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BruenSryan

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  1. North-Easterly Blast Think he meant 2017 (as the Feb and Mar figures in his post match that year) but accidentally put down 2018 and July 2018 as the highest summer month CET which 2017 was July 16.9C.
  2. I've said to death about how much of an atrocity 2020 was for here in the east of Ireland and people don't give it enough flak. Spring is a completely separate season so has no bearing on my opinion of that summer. I'll do a hot take and say 2022, see what I did there. It was a better than average summer here for sure with the most wonderful August in many many years. However, June and July were too westerly and fed in a lot of cloud to call it a legendary summer. I've seen some people here say it's better than 2018, definitely not. June 2018 was one of the best summer months of all-time in Dublin and July was fantastic too, at least for a good part of it whilst August was mediocre but not completely terrible. After all, the summer index showed it was the 15th best summer here since 1942 so there were at least 14 summers better - that is at least on a statistical means. Not saying 2022 was a bad summer, not at all.. but it was a bit over-praised in this location, especially July.
  3. Summer8906 The wettest July-June periods on record: UK: July 2006-June 2007 1344.4mm (records since 1836) England & Wales: July 2000-June 2001 1258.3mm (records since 1776)
  4. Summer8906 I misread that July 2019 was bang on 1991-2020 (100%) so yeah that period does not count. January 2020 was dry though with 88% of average, the daily totals below.
  5. Weather-history And another close run from March-October 2008 but June was 91% of avg and October 98% - both relative to 91-20. I don't think anybody would call those "dry" months anyway. May 2012 was slightly below 91-20 avg with 92% whilst April and June-December were all above to well above avg.
  6. February1978 The last time E&W had 8 or more consecutive wetter than avg months (against 1991-2020) was back in 1960-61 from July to February. Recent periods that got close: June-December 2019 (7) June-December 2012 (7) August 2006-February 2007 (7)
  7. If allowing some leeway for periods of mild, dry and sunny weather rather than months, December 2001 could be included. It was a cold month overall due to northerly winds later and a lot of frost. However, the second week had some very sunny and mild weather locally. Mainly in foehn affected areas. In the south it was rather cool, especially inland where there must have been some inversions going on. NASA satellite imagery for the 11th December 2001 for instance and the max temperature was as much as 16.1C at Nantmor in west Wales on this day. Must have felt a bit strange for the time of year.
  8. Metwatch There was also 18th March 1990 with 14.2C.
  9. 2022 by far. One of my favourite months. So many fine sunny days to get out and enjoy life. Says a lot that March 2022 was sunnier than any summer month here since June 2018 at the time - August 2022 and June 2023 have been sunnier since. Smashed any previous March sun record and I doubt I'll see anything like it again. Outside of Jersey, I believe Dublin was the sunniest place in the British Isles that month too - a rarity. 2022 203.1 hrs 2003 172.2 hrs 1955 171.7 hrs 1982 169.4 hrs 2011 162.9 hrs Before that, 2011 was my favourite March and it holds up with the sun stats. I was too young to know about 2003 but would have loved that too. 2012 had a stupendous final week and was the best period of March weather out of any but the rest of it was a bit "meh" here and second week was very cloudy. This pic in the park on the 1st day sums up how the month would go on. I've never done as many steps in a month as March 2022. A lot of fantastic walks in the seemingly endless sunshine.
  10. Yesterday was provisionally the mildest February day on record for the Central England Temperature with a daily mean of 13.7C beating 4th February 2004 which had 12.8C. Also the mildest of any meteorological winter daily CET on record.
  11. Metwatch Also related to this is how the last week of April seems to lack warmth and the well-known April quirk where April's record warmth has tended to be biased towards mid-month. I myself cannot recall much in the way of April warmth in my lifetime coinciding with the final week - the closest being 2011 where 27.8C was achieved on the 23rd but that's just before. Get a good southerly and April 30C is easily achieved in my view. I wouldn't even totally rule out a 31C provided all variables are in order and timing to the end of the month.
  12. dryfie The McGivern tweet was before the 19.9C figure came in.
  13. Also worth mentioning that the July record was beaten 3 times in succession this century before 2022. 2006 36.5C 2015 36.7C 2019 38.7C And if 2019 didn't happen, 31st July 2020 would have also been a record with 37.8C.
  14. Derecho Yes, there was a paper out there that showed central Pacific based La Ninas tend to be particularly front-loaded towards November and December in some cases but not often whilst east Pacific ones have a stronger blocking signature for later in the winter. Reanalysis of analogs confirm this. Note though that while CP Ninas tend to be biased to November in terms of -NAO, there's a significant positive z500 anomaly for February extending back to Scandinavia along with a Genoa trough which may or may not result in a continental feed. I must mention these analogs were based on ONI rather than MEI.
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