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57mm so far in January here.
What I find interesting though is that 41mm of that fell on just 3 days. That’s a nice contrast to December where it felt like we had small amounts of rain every day.
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14mm here today. Rainfall for the month is now 57mm, which is wetter than average but not by much (average is 50mm).
Only 8 days this month have recorded more than 1mm of rain. The average for January is 11. Most of this month’s rain has fallen on 3 days (14mm today, 12mm on the 2nd & 15mm on the 1st).
All in all not an awful month as far as Januaries go.
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@marky810 January really hasn't been too bad tbf, at least here. From the 3rd to the 20th we didn't have a single day with more than 1mm of rain, and including today we've only had 8 days with >1mm of rain all month (the average for January is 11).
We've had 7mm so far today which actually makes it our wettest day since the 2nd of January. There's very little rain in the forecast after today so I'm not too bothered.
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Incredible, but I suspect this will fly under the radar simply because of how localised the record is. Only 8.2C here.
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@Metwatch 2010 was pretty close, especially in the SE with July being quite warm.
It's been a nice day here - plenty of sunshine and a high of 9.2C. No complaints from me. I would happily take this weather all winter tbh. My preference in winter will always be cold and snowy but mild and sunny is a pretty close second.
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3 entries from the 90s also, alongside 1989. Shows nicely how the current warming started back in the late 80s (with the winter of 87-88 being notably mild).
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@Summer8906 I don't think the nice weather of spring 2020 counted for nothing - we still got out and about in nearby parks and country trails, and spent a lot of time in the garden. I live next to a major park in Leeds and I have never seen it so busy/packed as it was during May 2020, probably because there wasn't really anywhere else for people to go.
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@NEVES SCREAMER heard a song thrush singing this morning. Spring vibes.
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Another chase that will most likely end in failure. Enjoy, I guess?
I heard my first song thrush this morning which immediately reminded me of spring/summer. Really looking forward to the end of winter now.
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@East Lancs Rain dry and mild suits me just fine.
I wouldn't be opposed to a repeat of 2019 in general tbh.
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@In Absence of True Seasons I normally see those deep blue skies in spring more than summer. Summer blue skies are normally milky/hazy in my experience
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@I remember Atlantic 252 at least February can be very mild and dry though, like Feb 2023, Feb 2019 or Feb 1998.
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@Nick123 Probably the case here as well.
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Definitely windier tonight
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15 hours ago, Weather Enthusiast91 said:
August 2022 was decent, though I do agree it would be nice to have another decent one as there haven't been many decent Augusts over the last 20 or so years.
Since 2004, only 2016 and 2022 stand out as being decent.
August 2022 was a lot more than just decent tbf - it was excellent. One of the best summer months of my lifetime. Right up there with August 1995 and July 2006.
August 2012, August 2013, August 2016, August 2020 were all decent. Even August 2023 wasn't too bad.
August 2015 was decent up north but I know it was pretty poor down south.
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A lot of snowfalls in recent years have been quite marginal and dependent on elevation, so while Leeds has done fairly well (even here at a modest 85m ASL), further east around York they have done very poorly with little settling snow. 2020-21 was a pretty good winter in general here with some decent falls in January and February.
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It wasn't particularly bad here - no worse than a normal winter storm anyway. Very happy the worst of the winds avoided here.
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Not too bad here tbh.
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4 hours ago, baddie said:
I fear it could be a 2013 analog (2023 resembling 2012), where March is dominated by cold and dull Easterlies and the rest of the Spring is poor, with June being cold too (Resembling an average May). The Autumn and December ends up very poor too, meaning only July and August are very good months
April 2013 was sunnier and drier than average at least, even though it was chilly (the entire first week of the month had lows below freezing here).
May 2013 sucked however - wet, cool and not particularly sunny.
A repeat of 2003 would be very good. Pretty much the entire April-October period that year was good or even great (October was cooler than average but very sunny and dry).
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Snowing lightly here too
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6 hours ago, damianslaw said:
Yes this thread tends to see little action, but I always ensure it is kept alive when possible new lows might happen..
It does tend to be minus double digit figures that gain attention, in most years an England low in the minus double digits occurs at some point, but not always, and not always in Dec- Feb, sometimes Nov, March or even April..
Tonight set not as cold. May be some time before we think about possible new lows, plenty of time for -11 to be beat still.
Might also be because these low temps are usually very isolated to the usual frost hollows, the rest of us will have comparatively unremarkable temperatures.
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I don't think winters are any snowier either. Even during mild winters we get a covering of snow at some point, there's nothing odd about that. Bearing in mind that a normal winter here used to have 10-15 days of lying snow, and very few winters in the past 25 years have managed that - 2009/10, 2010/11, 2012/13 and 2017/18 are probably the only ones.
2013/14 had no lying snow at all.
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9 minutes ago, East Lancs Rain said:
Not really, as 2007 and 2012 didn’t have the hottest June on record! Instead, they had exceptionally wet and very cool Junes. And July 2023, as bad as it was, didn’t feel record breakingly wet here, not as bad as 2012, but I guess the stats don’t lie. If we had 2 really bad summer months in the same summer, then I’d say we’d have had a 2007/2012 repeat. I’d say last summer was kind of similar to 2009, a warm, dry and sunny June, a very wet July and a mediocre August.
True enough regarding June 2023, that obviously sets last summer apart from 2007 and 2012. July 2023's exceptional rainfall is kind of hard to ignore though. It was the wettest summer month on record for NW England with widespread areas of 200mm+, and quite a few stations reporting 300mm+. As wet as 2007 and 2012 were, they weren't quite that wet!
July 2012 was worse than July 2023 in terms of temperature, but July 2012 wasn't as wet.
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A low of -6.0C this morning, which doesn't beat our low of -6.3C back in December.
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Moans, ramps and banter
in Spring Weather Discussion
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@East Lancs Rain it’s always interesting how effective the Pennines are at blocking precipitation even though they’re not particularly big. I dread to think how much rain we’d get without them!