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baddie Much better air quality from the south round to the northeast. Deeper blue sky and stronger sun but generally more boring sunrises and sunsets

raz.org.rain I must caveat my post with the fact that there was plenty mediocre westerly naffness between those charts… but 1-2 weeks of solid summer every month with episodes of less settled is definitely preferable to all our summer coming in June and for five minutes in August and September like last year!

*Stormforce~beka* There is hope...

In Absence of True Seasons It happens at least every other year even here and we have double the annual rainfall of London lol.

In Absence of True Seasons Indeed. April 2010 and 2017 also had a lot of cool but dry and often bright conditions that were better than the cool/dull/wet alternative. Looking through recent runs, it doesn't seem to matter which direction the weather is coming from, 'trough' is the word for this country. Very stubborn cyclonic conditions in these parts with varying degrees of cool or warmer. Not unheard of at this time of year but very disappointing and definitely not helping the yearning for something more seasonal. I'm taking a trip to southern Spain in the first full week of May so expect models to pick up on high pressure moving into the UK during that time...

A brilliant weekend of sunshine, which would have had me sitting out for the first time starting the tan build up, if not for the damned wind. Almost there.

Metwatch Interestingly, that 02nd October chart looks like a standard rPm cyclonic setup Wouldn't even be able to tell it was a plume looking at that.

damianslaw This is very much the time of year for changeable conditions... Highs in funny places, lows coming in from different angles and not following traditional trajectories... not unusual for April & May. By June (latest!) I would expect to see low pressure to have been shoved well north with more high pressure influence. A long way to go it would seem, although the latter frames of the GFS 06Z making an effort to make high pressure over Europe a bit more influential against a simultaneously stubborn Atlantic!

Plume storms that end up just skimming the southeast tend to be the ones that go wrong or are ‘cut short’ by the westerly influence shunting things along too quickly. The classics tend to affect the SW and/or the S Central region first before advancing north and east.

Someone’s definitely getting sacked from the Department of Cloud Seeding & Weather Interference..!

Surprisingly pleasant this afternoon and the temperature not bad either, surpassing 16 degrees!

Floatylight Your interpretation. It shows a 11°C max for your location.

Floatylight Where lol? Certainly not Essex…

raz.org.rain That’s a deal I can’t turn down!

cheeky_monkey August 1995 is a month I’d love to witness. I was very young at the time so can’t remember it. You’d think it’d be achievable again given all the talk of us morphing into a Mediterranean climate…

It’s got a very April 2021 / 2010 feel today. Alright in the sun but the moment you’re not…

LetItSnow! I know what you’re saying, there were indeed hints of spring like daffodils coming out, and birdsong on a few days etc but all things considered, it just wasn’t spring like overall… not this side of the country anyway. Maybe different in London, which wouldn’t surprise me. For me it’s considering things like light levels which were equivalent to October, rainfall and frequency of Tm airmasses which were more typical of October, and the temperature profile which was often typical of October. A zonal spell in March, while I’d expect to be quite stormy, I’d also expect to be a lot brighter and not so balmy. Indeed, some of the weather this March felt more akin to October/November.

Close to a date record minimum here last night.

Two very different feeling seasons but yes indeed, not winter like at all!

B87 Indeed… very few days were springlike in Feb at all. There were a few moments like the morning of the 15th and the following Tuesday was very pleasant but the rest of month was more like November!

SollyOlly Amen!

Don Funnily enough this month’s synoptics wouldn't be at all out of place in February.

cheese That’s it. Although when I lived there it was pretty unsettled in Jan, bits of Feb, Mar, bits of April and even quite a bit of May! One day in May only got to 10°C with thundery showers of hail!

danm Even the Spanish resorts joining in too. Mid teens in the Balearics and high teens on the Costa del Sol. Not cold by any means but going the opposite way to the norm. AWD Same happened for me when I went to London for the day a few weeks ago. The sun went in around Didcot and I hardly saw it again until the train back home at sunset haha. Happens more than ya think.

I can only imagine how nice 1989 must’ve felt after the previous few years!