Aaron

Snowing lightly here but nothing more.

Sleeting here, bleh.

Depends on how quickly the colder air and dews advance southwards, might be the wrong side of marginal, but NAE looks very promising.

Leeds and Sheffield both under a weather warning for snow.

The Met have ice days for parts of Leeds on Monday with lows of -4C on Sunday, and light snow throughout. Even central Leeds is forecast a high of 0C. Forecast for my suburb: Is it alright to start ramping yet?

It takes a lot to keep me indoors - as long as it's dry, and as long as my life is not at threat, I'll be outside doing what I was intending on doing, including running in subzero temperatures in freezing fog. The weather I would be most reluctant to run in would be temperatures above 25C. I'd prefer a steady drizzle to running in such temperatures. But that's the beauty of diversity I suppose, what a boring world it would be if everyone was exactly the same.

5.4C, feeling chilly under cloudy skies with persistent mist. Skies should clear by nightfall for more fog to form again.

The sun is visible, but still cloudy/misty and feeling very chilly. Reminiscent of last March, if the sun does burn away this murky, it probably won't make a difference.

Depends on what you define as comfortable - would 22 - 24C at 8-9pm be comfortable enough to enjoy a BBQ from your POV, Bottesford?

Whitkirk, Leeds, United Kingdom Elevation 86 metres asl Latitude/longitude 53° 47′ 59″ N, 1° 32′W Mean: 3.7°C Mean maximum: 5.4°C Mean minimum: 0.6°C Maximum temperature: 13.0°C (29 Jan) Minimum temperature: -7.1°C (16 Jan) Lowest maximum: -3.7°C (15 Jan) Highest minimum: 9.4°C (3 Jan) Days above 10°C: 8 Days below 5°C: 46 Days below 0°C: 3 -------------------------------------------------------------- Precipitation: 142.7 mm Rain days >1 mm: 29 Rain days >0.2 mm: 44 Most in one day: 22.8 mm (20 Dec) Maximum snow depth: 25 cm (26 Jan) Total snowfall: in the region of 40 - 45 cm -------------------------------------------------------------- Maximum pressure: 1038.5 mb (27 Feb) Minimum pressure: 975.8 mb (13 Dec) Maximum wind gust: 60.1 mph (31 Jan) Sunshine: 182.3 hours Mean: 2.0 hours Most in one day: 9.3 hours (28 Feb) -------------------------------------------------------------- Thunder: 1 Lightning: 2 Hail: 0 Snow falling: 27 Snow on ground (>50%): 17 Air frost: 44

You are speaking from your viewpoint - with an average high of 21C, Leeds is definitely an appropriate place for outdoor eating in summer as far as most people are concerned. It doesn't need to be totally sunny and 30 degrees to have a BBQ.

Good storm in Leeds in May 2009 - I remember it well as it occurred at night (a rare occurrence nowadays) - well, convection started in the afternoon, the storm then appeared by late evening and continued into the night. http://youtu.be/b7rn2hLh5fU

Let's just remember that March is not a warm month, has never been a warm month and never will be. Why people are upset over cold weather in March I will never understand, and it appears as soon as the calendar hits 1 March, all talk of snow is abandoned, as if the weather follows calendar months to script, when in actual fact, snow in March is more likely than not, in the Midlands northwards at least - the record low is -22C, bear that in mind. Now, if it's late April and daytime temperatures are routinely 9C with cloud, I'll sympathise.

Overall good with plenty of snowfall events, maximum depth 25 cm in January with 14 consecutive days of snow cover. February was alright too, plenty of sunny days and frost, and an 8cm snowfall.

Whitkirk, Leeds, United Kingdom Elevation 86 metres asl Latitude/longitude 53° 47′ 59″ N, 1° 32′W Mean: 2.5°C Mean maximum: 5.3°C Mean minimum: -0.3°C Maximum temperature: 9.6°C (days 15, 17) Minimum temperature: -4.5°C (day 19) Lowest maximum: 0.9°C (day 22) Highest minimum: 3.6°C (day 15) Days above 10°C: 0 Days below 5°C: 16 Days below 0°C: 0 -------------------------------------------------------------- Precipitation: 27.7 mm Rain days >1 mm: 5 Rain days >0.2 mm: 8 Most in one day: 8.1 mm (day 14) Maximum snow: depth 8 cm -------------------------------------------------------------- Maximum pressure: 1038.5 mb (day 27) Minimum pressure: 987.4 mb (day 5) Maximum wind gust: 33.2 mph (day 3) Sunshine: 83.9 hours Mean: 3.0 hours Most in one day: 9.3 hours (day 28) -------------------------------------------------------------- Thunder: 0 Lightning: 0 Hail: 0 Snow falling: 12 Snow on ground: 3 Air frost: 18 First month since December 2010 to not exceed 10C. Highest minimum was 3.6C - unusually low. Not too bad really, plenty of sunny days with overnight frost. But, as much as I enjoyed those very sunny days with large diurnal ranges, the 'cold spell' was more of a cool spell with little variation in temperatures and no snow to speak of (bar occasional flurries), with a stagnant blanket of cloud and very high pressure yielding 'nothingness' weather. There was a decent fall of 8 cm earlier on in the month though, which lasted (barely) into the next day before being washed away by rain, and a smaller 'dusting' the day before which didn't hang around for long. Complimentary graphs:

Placed in an oven perhaps?

Hm, July 2010 was certainly very dull here. I don't recall it being too bad though in terms of humidity, but a quick check of historical records show many days with the dew point reaching the high teens with temps in the low to mid twenties, one day even had a high of 21C and a dew point of 18C - yuck.

0.2C here under clear skies - love large diurnal ranges.

^^ depends on the person and environment. In my house, I find myself cooling off more often than not because it gets very stuffy here, uncomfortably so, but is rarely very cold. Good insulation I suppose, and direct exposure to the sun in my two living room windows.

On the subject of summers - 2010 was great from my point of view, July in particular was consistently warm (avg. max 21.6C) but never hot with a maximum temperature of 27.2C

Lovely sunny spells, 5.9c

Reached 30C here in 2009 and 2011, so heat has occurred, just not as much as 2003.

I don't think there are ever 'warmies', but convection lovers. Outside of winter, convection lovers definitely take over and everyone is buzzing off thunderstorms. There are people who crave high pressure and constant dryness, as well as never-ending warmth, but I think snow and thunderstorms definitely rule the roost on this forum at different times of the year, and just like you get people who solely post in winter for snow, you get the same in summer where people only post because they prefer thunderstorms. I also think 'coldie' is an inappropriate term - most people are searching for snow, and as a direct consequence, cold weather.

5.5C

When the chance of any snow and cold, realistically, goes out of the window? It depends on where you live - people in Eastbourne can say goodbye to winter because any snowfall into March and April is unlikely, but up here I can say with confidence that getting snow in March and April is certainly not unusual and is part of any typical spring, just as much as warm weather - probably more so actually. By late April, any talk of snow is a tad silly but considering significant snow has fallen as late as June, who knows?