cheeky_monkey

Froze were the Days TBF the average max in February for London and much of southern England is around 9c

1983 is the most underrated summer of the 20th C end of discussion.

My question is if superior beings (aliens) exist why do they always appear to be naked ?..maybe they couldn't get passed the flared trousers and platform shoes stage and reverted back to birthday suits ..maybe that's the great filter? if so are we the first species to get past it?

Bricriu E17boy discount a strong basin wide El Nino at your peril ..there is your head scratcher and winter overriding factor IMO

kold weather actually 2.0c puts this El Nino in the very strong category ...moderate is below 1.5c...it has been above 1.5c since August ..so its always been a basin wide strong event which doesn't favour cold conditions across the NA or Western Europe ..which is exactly what has happened...discounting El Nino as a factor was fool hardy

lassie23 oh i dont know... met few people from Uranus on the roads this morning

I was living in Calgary in the summer of 2012..on the contrary to the UK it was one of the hottest summers on record for Western Canada

jules216 February 1983 was cold and snowy in the UK ..other than that getting a cold month with a strong El Nino was always going to be a big ask

Summer8906 if you grew up prior to the 1990s then summers today are something you could only dream of back then..+30c days were a rare beast

ManiaMuse sunset is past 5.30pm here now ..sunrise is still past 8am though

SunnyG im still unsure why the UK shuts schools because of snow ..here in Edmonton if that was the case they would be shut 6 months of the year..never closed when i was at school

raz.org.rain they are not anomalies they % probabilities of the temp being above normal for the period

ANYWEATHER schools never close here ..even when its -50c and there is a foot of snow.

raz.org.rain only Modki ElNino favour cold block pattern.. basin wide events which is what we have had all winter favour wet and mild to prevail which is what has happened but do they do favour colder wetter springs see 1998 for example cold miserable April

*Stormforce~beka* im so looking forward to spring and summer this year

winterfreak yep Novia Scotia and the Maritimes had their worst snow storm for 20 years ..some places got 150cm in 36 hrs

steveinsussex as this is a weather forum ..most will stick to the met office definition which is as follows : "at the Met Office, we use a meteorological definition of the seasons. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of winter is always 1 December; ending on 28 (or 29 during a Leap Year) February. Meteorological seasons consist of splitting the seasons into four periods made up of three months each. These seasons are split to coincide with our Gregorian calendar, making it easier for meteorological observing and forecasting to compare seasonal and monthly statistics. The seasons are defined as spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), autumn (September, October, November) and winter (December, January, February)."

stodge back loaded winter to me is Mid January onwards not mid Feb...just saying

here is everyone watching the models desperate for snow..there was me yesterday watching the radar desperate for the forecast snow to miss ..i lost out in the end and got dumped on late yesterday and overnight

stratty as an unbiased observer looks cold and wet with some sleety wet snow on the back edge as it moves away

a knock of version of Feb 1991 ..cheap imitation that fell apart ..outside of those 3 days mid month it was meh

sundog interesting forecast i dont remember much about February 1981 ..but looking at the CET since 1991 only February 2010 has been colder than Feb 1981 and then only by 0.1c

another amazing day here wall to wall sunshine currently +9c

cheese same can be said for the opposite end of the spectrum with the climate change zealots

February marks the first month of big gains..should be approx 2 hrs more daylight by the time we get to the end of the month than today