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Fine and partly sunny day here but it’s freaky cold for this time of year. This is why I hate a late season SSW. They always end up bringing northern blocking which is the deathknell for spring warmth as they tend to result in northerlies
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April hasn’t been a dumpster fire here. Only the first week was truly poor but since has been a pretty meh and forgettable month.Some sunnier and nicer days with some overcast and cold days. All in I’d give this April a 4/10. Lack of any true warm or sustained sunshine keeps it in the low-mediocre range.
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After a lovely Satuday with wall to wall sunshine and cloudy but dry and usable Sunday Monday is vile so far with 4c and drizzle. Bugger off northern blocking don’t come back until November. Cold wet northerlies are
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What are some synoptic set ups that are good certain times of the year but bad at others? Bartletts pop to mind, in summer they are good bringing hot anticyclonic southerlies (2018 and 2022 both strike me as Bartlett summers) but while not the worse set up in winter given that it at least can keep Atlantic lows at bay it’s the deathknell for any snow/cold.
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11.8 and 70mm
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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.
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Lovely day here sunny and warm. Feels like a drug trip for real after the past 6 months of cloud rain and wind!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2013 and 2018 pop to mind for me.
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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.
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This March so far is diet Marxh 2023. Not quite as wet and gloomy with more usable days but pretty meh still.
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cheeky_monkey Bad timing with todays rainband my eastern counterpart. We had your rain yesterday it seems it was awful yesterday :P.
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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!
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Any ideas what’s caused the Atlantic onslaught the past 6 months or so? I’m gonna guess El Niño firing the jet up
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5.7C and 59mm
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@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.
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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.
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10 hours ago, B87 said:
Isn't coastal BC horrifically poor compared to the UK at the same latitude? Port Hardy has a diabolical climate.
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.
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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!
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Moans, ramps and banter
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Hello am I reading the charts wrong? GFS 12 doesn’t look terrible next week after the low dips down to Iberia meaning the U.K. is back under orange below that black line.