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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

*Stormforce~beka* harry the heatwave..willy warm spell..phil its a scorcher

Chesil View agree on February 1978. damianslaw February 1986 i did not like.. dull very cold and dull plus it was dull ..dull and boring and cold

Summer8906 Cant beat a sunny spring day in the UK or being at the beach any day of the year..the British countryside rivals the Rocky mountains for beauty and scenery IMO

In Absence of True Seasons when you live abroad you appreciate the British climate

Metwatch March 1990 was very dry and very mild..summer 1990 was decent

Paul but then i have to remember to do that ..memory and sieves

100% agree i have memory like a sieve sometimes and have no idea what i said where your being replied to..also the highlight a text to quote is a pain the the rear it took me 4 attempts to get it to highlight just the text and not everything around and in-between

basked in wall to wall sunshine yesterday and +13c today another sunny day not as warm though at +7c ..this the kind of weather i would expect in Mid April not January

could reach 13c here today which is remarkable for January when the average is around -10c

come live in Edmonton in January it's great

q? why would the Sept temperature anomaly on a very small location in the Northern Atlantic have any impact on the Northern Hemisphere winter that would follow ? to me is just a statistical coincidence

@ManiaMuse im already there sunset here is at 5.05pm today

why?? nobody gave a sheet about naming storms before..they dont name storms over here outside of hurricanes ..whats the point??

would still have been considered cold back then as it would have been 1c below the 1961-1990 average only 1981 had a colder Dec in the 1980s then you have to go to 1992 to find the next colder Dec ..probably that exceptional cold snow event at the end is what makes it memorable. For Example Jan 1980 was colder than every Jan from 1988 -2010 but no one remembers it.

@johncam difficult to notice because winters are so cold. This year has followed a typical El Nino pattern so mild overall is the form horse and I'm expecting an early spring which is typical of such years..in general the stats show that most of the warming in the last 50 years have come in the form of warmer winters..spring and autumn have hardly changed whilst summers have cooled very slightly

@johncam December came out at a record breaking +10.1c above normal....January is currently -6.5c below normal that will change though in the next week

wild swings in temps continue here..now out of the -40c cold and heading rapidly to +10 to +12c by the weekend

the same happened in 2010 was a quick flip to LaNina..summer was really stormy here that year dont know what it was like in the UK?

im done with cold By Xmas for obvious reasons

as a complete neutral (no feelings either way if its cold or not in the UK) IMO the only real problem here is the huge bias towards looking for cold and snow..hence many posters are blinded by that fact and don't give a balanced view of the models which in turn to leads to massive over expectation by others who may not understand what the whole output is showing and thus massive disappointment ensues and finger pointing starts when things don't turn out the way they wanted or expected. Its always been that way and unfortunately anyone who does give a fully balanced viewed will be swamped by hope casting in the winter months.

i will take a May 2023 again please..it was the warmest month of the year with an average daily high of 24.5c ..sunny dry and very warm from start to finish

i do its been close to -50c here recently

snow typically stays on the ground here from around mid October to mid April

no where in the PNW seaboard saw highs in excess of 45c with the exception of Portland which is further south and had historic highs above 42c previously ..Vancouver topped out at 32c in that hot spell of 2021 ..Prince George interior BC and i was there in that spell reached 42c ...Lytton is in a deep valley in the Rockies so is a well known heat trap ..so i would say PG is a more applicable location to compare places in France etc