sawan

According to our local weather station, Coventry received a whooping 21 hours of sunshine in the first 20 days of December. Most of this was either in the morning or at the time of sunset.

Remember hearing some muted voices during June about July 2023 being as bad as 2012 as most of the long-term signals were similar to that infamous July of 2012, goes to show that in terms of forecasting nothing should be off the table! The low-pressure system seems to remain around our locale for the foreseeable taking us well into mid-August. Since being in the country for about 17 years I can't recall a hot second part of August. But it's likely that September and October will be at least a couple of degrees warmer than the 1991-2020 average, followed by multiple media reports...

All models have been toying around with building heat for sometime now, similar to building in an arctic high midwinter. My 'allotment indicator' portraying another poor summer so far with vegetables doing average at best. Let's keep chasing, it might happen at some point soon

What a disappointing day today, there was about 3-4 minutes of sunshine before 7 and that's it. Wonder when this dross will be over? I bet skies will be clear for moon watching tonight.

As this is my regional thread, would like to share my thoughts on the model output discussion. There have been great analyses and very informative posts. However, I felt this year it wasn't at par by any means, it lacked that spark, probably people were too busy due to home working and kids being at home as well? I hope next winter we have all those posters back in, full gun blazing

In my experience, it's as difficult to get snow here in the heart of the Midlands as on a coast

Knowing that it will only be shower activity which will largely be hit and miss, I would rather prefer wall to wall sunshine to get on with my allotment

Moderate snow here now, long may it continue

First signs of pivoting, easterly wind has brought the snow back here in Coventry. It shall be an all day event!

Absolutely amazing scenes last night, was out for a walk with my son near bablake fields when it started snowing by the time we got back home, everything was blanketed in snow

Strange to see a 'dry' forecast for sunday, I thought there was snow predicted for the Midlands tomorrow? Has it been downgraded as usual

Coventry this year has an active snow shield in place. Either the precepitation fizzles out or it changes to rain. Anyhow the best strategy is to expect the least, if it delivers then the excitement is much higher

What sort of temperature would you expect in the coming days John? In the Westmidlands, we have hardly seen much sun over the past few days with subdued temperatures, we have seen consistnlty lower temperatures compared to the forecast. Not sure if we will get to 30C tomorrow. Would like to see some sun even if the temperature is low 20C

Looks like it will be cloudier than average and might just be average or a little below. BBC's monthly outlook has flipped on its head, they now suggest that it will get cooler towards the end of June and beginning of July it will be cooler and wetter https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/outlook

23.4 in cambs on Wednesday