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Harry233 Yes, winter 2020/21 was great for northern UK and reasonable for southern UK.

Summer8906 Yes, June 2013 was the final month of that sustained cold period with January to June all coming in below the 1961-90 average. Imagine the prospects of that happening now?! It flipped spectacularly after the opening days of July.

B87 That forecast is subject to change anyway, could be sunnier than predicted or less sunny. We will just have to wait and see.

B87 Looks very decent from Friday 3rd to me? No heatwave but after the last few weeks, that will be pleasant enough for most.

Updated Metoffice outlook has dropped the possibility of a return to below average temperatures after next week and now going for average or slightly above.

Weekend has not been as poor as I was expecting either. Yesterday (staying down south this weekend) was mainly overcast but the rain didn't arrive until late afternoon. Evening and overnight saw lots of rain, but after a showery start today, this afternoon has been ok with some sun, but feels more chilly than yesterday.

No reason why this pattern will persist until June/July.

Maybe drier but can't see us losing the warmer than average theme.

Azazel We will just have to see.

*Stormforce~beka* And your point is?

*Stormforce~beka* Even I'm forecast 15C on the UKV!

sundog I wonder if it will lead to a cooling of the rest of the Pacific, which is currently very warm?!

No doubt I will get stick for saying this, but yet another above average month! However, nowhere near as mild/warm as it was looking to be earlier on in the month.

Despite the much cooler/colder 2nd half of the month, it's not been enough to offset the warm 1st half and will still exceed all recent averages, significantly so the 61-90.

Derecho mid to upper 9's the likely landing point now, with the final days of the month milder?

No doubt in time for bloody winter!

Very nice sunny day today. A cold one this evening though!

Excellent as that would mean I will only be 0.1C out with my guess. Earlier in the month, it was looking like I could be amiss by as much as 2C!

Mid 9's the likely final CET for the month?

It's getting like it is in winter for snow seekers, with the season just gone a perfect example. It was supposed to turn colder late December, then it was early January, mid January, late January, early February, mid February, late February and before we knew it, it was March! However, at least it's only April with peak summer a good few months away. I'm sure we will have some hot weather next season, but will it be of the heat spike variety among cooler/unsettled spells or will we get more prolonged pleasant weather without getting ridiculously hot and humid?! 2018 was great in that it was consistently warm/hot with only modest levels of humidity until late July.

August 2008 was the worst I can remember and was particularly bad in the west country. Had a two week holiday in Cornwall and it was a complete washout with only one genuine decent day!

raz.org.rain You contradicted yourself in your previous post then!

Or an ice age has already arrived?!

B87 I'm dreading a two week period without any rain as we will have to start thinking about a drought situation with potential hose pipe bands and stand pipes etc! Meanwhile, a very misty and murky evening here. Beware of the bogey man everyone!

This will not be our default pattern moving forward. We will have a dry period again with droughts!