It is rather depressing and I can’t recall it being this bad before- I had no clear nights at all in December 2023, and just a few nights in January to April. May so far has been a little better.
Like Gary, I am a visual observer so that don’t need pristine clear skies for observing. My interest hasn’t waned of course, but I have noticed just how poor the Met office is at predicting clear nights. I now use a combination of sources including satellite 24 to make my own forecasts, the official forecasts are simply to inaccurate.
Cheers,
-Paul