March CET

[Stargazer]

...and I'll keep to my 6.8 for now!

[Don]

I think with this coolish snap at the weekend, the CET will finish around about 6.6C after the usual Hadley adjustments have been made. Suprisingly close to the 71-00 average and this month has indeed felt much milder than that figure suggests. As someone pointed out, it's been down to the cooler nights which is unusual these days, seeing that it's normally the warmer nights that have held up the CET over the last few years.

[reef]

Hadley is still at 7.1C today after yesterday came in at arather average 6.5C.

Tonight will have a frost in many places, but tomorrow looks to be in double figures for many in the zone. Theres then a gradual warmup so I suspect that around 7.0C could be the finishing point before adjustment.

[damianslaw]

Expecting the final CET to come in at 6.8 with the adjustment included, tonight and last night were cold in the CET zone and tomorrow doesn't look anything other than average.

[Kentish Man]

Hadley is on 7.0C today (Mar 1 - 29) while Manley is slightly lower at 6.8C.

[Kentish Man]

Climate UK is indicating a dry sunny month but with the CET only slightly above the average:

E&W CET: (Mar 1-30): 6.7°C (+0.3 degC)

E&W Rain: (Mar 1-30): 46.5mm ( 66 per cent)

E&W Sun: (Mar 1-30): 169.0hr (154 per cent)

© Philip Eden

Met Office Hadley is running a little higher and is on 7.0C today (Mar 1 - 30). Today is warming up noticeably in my location due to sunny breaks but rather more slowly in the CET areas at present. Best guess will be a 0.1C rise today to 7.1C then maybe a Hadley adjustment back down to 6.9C as a final figure.

[reef]

The Adjusted Hadley CET figure is out and its 7.0C. Just a small 0.1C correction this month.

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat

So 0.7C above the 1971-2000 average, the biggest positive departure from the mean since last May.

Edited April 1, 2009 by reef

[Thundery wintry showers]

Philip Eden has it at 6.8, so 0.2 below Hadley. At a personal level, I got the weather patterns right for the first and last weeks, but stumbled somewhat in the third week when I went for a cool cloudy SE'ly rather than the warm sunny anticyclone, so in view of this, 0.6C out isn't too bad.

[TomS]

Here, just a few miles from Stonyhurst, one of the CET's reference points, the March mean was 6.9c, just about spot on! Rainfall here at Clitheroe was 54mm, rather drier than normal.

[reef]

It has been the warmest March since 1999 here with a mean of 7.6C.

Im pretty happy with my CET punt of 7.1C, shame about the adjustment :lol:

[Rob]

been a lovely march and a great start to april

[J10]

Based on the Hadley figures of 7.0c here are the latest scores.

Well done to DAVID SNOW, Don, mountain shadow and mk13 for getting the temp correct.

Overall mountain shadow, Don, Stratos Ferric is the 1-2-3.

[damianslaw]

Yes March has bucked the trend of recent months by not being near average i.e. it was more than 0.5 degrees distant either side of the average. Had the third week seen high pressure move further east and north it probably would have been a very near average CET alas it wasn't. A very pleasant month in many respects with few extremes, but also quite an uninteresting month weatherwise, not had a great deal of excitement in the weather now since early Feb.

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Still hanging in there at the top end of the table, 4th

[Don]

Yes March has bucked the trend of recent months by not being near average i.e. it was more than 0.5 degrees distant either side of the average. Had the third week seen high pressure move further east and north it probably would have been a very near average CET alas it wasn't. A very pleasant month in many respects with few extremes, but also quite an uninteresting month weatherwise, not had a great deal of excitement in the weather now since early Feb.

The question is, will we now see a run of above average months? My gut feeling is that we will now see some above average temperatures throughout the rest of Spring and possibly Summer. That said, I don't think we will see any exceptionally warm or dry months. I'm not expecting a Summer like 1995, 2003 or 2006 to occur this year.

Edited April 1, 2009 by Don

[summer blizzard]

Well, i had a good showing last month though i was quite far out this month so not good.