Greatest Rise From Xmas Cet To Easter Cet?

[Matt Taylor]

Hadley recorded a CET of -4.3 on December 25th 2010 and with such a late Easter also coinciding with some very warm temperatures for the time of year I would be interested to see what is currently the biggest difference between the CET data for Christmas day and the following Easter Sunday, surely we cannot be far from a record this year?

It is quite conceivable for Christmas day to have a higher CET than Easter (if a mild Christmas is followed by an early Easter in a cold spell), this year we could be looking at a gap of 20C in CET figures (at least in some areas).

Can anybody provide some data?

[Kentish Kiwi]

Hadley recorded a CET of -4.3 on December 25th 2010 and with such a late Easter also coinciding with some very warm temperatures for the time of year I would be interested to see what is currently the biggest difference between the CET data for Christmas day and the following Easter Sunday, surely we cannot be far from a record this year?

It is quite conceivable for Christmas day to have a higher CET than Easter (if a mild Christmas is followed by an early Easter in a cold spell), this year we could be looking at a gap of 20C in CET figures (at least in some areas).

Can anybody provide some data?

Very interesting and you would certainly expect it to be the case considering what we are looking at.

Also probably very likely we'll see the biggest rise from a December CET to an April CET (quite obvious considering we're looking at potentially the warmest April on record after the second coldest December on record...).

[Weather-history]

Hadley recorded a CET of -4.3 on December 25th 2010

It was actually even colder, it was -5.9C, so we are starting from an even lower base.

The lowest Christmas Day CET is -10.8C set in 1796. The following Easter day of 1797 which was the 16th of April had a CET of just 7.6C but that still leaves a difference of 18.4C

So Easter Day needs a CET of 12.6+C to beat this difference.

[Summer of 95]

What's the biggest fall from Christmas to Easter? I'm thinking 1997-98 must be up there somewhere.

2006-7 must have been quite a rise too, it's often forgotten that it was cold and frosty around Christmas 2006, despite it being a very mild winter. And then Easter Sunday 2007 reached 20C widely.

[Weather-history]

What's the biggest fall from Christmas to Easter? I'm thinking 1997-98 must be up there somewhere.

2006-7 must have been quite a rise too, it's often forgotten that it was cold and frosty around Christmas 2006, despite it being a very mild winter. And then Easter Sunday 2007 reached 20C widely.

Christmas Day 2006: 3.9C

Easter Day 2007: 9.2C