cheeky_monkey

i think the most remarkable thing about april 1981 was how widespread the event was for being so late in the year.. its exactly right about 1st half of april being warm i remember being on a school trip to germany in the first half and walking around in tshirts in lovely sunny warm weather..only to be replaced first by shirts then jumpers then back to the good old snorkel parker

probably have to the say the snow event 15-20 feb 1978 i was 11 and living in exeter at the time and an exceptionally snowy period by anyones standard culminating in the great south west blizzard where cars were literally buried and snow was blown into drifts almost to the roof tops. 79 was good..and i lived in essex during the 1980s and early 90s so saw some hefty snowfalls the last being 1991..but nothing quite matches 1978...even this years snow was just a mere dusting in comparison.

we dont have umlauts on the key board..so without it, it is spelt with an e thats is how it is pronounced in german..academic really as it is now part of russia and called kaliningrad

i knew it was an april fool in the 1st line..when you mispelt koenigsberg...koninsberg...school boy error.

maybe summer 2006 was the swansong of the run of warm summers seen through from 1989 onwards..bit like 1987 was for winters in the period of the 70s & 80s and the tide has turned. we had two poor summers 2007 & 2008 much like the poor winters of 88-89 & 89-90..maybe it hearlds the flip back the opposite way and in ten years time every one will be asking when we will get summers like the 1990s & 00s again....having said that i expect a better summer this year fairly dryish pretty average temps wise something akin to 1987 for those who remember that summer.

i must be losing my memory as i get older i remember may 1990 being very sunny at hot at times..not so much 1989...maybe essex was sunnier in may 1990 more than 1989?

if memory serves me right wasnt may 1990 very sunny too? how did that compare to may 1909???

as im at a bit of a loose end thought it would be intersting for people to post the chart from the day you were born...i know some of the ladies will be reluctant to have a go as it will reveal their true age..not sure which thread to post so feel free to move it around. anyways here is mine

lots of pretty pictures but no real substance or backround..maybe thats to come..bit samey seen it all before kind of programme.

i would very often catch the sun playing football from late march onwards on a sunny saturday afternoon...nothing spectacular but noticable all the same...dont recollect catching the sun after mid september though.

dpends what you mean by better?..purely in terms of temperature..62/63, 63/64, 64/65, 67/68, 68/69 & 69/70 were all colder.

just a quick question..i have weather icon for the uk and alberta on my pc..and have noticed when its mild in the uk its is very cold in alberta..when it was cold in the uk it was very mild in alberta..now its mild in the uk its cold in alberta again..any link?...looking back at records it seems that mild winters in the uk correspond with colder winters in western canada and cold winters in the uk mild weather prevails in western canada...ive only looked at very mild winters and very cold winters in the uk and checked what the winters were like in alberta for those years...coincedence??

but it didnt and that is what goes into the record books...and that is what is remembered and what will be commented on in future..this whole scenario of cherry picking a 30 day rolling mean to highlight how cold it has been, happened if i remember in the winters of 2004/5 & 2005/6. much easier just to comment on each individual calender month..than random periods of time.

when did these downward adjustments to the cets begin?

im not going to guess but a march similar to 1998 would suit me fine..dont remember the cet of hand but was pleasently mild and dry i think.

im too young to remember march 1970

trouble with cets is that only tell you the temps recorded in central england..but not the conditions...you can have a very cold month say sub1c surrounded by two average months and come out with the same result... many use 1986 as an example with a similar final cet yet which one will be more memorable?..also there are probably lots of winters with higher cets which delivered so much more...nobody ever remembers the cets of winters just the weather events contained within.

dont know..you havnt said???

umm march 2006 was colder than march 2001 so?

what exactly dont you agree with??..you didnt say? i didnt say it was a poor winter..i said for me it was an unsual winter..something i dont recalling seeing before.

i like some nice sunshine this year..i havnt seen any real sunny warm weather since july 2006..i was out of the country during the record breaking april 2007...summer 2007 when i was back was a wash out..last year i was in ontario in april and may which suffered a cold wet spring especailly may!..then i was in alberta in june and july which were cool and cloudy even by alberta standards..then i was back in the uk for one of the dullest august on record! im not after heat or storms just some sunny blue skies please :winky:

all i can say about this winter is not that it has been cold..but it has lacked any especailly mild weather of any duration...which for me is very unsual indeed...most winters even cold winters are usually interpersed with mild or very mild spells of weather. Hence the reason that we have had below average CETs. we havnt had any notable spells of very cold/bitterly cold weather at all..but neither have we had any notable mild weather either..The temps have fluctuated from average to rather cold for the most part. im no expert on past winters but i would say for lack of variation in temps in the cool range it is fairly unique..well in my lifetime anyway. maybe this is as a cold as british winters will get in a warmer world?

yeah but it didnt and thats what counts..if ifs and buts were pots and pans..everymonth would have been record breaking in that case if only this and that etc

to whom will it bit a huge disappointment???..i dont know why people are so desperate to get a sub 3c winter month?

i think it all comes down to age..on how your view is skewed with what constitutes a good winter...i would wager most members under 25..would consider winter to have been a good one in terms of cold and snow..those say over 35 would tend to disagree..having experienced much colder and snowier spells... me i think that maybe global warming has scuppered what could have been a much colder winter..or also it maybe a precurser to an even colder one next year who knows??...is it me or do cold winters/hot summers tend to cluster??