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SunSean Talking my language! Sunshine is paramount. I think for any true weather enthusiast, February 2019 was interesting. Granted, I am in a part of the country that had a major snowfall early on, thunder during the brief Atlantic spell shortly after, then of course we all know how the rest of the month went!

Thundery wintry showers and it's funny because I remember quite a bit from 2002 but it's almost all bad or unsettled weather - gales in Jan, Feb, Mar & Apr; a lot of rain in May, dreadful first half of July, thunderstorms in early August, washout rugby match in early September, gales and thunderstorms in late October, incessant rain in November, then early snow in December.

Nice to see these synoptics but can't help but feel like yet another garden path is being laid, or something like this will happen:

reef This is reality of how this country is becoming. We're now just getting all the same weather we've always had but for much longer periods of time, and proper cold spells have reduced in number. So it's luck of the draw where the good weather and the bad weather settle. Oh for a climate of seasonality...

Back to square one today. Sigh…

Catherine91 hardly any daffs here yet but I’d imagine after this balmy week, they’ll be out.

Much chillier last night, almost an air frost but not quite. Lovely day today too. As always, a shame good things never last.

TheOgre I find this quirk is a bit like the warm September / naff winter link. Works a lot of the time, but too many contra examples. Likewise, not all warm Marches lead to poor summers… 2022, 2014 and 2003 come to mind. Edit: just to add, you rarely get a good March and a good May.

raz.org.rain At 2100m

Buzz At least by then you can get decent convective weather out of it. More likely to get thunderstorms than snow from cold synoptics by April/May

In Absence of True Seasons The United Mingdom. The joys of living in southern Mingland. Here in Somerwet, it's actually not been bad at all today, but next week is already going downhill before it's even begun...

*Stormforce~beka* Just another week of this and it'll be dry enough to go for a country walk somewhere...

In Absence of True Seasons oh yes I’m well aware. There could be a switch at anytime, I just don’t have high hopes for one in the near future. Knowing our luck it’ll turn cold just as it should be turning milder.

The surprise at seeing sun, when it should be the default, speaks volumes!

Don Don’t worry, the Atlantic breaks through shortly after

In Absence of True Seasons It's always just for a bit of fun. The way this year is going though, I have more faith in that March chart than all the others...

Summer8906 Doing my daily CFS browse, I trawled through March and, while looking for high pressure, found this Some better news come April though: Plumehub in May: Then June doing what June does best: I can feel my mood lifting just looking at charts like this!

Don It’s often the responsible setup for some of our worst summer months, sending lows straight through the UK. Instead we’ve had a few winter versions which are even more depressing.

Summer8906 by the end of the month, 2020 will certainly have been worse as it went downhill from the 09th onwards. But as said, it was better than this month up to this point with a lot of sunshine. Not surprised you missed the frost down there though.

By this point in Feb 2020, I'd registered two air frosts and 38 hours of sunshine. So this Feb is far worse so far.

Iberian Heights. If I ever become a property developer, I'm going to get planning for a really ugly skyscraper and name it Iberian Heights. Without such stubborn high pressure down there, I wouldn't be surprised if this current low would've been a slider and much more of the country come into the snow game. Rather irritating, how the opposite problem occurred in January when it missed the south coast altogether! On a side note, Thursday 08th February 2007 - many will remember this snowfall. Not the most impressive chart at face value but brought a brief dumping here before melting very quickly (then it snowed again but didn't settle the following day).

Atleastitwillbemild problem with stats is that they mask reality. Stats suggest we had an average summer last year, but that comprised an outstanding June and a terrible July. Had both been ‘good’, the reality would’ve been much better.

Getting on for a week now since there was last some proper sun. Abysmal really.

Don I guess so, but I can deal with ‘wrong’ as you put it if it delivers nice weather. Less so when it delivers rubbish, like last July.

raz.org.rain yes indeed. Probably a bit early. More likely, blocking to the north, blocking to the south, and the Atlantic train through the middle firing straight at… us!