Airedalejoe

Don't know if it missed you down there but we had an incredible spell end February-beginning March 2018. Deep snow, strong winds and sub zero temps. Extremely unusual for my part of the world.

Totally agree. Plenty winters here never have one ice day, we've had quite a few this winter. I read accounts of winter weather in the 60/70/80's about regular deep snow etc. They're describing something that never happened on a regular basis, exceptional winters yes, the norm, no. Any reference book describing UK winters would confirm it. Last really exceptional spell here was 2018, Feb/March. 2009 AND 2010 exceptional winters. We could go to 2030 without another exceptional winter, that would be normal.

To be fair, it's a well known feature of the areas climate. Produces incredible snowfall in the Sierra Nevada. I've read about it for decades now. Pineapple Express to blame for California's rain WWW.KSHB.COM Parts of California have already received 6-8 inches of rain, and that number is expected to double (or more) today and Wednesday.

Glass half full specs! Snow spell, poor. Cold spell, notable. I've known many many winters where one single ice day couldn't be had, we've just had four! All within the first 3 weeks of winter starting. Unusual to say the least.

An impressive period of cold. Third consecutive ice day, doesn't happen very often! Fingers crossed we get a present from the North Sea snow machine over the next 48hrs. Lovely walking weather, everything crunchy and hard instead of rank mud everywhere!

Cloudy and currently 10C here.

Beautiful day. Temp around 31/32 so far, been 31 year since we've seen that here. So nice to get outside without wondering what to wear, usual 2 hour walk around the fields/woodland. What I'd give to have a whole summer like this. Everyone I met full of the joys of spring and loving the weather. Turn on tv on return and bombarded with apocalyptic warnings of doom and gloom. People keeping kids off school etc, we're a laughing stock.

Perfect summer day. 24c and sunny, highest of the year so far. Still a long way from reaching our average summer maximum high of 28c. Some folk are getting a little carried away at the moment! Time will tell.

Abysmal weather continues, current temp 13c and ground soaked from a heavy shower. Has to be the windiest year ever so far, third day of very windy weather with plants getting damaged. Last lot of very strong winds no more than 2 weeks ago. Cloudy skies are relentless and temps depressed. Whatever happened to warm sunny weather, 20c and prolonged sunshine will be a miracle here!

All very average here, daily walk is a water/mud fest after a lot of miserable wet days, some car de-icing to do at times, a little snow, though not as much as November, but at last temps in double digits though far from record breaking.

Absolutely spot on.

That would be classed as a heatwave up here!

Happens a lot in this forum, probably all forums! What statistics say, or what it looks like from behind glass can, to put it mildly, be misleading. It's been abysmal here for a week and a half now, bar one day of sunshine. Temps just making it to 13-15c as highs, and almost 100% cloud with frequent drizzle.

Very cold August day, 14.8c as a high. Cloudy and breezy too.

This summer is a normal one for my part of the world!

As I posted in the Italy thread, I have a met office book which gives climate averages/extremes etc. for Spain, and covers the period 1939-1960. Seville hit a high of 48.8 on an August day during this time. Surely we're not cancelling past weather extremes?

Was looking at a Met Office weather statistics book and Seville in Spain recorded 48.8 as their highest temperature. The data was from between 1939 and 1960, between 61 and 82 years ago!

Try rain/drizzle for last 2 days and temps 11/12C most of the time, courtesy of the North sea!

Not a chance that April was average to above here! Someone has been colouring in that chart, lots of blue skies and sunshine but a cold cold April with record amounts of icy nights. Day time temps were mostly cold too. Already had snow in May and the ice continues.

Not the slightest doubt!

A rare event here, was snowing in the early hours in a temp of -7!! Very unusual in my neck of the woods for such low tempertures with falling snow. Looking forward to hopefully more snow showers today, another bitter day tomorrow then if I'm honest the mild weather next week. Apart from a very odd day it's been cold since just before Christmas!

Fantastic morning! Heading out on bike shortly to ride up the C2C line Chester to Consett, hopefully a few more heavy showers))

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You'll probably find that the sun has that little bit more strength now and even if temp was sub zero all day if sun shone snow would melt a bit. Still lovely to be out in, not long back from my walk and at one point was watching a heavy snow shower come in from the coast and the land in the distance was disappearing but facing the sun I could feel a bit wrmth on my face, magical! Just the pickup to get rid of lockdown blues))