I dont understand this weather?
We have all seen the weather for the last week or so.
Today was typical.
The base was around 1,600 feet and tops were 3,000 feet. Above 3,000 gin clear, no build ups, just solid beautiful VMC in hot sunshine. So thats a mere 1,400 of cloud that is making conditions below miserable and making us all wonder what happened to Summer. The descent through on the procedure was like going from summer to winter in 5 minutes flat.
There is high pressure to the south west.
In all my years of flying I cant remember such a long period of a shallow overcast that the sun appears incapable of "burning" through during the day, particularly in a SW air stream (as gentle as it is) to stir the atmosphere up a bit.
I cant remember the due point today. However the cloud cover although solid didnt appear all that moist.
Any ideas why it is so readily staying put and why we have conditions that to me seem very unusual for the time of year?