spring Spring 2017 Thoughts, hopes, wishes, forecasts etc...

[Weather-history]

On 20 April 2017 at 06:08, Weather-history said:

Question is how dry this April will turn out? 

Only 7mm up to 18th April, south of the Border, 28mm, north of the Border and 15mm for Northern Ireland.

 

Hardly any change up to 22nd April, 8mm for England and Wales, 28mm for Scotland and 16mm for Northern Ireland.

[Summer Sun]

After the Bank Holiday

Unsettled in NW
Drier and brighter in SE
Becoming warmer
Very warm SE?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/39698416

[Summer Sun]

April showers bringing a mix of rain, hail and snow

[Relativistic]

It's days like these that I love April for. I've seen sunshine, rain, hail, sleet, snow, some brilliant convective cloudscapes, and also heard thunder today. Definitely my favourite month after December.

Edited April 25, 2017 by Relativistic

[Summer Sun]

After the Bank Holiday

Windy at first
Increasingly sunny
Becoming warmer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/39711530

[Dangerous55019]

Evening everyone 
I have to say, after what seems like an eternity, what a beautiful day its been 
Crisp, clear, blue sunny skies, stunning towering, convective cloud scapes, hail, wind, and for a few some thunder as well 
Such a lovely change from the grey bore/gloomfest that appears to have plagued spring 2017 

[Weather-history]

On 24 April 2017 at 06:24, Weather-history said:

Hardly any change up to 22nd April, 8mm for England and Wales, 28mm for Scotland and 16mm for Northern Ireland.

No change up to the 24th.

[Summer Sun]

After the Bank Holiday

Settling down
Mostly dry
Light winds
Warming up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/39724970

[Summer Sun]

Warming up next week 20c later for some?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/39740864

[knocker]

Early April statistics (careful not misread that)

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2017/04/28/early-april-statistics/

[Summer Sun]

Becoming warm inland
Cooler along the east coast?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/39751494

[Fourty Point Three Degrees]

I don't know if Louise Lear or the beeb have noticed this but the shape of that jet stream with a Low Pressure positioned at each side ... judge for yourselves!!

 

 

[Matthew.]

Lovely out there today with a southerly flow

[sundog]

Happy May eve.

"In modern British and American popular culture, Halloween is the night most associated with the nocturnal activities of witches and the souls of the dead. But in much of Europe the 30 April or May Eve, otherwise known as Walpurgis Night, was another moment when spirits and witches were thought to roam about.

The life and death of Saint Walpurga, who was born in Dorset, England, in the eight century, has nothing to do with witchcraft or magic, though. She travelled to Germany on missionary work, and became abbess of a nunnery at Heidenheim, dying there in the late 770s.

The 1 May became her feast day because it was when her relics were transferred to Eichstätt in the 870s. The association of witchcraft with May Eve is actually to do with venerable rituals for protecting livestock at a time in the agricultural calendar when animals were traditionally moved to summer pastures. Bonfires were lit by communities across Europe to scare aware predators. In sixteenth-century Ireland, hares were killed on May Day, in the belief that they were shape-shifting witches bent on sucking cows dry and stealing butter. In Scotland, pieces of Rowan tree were placed above the doors of cow byres to keep witches away."

"In Walpurgis Night rain. Makes good crops of autumn grain"

[Summer Sun]

It's Northern Ireland's warmest day of the year so far with 18.8c in Castlederg, Co Tyrone

[Summer Sun]

Next week

Mainly dry
Colder for a time
Perhaps unsettled later

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/39774272

[Summer Sun]

Next week

Colder for a time
Risk of frost
Showers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/39788227

[Matthew.]

A glorious day here in the ENE 

[Summer Sun]

Low pressure arriving at some point but uncertain when and where it will sit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/39800274

[Weather-history]

Lovely day

 

[Summer Sun]

Later next week

More unsettled
Breezy
Showers or Rain
Chilly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/39810265

[Weather-history]

Lovely day

 

[reef]

A very dry spring here so far. Since 27th February we've had 54.8mm, which is 52% of normal. The previous 18 days to this (10th-27th February) actually recorded more with 56.4mm.

Always a concern with such a dry period that there may be a correction just at the wrong time (like 2007). Hopefully not the case!

 

[virtualsphere]

19 hours ago, reef said:

Always a concern with such a dry period that there may be a correction just at the wrong time (like 2007). Hopefully not the case!

It would be a nice change for the dry conditions to continue through the summer and for the correction to take place in early September.  We've had some very wet summers (2007, 2008, 2012) and winters (2013/14 and 2015/16) recently, but we usually seem to get at least one decent autumn month.  2014 and 2015 were particularly frustrating wet Augusts followed by dry early autumn weather when the kids were back in school.  At least we've had some drier summers since 2013 though.

[Summer Sun]

Later next week

Turning unsettled
Winds picking up
Showers or rain
Drier interludes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/39826211