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Had Worse Yeah that's true, someone living at the coast would probably think 100m is high up but to me it's not as I can miss out on the more marginal stuff at that height where as around your height you can get in on it. A bit like someone 80 yrs old probably thinks a 50 yr old is relatively young but to a 20 yr old a 50 yr old is ancient. Differing interpretations.

Finally saw a frost this morning. My moaning last night paid off . God we really are scraping the barrel when we are getting giddy over it, shows how rubbish this winter has been.

Be nice to see a visible frost, when was the last one?? What a waste of a winter month it's been.

In Absence of True Seasons it was standard years ago but unfortunately due to CC it's not anymore, they now have just little reminders of the past you could say and not as long lasting. There was a poster on here from Estonia, forgot his name and he said older people mentioned that winters were way harsher years ago over there.

42c in Sacramento California. Autumn couldn't arrive soon enough after experiencing a Summer inland Mediterranean climate on a par with Andalusia. Had no rain though until the start of November. And wow did it rain on that day, like what we get here, wind with it, lights flickering. I remember looking the weather channel and seeing radar with the wall of rain coming in from the Pacific. Their record high in Sacramento is 46c in September 2022.

SunnyG tornado in London? It might actually make the place look better, shuffle things round a bit, can't look much worse than it already does in most areas of the city. Then again Manchester isn't exactly great either

You'd think with all the ridiculous amounts of rain we've had since July we would see reservoir levels to capacity by now. Instead as a region overall they are slightly down! Only by .1 of a percent but even so. Reservoir levels | United Utilities WWW.UNITEDUTILITIES.COM Details about the levels of water in our main reservoirs - updated weekly

East Lancs Rain my step dad, now deceased, was American and lived for a long time in Las Vegas. He loved heat and sunshine. He couldn't stand cold and snow and that's where he was brought up near Cleveland, Ohio where they can get lake effect snow. He lived over here for a while and didn't like our climate, not surprisingly. He used to joke oh there's a tiny bit of blue sky there. I lived in the US for a bit, over a year, me and my mum moved over there he sponsored us but I didn't get a long with him for a variety of reasons and it put a strain on my mum's relationship with him so we came back to England. This is going back a long time ago now. We lived in Sacramento in California and then my step dad's company relocated to the other side of the country in Reading, Pennsylvania so we decided to moved over there. And later when we moved back to England we found out he wasn't the man he told us he was. He took a deceased boy's name when he was young man and was using that name for decades. Obviously he lied about his birthday too and when he was born, feel bad that my mum bought him things on his birthday when it wasn't really his birthday. FBI was involved in it all. But that's another story I guess and I always thought he was dodgy anyway. Still a mystery why he did it, never found out why. He refused to tell the FBI why. Shame really as my mum thought the world of him, was writing to him for a few years as a pen friend before flying over herself to meet him for the first time. We found out he died of lung cancer, now my mum has it oddly enough.

raz.org.rain like the recent heat records then with it set in 2019 at Cambridge and then it got broken again in 2022 in Coningsby. I think the trend is clear because we're not beating cold records are we? It's getting extremely difficult to get an average CET month lately never mind a below average one.

Rain Lady It can be a good month for sure, had plenty of decent march snows but sometimes brings early hints of proper late Spring i.e 2012 when we reached 20c on 3 successive days at the end of the month. You just never know what can happen with this warming climate. Look at Feb 2019 high teens we got up to, crazy. I think we're not only getting warmer we are getting wetter too.

Joe Snow that's a worrying chart. I suppose great for those who love heat but I have a bad feeling about this summer, could somewhere reach 45c in the country?? Maybe that's stretching it a bit though, 42c more likely. Wasn't so long go some on here were adamant 40c wouldn't be reached but it did at RAF Coningsby. And that day up here when it reached 37 felt like when you open an oven door as you went outside

trickydicky that's the thing, I hear people in Spain and Portugal who say they used to have regular reliable rain in the winter, heavy actually before the normal Mediterranean dry spell from May to October. But the Iberian peninsula is slowly turning into a desert. A combination of prolonged drought throughout the year and intensive farming.

Mark.C and then you realise your in Blackpool

Had Worse it's been horrible for lack of sun since about July hasn't it? We had that decent June and then that was it.

Noticing the first UV's of 2 in Cornwall now. 2 is still a low UV but it's a sign we're tilting more towards the sun now, that UV level will be up here in the next couple of weeks, sun permitting, and then we usually see the first "moderate" UV of 3 towards the end of March.

markyo the UK the land of no winter. Yeah I'm not looking forward to seeing all that heat building over Spain and then surging north. Seems to be a yearly thing now. Temps in the 20s will suit me just fine. Problem is it rarely happens like that. It's usually temps in the high teens and then suddenly were in the midst of a 35c+ heatwave. Huge yo-yo changes.

Just want to add RIP Alexei Navalny. Murdered by the Russian state. How many opponents has Putin got rid of now? I hope the Russian people get better leadership in the future with free and fair elections. It's such a great country with so much potential. I think "bald and bankrupt" sums up things well if you skip to 18:25 in the video just how terribly the Russian people have been treated by their own governments one after the other.

Giving up on this winter now, nothing cold on the horizon. Overall it's been a poor one, not as diabolical as 2013-14, 2018-19 or 2021-22 but crap non the less.......... So here's to a bitter March haha. As the days grow longer the cold gets stronger!!

Penguin16 you have to go further and further east every year to get some lasting cold it would seem miraculously it avoids most of Europe.

raz.org.rain wouldn't surprise me there's definitely room for something unprecedented these days, considering 12 years ago I was walking round in a t-shirt and shorts during the March 2012 warm spell. Where has that time gone??

East Lancs Rain that'll be the booze. I get really hot after a few drinks. Plus who wants to be lugging round a coat on a night out only to probably lose it when drunk?

Scorcher feels really nice today. Only got a thin denim jacket on over a shirt. Anything more and I'd be sweating. If we cannot have snow I'll take this. Nothing worse than cold rain.

damianslaw My sister took her kids to there a couple of years ago to a town called Kuusamo to go on husky rides and what not. I keep looking at the "Santa claus village" camera in Rovaniemi and there's been snow on the ground since late October! Problem is it takes an age to warm up in that part of Scandinavia. Cold and snow very much possible well into April and even May some years.

sorepaw1 I used to think this myself but I'm always surprised at how things can dry out very quickly after a few weeks of no rain. This was the case last June, grass everywhere started to go yellow and the ground was cracked.

James M I think it's a load of twaddle really. It's often cold in New York in the winter yet all we get is days like today like you say all it does is power the jet up.