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I wonder if this is one of those years where September saves summer.
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39 minutes ago, cheese said:
They are hardy to around -7C so that’s unsurprising. There are a few gardens around here with canary island date palms and they’re doing very well.
There are also two quite sizeable ones in Leeds city centre. The urban heat island will help.
I don't benefit from an UHI being in the sticks but it's quite dry here and I've read not to mollycoddle them too much, so it's just in a pot with a bit of bubble wrap around the pot and watered occasionally.
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3 hours ago, cheese said:
At least the plants won’t be zapped.
Tbh I have a canary island date palm and a few other tenders that have done very well this winter. Weirdly since I began keeping records a few years ago this winter has had my lowest min and highest max! The palm has thought nothing of the odd -7C.
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3 hours ago, Snowyowl9 said:
That's what march is known for march winds and then april showers.
It will be a refreshing change could do with some rain anyway,ground is already hard.
I just like the light levels and new growth of March. If it can also be mild that’s great but despite my moaning at scraping the car, spring wouldn’t be spring without a few crisp frosty mornings! It’s the second coldest season after all.
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Bring on the Zonal. I detest defrosting my car every morning, even during this spell!
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1 hour ago, sundog said:
We have been in a mild dry pattern overall since Nov. That won't last forever. It will change of course at some point.
If this were the case the Met Office wouldn’t need to use a different 30 year average every 10 years.
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X month is warm so x months will be cold is more useless than red sky at night. If it were accurate there’d be no global warming.
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Wow that’s pretty confident for them. I do think these are fairly good in general. Been following them for a few years and it’s only the winters it struggles with but so does everyone else it seems!
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Just now, Ed Stone said:
Talk about a 'back-loaded' winter...? It even got the burning end of the cigar!
It was still back loaded, it’s just the load wasn’t what was expected
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This spell has kind of been like Summer 2018 here as in there has been persistent warmth but my monthly record high hasn’t been threatened much.
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That’s an error.
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They’re giving their subjective opinion safe in the knowledge 90%+ of the country feels the same. Not everyone wants to be a miserable cold lover either!
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Well, in the real world most Brits open the window and put on a fan in heat, not install expensive aircon!
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Should be illegal to work on days so glorious!
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Some of you need to let March 2013 go.
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No it doesn’t. There’s no statistical basis for that just like there’s no basis for saying a warm spring means a cool summer (I’ve read this a million times on here!)
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43 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:
winter after winter?...North America is generally much colder than Europe as the norm anyway.
It’s like saying “Why is Barbados getting all our summer weather year after year”.
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Given the global patterns I’d be highly surprised to see a colder than average summer. We’d be one of the only temperate locations to get one if so!
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2015 was not a classic, yet it still had some crazy hot humid days that were more uncomfortable than anything summer 2018 had! I remember that summer well as I made a point of going out for a 4 mile walk every day of the summer and it was nice. June was a bit meh but the rest was fine.
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That’s the most awkwardly worded update I’ve ever seen haha.
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Coldies use the alternative calendar, which has winter from November 1st until May 1st, or slightly shorter if they’ve had good mental health over the previous 12 months.
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I’ve had more than half a dozen frosts, always do being in the sticks near a river, but less than a few hours of lying snow which is pretty standard here these days....
Average high temps have been quite mild in general but I did record my lowest min since I got a weather station 3 years ago at -7.4C.
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I just think they’ve reached a limit with the data available to them from stations and balloons vs computing power. The computing power is available, but the quantity of readings required from the real world to reach the next level in understanding the atmosphere enough to generate knew models are impractical and expensive at the moment.
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How is there confusion? The forecasts cover 2 different time periods!
Summer 2023 chat
in Spring Weather Discussion
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I know all the definitions, however as September is firmly in the warm part of the year, I don’t see why it is a stretch to regard much of it as essentially a continuation of summer. It certainly has more in common with August than November. Obviously, the UK doesn’t have much of a winter, so there's autumn to enjoy from October to February.