damianslaw

One of those occasions which is most likely to occur in the second half of Spring than any other time of year, when much of Cumbria sees the best English conditions, Wales, N Ireland and West Scotland often the same. Thanks to the influence of high pressure to the west, we received virtually nil traces of rain from the warm front, it was all to our east, and today we have sat in a dry spot, albeit cloudy, but also quite bright, high level cloud, no wind and pleasant temps close to 14 degrees. Always say mid April to late June best time to visit Lake District!

Winter - 2010, including Dec 09, most wintry overall since 78-79. Spring - 2011, a dry March and April combo and warm, May turned wetter. The other seasons were poor, would have said winter, but Feb was mild and wet. Autumn 2012- very seasonal, lots of frost, early snow in late Oct and a cold end Summer 2013, best since 2006 and much needed. July was excellent. Summer 2014, despite a very poor August, June and especially July were great. Winter 2015, struggled with this year, none of the seasons stood out, all quite mixed, but the winter brought alot of polar maritime air and snow at times. Autumn 2016 , a very warm Sept, a cold frosty Nov, October I can't remember much of Spring 2017, a very dry and mild March and April combo, I think May was quite reasonable as well. I quite liked the autumn as well very seasonal. Summer 2018 , super June and July, imploded in August, if included May, best 3 month spell of the 10s. 2019 - can't choose, none stood out better than the other.

Weakest warm front I've known, delivering sunshine and high cloud, puzzled... answers why this is happening?

WYorksWeather Dec 22 could have been a notably below average month but it was counterbalanced by a very mild 19-31st period. When was the last 30 or 31 day running mean below 61-90 average, possibly hard to calculate Whilst July 23 nearly did it, I assume the 2 July to 1 Aug was below, and we will have had something more substantively i.e. 0.5 degrees below from say 7 July to 7 August...

Dare i watch the GFS 06Z Is this graph for Sweden? The last below average April in 1987!!!

Its stayed dry so far here, cloudy but not overcast and a temp peak 13.5 degrees. There is precipitation to the North but it is falling apart and we might just see a very brief smatter. Overall a very fine weekend, nothing special, but after months of dull wet weather it feels far more seasonal.

A mild morning current temp 12 degrees, but cloudy, and not expecting much increase, the rain radar shows sporadic ragged outbreaks of light rain to our north, with a heavier pulse over central east Scotland.. whether that reaches us, or heads further east remains to be seen. Expecting a few spits and spots in the air next few hours, perhaps more sustained light rain later on. Not the most inspiring day, but far from a write off.

Looking back at April 2021 which saw only airflow from between north or east, or anticyclonic overhead, It has me wondering which other months featured no atlantic influence i.e. no SW, W or NW airflow. Northerlies and southerlies I don't class as atlantic. Any other examples? Feb 86 and Aug 95 spring to mind... Edit: mods feel free to move to historic weather thread, I was meant to place it in there..

Don The difference with April 2021 is it was cold synoptics throughout. I've run the archives and on no one day was the airstream other than either between north and east or anticyclonic, a rare example of non atlantic influence, Feb 86 a good example. The clear anticyclonic conditions allowed for very low minima, and we had very cold arctic airstream. The current cool spell, is neither clear anticyclonic - hence more cloud holding minima up, nor air of true arctic origin.

ANYWEATHER If the above synoptics verify I think many will be rating April 2024 as the poorest since 2012. Despite the warmth of the first 2 weeks it was combined with cloud and rain. 2021 though was very cold was also very dry and sunny. The models are showing no sustained settled spell, by mid week we see a pincer attack - low heights to the NE merging with the atlantic trough to the NW, end product low heights over the UK, cool and wet conditions. Not clear how things may develop as we approach May, generally a very changeable outlook at a time of year which is often associated with not very changeable conditions, settled weather fans have drawn a short straw since June by and large.

Scuba steve Yes its felt very strange!

A fine Spring day coinciding with a Saturday. Plenty of people making the most of it, warm enough to sit out thanks to light winds and plenty of warm sunny spells, temps up close to 14 degrees. A cold start again, widespread air frost, Shap down to -3.6.

Summer Sun Surprised CET held... should be a drop tomorrow, last night was quite cold for many.

Shap at -0.1 already, another air frost. After a frost free first half to April, second half could end up quite frosty in Cumbria. Advise anyone potting tender plants etc to wait a while longer yet.

Just a couple or so of very light fleeting passing showers today.