Map shows areas in the UK that have had zero hours of sunshine in November
If you feel like it has been a while since seeing sunshine you are not alone because some areas have seen no sun at all this month.
It is all thanks to the ‘anticyclonic gloom’ that is caused by high pressure that traps a layer of moisture near to the Earth’s surface.
This brings with it a prolonged period of dull and cloudy weather, but with pockets of mist and fog as well.
The bad news is that this weather is expected to continue until at least Sunday or early next week.
Spare a thought for the village of Odiham, Hampshire, which has recorded just 12 minutes of sunshine over the past 11 days.
For those of you flying out from London Heathrow to sunnier destinations it is a similar story – the airport has only seen two hours of sun this month.
Many other places across England and Wales have also seen no sunshine at all since the beginning of the month.
For those in the south of England, an average of one hour of sunshine has been experienced.
To make matters worse, southeast England and western Scotland experienced low-average sunshine in October too, along with much of England and Wales in September.
Across the whole of the UK, the country has experienced just 5% of its average sunshine for a typical November so far.
In contrast it is Scotland and the north that has experienced the most pleasant sunshine.
For example, Kinross, in Scotland, recorded 20.7 hours of sunshine between November 1 and November 7.
Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said these conditions are ‘unusual but not unheard of’.
The gloom is set to continue before a frontal system moving south on Sunday will start to clear the cloud and bring plenty of sunshine for Monday.
But cloud amounts will increase again by Wednesday, with a greater chance of some rain, especially in the north.
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