Spring 2015

[Evening thunder]

A shame Autumn rarely arrives on the 6th of September and winter rarely arrives on the 6th of December, it must be so boring for mildies as they have the next 7 months to chase high pressure and warmth, winter only started 3 months ago but the chase for cold and snow has long been over, in 3 months time it will still only be June but mildies and joe public never seem get fed up of warmth and high pressure though, i wonder if coldies would get fed up of chasing cold and snow if there was a chance of it for 7-8 months a year

 

Maybe people interested in both/many weather types are lucky as they get to watch the weather all year round  

[damianslaw]

Very windy last night and this morning under grey leaden skies certainly not very spring like. Much worse over NW quarter of Scotland - the typical NW-SE split..

[Milhouse]

I can feel that temperature rising outside. And its sunny too. Dont believe what anyone says about southwesterlies and cloudy and dull. Okay it is like that for some but theres a lot of the country under blue skies at the moment.

[Summer Sun]

@bbcweather

 

Murlough, Co. Down has reached 17.5C making it the highest temperature in the UK this year (so far)

 

It's the warmest day of the year so far in Scotland with 15.9C at Fyvie Castle beating 15.6C in the same place on 18th Feb.

Edited March 7, 2015 by Summer Sun

[summer blizzard]

Gooodd lord, feels like summer out there.

[MP-R]

Very pleasant out there today though still a bit of an edge off the temperatures out of the sun and in the breeze. Can feel the strength of the sun though which is nice.

[johnholmes]

warmest day here since 31 October last year at 17.2C, but yes not feeling that warm in the breeze and out of the sun, Td at the time around 7C

[damianslaw]

Marked differences between NW quarter of the country and the rest of it today. We maxed out at 8.6 degrees only under grey leaden skies.. and a strong gusty wind, not very springlike.

[March Blizzard]

Marked differences between NW quarter of the country and the rest of it today. We maxed out at 8.6 degrees only under grey leaden skies.. and a strong gusty wind, not very springlike.

Such is often the case in March. A different season in each corner of the country, at the same time!

[sundog]

Warmest day of the yr so far at my location today,max temp 14.7c although it felt a bit cool out in the wind.

[hillbilly]

What would have been a pleasant spring day had it not been destroyed by the wind.Been working up a ladder and scaffold today and it was dangerous,it blew the ladder down before I managed to tie it!!

[MP-R]

It really does take something special to get a perfect spring day in early March, they're as rare as hen's teeth. March 09th last year was quite something in that respect. 

 

Driving to Reading tomorrow morning so may be thankful for more in the way of cloud so as to not be blinded by the sun. Could do with a good downpour of rain now after clearing loads of crud out of the gutters from the winter.

[cheese]

Maxed at 16C.

 

[March Blizzard]

@bbcweather

 

Murlough, Co. Down has reached 17.5C making it the highest temperature in the UK this year (so far)

 

It's the warmest day of the year so far in Scotland with 15.9C at Fyvie Castle beating 15.6C in the same place on 18th Feb.

 

How uncannily similar to the start of March 2013...

 

17.5C recorded on the 5th at Trawsgoed in 2013

 

17.5C recorded on the 7th at Murlough in 2015.

 

A potentially potent easterly has shown on the models with some consistency over the last few days...

 

...surely not, right?!

 

[Captain Shortwave]

How uncannily similar to the start of March 2013...

 

17.5C recorded on the 5th at Trawsgoed in 2013

 

17.5C recorded on the 7th at Murlough in 2015.

 

A potentially potent easterly has shown on the models with some consistency over the last few days...

 

...surely not, right?!

 

Cloudy with temperatures of 5-8C, I don't think anyone will be celebrating that weather scenario. The only reliable way of delivering wintry showers is from the north as that flow is more inductive of a sunshine and showers pattern (easterlies now you need pretty much a chunk of the unstable polar air to be sunk into Europe which is rare at any time of year.).

This weekend has yet again shown how poor the hi-res models are at predicting cloud amounts and temperatures in a south westerly set up. Temperatures were 5C higher than predicted yesterday and the sun is still shining now despite the forecast suggesting cloudy skies and light rain all day. Oddly the GFS hasn't done too badly again.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Captain shortwave

[Summer Sun]

A stormy start to the week tomorrow, calmer and Tuesday then a spell of unsettled weather before high pressure over Scandinavia and to our south and west move towards us squeezing the low out and by next weekend it settles down for all bar the far north west with some pleasant sunshine though some morning mist and fog

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/31789092

Edited March 8, 2015 by Summer Sun

[Thundery wintry showers]

Agreed about the easterly.  850hPa temperatures generally have a shallow cold pool with temperatures around -6C, and surface temperatures are projected at 1-3C by night and 5-7C by day at around the same time.  I don't expect snow other than on the high ground, and while the GFS does project showery activity coming in off the North Sea, it will probably be very shallow convection with drizzle coming from a stratocumulus sheet with the odd embedded towering cumulus cloud.

 

The 11th March 2013 was one of those relatively rare examples of a March easterly which generally produced sunshine and snow showers.  There were other examples in eastern Scotland and north-east England in March 2001 (1st/2nd and 17th/18th in particular) but all of these examples had a significant input of Arctic air rather than a continental east to south-easterly flow. 

[Weather-history]

Wonders of spring variety in a space of 48 hours.

Beautiful sunny very mild afternoon to a wet morning next day with a sunny late afternoon to a cold clear night with a hoar frost by dawn with rain coming in afternoon,

[Snowyowl9]

The first easterly that showed up all winter,much more chance of it happening in march.

I can see snow from this too.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1681.html

[Snowyowl9]

I`m looking at that small low,which could bring much more,never underestimate an easterly.

[Captain Shortwave]

I`m looking at that small low,which could bring much more,never underestimate an easterly.

I can see very little myself, just a lot of cloudy coming in off the north sea with some drizzly rain at times. Sunday looks the coldest day down here with temperatures of 4-7C. Temperatures seem to hold in high single figures from then on. Pretty worthless to me really and hope if we do see colder weather that it is fro the north as that is more conductive to showery conditions which could delver some snow (ECM day 10 looks good for example).

 

No mention of wintry weather on the extended BBC forecast either.

Edited March 9, 2015 by Captain shortwave

[J10]

Cloudy with temperatures of 5-8C, I don't think anyone will be celebrating that weather scenario. The only reliable way of delivering wintry showers is from the north as that flow is more inductive of a sunshine and showers pattern (easterlies now you need pretty much a chunk of the unstable polar air to be sunk into Europe which is rare at any time of year.).

This weekend has yet again shown how poor the hi-res models are at predicting cloud amounts and temperatures in a south westerly set up. Temperatures were 5C higher than predicted yesterday and the sun is still shining now despite the forecast suggesting cloudy skies and light rain all day. Oddly the GFS hasn't done too badly again.

 

I think that is often the case with many weather patterns , In  in the February high pressure spell, there were 3 days of wall to wall sunshine when cloud was predicted for each day.

 

As for this weekend, cloudy here in the morning, but you could see the cloud sheet moving away, and it was mostly sunny in the afternoon, a pleasant surprise, especially for a Saturday.

[Snowyowl9]

Easterly always favours here from that angle,not NE though.

[feb1991blizzard]

Its certainly not the favourite but we are not a million miles away from a belting North Easterly setting up potent enough to give a proper pasting in low lying Inland areas you know.

Think Dec 90, April 81, March 13 or to a lesser extent April 2012, Cyclonic East or North Easterly im thinking. 

Edited March 11, 2015 by feb1991blizzard

[feb1991blizzard]

COLD CLUSTER ALERT!!!!!!!!!

On the 6z and to a lesser extent on the ECM 0z. They don't look too extreme but remember though that these are MAX temps for London or even further south and there are a good few that only go just above 5c and quite a few that are below 5c, you are never going to get the sort of frigidity that you might get in Jan but you could still get a heavy spell of snow all be it probably not a long lasting one.

 

  :yahoo: