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Arctic Hare

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  1. As I bore everyone to death by constantly banging on about, if it's *dry* this spring I'm less fussed about the temperature, within reason. I would like some sunshine, though. My ideal would be a warm, dry spring rather than a hot summer, since especially later in the summer I don't really like serious heatwaves as the humidity tends to go through the roof. 20 °C on Easter Day (31 March) would be quite a lot more to my liking than 40 °C in late July! Edit: though admittedly the extreme 2022 heatwave was surprisingly bearable to be out in because humidity was very low.
  2. Normal service has indeed been resumed! The bright morning the MetO predicted has not happened, with the rain arriving several hours earlier than forecast. Once again, short-term rain forecasting is really quite noticeably poor even nine hours out. I'm aware it's a very hard thing to forecast, but improving this would be much more useful to many more people than having a six-day forecast be as good as a five-day one.
  3. It has been a very pleasant day, with a decent amount of sunshine (for once) and yet still enough of a nip in the air to remind us that it's still winter. I could get used to conditions like this! Not that I will, since it's back to murk and damp tomorrow, but at least there's been a bit of a respite and so the river is now on its way down.
  4. I will accept that if, and only if, we get a repeat of spring 2020 with days on end of sunshine and blue skies! Not that in reality I have any choice in the matter, obviously. But yeah. With month after month of wetter than average conditions, the ground is now so wet that even a moderate amount of rain sends river levels shooting up (as seen in the graph I posted). In terms of risk of any significant flood, rather than one-off exceptional events, I'm struggling to remember a worse time. Even the 2007 floods, though undeniably extreme, were confined to a couple of months.
  5. Here we go again... the flood barriers are going up in Bewdley for about the fifth time this winter - I've lost count tbh. Can we please, please have a drier than average month, not just a few days?
  6. Absolutely, it's one of those times where the overall monthly figure can be a tad misleading. It certainly didn't feel like a sunny January overall, at least where I am.
  7. The expected foul morning here: 3.6 °C and steady moderate rain. I suppose there may have been a "sleet flake" or two before dawn! Always look on the bright side of life, etc etc. Though the Severn is rising fairly fast again. Currently projected to top out around 3 metres, which won't cause problems with a reasonably dry week hopefully. Always look etc etc again! Mind you, anyone who wants a cool, wet spring, I'd advise not standing near me when you say it.
  8. Bar a big surprise, I expect tomorrow to be an utterly dire day here in lowland Worcestershire. Cold rain, perhaps sleety, pretty much the entire day. Bring on spring!
  9. As long as trains are running on Saturday, I'd love to see a thin blanket of snow glistening in the sun! Much nicer than hours of cold rain, certainly. Anything sufficient to still disrupt the transport that day would be a total disaster for me personally, so oddly enough it would make my winter *worse*, not better! I appreciate that's just me, though. As I say, my own ideal would be a nice sunny winter wonderland but not too much to stop transport. That would be perfect.
  10. Would be just my luck if it was really snowy on 9th/10th... the 10th is the one day this month I really need to travel, to see friends I haven't seen for ages and won't have another chance for ages! So sorry folks, nope, not joining the "please let it happen" group for this one. Though the 11th would be OK... Just a pre-emptive whinge that may turn out irrelevant anyway, so clearly one for this moans thread!
  11. I definitely seem to have flipped early to "let's get to spring" mode this year. I really have little interest in a cold spell in the middle of February this time. A really nice very mild spell (high teens) before month's end would be welcome in these parts, as long as it was a dry one. Ideally with a decent amount of sun as well, of course!
  12. The wind was really a factor at times today, especially in late afternoon. Not a perishingly cold day for January, but quite a shock to the system! Shame there was so little sunshine. The coming days look supremely dull, in every respect.
  13. The 19.6 °C is now up on the MetO Twitter as a new provisional high.
  14. Yep, me too. Actually if we're going to go there then we might as well do it full-on and break the Feb all-time max. We have 21.2 °C at Kew Gardens in 2019 to beat. The way things have been going in recent years, I suspect it will go this decade even if not this year.
  15. As with some others, it's increasingly conditions rather than temperature that matter to me. Boxing Day here was lovely: a cold, frosty morning leading into a chilly, sunny day. That's a really nice winter's day to me. I have very little interest in murky wet days at any time of year, regardless of what the thermometer says, especially if they lead to flooding. These days my favourite season is spring, though we've had rather too much of the cloudy grot in recent years and less of the interesting changes and contrasts that a "traditional" spring contains. In general, by Easter I definitely want warm, sunny weather. Easter is at the end of March this year so 20 °C will be unlikely, but nevertheless I'd like it.
  16. I strongly suspect that what will actually happen is a miserable cold, wet spell around Easter (31st March this year) at which point half of NW will do the "If only it was January!" thing. Frankly, give me an Easter of high teens and sunshine over that any day. Now, I don't have any proper evidence that this will happen. It's just what I expect.
  17. Yeah, it was incredibly frustrating. Likewise I have a garden and I also have a pleasant country lane nearby that I could take my exercise walks along. But it still wasn't any substitute for being able to travel to all the places I'd usually want to go in such a glorious spring. Probably my absolute favourite weather, since it's warm but also fresh. And we couldn't make the most of it.
  18. D'oh! Apologies, that one was just me having a brain fade. I think one other thing that's maybe relevant: we all need to remember that if we're replying to someone we're doing it on a public forum, not in a private message. So a reply that consists only of "Yeah, I agree!" isn't a particularly good choice. I think you (Paul) mentioned that part of the thinking behind this change was to get people to include a bit more context in their posts as a matter of course. If that happens then absolutely it's a good thing.
  19. Right now I'm in two minds, but probably more on your side of things. I'm not an IT professional, but I have been online for a quarter of a century and using message boards for most of that time. I have to say I very much dislike seeing posts like for example "@-whoever I remember that, it was quite a month!" since it makes no sense out of context and finding the original post is harder than it used to be. I didn't actually think the old system was a particular problem, so I was surprised to see it change. But then maybe I'm biased as a couple of other forums I've moderated over the years actually introduced the quote button during my time rather than removing it, and I think NW is the first place I've ever used that's taken it away. Having said all that, I do take @Paul's point that significant changes tend to be unpopular at first even if people get used to them later, so I do think it's fair to let things bed in. Certainly it would help a lot if there were an easy way to see the earlier post contents inline, as that's by far the biggest irritation for me when I see a post like the example one I mentioned above. As things stand I can a) guess what it was, b) scroll back to try to find it, or c) get fed up and ignore it. I am finding myself doing c) quite a bit tbh.
  20. I mean, I'd even take a repeat of winter 2019/20 if we could then have a repeat of the record-breaking sunshine of spring 2020... but without everywhere being closed!
  21. Jocelyn was definitely worse than Isha here too. We had a fairly sizeable tree down in a nearby lane, blocking it completely, something which didn't happen anywhere during Isha. Seems to have been very patchy, though. No power cuts here, for example, despite other parts of Worcestershire having them.
  22. Made it down to -8.1 °C last night, which is truly exceptional for here, possibly (I don't have detailed enough records) the coldest night without snow cover for at least a decade. (Dec 2010 certainly had a number of colder nights, but most of those were with snow cover.) Anything below -5/-6 takes some doing here. Certainly felt perishing when I went out at 7:45 this morning! A very nice winter's day once the sun was up, though. I'll miss this when the cloud and rain sweep back in.
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