TheOgre

Being in the midlands we get a mix of both northern and southern features. Summer 2020 is remembered for having intense heatwaves surrounded by weeks on end of dross. It was a very dull summer but 31 July was phenomenal considering how it sprung up out of anywhere and early August was extremely hot but was very wet, cool and dull afterwards. Summer 2021 was more benign in comparison. There was no notable heat but it had a nice first half of June and a normal heatwave in mid July. Late June/early July was very wet and August was a drab, dry, dull month.

Does anyone else find anticyclonic gloom the most depressing type of weather? Just bleak, still, grey nothingness feels so dystopian and gloomy. At least next week looks a bit sunnier (we’ll see).

God knows! I don’t doubt it’ll downgrade later as we don’t get temps like that round these parts (at least very rarely) but it’s definitely looking promising for a colder spell!

Never seen -10C on a weather app for my location before

The late 00s/early 10s was clearly a notably cold era but does anyone know WHY? All the winters between 2008 and 2013 had notable cold spells but it wasn’t just the winters either. The summers of 2011 and 2012 were notoriously cool and it was near constantly cold between April 2012 and June 2013. Then just like that from July 2013 we never saw anything like it again until Winter 2017-18.

What is the hype about 1976? This one is mentioned by the general public and not just weather enthusiasts but you never hear of 1995 even though I’m fairly sure it was drier and had a hotter July and August, or July 2006 which is the hottest month on record. 1976 was an impressive heatwave but it wasn’t the ONLY impressive heatwave clearly as stated in this thread. It’s really strange.

January has been unusually sunny recently. I can’t recall a sunny January before 2022 and then we had 2 in a row. Hopefully it turns into three!

I’m hoping we get a mostly sunny and frosty January because I’m feeling really sun starved after December and the last few days!

I did not expect 2023 to be as warm as 2022 this time last year! I wonder if it’s just a warm blip or was 2022 the start of a new distinct warming trend? Imagine if 2024 was even warmer!

This! For the first time since I’ve been on this site (since 2020) I’m just not bothered about looking on the MOD thread for this reason. Any sign of cold is a historic deep freeze and it ends up as two frosts and perhaps a fleeting flurry.

How warm does this month need to be for 2023 to be warmer than 2022?

I think Christmas is going to feel more like a Halloween this year

2010, 2014 and 2020 all quite sunny and snowy. Not any others I can think of.

- The snow on 8-9 March - Being caught out in an enormous thunderstorm on 5 May - Hot June - Enormous storm on 12 June - Hot September

It’s weird to think what era you grew up in could influence the way you view seasons. I was born in 2001 so grew up in a period of cold and snowy winters from 2008-13 and was flabbergasted by the snowless 2013-14. I used to think snowy spells happened every winter!

I was right at least for my area

My predictions for 2024: January - a chilly month, quite wet with multiple minor snowfalls. February - a mild and wet month, little of interest. March - very mild first half, cloudy with mild nights, then colder with snow showers after the equinox. April - cold and wet to start, warm and sunny middle, cold and wet end. May - Mostly warm, dry and sunny with a notably hot end. June - very wet and cool, a stinker month. July - poor start then a hot, dry and sunny month with a few thunderstorms later in the month. August - mixed with an intense heatwave in first half, average second half. September - mostly warm and dry with intermittent wet spells. October - average but dry for the first time in years. November - mild and very wet. December - mild and wet in first half, cold and dry in second half, notably so in the last few days.

I did this when we had snow in March this year and was pretending it was 2013

Hoping the rain expected this afternoon/night ends up as more snow. We’re on the boundary by the looks of it

High of -1C today. Very cold and foggy. Hopefully a bit of snow tonight before tomorrow’s/Monday’s depressing rain.

Does anyone know why when fog rolls in all the frost melts even though it is still below freezing? Remember this happening last year as well.

Doubt it’ll be very cold tonight. Way too much fog. Still only -1C here.

Autumn 2023 in South Derbyshire September 8/10 - unbeatable first third, never seen a better heatwave in September, average but quite wet later on. Would have been 10/10 if second half was like 2021. October 7/10 - warm and pleasant first third, cold and sunny middle then average and very wet for the rest of the month. November 4/10 - completely average but a little sunnier. Nice frosty end but would have preferred earlier frost.

Like literally last year in mid December

This country can be bloody boring sometimes! I reckon it’ll be 2-4 sunny and frosty days, then cold rain then back to mild rain. Then that’ll be your lot until the next cold spell. Hope I’m wrong.