mcfcson

It’s been freezing today, yes it’s sunny but it’s not even remotely warm tbh. 7/8 degrees here. Feel like people saying it’s warm are milking it a bit

This is a fair interpretation in my opinion, we didn’t have the same bitterly easterlies we had in 2018 but pattern wise this winter has been pretty similar we’ve just not had the same extreme cold for a length of time, it tended to be short bursts of extreme cold and longer periods of colder than average although we have to remember it hit -23c on one night in Scotland. I’m worried about the March high pressure as a warm weather fan though, I feel like having a nice early spring might lead to a shocking summer but I don’t know if this is me just being pessimistic

Is it just me or has the weather this year been 2018 esque? here's hoping this summer is also 2018 esque for my personal preference!

I agree with this, of course we had the august heatwave too but like you said it was short bursts of nice weather followed by drawn out dull and boring weather. Better than 2019 though which had the hottest day but that was pretty much it from what I remember. I wonder how 2021 is going to play out, I do feel like we’re gonna have some hot days it’s almost a certainty now but whether we have a prolonged spell of heat I’m unsure. The last winter we had that was sort of similar to this (2017/18) resulted in a summer that was amazing. I hope from my perspective we get the same again.

Referring to an earlier comment I feel like people think we're overdue a wet and dull summer just because we've had hot days over the last few years but as was mentioned, a month now can have 28 dull days and 3 hot days and people will see it as a warm month. Summer 2019 and 2020 were average to poor summers with a few hot days. They were somewhere in between 2007 and 2018 in my opinion. I think based on this and the way our climate is changing we're equally due another prolonged warm summer. We had none from 2006 to 2018 really (apart from a 2013 heatwave) but duller summers have been quite common in the past 15 years. Here's hoping to warmer weather this summer anyways, felt like we missed out last summer with covid. Anyone else got any opinions?