Weather-history

I thought we might get away with it this March in terms of wetness, but it is going to be yet another wetter than average month.

21st March 1983 was a very active day with showers, thunderstorms, gales, hail, snow, whirlwinds and even a shower of sea shells.

20th March 1989, remember this well. It was the start of Easter school holidays, it was a Monday. Rain moved in from the west during the early afternoon and the temperatures were such that there was a possibility that this could turn to snow. As the afternoon went on, it gradually turned to snow and by 5pm, there was a covering of snow on the ground. Went out in the evening to make a snowman during a graupel and snow shower. It was the 2nd evaporative cooling snow event within a month (the other was 24th Feb)

20 years ago

Timelapses I took from that period

Has anyone else noticed that the champions of that "worryingly dry" thread have been conspicuous by their absence in this thread?

For the 3rd March in the row, there was a wintry spell around mid March which brought disruptive snowfalls. 1978, 1979 and 1980. March 1980 had a CET of 4.7°C and was a wet month with an EWP of 102.2mm

CryoraptorA303 It has to be said that Morecambe is pretty sheltered from anything between north and east on the compass, so the January and February figures may not that far off. Castletown on Isle of Man recorded 97.1hrs that February, seen a report of 99hrs at some location in Yorkshire

17th March 1972 was a warm one for parts of the NW

Sunshine hours for Morecambe in 1895 Jan: 102 Feb: 135 Mar: 114 Apr: 220 May: 301 Jun: 346 Jul: 290 Aug: 231 Sep: 249 Oct: 137 Nov: 93 Dec: 59

Scorcher Seen sunshine totals that were recorded in Morecambe for the years 1893 to 1895 and I almost fell out of my chair. Surely these can not be right 1893: 2526 hrs 1894: 2412hrs 1895: 2227hrs

For NW region, July 2023-February 2024 sunshine totals is 649.4hrs, 15 hours more than was recorded than during the spring of 2020.

-0.9°C here

The Cheltenham Gold Cup has been delayed (1987 was a well known instance) and or raced through snow in the past but on the 16th March 1978, the meeting was postponed until the 12th of April as disruptive snowfalls hit parts of the south.

The lighter evenings are become more evident. Can still see a bit of twilight to the west at nearly 7.30pm

A Face like Thunder

10 years today, I recorded my first ever timelapse, that of a setting sun.

reef How bad has it been since the start of February, sunshine wise?

Just in time for Easter.....

Dee Atkins-Greig Welcome Dee Looks like it was an increasingly wet day

Summer 1940 is seldom mentioned probably because the previous winter overshadowed it but June 1940 was an outstanding month, exceptionally sunny. July 1940 was poor but August was exceptionally dry.

Summer 2020 was a really poor summer up here. Anyone remember Storm Francis at the end of August 2020? It was a very dull and the 4th wettest summer on record for the region.

Harry233 For the NW Eng/N Wales region, summer 2013 was the sunniest summer since 1995. That is a surprising stat that it came ahead of summers, 2003 and 2006 for sunshine

The wettest Spring on record for the EWP is 1782 with a total of 363.0mm and its also the 4th coldest Spring on record for the CET with a value of 6.1°C April and May were especially bad with the 3rd wettest April (it was the wettest until 2000) followed by the 2nd wettest May on record. April had a CET of just 5.1°C and is the 3rd coldest April on record followed by the 8th coldest May on record for the CET. Diary entries from the spring of 1782, written by an unknown man near Manchester From a framework knitter called Simon Reddish of East Bridford. "Memmorandum concerning the very floody spring. In 1782 April 25, a great flood May the 17: a great flood May 22 on Whitsun Wednesday, a great flood and a great many very heavy showers besides doth fall many days., and are intermixt with very cold weather, cold and bad for the time of the year." Referring to 22nd March 1782 17th May 1782