April CET

[damianslaw]

I'll give my call early next week.

An observation is how we haven't seen a real cold April since 1998, most Aprils since then have been mild or very mild. Perhaps 2010 is the year when we see a significantly colder April, SST's are very favourable and the potential for a cold start, it could be of the cold and unsettled variety, the atlantic seems to have steamed into gear at a time when it is traditionally very quiet, this year so far has been far from normal synoptic wise...

[AderynCoch]

I'll go for 7.8C.

[Thundery wintry showers]

I'll give my call early next week.

An observation is how we haven't seen a real cold April since 1998, most Aprils since then have been mild or very mild. Perhaps 2010 is the year when we see a significantly colder April, SST's are very favourable and the potential for a cold start, it could be of the cold and unsettled variety, the atlantic seems to have steamed into gear at a time when it is traditionally very quiet, this year so far has been far from normal synoptic wise...

Not quite- the Aprils of 2000 and 2001 had comparable temperatures to April 1998 over large areas of the country. In Tyneside, for instance, April 2001 was actually the coldest of the three due to lower minima.

On the other hand, we haven't had a significantly (more than 0.5C) colder-than-average April in the CET zone since 1989! Many parts of northern and western Britain managed it in one or more of the aforementioned three Aprils though.

[stewfox]

I'll give my call early next week.

An observation is how we haven't seen a real cold April since 1998, most Aprils since then have been mild or very mild. Perhaps 2010 is the year when we see a significantly colder April, SST's are very favourable and the potential for a cold start, it could be of the cold and unsettled variety, the atlantic seems to have steamed into gear at a time when it is traditionally very quiet, this year so far has been far from normal synoptic wise...

What do you mean by 'real cold'

1998 with CET at 7.7 the 159th coldest April. (we had of course heavy snow in April 2009)

1986 of course had that month long cold February followed just below average March and then the 20th coldest April CET at 5.8c

Are we due a much colder then average April CET probably , we have had a colder then average winter so I'll go for.so by logic.....

7.9c

[Polar Gael]

8.4°C for me please.

[Stargazer]

8.5 for me.

[Jack Wales]

Cool start, warm finish. My guess 8.7°C

[Norrance]

7.8C for me please.

[summer blizzard]

Uping my prediction to 8.4C, 0.3C above average.

[damianslaw]

Slightly above average is my guess at 8.4 degrees. It will be a cold start for many especially in the north, a generally unsettled month in the main, it will be the lack of clear skies at night which will help bump the CET up, not maxima which I suspect is going to be very suppressed especially under the rain, with lots of snow threat for the northern hills. Seems the atlantic has suddenly decided to rev into gear, just when you would expect it to die down, this is not a normal start to the year, the atlantic has been out of sync so far in terms of being very quiet, a generally southerly tracking jet will steer low pressure across the country much as we have now but southern parts will probably benefit from milder air from the south from time to time.

[shuggee]

9.1ºC

[TonyH]

9.2c please.

[Snowly does it]

7.5 please

[Mark Bayley]

8.8c for me please

[Guest North Sea Snow Convection]

Another fairly average month.

8.3C

[Rollo]

Not optimistic of a warm month so 7.9c for me.

[DAVID SNOW]

Try 9.0.Ta

[phil nw.]

My guess is 8.7C.

[virtualsphere]

8.2 for me please.

[Stu_London]

8.8C for me

[mk13]

8.7 for me please

[DR Hosking]

I will go for bang on average 8.1c

[AtlanticFlamethrower]

7.7C

[Don]

A fairly typical and not particularly exciting April to come I feel. I'll go for a CET of:

8C

[Duncan McAlister]

7.9

Cool wet start balanced out somewhat by a warmer, drier second half.