April 2023 C.E.T. and EWP contests

[syed2878]

Sadly i can't see April be warm this year I think April will be quite cold and wet to boot. I'm going temp 7.1C and precipitation 95MM.  Thank You.

[JeffC]

7.5 and 75 mms please

[reef]

Close to average all round:

8.6C and 69mm

[DR(S)NO]

8.5c and 85mm

thank you please 

[emmett garland]

10.1 degrees and 43mm 

[snowray]

8.3c and 63.5mm please.

[jonboy]

8.6 and 98mm please

[sunny_vale]

I think we might end up seeing a pretty dry and reasonably warm April after all.

9.7C and 22mm for me please 

 

[Polar Gael]

10.7°C and 27.2mm for me please.

[SLEETY]

8.1c

 

50mm

Thanks

[Summer Sun]

8.7c for me please

[Man With Beard]

9.6C

[damianslaw]

April always the toughest month to predict weatherwise, often flips on the toss of a coin. It is still in the colder half of the year, mean temp wise, yet in feel marks the start of the warmer half of the year, given the increasingly strong sunshine and ever increasing daylight. A sunny calm day in April will always feel better than a sunny calm day in October even though air temps are on average lower.

I'm not expecting anything particularly cool/cold this April, and another above average month most likely, let's go 9.7 degrees. A decent month with plenty of dry sunny settled weather but may be rather cloudy at times, interspersed with some wetter spells - these brief. I anticipate the atlantic will go quiet quite soon and higher pressure will influence things more, but not setting up in a position to bring in any early notable warmth. Northerlies and easterlies could be a common feature.

 

Edited March 30, 2023 by damianslaw

[Thundery wintry showers]

I can see this April having some cool north and east winds, but it increasingly looks like starting off on the warm side.  Probably quite a dry month.  So I'll go for 9.1C and 27.8mm.

[rwtwm]

8.8c 43mm please

[Roger J Smith]

7.7 C and 58.7 mm -- some very cold days likely 

[mulzy]

8.8C and 45mm please

[Weather Observer]

9.1c and 69mm please.

[Mr Maunder]

9.7c and 61mm please.

MM

[NeilN]

8.9c and 88mm.

I am going for 2023 to be the wettest year for a long time. 

[Sunny76]

On 27/03/2023 at 22:18, hillbilly said:

Interesting that every 80s April except 1987 is colder than the last 20 year average.

 

Wasn’t April 80 warm?

[Sunny76]

On 27/03/2023 at 22:18, hillbilly said:

Interesting that every 80s April except 1987 is colder than the last 20 year average.

 

Surprised that 2012 was warmer than any April during the 80s.

[Sun Chaser]

8.8 and 36mm - not especially warm but also on the dry side, going for a above average start followed by a northerly/easterly influence from mid month but with dry air

[Freeze]

9.0c and 78mm please.

[Thundery wintry showers]

1 hour ago, Sunny76 said:

Wasn’t April 80 warm?

Hillbilly is right if we're going by the Central England Tempertature series.  The 1961-1990 average CET for April was just 7.9C, and for the 20th century it was 8.1C, but over 1991-2020 it was 9.0C.  At 8.8C, April 1980 was certainly warm for its time, but a little short of the latest 30-year average.  The Met Office UK series gives similar results - April 1980 at 7.7C was the second warmest of the 1980s but cooler than most recent Aprils.

April 2012 incidentally was widely the second or third coolest April since 1989.