Spring 2020 | Moans, Ramps & Chat

[Don]

9 hours ago, snowblizzard said:

I hope you are right Don, I simply can't afford to go to Val Thorens every winter for my snow fix! 

No, me neither!

[Summer Sun]

It's currently 16.2c in Cromer, making it the warmest day of the year so far

[stainesbloke]

Feels mild today, despite the ever howling wind. Will be nice to get a quieter spell of weather, with little wind, enough now

[B87]

Rainfall since August 2019. We desperately need a dry April/May and summer.

August: 33.6mm (68%)
September: 63.0mm (128%)
October: 92.8mm (135%)
November: 74.8mm (127%)
December: 89.6mm (162%)
January: 47.6mm (86%)
February: 99.8mm (244%)
March: 32.2mm so far (232% to date)

Edited March 10, 2020 by B87

[Summer Sun]

Summer has arrived in southern Spain

 

[MIKE LEVITT]

very cool easterlies on the way thank god

[cheese]

13C and mostly sunny. Today is the first day I’ve put washing out. Lovely.

[Chesil View]

I see the net office further outlook is now acknowledging the prospect of an easterly in the medium to long term.

[knocker]

That gfs is such a wag

[cheeky_monkey]

Spring has been put back a month   ...Looks like we are heading into a potential record cold spell  for mid march here..and looks like staying cold or very cold to the end of the month

[cheese]

3 hours ago, Broadmayne blizzard said:

I see the net office further outlook is now acknowledging the prospect of an easterly in the medium to long term.

Hopefully with the continent not being too cold it won’t have much of an impact.

[AderynCoch]

21C here today. Definitely spring-like.

Had a nice view of the aptly-named Schneeberg ("snow mountain") in Austria, the easternmost 2000m peak in the Alps.

 

Edited March 12, 2020 by AderynCoch

[qwertyK]

Wow. I thought winter was over a while ago and I was quite getting accustomed to a warm spring. TWO reporting "23C highs" in April with Accuweather suggesting 27C possible in London by end of may, how they got those very specific temps I don't know. But warm winters have certainly been followed by cold springs and this March so far has been pretty damn average if not a little colder. 

 

Bit premature but Gavsweathervids showing models that suggest an average to cooler than average, dry summer. 

 

That said, its all very good for cold lovers but we could really do with some warm, dry weather to help kill CV

Edited March 13, 2020 by qwertyK

[Don]

1 hour ago, qwertyK said:

Bit premature but Gavsweathervids showing models that suggest an average to cooler than average, dry summer. 

That would be quite unusual.  I think the last time we had a cool/dry summer was 1993.

[qwertyK]

19 minutes ago, Don said:

That would be quite unusual.  I think the last time we had a cool/dry summer was 1993.

Do you think we'll have a summer like last year or 2018? Will be interesting.

[Don]

11 hours ago, qwertyK said:

Do you think we'll have a summer like last year or 2018? Will be interesting.

I doubt we will have a summer like 2018 but who knows these days?!

[MP-R]

15 hours ago, Don said:

That would be quite unusual.  I think the last time we had a cool/dry summer was 1993.

This year is certainly exhibiting atypical conditions so can’t rule out anything. I’d be interested to see what a cool dry summer is like, although I’m really craving sunshine at the moment.

[B87]

18 hours ago, qwertyK said:

Wow. I thought winter was over a while ago and I was quite getting accustomed to a warm spring. TWO reporting "23C highs" in April with Accuweather suggesting 27C possible in London by end of may, how they got those very specific temps I don't know.

They just sound like the typical warmest days in an average April or May in London.

[qwertyK]

10 minutes ago, B87 said:

They just sound like the typical warmest days in an average April or May in London.

Maybe, albeit 27C is high even for May. 

[Sunny76]

23 minutes ago, qwertyK said:

Maybe, albeit 27C is high even for May. 

27c in May isn’t unusual, especially late May. 
 

I remember some Mays in the 1980s hitting that, even after a cold start to May.

Wasn’t May 1980 hot for a time, before the poor summer?

2010 started cold, and so did May 2012, but both had warm/hot days towards the end. 

[Methuselah]

17 hours ago, Don said:

That would be quite unusual.  I think the last time we had a cool/dry summer was 1993.

As if Gavin knows what the weather will be like in four months' time!

[Gray-Wolf]

Any takers for March 'Going out like a Lamb'?

[B87]

8 hours ago, qwertyK said:

Maybe, albeit 27C is high even for May. 

Average absolute high for April and May at Heathrow are 22.0c and 26.1c, so 23c and 27c are probable in central London. That rises to 29.3c in June, 31.0c in July, 30.4c in August, with the average warmest day of the year recording 32.4c.

[knocker]

One way of keeping any cold air at bay

[Don]

On 14/03/2020 at 13:49, General Cluster said:

As if Gavin knows what the weather will be like in four months' time!

Of course he doesn't.  He was just commenting on the long range models which are obviously subject to very large changes at that range.