Moss this year?

Hi, has anyone found the moss on their lawns is particularly bad this year? Mine in Essex is terrible and so is my dad's and his neighbours up in Yorkshire.
P.S. I'm a science writer so I might write about this issue if it really is a problem?

 

It's bad every year here Considering the garden is on a SE facing slope and the soil is reasonably well-drained, I put it down to atmospheric humidity. We grow impressive lichen as well and that really is a pain on hard surfaces!

 

The moss in my lawn is there every winter, overhanging trees, ground bone dry all summer and wet in winter, personally I'm not really bothered.
It used to be good before it became over grown by the trees.

 

My lawn is mainly a moss lawn, it seems to grow better after being treated with moss killer!!
Unfortunately it thrives on my light sandy soil.
I'll go at it again soon with the electric lawn rake but it will look the same at the end of Summer.

 

Moss is a symptom, not a complaint. Its the grass losing the competition for light and moisture. So to even the playing field (sic), correct the grass growing conditions where possible. Perhaps wrong grass species; probably cut too short, maybe compacted soil layer, possibly too acid. Moss is nature correcting blank space, where its the best option.

 

Always have moss on the front grass, shaded by trees and usually fairly damp. Actually the mix is moss, daisies, dandelions some grass and at the moment crocuses and usually primroses (new neighbour mowed them out the other week), far more interesting than a grass monoculture.
In the back grass area very little moss but the grass is kept in the range 3 to 6 inches, so you can't see any moss.