Catbrainz

11.8 and 70mm

Overcast and drizzly morning but started brightening up about an hour ago. April so far I would give a 3.5/10 a pretty meh month with no real heat,sustained sunshine or exciting weather and the first week was very poor but also many usable days. Not a month cursed to bogey man status but not a month that will be remembered fondly ether.

Lovely day here sunny and warm. Feels like a drug trip for real after the past 6 months of cloud rain and wind!

On another note I hope we are leaving the wet pattern we’ve had since October. GFS this morning has nothing terrible looking apart from a brief cut off low but that’s in far FI.

Scorcher As a climate fan I shall give my thoughts. I’d say around 2200 a year. On par with a Balkans climate. Although even with non inflated sunshine figures Boston has impressively sunny winters for a wet coastal climate at 42N.

The past 6 months has been pretty much the same with 80% of days being 8-12c and raining. The Atlantic weather has been nonstop since October.

2013 and 2018 pop to mind for me.

Met office going for sunny spellls while BBC going for non stop rain the coming week. March has been pretty meh not terrible but pretty blah with no real early settled warmth but not a hellish washout ether. I’d give it a 3/10.

This March so far is diet Marxh 2023. Not quite as wet and gloomy with more usable days but pretty meh still.

cheeky_monkey Bad timing with todays rainband my eastern counterpart. We had your rain yesterday it seems it was awful yesterday :P.

Today is a great weather day. Theres no rain and the clouds are light grey rather than dark grey. I know normally a pretty meh day but a bright cloudy day with no rain feels like heaven after weeks of neverending rain!

East Lancs Rain Flagstaff in Arizona seems to fit that profile pretty well. (American weather stations overestimate sunshine hours by 10-15% I would estimate 2900-3000 a year)

Felt spring like today with 15c and sunshine. T shirt and jeans weather for me hiking wise. What I don’t get is why folks are still dressing like it’s a Jan cold snap in Winnipeg.

I’ve had enough of rain and drizzle! Just go take a hike! Can’t do anything in it and it’s just a damper on everything unless you are a duck or moss.

Any ideas what’s caused the Atlantic onslaught the past 6 months or so? I’m gonna guess El Niño firing the jet up

5.7C and 59mm

@Summer8906 I went for a March comparison over Oct/Nov as it felt pleasant and warm in the sun and noon today could pass for say 2;30pm in mid March. A day like yesterday I would on the other hand see as a late Oct/early Nov sort of day with wet and mild weather. It didn't feel that humid for me today but it seems my area is more protected from SWlys than coastal Hampshire with high ground to my SW so the air was a lil drier for me.

It feels like mid March today with 11c and partly sunny a very Bartlett high feeling day.. If a winter is going to be mild more days like today please.

I would say slightly worse overall but not drastically different. Tofino at 49N reminds me of a coastal west Wales climate at 52Nish or so and Vancouver at 49N reminds me a lot of Weymouth at 51N. Prince Rupert at 54N reminds me of Fort William Scotland at 57N and while not in BC Ketchikan Alaska is basically the same climate as Fort William and is at 55.5N. Port Hardy does seem a fair bit worse than any sea level UK climate at 51N maybe local geography makes it worse.

I hope that what the models are showing the Iberian high moving north to become a Bartlett/Euro high or even further north into another UK high comes to pass. Iberian highs are the worse winter pattern they tend to bring a lot of zonal westerlies. The high moving north to become a Bartlett means more anticyclonic southerlies and south eastelries rather than cyclonic westerlies and southwesterlies. In other words more Feb 2019 and less Dec 2023 please!

I’d say a Bartlett/Euro high with southerlies or south easterlies. Something like Feb 2019 but not as warm due to shorter days and lower sun angle.

December 2023 was another bogeyman month in the bogeyman year of 2023 having March 2023 and July 2023 for company, three bogeyman months in one year is impressive. December earns the bogeyman title for its endless constant rain and gloomyness.

I think what made December so bad even for a Atlantic siege winter month is that it seemed lows and fronts were slower moving than normal resulting in cloud and rain stalling over the U.K plus narrow gaps between lows/fronts. IIRC some Atlantic dominated winter months had okay to good sunshine levels and weren’t as wet. Oct/Nov 2023 despite being Atlantic dominated had a fair few nicer days presumably as lows/fronts ether were faster moving or wider gaps.

At this point I'm mostly enjoying the high pressure despite not getting my snow fix (There was some flurries last evening but it all melted in the sun). Clear blue dome day today which is perfection. Any high pressure is welcome whether it be a big fat Bartlett with 18c and far fetch southerlies from Africa or a Scotland high bringing cold NElys and -2c. Just keep that westerly zonal muck away for a bit at least my local river looked scary high could have been a nasty flood in my area if one more Atlantic low had turned up.

Yesterday was the first day since mid December that didn’t rain at some point in the day. I shan’t miss you rain you outstayed your welcome by Christmas Eve.