Spring 2024

[Addicks Fan 1981]

 Cheshire Freeze FYI I have made a thread in the historical thread in regards to summer 2007 and summer 2019 for you to feast your eyes on.

[Weather Enthusiast91]

Felt very springlike today with the mild temp and strengthening sunshine. Now that we are in March, I am happy for this kind of weather to stay. Though I am happy with cold up until the middle of the month. 

Edited March 5 by Weather Enthusiast91

[cheese]

Heard the first blackbird singing today under the pleasant March sunshine. Always a good sign of spring having arrived.

Edited March 5 by cheese

[lassie23]

Here is my spring forecast rain, rain rain 

[lassie23]

sleet at 20,000 feet

[Freeze]

Rain all day and 7c certainly doesn't feel spring like here today.

[Scorcher]

A really beautiful day here- most clear skies all day and a unexpectedly mild max of 12.6C.

A March 2003-esque day.

 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Awful wet cold day. 2023 lives on

[Methuselah]

 *Stormforce~beka* Are you ready for a deep dive, Beka? 

 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 Methuselah Not a chance in hell. That thing only brings bad news.

[Arctic Hare]

A very springlike day here in N Worcs. Lots of sunshine (yes, really!), light winds, no rain, birds singing... oh, I've missed these benign conditions so much. Exciting it isn't, but right now it's balm for the soul.

[In Absence of True Seasons]

Very, very regional day today it seems. Some of us having rain and cloudy from conditions as per usual. Others getting sunny and more springlike.

A real shame that our country seems to struggle so much in delivering consistently pleasant / useable weather across all (or even most!) areas. 

[cheeky_monkey]

waiting for the geese to return and the be-boo bird then i know spring has arrived.

[Catherine91]

Mostly dull and chilly here so far this month.

[WYorksWeather]

Somewhat frustrating here, to be fair. It's been largely dry, and on some days even sunny, but there's a nagging breeze that means it's still not been that pleasant to be outdoors. We really need the temperatures to nudge up to the 14-15C range for it to feel properly spring-like. Very low chance of that in the next week or so, though to be honest that's to be expected.

[baddie]

Yesterday was the perfect day for early-Spring. Misty morning followed by a sunny afternoon. If only October featured more of those kinds of days

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 baddie I was thinking this too as I was walking home from school run!

[Catherine91]

Yesterday it was sunny or mostly sunny for almost all the daylight hours here. Went for a walk at about 12pm and this was the first walk I've been on where it felt properly spring-like. I was warm enough to leave my coat undone!

[Sun Chaser]

I don't know why but it feels like spring is taking an age to kick in this year for me. Last year I felt it pretty strongly through February and in 2022 we had some spring-feeling afternoons even in January! But this year I haven't been able to get into it. Every nice day still seems to be hazy or cloudy and I think the last time I saw a cloudless day must've been over a month ago now.

Having said that there's been plenty of cloudy days with sunny intervals and it's been dry lately which has been nice. But any feeling of spring has come in fleeting moments one day at a time - for example yesterday was a great morning but it's been miserable since last night. A sunny spell can't come soon enough!

[damianslaw]

Last March was preety un springlike, wintry early on, and very wet.

Spring tends to take until the end of the month to bed in, by then the sun has the same strength as it has in early-mid September. Easter and the clocks going forward will mark a significant change in feel..

[NEVES SCREAMER]

Weird how within a couple of weeks of the end of October the cold arrives. Yet it takes months on end for any warmth to appear winter in to spring!

[reef]

 NEVES SCREAMER the cold didn't arrive though. Its been above average throughout apart from briefly in early-Dec and early to mid-Jan.

It's not going to ever feel warm right now when we've just had a February almost as warm as an average April. 

[NEVES SCREAMER]

 reef Cold for me mate. Never gets above 11c/12c if lucky. At least 5 months of it. 

[Sun Chaser]

 damianslaw True - however February 2023 was such that it actually felt springlike! Lots of mild days with clear skies and beautiful sunsets followed by chilly nights. Could've been a good March, so much so that the dreadful March that actually came after felt like it had accidentally been swapped with the previous month in some kind of strange time warp.

[SunnyG]

 NEVES SCREAMER Honestly, this country has the most awful weather. It's truly dire. Wet, cloudy, windy, misty, grotty. Yuk yuk yuk.