RichardR

In Buxton the "official temperature" reached 61F / 16.1C today, but in my back garden just up to 14C, still the warmest day though. Disappointing amounts of cloud around today.

9C after a low of 1.8C in Buxton, mostly cloudy.

The sunshine was exceptional that's right. Otherwise what I meant to say was the temperature in Buxton that month (while higher than Buxton's average a lot) was only similar to long term average values for near Heathrow where I lived before so it didn't seem "hot" to me, whereas had I still been living down there it would have been. Point being it takes a big heatwave for the rest of England to get a passable summer month in the much colder Buxton microclimate.

Buxton, Derbyshire, England March 2010 Records Latitude 53*N Longitude 1.5*W Elevation 338m/1110ft AMSL Valid 1st- 31st March, 2010 Mean Maximum: 8.06°C /46.5 °F Mean Minimum: 1.55°C / 34.8°F Mean Temperature: 4.81°C / 40.66°F Highest Temperature: 13.2°C / 55.76°F (25th) Lowest Temperature: -8.0°C / 17.6°F (7th) Mean Dewpoint: -4.1°C / 24.6°F --------------------- Lowest Maximum: 1.7°C / 35.1°F (31st) Highest Minimum: 8.3°C / 46.9°F (25th) --------------------- Precipitation: 78mm/3.07" Days with rain >1mm: 11 Days with rain: 16 Most in one day: 15mm/0.59" (29th) --------------------- Mean Pressure: 1015mb Max Pressure: 1033mb (7th) Min Pressure: 983mb (30th) Average Maximum Wind Gust: 31.3mph Maximum Wind Gust: 50mph (31st) --------------------- Sunshine hours: 108.2 Most in one day: 9.5hrs (7th) Average per day: 3.49hrs Sunless days: 5 % of Max Poss: 29% --------------------- Days with Sleet/Snow: 2 Days with Fog: 1 Nights below freezing: 10 Days with Hail/Ice Pellets: 1

Well of course, we hit 20c on April 20th in 1996, no sign of that this year. And by the way this would be the latest start to spring since only 2001 not 1996. But everyone appears to have very short memories and be under the belief that we have to go back decades since cold springs when actually it's only a few years. Oh selective memories eh.

AAAARGH all the hailstorms went south of here, boring old Buxton could do with some hail activity if we are going to get cold weather related weather.

What is funnier is that people call July 2006 temperatures "boiling heat". Man, take your t shirt off or something. At least it cooled down at night and wasn't humid. Shows what rubbish summers we must be so used to. As for sun tans, nothing to do with the temperature, it's the amount of sun you're exposed to, it could be bloody -24 and get a suntan. If people really want winter to continue, no doubt there are cheap package holidays to be found to northern Scandinavia just like those seeking heat travel to the Med each year. Simple solution.

0C and now the snow has settled in Buxton.

Not theorectically possible, as such massive rainfall/precipitation rates are only possible through extensive warm-rain coalescense process within extensive depths of above freezing cloud material in deep convective tropical storms, where the freezing point may be as high as 5,000 meters. Even in cases of thundersnow rarely does the precipitation rate ever reach much more than 25mm per hour (if that were rain).

The Buxton, Derbyshire average is 4.8C so far, looks to end there too.

0.9C and a lovely 50mph gust and some snow currently falling here at 6:53PM.

I don't know about previous years (moved here in 2003) but July 2006 was as close to a mediocre summer month as it will possibly get in Buxton, with 280 sunshine hours and an average maximum of 24C. This is about the normal average for the area I lived from 1992 which was East Berkshire near Heathrow, but over there the average high that month was a fairly warm 28C. July 2006 wasn't exceptionally warm in Buxton with some days reaching only 16c but it would be good to see a repeat of that type of weather again, with a deep, humid south easterly lasting a few weeks, 28-29 by day and 15-16 at night for a few days.

Before the deadline: 6.9C

Not cold here, 22.2 degrees, lovely. In my computer room, that is. But outside it's 0.6 degrees and snowing.

I was fed up of the cold last December, it's been a stinker of a winter (not least in Buxton Derbyshire) and this particular day is the "icing on the cake". Regarding people who can't sleep when it's 9c outside at night, get a grip, please, plenty of climates have night time temperatures above 20c for much of the year, and you are complaining about cold (sub 12c) temperatures at night being too hot! What do you do in the summer? Move to Greenland for five months? Forecast for April in my location looks like utter death. That's not spring I can tell you. Our daffodils started coming out and have now died again.

Not in a situation to move yet. In a month's time I may be living in Leicester.

Days like this remind me why I'm a heat lover, wind chill dropping to -10C in Buxton with wet snow and sleet and 45 mph wind gusts. Truly Feral. Feel like I'm in Iceland.

1.1 degrees and snow in Buxton. What can I say, disgusting.

Buxton, Derbyshire 14:00 9.4C / 49.8F Overcast.

Mostly cloudy with a top temperature of 8.7 and a low of 5.3. 4.2 hours of sunshine and top gust of 41mph.