Polar Gael

12.5ºC for me please. #breakoutthebrolliesandbarbecues

13.5ºC for me please.

19.0ºC for me please.

18.0ºC for me please.

17.5ºC for me please. June is going to rock it.

*blinks* <<breaks estivation>> I'd take that analogue right now. Max of 7.4ºC here today. Mid-May! Aside from the three days last weekend, Spring AWOL. A long time since we've had one as cool/cold as this one. Really, really hoping we do see a repeat of 1975. Can start the summer anytime you like, weathergods. Hope all well, fellow kilters. See you all again after the clocks go back - unless we get snow in June or suchlike (he joked...) ;-)> <<returns to estivation>>

12.3ºC for me please.

Many congrats on the new role, Stewart. Very well deserved recognition indeed. Your posts and forecasts on NW have been superb to read down the years and have been a big part of what makes this site so great. I only hope that we will see you on here again one day. Goodbye and good luck. All the best, PG

Still cold then...

Overnight snawcover is was melting rapidly in the sunshine which actually felt warm on the face this morning for the first time this year. Feels more like a 'spring snaw'day today (showers/covering/melt - & repeat). Shower on again at the moment. Not as heavy as the overnight stuff, but keeping going. Currently, 2.4ºC and a DP of -6ºC! (Crazy for late March.)

That is amazing, LS - urban snaw lying & it's almost April! Looks bonnie with the just past full moon on it. Bright! Loving this late (record breaking?) cauld spell more now we're seeing some proper snaw action and that easterly razorwind has died down a bit. Have placed an order for summer from mid-April though (please) - need to have my NW estivation at some point this year!

NW's very own meteorological Gandalf, John Holmes, calling it cold - though not quite as frigid - for the next 16 days: http://forum.netweat...00#entry2667134 Best not dig out the shorts & t-shirt just yet then.

A sheep in a blizzard? (looks pure white: nae photo)

Aw, sh*te (not talking about the weather...) x2

Good to see some sunshine again today and for the icecutter easterly wind to drop, too. Some decent beefy snaw showers, too through the day. Reckon that NL's fields are in better nick than that pitch Scotland are playing on just now. Good to see the lads playing a bit, too. 'Mon Scotland! "WE ARRA PEEPIL!!!" Ach, bobbins...

And so ends another Kilted Thread day in the first WWE (Winter Without End) of the post-m0dern winter era. Today's weather was brought to you by the letters GH (CODSAC) and SH (SODSAC), aided and assisted by their friend, the itinerant jetstream (last seen on the latest leg of its world tour: the Sahara) and the numbers 15 (depth in feet of the drifts in Arran & Kintyre) and 25 (celsius - we can dream.....) Time to hit the hay and to dream of believe in summer* - you remember, that one day we have every day in July when everyone goes to the park, drinks themselves stupid enjoys a nice refreshing cup of tea and ends up with lobster arms**. Surely, the ECM is wrong and it must be soon? Ah well, until then, this laddie will dream... *like Santa Claus, only not seen as often. **it is not recommended you try this at home. Especially not if yer fu'.

9.3ºC for me please.

Aye, it's no' exactly been toasty, has it? A high of 2.4ºC and low of 0.9ºC here today. Currently 0.3ºC (could we see a frost? The excitement!)/-3ºC and whatever was falling from the sky has chucked it for now. If this cold spell carries on after the clocks go forward on Sunday, it's going to be just plain weird. Still, am sure it will all balance out in the end (he said hopefully)...

A link to an interesting article here that looks at the link between the sun and winters in Central Europe. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823143833.htm And another one here on one of the things the folk at CERN are up to (when they're not looking for the Higgs Boson): http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html This could be simply be my memory/perception playing tricks on me, but it has seemed to be cloudier for longer both during recent summers and winters, with the net result that though maxima have been suppressed, overnight minima have often held up and the overall average has perhaps not been as low as expected - i.e. the numbers don't always match the perception of poor summers and colder winters. Or I could just be doing that old(er) person thing where I recall all the summers of my youth as warmer and all the winters as colder and snowier (I wish)!

Cyprus 'solution' is EU Orwellian speak for theft. Let the global looting begin... Back on topic: still cauld.

Agreed. Hence, I hope we don't see anything like that which preceded 1816! We'd have nothing super-economy value burgers to eat, but the ski centres would be open all year round*. *assuming they could get the access roads cleared...

Mibbe! Course, given that's Bonnie Scotia's lot most years, we should be well equipped for it...

The sun is and remains very quiet just now and you're spot on, it is 'solar maximum' and it's been a low one. Further dips are forecast. The other thing that is intriguing me is whether the increased Arctic sea ice melt is having any impact on our winters. It does look like there's been a step change to our seasons since c.2007 and I doubt we're done yet.

Snawgrains on and off here through the morning and still raw, though a wee bit less windy than it was over the weekend. Mainly grey though - which is getting a bit dull. Currently 1.9ºC/-5ºC and enough snow falling to build a tidy nano-snawman. Of course, it could be a lot worse. At least we're not looking at this. Yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer 'Mon the Big Yellow Warm Thing!!! You know you want to!!!

Some amazing aerial shots of Arran - including power line poles snapped like twigs. They've been truly whumphed by that last front. It's March - in name only! http://www.bbc.co.uk...otland-21917708 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21915774 Hope the folk there stay safe, keep warm and that they get their power back on soon.