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cheese

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  1. @Metwatch 2010 was pretty close, especially in the SE with July being quite warm. It's been a nice day here - plenty of sunshine and a high of 9.2C. No complaints from me. I would happily take this weather all winter tbh. My preference in winter will always be cold and snowy but mild and sunny is a pretty close second.
  2. 3 entries from the 90s also, alongside 1989. Shows nicely how the current warming started back in the late 80s (with the winter of 87-88 being notably mild).
  3. @Summer8906 I don't think the nice weather of spring 2020 counted for nothing - we still got out and about in nearby parks and country trails, and spent a lot of time in the garden. I live next to a major park in Leeds and I have never seen it so busy/packed as it was during May 2020, probably because there wasn't really anywhere else for people to go.
  4. @NEVES SCREAMER heard a song thrush singing this morning. Spring vibes.
  5. Another chase that will most likely end in failure. Enjoy, I guess? I heard my first song thrush this morning which immediately reminded me of spring/summer. Really looking forward to the end of winter now.
  6. @East Lancs Rain dry and mild suits me just fine. I wouldn't be opposed to a repeat of 2019 in general tbh.
  7. @In Absence of True Seasons I normally see those deep blue skies in spring more than summer. Summer blue skies are normally milky/hazy in my experience
  8. @I remember Atlantic 252 at least February can be very mild and dry though, like Feb 2023, Feb 2019 or Feb 1998.
  9. August 2022 was a lot more than just decent tbf - it was excellent. One of the best summer months of my lifetime. Right up there with August 1995 and July 2006. August 2012, August 2013, August 2016, August 2020 were all decent. Even August 2023 wasn't too bad. August 2015 was decent up north but I know it was pretty poor down south.
  10. A lot of snowfalls in recent years have been quite marginal and dependent on elevation, so while Leeds has done fairly well (even here at a modest 85m ASL), further east around York they have done very poorly with little settling snow. 2020-21 was a pretty good winter in general here with some decent falls in January and February.
  11. It wasn't particularly bad here - no worse than a normal winter storm anyway. Very happy the worst of the winds avoided here.
  12. April 2013 was sunnier and drier than average at least, even though it was chilly (the entire first week of the month had lows below freezing here). May 2013 sucked however - wet, cool and not particularly sunny. A repeat of 2003 would be very good. Pretty much the entire April-October period that year was good or even great (October was cooler than average but very sunny and dry).
  13. Might also be because these low temps are usually very isolated to the usual frost hollows, the rest of us will have comparatively unremarkable temperatures.
  14. I don't think winters are any snowier either. Even during mild winters we get a covering of snow at some point, there's nothing odd about that. Bearing in mind that a normal winter here used to have 10-15 days of lying snow, and very few winters in the past 25 years have managed that - 2009/10, 2010/11, 2012/13 and 2017/18 are probably the only ones. 2013/14 had no lying snow at all.
  15. True enough regarding June 2023, that obviously sets last summer apart from 2007 and 2012. July 2023's exceptional rainfall is kind of hard to ignore though. It was the wettest summer month on record for NW England with widespread areas of 200mm+, and quite a few stations reporting 300mm+. As wet as 2007 and 2012 were, they weren't quite that wet! July 2012 was worse than July 2023 in terms of temperature, but July 2012 wasn't as wet.
  16. A low of -6.0C this morning, which doesn't beat our low of -6.3C back in December.
  17. It's not impossible in the same way a repeat of 1962/63 isn't impossible - but the chances are extremely low. The baseline is higher these days so getting an entire summer that's wet and cold is increasingly unlikely. Even the summers of 2007 and 2012 were only average compared to the 1961-1990 averages.
  18. 2023 was kind of our 2007/2012 repeat imo, at least in terms of exceptional rainfall. At least up north July 2023 was right up there with June 2007 and June 2012 (I know July 2007 was the wetter month down south). And it's interesting that 2007, 2012 and 2023 all saw the weather improve significantly in August after very poor Julys.
  19. More fool anyone wasting their time chasing cold/snowy weather in this country tbh. Getting a plane to Sweden is probably a better idea! Agreed, hate the wind. A huge tree on my road came down last time, almost destroying a house, blocking off the road and destroying an old stone wall. The wind can bugger off.
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