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Is today really record breaking? Remember April 2017 was like this. The summer that year turned out to be pretty average

Hasn't rained in here in at least a week. Non stop sunshine. Though of course , my birthday on Monday would just happen to be one of the coldest and cloudiest days of the month

24C in Cambridge

No sign of april showers, even more warmth next week here in the east

Quick search I Google suggests it's 15C . 12C seems very low considering average for where I am in April, about 20 miles east of London, is 13C. 12C is the high for march in London

What?

Hmm I think the London average is actually a high of 15C and low of 7C in April

London is only showing around 18 of 19C, I believe if will be more easterly like Norwich or maybe Peterborough, that general area

2019's August was wet and cool, like most August's, barring a few days of 30C+ weather in eastern parts of the country. 2019 summer wasn't actually as hot as many thought

As I sadly suspected, though I thought at least May would be warm. Maybe we can just hope for an Indian summer . Still, at least some warm weather next week and this weekend

First sign of warmer weather htis week, Sunday high of 17C and 18c on Monday. TWO reporting some parts of the sotuh may see highs of 21C

Who knows, as said GFS isn't exactly known for its accuracy especially this prematurely. Give it a week or two and see then. Certainly I'm sure April will see the first 20C day of the year

Definitely, but Hadley seems to think we are running 1.6C above average? Whilst Metchrck is about 0.3C. all the warm spells were limited to the Midlands and the Northwest. Max temp down here was 16C, and that day was windy wet and cloudy so felt more like 12C. This month has also lacked any anomalously warm night temps. Last two months due to wind some temps were as high as 10 or 11C overnight. Highest night temp this month was 10C and only one of those. Certainly this march feels cold

Sleet/hailstorm here in essex

If you're inferring to the netweather GFS, every time they have predicted warmth like that they have been wrong. For a while in February, it would suggest that we would have a day where in some places 19C would be reached - never happened, the high for that month was 16C. Pretty sure they also predicted this month would have a week of 18C/17C+ weather on the first week. Never happened.

Can't see anything? So much for spring, some sleet today in eastern/southeastern England

Hmm, interesting, that data on Wikipedia appears to suggest that sunshine hours are falling in winter, yet the met site has drastically increased from 52hrs in 1961 to 61 hours in 1981-2010

It's still decreasing nonetheless. As said, I'm going to find the 1961 statistics

But cloudier in winter, which I was referencing by its not as sunny as it once was. I'm going to try and find the 1961 averages too

For London anyway, sunshine is decreasing.

Sunny at times, but not mild or anything warm. The phenonemon of global dimming means that sunlight is actually decreasing. Winters in the UK are now just very wet and mild, nothing like the ones of the past, which were still worse than continental winters but still better than now.

This winter could have been decently cold though had the AO not suddenly become ridiculously postive. November was actually a very cold month. All had to go to sh*t in December

Winter shouldn't be widny, rainy, cloudy though, it should be sunny and crisp (admittedly this is not always the case but certainly the winters of the past were sunnier than the oens now). 12-14C is the same maxima we were gettign in Jan and Feb. I've heard they had up to 19.4C in Rhyl, but the south has been denied any unseasonably warm weather. As said, frost has occured for 7 days now this month, when there were only 3-4 days last month. We've also had around 10days of where the tempreature has failed to make it to 10C. Comparatively, last March saw one day with a tempreature under 10C (9C), whereas teh lowest maxima here has been 5C.

This march, despite some warm-ish days, has felt more like a winter month than a spring one. Crisp, frosty sunny mornings. This month for me in my area has had more days below 10C than February, and also more days where the tempreature reached 0C or below

Research is suggesting that coronavirus thrives in dry, temperate climates, which would explain why places like Africa nad the tropics have been spared.