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Arctic Hare

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  1. Not a bad day at all today. Very nearly completely dry for me (just one very light shower), an acceptable amount of admittedly quite hazy sunshine, light winds for the most part, and decently mild at 14.6 °C. Nothing special in the great scheme of things, but when you compare it with the last few months it feels like heaven!
  2. Palaeoclimatology, I believe, but essentially yes! But yes, fascinating to imagine that CC may bring the need for novel classifications. My hunch is that that's quite likely.
  3. Snowshine indeed! At eight this morning it was miserable and wet. But look at it now. What a difference a couple of hours makes! Some heat in the sun now; I feel a bit too warm in my raincoat.
  4. Scorcher Not sure how densely populated the surrounding area is, but Lima has pretty horrific stats on that. 1,230 hours a year according to its chart on Wikipedia. July and August there average about 30 hours each. None of which, of course, changes the fact that over here we are still close to the bottom of the table.
  5. WYorksWeather Quite frankly, and I'm sure those with more knowledge will point out I'm being unreasonable but still, I currently wouldn't trust the models as far as I could throw them. They feel like they've failed again and again in the last few months. Unless, of course, they were predicting weeks of gloom and damp, in which case they'll suddenly turn out to have the highest verification stats on record...
  6. Yes, and straight W'lies too, though somehow this winter it's managed to rain in almost any setup!
  7. ANYWEATHER Honestly, yes. Today had plenty of showers, yet because they were "traditional" spring showers with some warm sunshine in between, I felt much happier than I have when we've had dank murk from dawn till dusk. Tbh I could cope with days like this fairly easily, even if they would still be frustrating for those trying to plan outdoor events.* The key I think is the sunshine. Sunshine'n'showers in the old-fashioned spring way is not a big problem. Showers'n'showers, especially for months on end, is. So if we can get back to more like the mixed stuff, it will as you say be a notable improvement. * And the hospitality trade. I had a brief chat today with someone local and they said that they reckoned a truly dire summer (2007, 2012, etc) might well finish off a couple of Bewdley's pubs/cafes for good. I hate to say this but I think they're probably right. We just don't have enough indoor attractions here to be an appealing destination in wet weather, and since most of our visitors are day trippers they can decide on the spur of the moment whether to visit.
  8. Yes, I too was thinking earlier, "This actually feels like spring for once!" To be honest I don't so much mind a day not being entirely dry if the rain is as it was today: brief if sometimes sharp showers, but with periods of sunny respite in between. The max here was dead on 15.0 °C and while it wasn't quite T-shirt weather it wasn't winter coat weather either. Certainly vastly preferable in my book to our usual (of late) leaden skies and non-stop drizzle.
  9. From a purely weather/nature point of view it was superb. Sitting out in the garden, clear blue skies all day. The next day, sitting out in the garden, clear blue skies all day. The next day... I'm not sure I can ever remember a sequence like it. With the vast reduction in flights, not even contrails to break up the blue. Ravens and even a red kite coming close to my house, pretty much unheard of in normal times. Deer openly grazing at midday in the nearby fields. The daily exercise walk, never needing to carry an umbrella or wear a coat. Obviously not a period I ever want to repeat in terms of the restrictions. But in weather terms, bring it on this spring! Given we currently seem to be trying to out-dull the Faroes and Lima, the change would seem even more startling than it did in 2020!
  10. A mild morning here in N Worcs, but also dreary and grey. It's raining on and off, and the radar shows *far* more showery rain heading our way in the next few hours than any of the forecasts I saw predicted. Most of them had a completely dry morning. I've said this so often I'm a stuck record, but there is ever more clearly a systemic problem with under-forecasting rain at very short notice. It happens again and again and again, and I don't think it's just a case of not noticing when the error is the other way. I think it's that the error rarely *is* the other way.
  11. In a shock that nobody could possibly have foreseen, the consistently "dry morning" forecast for here has turned out to be wrong. It's raining.
  12. A little confusing having this thread for 40 °C being revived *and* a separate but heavily overlapping thread about the prospects of 43 °C!
  13. Hmm, I'm caught in two minds here. On the one hand we keep getting warm records or near-records and the current sea temperatures are pretty much off the charts. On the other hand it just keeps raining and we'd need an actual dry spell to get up to 2022 values. So I'll split the difference a bit, but still keep things on the high end: 37.7 °C on 1st August. Not *quite* hitting 100 °F but still very hot. I would *prefer* we don't reach that tbh! I know we don't have to guess the place, but for the sake of it, St James's Park in London.
  14. No hate here. While it's not my favourite kind of spring weather, offer me a cold *but dry* period along the lines of April 2021 and I'd take it quite happily.
  15. Surprisingly perhaps, *not* a total washout here! It certainly was in the morning, but by lunchtime it was dry and - get this - the sun was out! Didn't last and I got soaked walking back from the shops about 2:30 pm, but it's dry again now. You wouldn't call it a *nice* day, but not totally disastrous. Also, though it's not of much import with so little sun, 14 °C today, so feeling much milder than yesterday.
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