Worst band conditions ever?

How's your operating experience these days?  Over here, apart from brief periods of good upper HF conditions, propagation is, without doubt, the worst I can remember over the last 10 years, and has been so for a good two or three weeks now.

Even 2m is pretty dead today, with very limited propagation to the northeast of England.  On most days prior to this hiatus, I can get to most parts of the UK, northern France and Belgium.  But not these days!

Ah well!  Best I could do today was to be in awe of the cumulonimbus clouds building up around lunchtime.  No lightning yet!