Summer of 95

7.1 please

No real rain for days, the holidays start and we get this rubbish all of a sudden. With more of it on the way looking at the charts.

Actually getting light too early now, it's fully light at 6am and wakes me up at 5.30. Total waste of daylight, why they don't go forward in February I'll never know. Only 5 days till the light evenings arrive- though there was still some twilight at 19.30 last night.

Finally saw one properly! A bit of cloud at home so headed towardsthe blue sky and found it about 8 miles south. Finally got to use the eclipse glasses from 1999. It was fantastic to see the Sun wane to a thin crescent, and the light dropped so it was like being in a car with tinted windows. Birds were going mad, especially the geese in a nearby farm. But best of all was the "crescent shadows":

That front that was supposed to be over S Scotland/N England at eclipse time has already reached Birmingham. Hmmm....

Been raining all evening, varying from drizzle to quite heavy. Some showers this afternoon too. This shouldn't happen with an easterly anticyclonic flow off the continent surely?

The March 2004 one we were literally right on the edge of- it had been forecast to cover places further north but in the end it snowed most of the night down south, just clipped here around 8am giving 1cm of cover in time for the 0900 before quickly fizzling out. 20 miles north got nothing when they had been all but promised it. Year 2008 was a total bust, no lying snow at all despite it falling in 6 different months. It was a really poor year with that and its dull summer.

2006 1995 and 2013 2001 1987 1996 were the ones for snow. 2004 and 2005 had the odd bit. Someone said 1989, that was April that had the snow. I dont remember any snow in March between 1987 and 1995

It actually did clear for a couple of hours in the evening, before the muck came in from somewhere else. Really dreary, depressing weather. This "easterly" has brought exactly the same weather as last months Eurotrash high. Synoptic variation counts for nothing these days it seems, we cant get a sunny high or a decent frost whatever.

Chucking it down. Just managed to finish in the garden before it got really heavy. For saying this area of rain was supposed to die out over Wales...

Just started raining here and it's not very light. Why couldn't it wait till Monday?

You can see that cloud just beating the shadow to Bucharest in the satellite animation. FWIW I was in South Devon and the weather was rubbish- not wet but just wall to wall featureless grey muck. Didn't see a single second of the eclipse, but even that goddamn lousy cloud couldn't hide the sudden darkness. That was the one thing everyone saw. Didn't think it was total as far east as Torquay, how I wish we had had smartphones that called up Sat24 and Netweather in those days......

Actually a really nice day today, wasn't expecting this at all. Been working outside in a T shirt quite comfortably. When the wind drops it feels warm.

Can't remember such a boring period as the last 6 months for a long time. Never really sunny, wet, or cold, not had more than 1cm of snow, constantly breezy but no gales. At least 2013-14 kept us interested with all its storms and flooding.

Nearly managed a frost last night before the muck arrived, but so near so far... Horrible and grey out there now. Yet another rise in pressure brings more cloud. This has happened repeatedly the last 2 years except June/July last summer, every time we get a high building it fills with cloud. No lows or.fronts near us, so why?

Not even got below 0C in this so called cold spell. Yet again synoptics on the face of it OK, but where are the low temperatures? Why has there been no remotely cold 850s anywhere in Europe this winter, as far as I can see?

Snow in Wales seems to have reached quite low down as there is still some on Rodneys pillar (300m), but not once it got across into Shropshire. Some on the hills to the south, but only above about 400m.

Just been out and there is actually a touch of frost visible on the car and the garden, the temp must have dropped after the rain went through. Sun getting to work on it though

Nothing but light rain overnight, despite subfreezing air and snow over Ireland the temp/dewpoint actually went up when the westerly kicked in. Another hard to explain 2014/15 fail. Not had a frost for a while now....

None of it is the answer. Temps are 2-4C all over the area, with dewpoints 1-2C. This when there is snow over Ireland and winds from the west.... A dismal fail even for 2014/15.

Really strange day here, after I posted this morning aboutvthe rain/lack of frost we have had showers of snow, hail, graupel, snow grains and lots of balmy sunshine. Wintry precip has been falling at temps of 7-8C.

It was crystal clear till 5am but the temperature failed to drop below 2C. Then it started raining, no sleet at all. And I see its snowing in other places. What is wrong with this town at the moment? It wont freeze even on the clearest of nights, and it wont snow when it will in other places.

I'll give it 3/10. The statistics (18 days snow falling, 4 days snow lying at 0900) suggest a near average winter snow wise, but they hide the fact that never did more than 1cm manage to settle, and only on one day (Jan 14) did snowcover last beyond noon. Constant sleet or rain at 2C, snow that quickly turned to rain (including in one case a Cheshire gap streamer, how on earth did that happen?) and the most tiresome feature of 2014-15, the same places getting the best snow again and again. East Midlands (in a NW ly?), Manchester and above all the Peak District which seems to be a law unto itself regarding snow these days. It also continued 2013/14's mystery of repeated clear nights that struggled to freeze, and never recorded below -4, or any maxima below 2C. The only anticyclone we had might as well nit have bothered, it gave a week of the most revolting grey muck day and night.

That's the only scenario when I would welcome a SE/the rest split! Seriously, I guess early April somewhere, though wouldn't be surprised if it's May here. For saying it was in the top 10 warmest Aprils, 2014 was pretty poor for high maxima, nothing over 18C here. Last 20C in April was back in 2011. (Actually had it in March more recently come to think of it).

4.9C please