Snowy L

Now you're just out to wind up.

April isn't out yet but Sheffield is in the 130-150% zone for March's rainfall anomaly. It has been wetter and duller than average. Fact.

Above average for most of England and Wales

Just looking at March and the data conflicting with how many of us have felt. It turns out night time minimum temperatures have been inflating the CET. Obviously most people aren't awake to feel the temperature overnight, but the relevant stats, the temperatures we can actually experience when we are awake and out and about, show that we have not been going crazy imagining how rubbish it has been. Compared to the 30 year era we have most recently lived through, maximum temperatures were near or below average for most. But the stats people will remember are a significantly above average CET (+1.4) when compared to an era 70-40 years ago.

Nope would just like my first 16C of the Spring.

I wish Met Office would start using 1981-2010 for CET comparisons. The only thing more depressing than the weather is the constant gaslighting that akshually it's been a mild spring. No it hasn't, it's been cool, damp and miserable. End of.

Yeah while we didn't get the warm spell we were promised by the met office at least the worst case drizzlefests were avoided.

April is normally a month of contrasts with the UK temperature being very sensitive to slight changes in wind direction compared to other months. Usually we take a few days of highs of 8-10C and then a few days with highs of 18-20C to average out at 14C or so but this month it's been every day being almost exactly average. As we haven't had any of those warm days it's felt like a cold month even though its technically been average.

Sun is out a couple of hours earlier than forecast. Not bad at 14C. Again it's exactly average but even sunny and average has been such a big ask this eternal winter.

My bad only just noticed the thread was about DC. My stats are about Seattle Washington state so point stands worst part of USA is better than the UK average. Seattle has 2200 sunshine hours per year and 3 or 4 rain days per summer month. Far better than UK average.

Quick glance is similar temperatures but far less rain during summer. Only 3/4 rain days per month during summer opposed to 8/9 here. So pretty much the worse place to be in USA for summer beats the UK.

Got some sun coming out now, that's all it takes to turn an average day temperature wise (14C) into a good one.

The UK doesn't have much of a wet-dry season thing going on, but Spring should be the drier of the seasons. Lack of warmth is one thing, it's when it coincides with endless cloud, drizzle and rain when the (justified) complaints start. People have a right to be annoyed by the first 50 or so days of Spring not being warm AND being dull. Also just to add for me personally the 1961-1990 is not relevant as I didn't live through it. The average I've partly lived through is 1981-2010, and compared to that average, this Spring has been below average.

Looks troposphere-lead to me, and early May is not looking too great either with more opportunities for northern blocking.

My thoughts too. Let it warm up another degree or two and then pause it after that, don't reverse. Can't even begin to imagine a Spring a couple of degrees below the 61-90 average.

Looks like GFS was right

Finally a dry day with average temperatures. Even such low standards have been almost impossible to meet most of this extended winter.

Sunday peak temps showing 17C yesterday, 7C today.

Never wishing for a February SSW ever again. They are Spring killers. So depressing seeing nailed on high teens low twenties gradually chipped away into a North Sea cool drizzlefest. Failed warm spells really hit worse in Spring, back to winter we go.

Late April it should be approaching 14-15C. A couple of degrees above average and some sun for a week or so is not asking for much.

Not sure about that. Need to get into late June really to not have to worry about North Sea sourced air. Some of the afternoon charts are looking horrific after high teens and a couple of low twenties were looking nailed on. Robbed again by this Spring from hell.

Not much wind here, so even though it's only 11C it feels nice in sunshine. Finally managed to give the grass a much needed cut.

I don't mind a cold March. Time flies with snow and before you know it, it's April and then high pressure over the UK starts bringing some warmth. Can't stand cold Aprils though.

There is a small disturbance in the flow on Tuesday coming from the NW. Hoping for something like the day after Arwen. Tiny feature but produced a good 5cm. Models not making much of any moisture from it at the moment though.

The snow-fields have survived another day