Warm Easter

[Alex]

With this nice weather and predictions of high temps, I wondered what the

* warmest Easter Sunday was? Max temp and cet

And

*warmest Easter period ie good friday to Easter Monday?

[Snowangel-MK]

The Easter of 1949 (15th-18th April) was the hottest on record. On Saturday 18th April 1949, the highest temperature was 29.4C in London.

[Coast]

I can't see us beating that, but a 26 DgC may be possible tomorrow - 22 DgC already showing close to my current location at Charlwood.

I think in the last 20 years, 2003 was the nearest to the current tend with an Easter that saw 25 DgC in Exeter on the 18th April - the sunniest of that period being 14 hours worth at Torquay on the same day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/daily_review/news/18042003review.shtml

April 2003. Warm (9.6C CET), sunny, and dry. The first three weeks were very settled and dry; the final week was wet and unsettled. The minimum at Hawarden (Flintshire) on the 10th was -7.5C. There was a memorable early heatwave. The warm weather began on Monday 14th. The temperature reached 27.4C (81.3F) at Stratfield Mortimer (Beds., near Reading) on the 16th - the third highest April temperature for the country ever recorded, and the highest since 1949. There were more very high temperatures to the west and north of the country on the 17th: 26.9C at Lochcarron (Wester Ross) - a new April record for Scotland, 27C at Prestatyn (the highest Welsh record since 1893), and even 22.1C at Orkney. Unfortunately it was much cooler on the east coast. The southerly airflow was accompanied by a substantial and widespread Saharan dustfall originating from the west Algerian desert from the 13th to the 21st. The daily range at Altnaharra on Good Friday, the 18 April was an enormous 28.2C (from 24.5C maximum to -3.7C minimum the next night). The whole of the British Isles was cloudless on Good Friday. The hot weather was suddenly replaced by much colder easterlies over Easter (18-21st), starting on the Saturday, with some marked temperature decreases. The drought ended in the third week: some places on the east coast, near Loftus, Redcar, and Whitby, had had no measurable rain for 42 days, from 13 March to 23 April. There were some heavy showers at the end of the month. On the 30th, south of Manchester, 25 mm of hail fell in 3 minutes, containing some 12 mm hailstones. Average sunshine was 182 hours, but Torquay saw 254. Overall the month was the warmest since 1987 (and before that 1961; it was the eighth warmest on record), the sunniest since 1990, and the driest since 1997.

April 1949. A very warm Easter; it was 23C over a wide area on Good Friday the 15th, and then 29.4C in London (Camden Square; also 28.9C at Greenwich, Kensington and Wealdstone) on the 16th (Easter Saturday), the record maximum temperature for April, brought on southerly winds. In the heatwave, many other parts of London also reached nearly 29C. Bude in Cornwall and Kelso in the Borders even reached 24C. This is the highest maximum for April on record. It is also the earliest date this century when 80+F was reached. Given the highest April maximum occurred only midmonth, it must be possible to exceed this. Although a cold front moved east on Easter Sunday (17th), a some places still exceeded 23C (Whitstable seeing 27.8C), so the temperature exceeded 21C on all four days of Easter in some locations. The 22nd was very wet in Scotland, Loch Sloy receiving 104 mm of rain. The month was very wet in the west, but dry and very sunny in the east.

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/britweather_years.htm

[Slowpoke]

Extremes of temperature, rainfall and sunshine for the 24 hours ending 18/04/2011

Highest day max: Blackpool: 19.9C

Lowest day max: Fair Isle: 9.5C

Lowest night min: Katesbridge: -0.9C

Highest rainfall: Norwich Airport: 0.4mm

Highest sunshine: Camborne : 12.6 hours

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Surprised my town was the warmest yesterday. It's not often we get that!

[damianslaw]

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/1949/Rrea00119490418.gif

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/1949/Rrea00219490418.gif

I can't see us beating that, but a 26 DgC may be possible tomorrow - 22 DgC already showing close to my current location at Charlwood.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Reurmett.gif

I think in the last 20 years, 2003 was the nearest to the current tend with an Easter that saw 25 DgC in Exeter on the 18th April - the sunniest of that period being 14 hours worth at Torquay on the same day.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/2003/Rrea00120030418.gif

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/2003/Rrea00220030418.gif

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/daily_review/news/18042003review.shtml

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/britweather_years.htm

Thanks for the summary of April 2003 an often forgotton very warm month, I do remember it being warm at times but not quite as warm as it was. Also this year has borne a very uncanny resemblence to 2003 I feel, with a dry March followed by a dry April after two fairly uninspiring months for winter cold and snow, though Jan 03 did produce some goods both at the beginning and end. Will the rest of this year follow the 2003 pattern which saw a very wet thundery May followed by three very good summer months and the exceptional heat of early August...

[ZONE 51]

It is rather exciting knowing that we are heading for yet another record! we have done december and then record breaking dry march, and now record prolonged warmth.

[Coast]

Will the rest of this year follow the 2003 pattern which saw a very wet thundery May followed by three very good summer months and the exceptional heat of early August...

Oh you've really got to hope so!!!

[Coast]

BELTER!!!! finally got this for yesterday's max:

24 hours ending 2200 on 20 Apr 2011: London & South East England Highest max 0900-2100 26.5°C - Heathrow

Already 18.7°C at Kenley, South of Croydon!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/

Can we exceed 27°C in the next couple of days?

[Coast]

Charlwood near Gatwick leading again with 23.5°C currently

[Eugene]

It is rather exciting knowing that we are heading for yet another record!

Stats maybe exciting but the actual weather is actually getting very boring now, even HP lover me is getting bored of it now and the highest warmth here is around 20C/21C yesterday in the midlands so nothing that extreme and you get really used to it after a while.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/cgicurrentgraph?CEL=C&ART=karte&LANG=en&JJ=2011&MM=04&TT=20&TIME=1600&TYP=temperatursyn&KEY=MID&LAND=MID&CONT=ukuk&TIME=1303387924

The 25C+ warmth is only a southeast thing in UHI's massive urban sprawls, the vast majority of the country isnt experiencing temps anywhere that high.

[Coast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQNIWMZ4SA

A BBC Weather Centre spokeswoman said: "The average temperature in London is usually 14 degrees at this time of year but today we are forecasting 26 degrees. "But it's not just London. The whole of England, Wales and Northern Ireland can expect sunshine over the next few days." She said Scotland could expect sunny intervals but more cloudy weather. She said the good weather was expected to last over the whole weekend but they were not forecasting beyond Monday

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13144519

[NL]

The 25C+ warmth is only a southeast thing in UHI's massive urban sprawls, the vast majority of the country isnt experiencing temps anywhere that high.

Especially here on the northeast coast temp has been no higher than 9.6°C today with haar lapping on and off the shore-line. Wish that high would 'bugga-off' and be replaced by a westerly, temps in the mid teens would feel like a heatwave here..!!!!!

[johnholmes]

Stats maybe exciting but the actual weather is actually getting very boring now, even HP lover me is getting bored of it now and the highest warmth here is around 20C/21C yesterday in the midlands so nothing that extreme and you get really used to it after a while.

http://www.weatheron...TIME=1303387924

The 25C+ warmth is only a southeast thing in UHI's massive urban sprawls, the vast majority of the country isnt experiencing temps anywhere that high.

for those craving accurate coverage try this link, it opens on the Max temps so far for today,

The other thing to remember its April NOT mid summer, afternoon temperatures form many inland areas f England and Wales are about 10C higher than average.

http://www.weatheron...kuk&SORT=3&UD=0

for previous days simply key in the date

some folk do have a touch of bias but I am sure most of you have cottoned on to that!

[Osbourne One-Nil]

The 25C+ warmth is only a southeast thing in UHI's massive urban sprawls, the vast majority of the country isnt experiencing temps anywhere that high.

Nonsense. Deepest darkest Cumbria has reached 24º this afternoon. You're right that not everywhere is enjoying the warmth, but you're evidently wrong to suggest it's the urban south east which is alone in enjoying high temperatures.

[PMPhotography]

We've managed the dizzy hights of 13.4C here in Scarborough with the intermittent fret blowing in. Feels lovely mind when the sun breaks through. Temp was 21C this morning when i left uni in York! Any of you pro's know if the fret is going to continue all weekend? It's hard to tell when the graphics don't pick up on it. The computerised forecasts don't seem to pick up on the fret either with NW forecasting 21C and 0% cloud coverage!

[Scorcher]

Nonsense. Deepest darkest Cumbria has reached 24º this afternoon. You're right that not everywhere is enjoying the warmth, but you're evidently wrong to suggest it's the urban south east which is alone in enjoying high temperatures.

Agreed, I'm also outside a major urban area and the temperature has reached 25C here.

[Coast]

Temperature seems to have peaked out now at Heathrow at 25.8°C - not bad for April eh?

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Still 23C here and I've just seen a ginger actually catch fire as they were walking down the street.

[TonyH]

The 25C+ warmth is only a southeast thing in UHI's massive urban sprawls, the vast majority of the country isnt experiencing temps anywhere that high.

Nonsense. 25c here and in other parts of west Wales today! Even on the coast.

This equals the EXCEPTIONAL heat of April 2007 here.

[Weather-history]

CETs for past Easter periods since 1880

26th-29th March 1880: 5.7

15th-18th April 1881: 9.5

7th-10th April 1882: 7.9

23rd-26th March 1883: 0.9 <-----Coldest in this list

11th-14th April 1884: 6.3

3rd-6th April 1885: 4.3

23rd-26th April 1886: 10.5

8th-11th April 1887: 6.0

30th March-2nd April 1888: 4.2

19th-22nd April 1889: 9.0

4th-7th April 1890: 6.6

27th-30th March 1891: 4.5

15th-18th April 1892: 2.3

31st March-3rd April 1893: 8.9

23rd-26th March 1894: 8.4

12th-16th April 1895: 6.0

3rd-6th April 1896: 8.4

16th-19th April 1897: 7.9

8th-11th April 1898: 11.0

31st March-3rd April 1899: 10.3

13th-16th April 1900: 9.4

5th-8th April 1901: 8.0

28th-31st March 1902: 7.8

10th-13th April 1903: 6.7

1st-4th April 1904: 6.8

20th-24th April 1905: 6.3

13th-16th April 1906: 8.2

29th March-1st April 1907: 9.8

17th-20th April 1908: 5.4

9th-12th April 1909: 10.0

25th-28th March 1910: 6.4

14th-17th April 1911: 8.6

5th-8th April 1912: 11.3

21st-24th March 1913: 6.6

10th-13th April 1914: 9.1

2nd-5th April 1915: 7.6

21st-24th April 1916: 7.6

6th-9th April 1917: 3.4

29th March-1st April 1918: 6.9

18th-21st April 1919: 10.0

2nd-5th April 1920: 7.0

25th-28th March 1921: 6.6

14th-17th April 1922: 7.9

18th-21st April 1924: 10.6

10th-13th April 1925: 8.6

2nd-5th April 1926: 13.6

15th-18th April 1927: 9.1

6th-9th April 1928: 10.1

29th March-1st April 1929: 9.6

18th-21st April 1930: 5.8

3rd-6th April 1931: 6.6

25th-28th March 1932: 7.0

14th-17th April 1933: 8.5

30th March-2nd April 1934: 5.1

19th-22nd April 1935: 10.4

10th-14th April 1936: 5.0

26th-29th March 1937: 3.4

15th-18th April 1938: 6.3

7th-10th April 1939: 8.2

22nd-25th March 1940: 9.4

11th-14th April 1941: 8.6

3rd-6th April 1942: 8.4

23rd-26th April 1943: 10.6

7th-10th April 1944: 9.3

30th March-2nd April 1945: 10.0

19th-22nd April 1946: 8.8

4th-7th April 1947: 7.0

26th-29th March 1948: 9.8

15th-18th April 1949: 14.5 <----------warmest in this list

7th-10th April 1950: 9.2

23rd-26th March 1951: 5.6

11th-14th April 1952: 10.6

3rd-6th April 1953: 5.8

16th-19th April 1954: 8.2

8th-11th April 1955: 10.7

30th March-2nd April 1956: 6.4

19th-22nd April 1957: 9.6

4th-7th April 1958: 3.8

27th-30th March 1959: 7.9

15th-18th April 1960: 6.6

31st March - 3rd April 1961: 6.0

20th-23rd April 1962: 9.5

12th-15th April 1963: 7.3

27th-30th March 1964: 4.3

16th-19th April 1965: 8.6

8th-11th April 1966: 8.8

24th-27th March 1967: 6.6

12th-15th April 1968: 7.1

4th-7th April 1969: 7.6

27th-30th March 1970: 4.8

9th-12th April 1971: 7.6

31st March-3rd April 1972: 10.3

20th-23rd April 1973: 6.0

12th-15th April 1974: 6.9

28th-31st March 1975: 3.4

16th-19th April 1976: 10.7

8th-11th April 1977: 4.5

24th-27th March 1978: 7.4

13th-16th April 1979: 11.4

4th-7th April 1980: 7.3

17th-20th April 1981: 6.5

9th-12th April 1982: 5.8

1st-4th April 1983: 4.2

20th-23rd April 1984: 12.1

5th-8th April 1985: 8.9

28th-31st March 1986: 5.4

17th-20th April 1987: 11.8

1st-4th April 1988: 7.6

24th-27th March 1989: 7.4

13th-16th April 1990: 6.5

29th March-1st April 1991: 7.3

17th-20th April 1992: 11.1

9th-12th April 1993: 8.6

1st-4th April 1994: 5.7

14th-17th April 1995: 9.4

5th-8th April 1996: 6.4

28th-31st March 1997: 7.8

10th-13th April 1998: 4.1

2nd-5th April 1999: 11.4

21st-24th April 2000: 10.0

13th-16th April 2001: 7.4

29th March-1st April 2002: 9.5

18th-21st April 2003: 10.5

9th-12th April 2004: 8.2

25th-28th March 2005: 9.5

14th-17th April 2006: 9.7

6th-9th April 2007: 9.1

21st-24th March 2008: 3.6

10th-13th April 2009: 10.0

2nd-5th April 2010: 6.7

[Backtrack]

Hey guys.

The pure purpose of this topic is to see the temperatures recorded throughout this exceptionally hot spell of April, one we many not see again for another 10 years perhaps?

So what was the highlights of the spell for you? what were your temperatures? Was it nice?

Let us know

Mine:

Around 8 days of 20C +

Hardly any rain apart from yesterday which delivered 13.5mm of rain from 90 minutes of thunderstorms

The best thunderstorm I've seen

Cannot recall a fully cloudy day!

Maximum temperature was 25C

Minimum was only around 7C

NO ground or air frosts.

The best ever spring tan.

[Summer of 95]

23C max- not as warm as April 2003 managed, and certainly not as consistently dry, warm and sunny as April 2007 (the higher mean temp round here this month owing to the lack of cool nights).

Certainly a good April, but no more. Would have rated it higher if we'd caught a serious storm instead of spots of rain and a few distant rumbles/flashes. I can certainly remember a few fully cloudy days- 11th-12th-13th; and several more where it was cloudy for several hours (usually from noon to 6pm).

And of course it's had "Southeast versus the rest" disease, though admittedly not as severely as say July 2010, August 2009, late May 2005, August 2003, summer 2002....

[A.J]

Maximum of 26.1C recorded today...heck of a contrast with the post CF air mass, nearly 15 degrees cooler now! ....An outstanding spring so far, here's to more of the same!

[Slowpoke]

Been fantastic, last 7 days especially. Temperature soared above 24C yesterday which is exceptional for Blackpool even in late-May and June nevermind April! May be a record too, I'm unsure. I've never had such a great tan so early in the year!

[Milhouse]

Stations right on the east coast such as Bridlington recorded 22c on the 6th - quite exceptional. Today reached 23.5c here and it was the warmest, most summery feeling April day i can ever recall.