cheeky_monkey

Had to draw the curtains last night as well as the blinds in my bedroom as the sun is waking me up too early now.

spring has been very decent here so far...last evening was the first real rain we have had here in a couple of months..so not been crappy at all.

Bored now!

why are the years 2007 - 2013 blanked out on the graph??

surprised 1997 is not on the list must have had a warm second half of the month?

Interesting that you have blotted out most of the years in between add those back in then 2015 is bumping along the bottom in regards to the extent of ice at this time of the year.

strange but true but I can smell snow...at least a week before it arrives.

do we I am not so sure about that?

Not sure how you would get a blizzard out of this?? very slack isobars pressure none to low either..best would be raw with a few flurries dotted around.

i think it is pointless unless you look at all other signals that point to mild winters in combination which honestly 90% on here do not... which are probably much stronger and can overide the rest...no doubt it will be the same next autumn and so on and so on...

I can think of 1989,90,91,95 and 03 all had warm/hot spells in April or May preceding the start of a warm/hot summer..mind you 1983 was a wet spring followed by a glorious summer

umm ..SSTs, El Niño, La Nina, Siberian Snow index, Pattern matching, solar activity, warm octobers etc etc im sure there are plenty more that have been touted in the past none are proven to have a firm link with a good predictor of a cold winter

Well, well, well looks like another predictor of a cold winter heads to the bin?

My grandmother died from malaria.

wow really...seems like yesterday..where does the time go!

From my point of view a pretty much nothingness of a winter..wasn't cold at all, wasn't really mild either..did not rain as much as I expected..wasn't particularly windy either..only had a bit of sleet for about 10 mins one Saturday morning and that was about it. I found it very gloomy with the lack of sunshine so very surprised it was one of the sunniest winters on record?

Don't forget I lived on the Canadian prairies for 6 years..nothing in this country ever gets remotely bitter.. when it hits -42c and in excess of -50c with the wind-chill as it did in Edmonton in March 2011..give me a nudge!

I find this whole coldie mildie thing on this forum pretty pathetic in all honesty some people need to grow up. Hence the reason I never go in the MOD thread in winter...much more civilised the rest of the year.

Have to say that having become so accustom to the cold and long drawn out winters..im a little bit disappointed by my first winter back in the UK..I have only had to don my jumper on a very few occasions and my lovely (expensive) great coat I used to wear in the depths of the Canadian winter is all lonely and unused tucked away in my wardrobe...cant believe spring officially starts on Sunday.

I would say it is the other way round...how many warm March has there been in the last 30 years against cold ones?..i would say at least double..plus the fact the reason Match 2013 is only number 12 is the vast majority of those colder Marches fell more than a 100 years ago and not in the recent past.

clocks go forward 1st sunday in March in Canada

in Canada where I lived they have road condition maps as part of the local travel news...snow covered..partially covered..icy..or clear these are updated hourly during the day and are very useful for planning journeys during the winter months.

not so if you takeout the western coastal fringe the western central areas of US & Canada are usually colder than the eastern central areas simply as they are not effected by tropical air masses from the gulf of mexico ..the last two winters these have been absent from the eastern side of North America hence these areas being colder than normal.

Tis true on the Canadian prairies and the northern part of the states especially in early summer the land warms very quickly where as high aloft the air is relatively cool/cold due the artic still being ice bound..therefore as the heated air rise it collides with the cold air aloft causing huge storms..this is particularly true when the jet runs straight across the 50 degree parallel..sometimes the jet can get stuck and 'wobble' across the Prairies which causes a prolonged spell of Thunderstorms and tornadoes as happened in June and July 2010..when there were severe storms almost daily where I lived in Edmonton. In the UK we rarely get these huge clashes of air types because of the effect of the ocean...same is true of Vancouver they do not suffer from big storms or huge snow events because of the proximity of the Pacific.

yep the novelty soon wears off..having said that I do prefer North American winters in fact all seasons to ours now I have been back a year and had time to reflect on it.