JeffC

Like I suggested the other day, Cold Pool could well come back with a bit of agitation following a relatively settled period ...

Isn't the increase in SST aligned with a fairly benign period of weather, hence not much agitation allowing SST to rise, but it will take a fair bit of Sun to warm that amount of water to any great depth. Wouldn't surprise me if the cold pool came back once the Atlantic gets a bit more mixing over the next week or two... I stand to be corrected of course!

And yet bizarrely here at Coniston, only few Miles west of you,March 22/23 2013 was a memorable snow event with about 18" of snow before it started to drift. Drifts uneven on the lower fells were over waist deep

We use same term for that ppn between mist and drizzle...although maybe I'm influenced by having a father from Manchester and a mother from Nottingham...

I've held a theory for some time now that the Gulf Stream / North Atlantic Drift has been slowing down or not as strong as it was...nothing excessively scientific except for the huge drop in numbers of European Eels. The adult Eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and their offspring hitch a ride on the Gulf Stream and then return to the rivers as Elvers to grow into Eels. I think there's a link to even a slight decline in the strength of the plume of water which they use to travel meaning much lower numbers returning to northern Europe. Just a theory...

I went for the same, and thought I was being optimistic...or pessimistic depending on your perspective!

9.8 for me please

Nat should maybe get a prize for recycling...

Interesting as around here they seem to be well behind normal, although at the coast near Haverigg they were ripening nicely last weekend and we picked about a pound in ten minutes. I went for a walk at lunchtime and on the fell road I quite anachronistically came across a lovely perfectly ripe Raspberry - about 4-6weeks later than I'd expect, admittedly it's fairly high up but very late I thought! By the way, seems to be an almost total absence of hazelnuts this year in these parts, anyone else got that or are we just missing out on a glut elsewhere?

Must have been close to it this morning here as at 0730 when I got into may car in the sunshine, outside temp was just 4.5 deg...

May 2016 I reckon

To be fair, it hasn't been quite that bad here, but I'd say it has been a pretty lacklustre attempt at a summer in the lakes. I'm a coldie, but 2015 has made little or no attempt at anything approaching sensible weather for summer in the uk.

Here too, have been for a couple of weeks

Seems barmy to me...BBC should be using most accurate and capable outfit, would be interesting to know who has got the contract and for how long...

I'll go for 13.3 please

Aye but to be fair...the clue is in his name. Stick around kid, we might just see the +10 vs-10 balance change...

Well I'm sat in the southern lake district, and we've just about managed the second bbq of the year, although rain stopped play at one point. Everybody has decamped indoors because it's bloody freezing! Fire pit going and at least it's dry but tbh this summer is a dud! I'm generally a coldie, owt above 25c and I'm moaning, but come on 2015, make an effort!

Interesting to see where the reindeer prefer to be!

I think there's a coding error in the Summer 20.15 program...I look outside and it's all IIIIIIIIIIIII as in stair rods rather than OOOOO as in suns, so maybe the Binary's a bit up the shoot. Can we recode as OOOOOIOOOOO! please ?

must be the UK release, glitch is it scrolls straight through to November, missing out much of the program.

That summer version 20.15, is known to have problems, please could you install summer 20.03 or maybe even the much older version 19.76, both of which seem to work better. I haven't been able to open my windows while running Summer 20.15

We had a few days in N Wales last week - what an uninspiring period of weather accompanied us - talk about always take the weather with you! Only plus is that the midges were kept down - with a bit of luck they'll all die of frostbite. Our return to the Lakes saw a peeing wet journey all the way with 11 Degrees greeting us at home. Moki's right, apart from the day length it could be November. If I've come back brown, it's not a tan, it's rust.

try 15.1 please - if July up here is anything to go by it ain't gonna be a scorcher!

Been at or close to freezing all day here, under a fairly dense bank of fog. A mate posted a picture Facebook, looks like an inversion as above was clear as a bell. Cleared out a little 3 ish and temp rose a tad, but still not the day to wash your car! Temps dropped back now. Tarn Hows (google it if you don't know of it!) is frozen over solid, not thick enough to walk on, but still very atmospheric!

-1.1 he says hopefully!