March CET

[Glacier Point]

7.4C thanks

Edited February 28, 2011 by Glacier Point

[Great Plum]

7.1c please

[Kentish Man]

6.1C please

[summer blizzard]

4.9C: Virtual Sphere

5.0C: Nigerian Prince

5.2C: Stew Fox

5.3C: Summer Of 95

5.4C: Barry

5.4C: Sundog

5.5C: Snow Rob

5.5C: North Norfolk Weather

5.6C: Shuggee

5.6C: Termainal Moraine

5.7C: Midlands Ice Age

5.7C: Coram

5.7C: Isolated Frost

5.8C: Pete Tattum

5.9C: Lomond Snowstorm

5.9C: Stationary Front

5.9C: Ben_Cambs

5.9C: David Snow

6.0C: Jonothan F

6.0C: Damians Law

6.0C: Paul T

6.1C: Polar Continental

6.1C: Kentish Man

6.2C: Snowstorm 1

6.2C: Norrance

6.3C: Steve B

6.3C: Arb

6.3C: Atlantic Flamethrower

6.4C: Thundery Wintry Showers

6.5C: Stormy King

6.5C: Mark Bayley

6.6C: Foz Foster

6.6C: Dr Hosking

6.7C: Milhouse

6.7C: Adzyy

6.7C: Aderyn Coch

6.8C: Koppite

6.8C: Jack Wales

6.8C: Geoffw

6.8C: Jackone

6.9C: Reef

6.9C: Don

7.0C: Roger J Smith

7.0C: Optimus Prime

7.0C: Storm Mad 26

7.1C: Frozen Canals

7.1C: Great Plum

7.2C: Rollo

7.2C: Dave H Sug

7.3C: Mr Data

7.3C: I am Johny Disco

7.4C: Glacier Point

7.5C: Born From The Void

7.5C: The Pit

7.6C: Backtrack

8.1C: Summer Blizzard

8.1C: Nathan B

8.2C: Tony H

9.1C: A Winters Tale

10.0C: Craig Evans

[The watcher]

Ooops, forgot to put my punt in:

6.1c

please

[ChrisHell]

Can I have 6.0 please?

Hope it's not too late

[BornFromTheVoid]

4.2C to the 1st

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

Minimum today is down as 1.3C and maxima will probably be around 6C so a drop to around 3.6C or so by tomorrows update.

Going by the 06z GFS after that we'll be at

3.8C to the 4th

3.7C to the 6th

3.5C to the 8th

3.5C to the 9th

[DeepSnow]

Ahhhh, oops i completely fogot to do this for this month, so if it's possible for my entry to count i would like 6.4C please, sorry if its too late

[Duncan McAlister]

Late again

6.3C for me, bang on average

[Cheese Rice]

If I'm too late.... otherwise 5.2c

[Polar Gael]

A belated 8.0C for me please!

[stewfox]

4.2C to the 1st

http://hadobs.metoff..._info_mean.html

Minimum today is down as 1.3C and maxima will probably be around 6C so a drop to around 3.6C or so by tomorrows update.

Going by the 06z GFS after that we'll be at

3.8C to the 4th

3.7C to the 6th

3.5C to the 8th

3.5C to the 9th

Yes certainly a cold start inside the CET zone. With less overnight cloud cover in the north

[Weather-history]

A pretty reasonable chance that the first half of March will turn out colder than the first half of February

[Sunlover]

Can I have 6.1 pls if not too late

[BornFromTheVoid]

CET is 4.1C to the 2nd

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

Yesterday was 3.9C. Aparently the maximum was 6.5C, which seems a little high to me...

Minimum for today is down as -1.2C, lowest since Feb 1st.

[damianslaw]

Nothing overtly mild in the upcoming days, expecting the CET to be appreciably below the average by this time next week.

Will be interesting to compare with other cold starts to March such as 1996, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010.

Maxima do look preety suppressed for many highs of 8 degrees at best in the sunshine and for many 5's and 6's in the cloud, much colder than many saw during Feb, indeed I wouldn't be surprised if we record a colder first half to March than we saw during February.

[Thundery wintry showers]

It will be interesting if we get a cold first third of March without, on the face of it, appearing to have particularly cold synoptics over the UK. 850hPa temperatures are a little above average at the moment, highlighting the power of those inversions under high pressure.

Although full-on "sunshine and wintry showers" polar maritime incursions are looking increasingly unlikely in the near future, the GFS ensembles are trending below average after day 6.

March 1996 didn't begin particularly cold, it had quite a mild cloudy anticyclonic/northerly type associated with a mid-Atlantic high. Cold easterly and south-easterly winds set in at the end of the first week (I can't argue with the other ones cited above though).

[reef]

It will be interesting if we get a cold first third of March without, on the face of it, appearing to have particularly cold synoptics over the UK. 850hPa temperatures are a little above average at the moment, highlighting the power of those inversions under high pressure.

Although full-on "sunshine and wintry showers" polar maritime incursions are looking increasingly unlikely in the near future, the GFS ensembles are trending below average after day 6.

March 1996 didn't begin particularly cold, it had quite a mild cloudy anticyclonic/northerly type associated with a mid-Atlantic high. Cold easterly and south-easterly winds set in at the end of the first week (I can't argue with the other ones cited above though).

Indeed, it could well be one of those occasions where we sleepwalk into a pretty cold month. Much like the way April 2009 went under the radar as a warm month.

Hadley is on 3.4C to the 3rd, with yesterday coming in at 1.9C.

[TonyH]

Hmm, my 8.2c already looking in jeopardy, still time for warmth though.

[SteveB]

3.2c to the 5th, -1.3c

Cold start to March, fair chance it could turn out colder than Feb.

[DAVID SNOW]

3.2c to the 5th, -1.3c

Cold start to March, fair chance it could turn out colder than Feb.

Yep,first third spring forecast looking cold.

CET guesses above 7C looking busted ATM

[damianslaw]

Next few days looks preety chilly with suppressed maxima and minima - so a cold start to the month which will make it difficult to record an appreciably above average one.

Suspect we will easily be below 5 degrees at the half way stage.

[reef]

The longer it remains cold the more difficult it becomes to record anything around average or above. However recent years have had some big switcharounds in the second half of March, giving average or above final CETs from much lower points mid-month. A couple of recent examples:

1st - 15th March 2005: 3.9C - final CET 7.2C.

1st - 15th March 2010: 3.6C - final CET 6.1C.

And not forgetting the huge nudge upwards in the final week of March 2006:

1st - 23rd March 2006: 2.8C - final CET 4.9C.

[Tom D]

How many months of March have been colder than the previous month of January...?

Edited March 7, 2011 by Tom D

[Weather-history]

How many months of March have been colder than the previous month of January...?

50 times for the CET

1674, 1676, 1682, 1696, 1700, 1720, 1721, 1724, 1733, 1737, 1747, 1748, 1762, 1770, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1796, 1804, 1837, 1840, 1845, 1846, 1853, 1866, 1869, 1875, 1877, 1883, 1888, 1898, 1900, 1906, 1916, 1924, 1925, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1944, 1949, 1962, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1983, 2008

Edited March 7, 2011 by Mr_Data