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Now this is cold! Its only 9.20pm! The Oregan doesn't apparently can't record false low readings but can record false high readings.

14cm level snow, not bad!

I have just been out for a walk with the dog and the snow was much deeper then I thought it was going to be. A level 11cm so far but I do think we may be in the sweetspot. I really have never seen a warm front produce some of the best powder snow I have ever seen in the uk. Its windy out there and I have a temperature of -1.9c and Dp - 2. The uppers are now only -4c here so this really is exceptional!

Where has our friend Phillipe M gone? I for one am really missing his reports. It must be getting pretty cold there now!

Bornholm did pretty well last winter and its basically at sea level. That said, last winter was pretty exceptional. http://www.swedishwire.com/nordic/7860-snow-bound-danish-island-of-bornholm-calls-for-help-

No heating on this far south for a awhile yet but we will light the woodburner when it gets chilly. It would seem mad in our house to heat the whole thing when we are sat in the living room for the evening.

I just wanted to say thanks to all of you across North America who take the time to post on here. We have a holiday cottage in Canada which we try and visit every summer and my brother lives in Toronto so I am especially intersted in the weather in Canada. I find it fascinating how the weather varies and changes across Canada during the early Autumn, from summer like at the moment across the plains to the weather being reported in Yukon territories. Anyway, just wanted you to all know that your posts are read, especially by myself.

Another stunner of a day, virtually clear all day and a top temp of 22.9c. I have now recorded 35days above 20c and 19 above 22c. I really can't believe how amazing this spring has been - we have recorded 165% of the usual sunshine and just 1.9mm since the beginning of April. Ofcourse we are now desperate for rain and its not even summer.

Funny that, missed all the rain here with just 1mm! That brings our yearly total to 141mm! funny what a difference 25o miles makes.

Light shower of snow here this evening in Great Yeldham, North Essex. A call from my brother in Halstead made me look outside as he had just been in braintree where there was a dusting. I wasn't really expecting this, although that said I don't expect it to amount to much.

Here we go, google result number 4: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Weather_moderates_in_western_Europe_999.html

Very warm and muddy, 24.1c with 74% humiddity after early rain. This summer we have now recorded 56 days above 23c and 44 above 25c!

Warm and Sunny afer early drizzle. High 25.5c at 2pm but again its cloudier this evening. If this is poor weather then I am quite happy with it!

It has clouded up now but we have had a very warm day, a few degrees warmer than expected with a high of 27.1c at 4.00pm, shortly before the cloud increeased from the north west. Currently 22.2c

Warm and bright. Currently 22c, expect 25c as a max.

Very warm ans sunny, currently 24.9c in the shade with a light breeze from the south west . Where's all this forcasted cloud?

18.9c

Still warm and humid here at 23.4c. Certainly much warmer than forcasted. Very little rain, just 1.2mm earlier today.

Hot and sunny, 29.1c in the shade.

Warm with a gentle breeze and long sunny spells. 21.5c at the moment. This is the fourth weekend in a row with good weather.

23.2c and very muggy. Its sunnier than I expected which has had the added bonus of aifding convection.

Warm and muggy with the sun poking through the haze. temp 20.9c and rising. Great weather, its like being abroad.

A damp day today with 5mm of much needed rain afer a few weeks of dry and at times very warm weaher. Certainly didn't feel cool with high dp's and humidity. Looking forward to the next warm spell.

The 12z shows a slightly warmer spell than the 06z with higher 850's but brings in the breakdown 6hrs earlier. It will now be interesting to see what the other 2 big models do.

For those that come onto the forum for an unbiased opionion of the models it must be very difficult to read this thread at the moment . It seems we have constant talk of downgrades, poor weather and summer 2007 like patterns. The charts for this week show a warm and sunny 5 days after Tuesday. Great summer weather. The reality is the temperatures are usually 2-3c higher than predicted by the GFS. Look at the last warm spell we had - gin clear skies and temperatures as high as 29c but temperatures only predicted to max at 24 - 25c. Even during that spell of perfect late spring weather last week we had members on this forum going on and on about it wasn't that warm, wasn't that nice, wasn't that exceptional, was only localised etc etc etc.......... This week gone by has actually been rather nice, sunny spells most days (look at yesterday) and reasonable temperatures. If the weather improves further this week as predicted by the models then in my book that has been 3 weeks of good weather with just a couple of poor days thrown in. The latest models (ecm) are hinting at prolonging this settled spell taking us well into June. Ofcourse, the unsettled charts may move out of FI, but for the time being they are staying the right side of T120.