Mid January to mid March looks distinctly chilly. The 2nd half of winter was the coldest since 1995-96 and now added to this an overall chilly first half to March.
Flakes of snow blowing in the wind here. Seems to be a streamer running from Middlesbrough area to the Morecambe Bay area.
Any reports from the Morecambe Bay Area?
Manchester airport was reporting a temperature of -2C about half an hour ago. When you consider it was about 80 minutes to sunset and we are close to the spring equinox, that is pretty remarkable.
I'm not really because precipitation amounts are often underestimated around the Greater Manchester area under an easterly flow. We had snow flurries on the weakish easterly flow of Christmas Day 2000 as an example.
Preciptation amounts are often underestimated in an easterly around the Greater Manchester area. I can recall some snowy easterlies such as late January 1996 and New Year's Eve 1996.
A heavy snow shower just gone through here. It reminds me of late February 1996 when showers developed in a strong NEly flow producing low visibilities and blizzard like conditions followed by sunshine and blue skies.
Looks after Wednesday, cool, chilly or cold cyclonic sums it up and past next weekend. Looks as though it could be a great Easter for the Scottish ski resorts.
Easter is almost within range of GFS now.
I think it needs to be pointed out that with a stronger sun at this time of the year than in late December, convection can be generated inland. I've seen this before with northerlies at the end of Februarys of 1993 and 2004 to cite examples.