April 2011: a lovely month!

[Thunderbolt_]

April 2011 for me was the best spring month, in my experience. It is currently the warmest April on record with a CET of 11.8°C. It came four years after April 2007, which was also a very warm month with a CET of 11.2°C and I still think it's unbelieveable that that month was bettered, especially in such a short space of time! April 2011 was also the sunniest April on record, only recently beaten by April 2015, and the driest April on record too. It was a month that wouldn't look out of place in July.

Edited June 14, 2015 by Thunderbolt_

[Rob Heselwood]

April 2011 was ceratinly the best month for sun and lack of rain for as long as I can remember.

 

Ther was an average temperature of 19.2C, which is 6 degrees up on the 30 year average, and less than 1mm of rain in the whole month.

 

I wonder if we will ever have another month like Aprill of 2011.

[Summer of 95]

Not as good as 2007 here. Too many cloudy or partly cloudy days when other places had sunshine, it only ended up warmer because of night time temperatures. Only a couple of days were cloudless and warm 2007-style. 2015 was a lot sunnier too.

[summer blizzard]

I tend to view 2007 as the superior month however it was pretty good.

[Thunderbolt_]

I actually forgot about this thread. I made one of my historic videos a few weeks ago (similar to Gavin Partridge's) on the Aprils of 2007 and 2011: