If you've felt like it's been all doom and gloom in England in recent days, then you can certainly ... London and Birmingham have seen absolutely no sunshine for a whole week.

Met Éireann climatologist Paul Moore explains what's behind the gloomy, cloudy weather we ... 1941 where the number of consecutive days without sunshine exceeded 11 days, at various stations.

That means southern England had experienced just over 1.5 hours of sunshine each day on average in 72 days of winter. Areas of London have also been particularly gloomy. Met Office data ... may once ...

"There are a few days to go before any records may be broken ... and tomorrow then it would be a new equal for its longest peak in February with no sunshine." 'Gloomy' weather. Picture: Alamy Mr ...