and refreshing.
Last year on June 9th we had a high of 15 C and a low of 6 C.
Shame the data's a bit hard to follow and it doesn't give rain hours and sun hours - my estimate would be 150-200 rain hours and 50 sun hours. Incredibly bad even for there.
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I especially love the darkness and eeriness that comes right before thunderstorms or heavy rain. 
