Froze were the Days

As I said yesterday temperatures will respond in the sunshine...here in Essex today we were just shy of 21c which was certainly warmer than forecast! 13c in Cambridge?...well that must have been under cloud and rain, shows you big differences in locations not that far away.

What all 10 days of it so far...blimey us 'coldies' have to wait a dam sight longer in the winter and in some cases kept waiting right through the season, I think the last few days have been a reminder of what our summers can be like though we have been spoilt since 2013.

It's just one day and it is under cloud and rain, soon as the cloud lifts temperatures will respond...certainly not use to these sort of days in regards to recent summers.

Interesting the continuation of strong heights to the north...just when recent summers we've always looked to the 'bubble' of heights to the south and a continental influence. Haven't been on here lately but any reason for the continued heights well to the north?

Strikes me the main reason why we've seen a comparatively cooler spring than last year or one's of recent years in layman's terms is the influence of heights far to the north which has affected the British Isles as opposed to the opposite and heights to the south and more continental type conditions which has been a regular occurrence. Interesting above post...if my location is anything to go I expect 'built on' to go through the roof in the next decade...'affordable' houses going up left right and centre, it's really sad to see farmland going this way and hypocritical of the government in relation to global warming.

Summer 2011 wasn't 'hideous'...I remember that summer well as I was laid off from work and had a few months spare, the beginning of each month strangely from June to October started either very warm or hot (including October)...daily weather was mixed and consisted mainly of sunny spells and showery activity with temperatures near normal, hardly hideous. Probably going off thread here...

How can it have been 'poor' when temps are around average (or fractionally above) and fairly dry?...as mentioned by scorcher I think we were spoilt last spring and probably also by recent May's which have been notably sunny.

'The old classics'!?! - that Jarrell tornado was horrendous, wiped out entire families in a small community as well as spearing numerous cows to death from straw...

Chilly ol' breeze out there today but again sunny...nothing exceptional though, I remember 40 years ago to this period in time when Maggie Thatcher was elected as the 1st female Prime Minister and I had a primary school trip to the Peak District and yes it was snowing although lightly with huge big 50p size flakes.

Well it needs to...as last year was pretty dry too, the thing is it will probably try to 'balance out' come this winter when a few on here would prefer drier and frosty cold conditions.

Don't worry about the wind, we need rain!...where the hell is it!!

Thinking exactly the same...it will only take a very warm sunny spell in May to turn things brown very quickly, it is exceptionally dry out there and had only 3.5mm of rain this month! As mentioned what's happened to the rain expected yesterday and today from showers?...absolute no shows, a few spots and that's been it.

More rubbish from the 6.30pm ITV News with Mary Nightingale...seems like it's becoming a theme with them to close it with an article about the weather with a statement which is generally incorrect. Talking about the impending warm Easter she said 'after the long cold winter' - whaaatttt!?! and then waffled on about how brits will generally be staying in this country rather than travelling abroad to get a tan but after this then produced a satellite image of the UK bathed in sun but not now but back in February when it just happened to be very mild...talk about contradicting themselves!!!...and I thought the Beeb was bad.

Weather practically always seems to come in from the east (of varying degrees) in April of recent years...yes we've had a consistently chilly one from the north east the last week or so (but bear in mind the CET anomaly so far is slap bag on average, so cold? no) but looks like it's now switching to a fairly warm south easterly which by and large happened last year for a longer period with an anomaly of +2.3c and a ridiculous high of 29.1c at St James Park, London. Welcome global warming...

I wouldn't bet on it becoming wetter the Atlantic has gone completely AWOL again as per this time last year...

ECM throwing up prime winter synoptics for cold...if only it wasn't April!, now there's a surprise!

8c here a few moments ago and grey...I thought this weekend was meant to be warmer!!

Just saw the end of the ITV 6.30 news and they finished with a few scenes of the current 'wintry' weather and before this Mary Nightingale said and to quote her 'and after one of the mildest winters on record' - whhaaaaattttttttt!?! do the media only earmark what happened in a winter on how it finished? the previous winter after the 'beast from the east' I remember quite a few quotes saying it being a cold winter...laughable!

Fairly pleasant out there when the sun comes out as there is no wind...possibility a few showers this afternoon but nothing untoward for early April unlike the BBC has been saying the last day or so with the over exaggerating (but nothing new there).

Signs already that the Atlantic is packing it in (same as last year when we had a Scandy high but with more of a south easterly to it)...question is will it be as dry as last spring?

Strange how the CET didn't go up after yesterday!...a warm day here followed by a relatively mild night, another mild month to add to the many.

?...not sure about that, felt quite mild even in the wind, sunny here but the continuous wind is getting on my nads now!

This wind is more continuous than that winter of 2013/14 (which arguably was one of the longest winters I can remember, for all the wrong reasons)...yes there were wind storms and copious rainfall but that was in the winter months not early spring and after a fortnight or so of calm warm February weather - that's what's making it annoying presently - if this was either October or November then more par for the course!

Amazing how the weather has gone from the sublime (back in February) to the ridiculous (this spell of miserable wet and continuously windy weather) - what is causing it?

Just went on the Mod thread for the first time in weeks - STILL a few on there believing we're going to get winter proper from the odd rogue run, never fails to amaze me.