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    Moans, ramps and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

     In Absence of True Seasons I’m not sure if that’s better or worse though - to have a spell of nice, warm weather for a week, then suddenly it’s single digit maximums again like January. It’s basically like the weather saying ‘spring here is here - just kidding it’s winter again’. 😂

    Seriously though, it’s been very wet and dull for most of western and Northern Europe since July last year. 

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    Moans, ramps and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

    A lovely day - plenty of sunshine and the wind has finally buggered off. 

     MP-R similar to March when Madrid was having lots of rain, sleet and even a bit of snow. It’s not been an amazing spring anywhere in Western Europe this year. Eastern Europe has been very warm though. 

    Moans, ramps and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

    26 minutes ago, CryoraptorA303 said:

    People are generally over the summer by September and want to get on with the autumn.

    If we lived in a country with hot summers then I’d agree - in places like Florida people are over the heat and humidity by September and are looking forward to something a bit cooler - but I think most people in this country are happy to see summer-like weather continue for as long as possible, simply because we don’t have super reliable summers in the first place. We need to make the most of whatever warm weather we get before the inevitable descent into gloom and darkness begins.

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    Moans, ramps and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

    From the BBC: 

    The Met Office predicts that by 2070, winters in the UK will be up to 30% wetter than they were in 1990 and that rainfall will be up to 25% more intense.

    Summers will actually get drier overall – with more heatwaves and droughts – but when rain does come it will be heavier, 20% more intense than it was in 1990.

    Wetter winters always likely as I mentioned recently, but it looks like summers might actually get drier. You’d hope with wetter winters that our reservoirs would be full enough to prevent water shortages during hotter, drier summers. That might require our government(s) to properly invest in our ageing infrastructure though. 

    I also personally wouldn’t mind wetter winters in exchange for warmer, sunnier and drier summers. That’s basically a Mediterranean climate.

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    Moans, ramps and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

     WYorksWeather yeah, it seems like people have become really reactionary regarding our weather recently. We get a period of warm, dry weather like 2022 and suddenly drought is the new normal - now we’re apparently going to become a rainforest or something. I think people need to relax a little.

    As far as I’m aware experts have always suggested that winters will most likely become wetter. The other 3 seasons are less certain imo.

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    Cold and sunny or mild and wet (at this time of the year)

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

    Really depends on the definition of cold and mild, as mentioned above.

    At this time of year, I'll take 11C and sunny over 16C and rainy. 11C feels pleasant in sunshine in early April.

    I'll take 16C and rainy over say 1C and snowing though. 

    Stockholm and Helsinki both recorded ice days this week with snow. I would absolutely hate that in April. 

    Northern Scandi has been even choler with temperatures in Northern Sweden and Finland falling below -30C, I wouldn't want that however sunny it might be!

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    August 2022

    in Historic Weather

    Posted · Edited by cheese

     Summer8906 August 2022 had 13mm here while August 1995 had 8mm, so 2022 was only very slightly wetter. Don't know about sunshine though. It was certainly a much better month than August 2003 in this part of the country.

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    Moans, ramps and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cheese

    Some big temperature contrasts in Europe today. Winter returns to Scandinavia with snow & a maximum temperature of 0C in Stockholm, while in Athens it's a balmy 25C with sunshine.

    The UK pretty much in the middle of both.

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