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Its now the 14th wettest winter on record for the region, currently 20th wettest summer on record (2023) followed by the 11th wettest autumn on record (2023) followed by so far the 14th wettest winter on record (2023-24) giving a total of about 1146mm An annual total of 1146mm would put that year within the top 30 wettest years on record. January and February 2024 have turned out wetter than January and February 2023, so the total from March 2023 to February 2024 so far is a whopping 1366mm. An annual rainfall total of 1366 would make that year the 2nd wettest year on record for the region. That's how wet the last 12 months have been!

End of March 1952 4th April 1961, this occurred during an exceptionally mild spell from February-April 1961, looks similar to what happened in early February this year I have seen one report saying it was Nottingham's first snow since February 1960 and Liverpool's first snow of 1961

BruenSryan September 2000-April 2001 was very close. January 2001 was about 93% of the 1961-90 average, the rest were well above their averages.

carinthian Rainfall wise, it hasn't been as bad as other areas. Only 53.3mm so far up to the 16th. Its been ridiculously mild, although I did manage to record two air frosts this month. Sunshine wise, it has been abysmal!! Hawarden just 11 hrs of sunshine!! And you would thing that would do favourably in a SWly airstream with shelter from the Clywdian mountains. EDIT: that Hawarden sunshine value seems too low to me. Maybe the data hasn't been updated.

Vert wet Sunday early hours. 9.2mm since midnight

damianslaw Regionally, summer 1989 was actually wetter than the summers of 1990, 1991, 1994 and 1996. It was only 6mm drier than summer 1986. It shows how many dry/dryish summers there were regionally from 1989 to 1996. Even summer 1993, was not that particularly wet (it was only 5mm wetter than summer 2013).

Derecho One way to gauge that 13.7°C value is how many times during March that CET mean was exceeded?

Summerlover2006 Disagree, summer 1989 is frequently quoted often when pairs of great summers are mentioned as examples 1975-76, 1983-84, 1989-90 I remember it well because my period at high school was sandwiched between two great summers, unfortunately the summers in between were mediocre. The great summers of the 20th century really depends on locations, some places did better than others. Summer 1990 is overrated IMO For my location, they are 1911, 1933, 1947, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1975, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1995 1901 was a good summer but who talks about that? 1921 was another but ruined by the August. Summer 1925 rarely gets a mentioned 1933 is mentioned a lot in historical terms as a great summer but who talks about the summers of 1934 and 1935? They were pretty good summers I think summer 1994 is underrated as with 1996 being overshadowed by 1995.

February 1920 was very mild with a CET of 6.0°C but there were snowfalls around the 19th/20th Doesn't look great but the rain did turn to snow. 4 inches for parts of NW Leicestershire 2 to 3 inches for Birmingham

I remember Atlantic 252 This gave snow and just 3 years ago

December 1956, a white Christmas.

From 18th February 1970

jules216 This is where I have problem with analogs. Look at the years given and try apply them at a more microlevel, in this case the UK Take April Years given 1987, 1998, 2007 and 2016 Now look at the CETs for those years. How can anyone extract what possible the weather maybe given the difference in those CETS?

Metwatch

Not great

Has this been a bad winter for the teleconnections pundits and medium/long models?

Interesting tweet by Dr Simon Lee

summer blizzard 1868-69 Dec 7.2 Feb 7.5

Derecho Apparently there were prayers for rain in Spain by May 1779. Seen a newspaper report saying it had not rained their for more than 4 months.

Summer8906 It was exceptionally dry, infact the first 3 months of 1779 were exceptionally dry, just 44mm or so by the start of April. That's is truely remarkable, granted you might question the data of the time but it is there in the Hadley data. I have done research in the newspapers from that period and I'm surprised there is little info. I would have thought given how agriculturally dependent we were at the time, that there was not more reports on the drought and it was a drought.

reef Is it? Not exactly a lot of below average Marches in the last 30 or so years.

February 1903 was an exceptionally mild month with a CET of 7.1 Tropical martime southwesterly frequently flooded the UK bringing exceptionally high maxima for the time of the year. On the 21st of February, an airmass that originated from north Africa gave a remarkable dust fall across parts of Wales and central and southern England as can been seen on this map. The shaded areas is where dust was reported Some reports Mrs Foster, Witley, Godalming "On Saturday, February 21st, we had a remarkable dust-storm, worst about midday. Several people who went out of doors complained of the dreadful dust in their eyes and nostrils. On Monday morning, after the rain of Sunday. the 22nd, I saw yellow dust on the south and west window sills, but it was like cement and could not be swept up, so it had to be washed off." Dr Edwin Freshfield, Juniper Hill "From 9am till 2pm the sun was shining brightly enough through a haze similiar to the Khamsin haze in Egypt, then the semi-obscured sky cleared of mist about 4pm. Evergreen trees were noticed to be covered with chocolate coloured dust at 11am and by 4pm the trees were all of one uniform colour. The dust was silky to the touch." Mrs Silver, Highfield Vicarage, Southampton "On the Sunday, February 22nd, between 11am and noon the sky was coloured with a thick yellow cloud exactly like a Lonodn fog, too thick for sufficent light to penetrate to read by. The darkness lasted about an hour and when it had passed the windows were covered with yellow sand." G.D, Hope, Romford "On Saturday 21st February, a great amount of grey dust fell at Havering. The conifers collected most and looked as if they had been powdered with flour" A few days later, there was a tremendous gale that hit northern parts that for Ireland was described as the worst gale since the Big Wind of January 1839. One estate near Birr reported about 2000 trees uprooted, 4000 trees on an estate in Kilkenny, 3000 trees were uprooted in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Reports on the gale Norwich: Great gale on the night of 26th with terrific gusts Bolton: On the 27th, occurred the most severest gale for many years, its force being almost equal to that of the memorable gale of 9th December 1886 Melmerby: Violent SW gale on the 26th and 27th. Many trees uprooted and houses unroofed. Douglas: A storm of probably almost unprecedented violence on the 26th and 27th did much damage to churches, houses, trees and gardens. Cargen: The gale on 27th caused considerable damage to timber and trees Darryanne Abbey: The gale of the 26th was said to be the worst remembered. Dublin: A hurricane on the night of 26th/27th unequalled since the big wind of January 6th 1839 Athlone: The greatest storm since "the night of the big wind" on January 6th 1839 raged on 26th. Trees were laid low all over the country and in some cases almost whole woods. Ballinaloe: Violent gale on the 26th. Houses were unroofed and thousands of trees blown down all over the district. The gale made news across the pond. This from a North Carolina newspaper

reef For the NW ENG/NWales region, 20th wettest summer on record (2023) followed by the 11th wettest autumn on record (2023) followed by so far the 27th wettest winter on record (2023-24) giving a whopping 1112mm since the start of July last year. An annual total of 1112mm would put that year in the top 40 wettest years on record for the region......and this is just 7 and a half months. God knows what the July 2023-June 2024 rainfall total is going to end up as

Metwatch Here's my post from that thread. June 2007 CET: (Jun 1-12): 16.4°C (+2.9 degC) E&W Rain: (Jun 1-12): 4.4mm ( 16 per cent) E&W Sun: (Jun 1-12): 75.8hr (100 per cent) Shows that June 2007 didn't start out too bad. Look how dry it was up to the 12th

North-Easterly Blast So? I go off an index. Summer index for 2012 was 164, 2007 was 174