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  1. Another very mixed day today that I'd be perfectly okay with in late March if it weren't for the stupidly wet weather we've had for months. Sharp showers (just rain here), gusty winds but also some sunshine. Chilly yes, but not that bad when the sun was out.
  2. danm Oh yeah, hence the smiley at the end of my post! Agreed it wasn't representative, though plenty of places got well past 15 °C that month.
  3. B87 We've had 19.9 °C in the UK this very January, and it was also the last time we had a reasonably dry and bright spell. I admit the trick of getting the two to coincide may be rather tougher...
  4. That was a really excellent post all round, thank you. I want to pick out this section in particular, though, as I think the focus on temperature almost above all else is indeed a big problem. When the UK hit 40 °C in July 2022, for the vast majority of people (healthy people, at least) a week later there was no discernible impact remaining and in effect it had ceased to be a visible impact. It was just "something that happened and is now over" for most of the population. That is not the case for flooding, of course. If the river comes into your house, you're very likely to be spending months living somewhere else or even in a caravan. If the road into town is washed away, your economy is potentially in huge strife. This winter's rainfall has caused very significant problems: for example, the railway between Telford and Shrewsbury has been closed for several weeks now because of a landslip. And even on a less dramatic level, we've all seen what months of soaking wet conditions have done to road surfaces. The likelihood of wetter winters and more extreme rainfall events is probably what we in the UK should be emphasising more - a *lot* more - than more heatwaves in summer. The Met Office is doing that a bit more now with its comments about a warmer atmosphere holding more water. Serious rainfall/flooding is, for most people in the UK, a *far* more visible thing than a couple of extra degrees in a heatwave.
  5. baddie Either will do if they're the bright type. Neither will do if they simply mean weeks on end of murk and drizzle.
  6. raz.org.rain Urgh, hot and wet would be horrendous. Imagine non-stop humid tropical nights for weeks on end. Those of us (the majority) without aircon in our houses would barely get any sleep!
  7. Don I'll regret saying this if it actually happens, but for the first time today I found myself wishing for another 40 °C in July. For all I don't want it to be that hot, at least it wasn't wet and grey the whole time!
  8. CongletonHeat Yep, they've completely dropped the ball today. MetO too. I get that forecasting showers is often tricky, but that's exactly the circumstances in which you need to rely on the pros. If there's a massive band of frontal rain heading at me, even I can probably tell what's going to happen! I need the MetO etc to be substantially better than me for the *tricky* setups.
  9. In Ludlow right now, and it's been raining for the last hour with plenty more on the radar. Yet *another* failure of short-term rain forecasting by the Met Office. It's getting ridiculous now.
  10. This is what the Met Office told me would be "largely dry with sunny spells this afternoon"...
  11. And (after the early rain had stopped) *another* decent day! Who are you and what have you done with 2024?
  12. Another milestone reached today with my first max into the 60s °F of the year -- 15.8 °C is 60.4 °F. Reasonably sunny until things clouded over fully in mid-afternoon. Nice enough for a few people to be sitting in the beer gardens at the town pubs. I hope they don't get too used to that, given what's on the way later this week!
  13. 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!
  14. 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.
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