When I was pretty young, I attended a sleepover at a friend's house. I have always been a light sleeper and woke up before anyone else ... Only to get concerned and wake up a friend to ask why there was a giant spotlight in the distance.

To be fair, my parents covered every window in their house every night and the room in which I slept wouldn't have had a good angle to see that directly anyway. He still looked at me like I was a dumbass before he answered, though.

Maybe it’s just me but it’s felt like a particular bleak January and February this year.

Happy to see some sun even if that also comes with the start of allergy season.

Sunshine was last recorded in the city three weeks ago, on 21 January. This is the longest sunless period in the area since Met Office records began in 1957.

Residents of the Granite City finally glimpsed the sun late on Thursday afternoon.

And the Met Office confirmed that 30 minutes of sunshine, external was officially recorded in the Dyce area in the hour up to 16:00.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14mlrd460vo

https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c17x8v0jj00o

2025 has been the UK's sunniest year on record

The Met Office has announced that 2025 has been the sunniest year in the UK since records began in 1910.

With two weeks of the year still to go, provisional data shows that 1622 hours of sunshine have been recorded, beating the previous record set back in 2003.

I think it's a tired joke tbh

The British get plenty of sun, about a month's worth of it, it's just spread across 365 random days that have no rhyme or reason to them, and usually one random hell week in summer where all you want it to do is rain cause it's so damn high pressure.

It's crazy.
I'm doing laundry, and I don't even have to hang it up in the bathroom to dry!

The Sun is white now btw. Weakening magnetic field and all that.

I saw it! It must be a sign from the gods.

As a Seattleite, I feel your pain.

"Idk but all of a sudden I have an urge to preform human sacrifice to make it stay...."

The big yellow thing is the sun!