Jax

I would love to take some summer now, whilst extreme weather is fun to a degree it would be nice to see a few settled days/weeks and be able to enjoy the "summer" weather for once, I really need to be out and top up the image cache ready for the winter for my artwork.

Hi After a rather damp day ( read that as wet, then wetter, got really wet for a while, then stopped at 13:58 as if the tap was shut off) it turned into a rather pleasant, if breezy, evening, temp around 17:00 was 17.4oC with some sunny intervals, now back to boughts of grey skies and drizzle, but out of the breeze it remains quite mild (in comparison to some recent temps), the cottesmore recorded mean for the area is 18oC, think this is optimistic for *this* area as I am seeing 17.1oC, not far out in truth though.

Lucky you have lawn Thanks to the damp I just have a few weeds and loads of moss now

Been chucking it down here now for over an hour, temps fell a few degrees (oC) too since the nice and warm avro temps we had earlier.

Yup, been persisting down here now for over an hour. It was warmer and quite humid for a while late afternoon, that was soon banished as this front moved over us here, no T&L either.

Right, I have not been able to follow the models as well I should recently and saw today's GFS and did wonder. I agree that this early any sustained cold is rare/not always good but as you said we are seeing some "colder" spells now. Watching the east, I see the cold is inching it's way over this way, albeit very slowly.

Long time no post (apologies for that), just checked out the current 12z and am I right in thinking we are finally trending to sustained cold? the "run up" thus far has not been cold lets be honest but the "outlook" is showing some signs of change, might finally put my Rowan tree to sleep and last week managed to pick a final crop of outside tomatoes.

Not been out in the "sticks" so to speak, I can guess it has been messy though, we are not far from the Harborough Surgery near the A6 By-pass, we have probably passed in the street :o Yes woolies is looking grim.

I was just saying that to my partner about this an hour ago, We are also in Rushden and we have noticed that the Frosts, when we have had them, are gone, but the bucket of water in the garden has remained frozen for days now, and having taken a *brief* trip into the town center, I was bloody frozen out there, in the shed it has just reached 0.0oC and is now starting to fall again.

the best snow "events" here have always been late Jan and through Feb

nah, plenty of time yet to see snow.