Moans, ramps and banter

[reef]

 baddie This day in 2012 was my wedding day. I couldnt believe our good luck as it was booked a year earlier, fully expecting rubbish weather. Instead it was clear, sunny and warm throughout. It couldnt have been better for the time of year.

[baddie]

 reef Your lucky it wasnt the day after. 31st March 2012 was a cold, cloudy North Sea muck day

[Roban]

As a farmer I think this last 12 months if about the worst I have ever encountered. Couple of dry weeks end of May early June. Week in Sept then that’s about it in a year and we live in dry east Yorks. 
coupled with cereal prices that at 20-30% below the Ukraine war.

we really need some dry weather lost 50% of what we planted in Oct and now cannot get anything in the ground. Have asked the guys to work tomorrow drilling barley with us but now next week is slowly going bad I am not sure whether to bother. 
 

 

[Bristawl Si]

12c, sunny with clouds. Pleasant enough at the mo, but threat of showers by looks of it.

[SunnyG]

 In Absence of True Seasons Especially considering how awful Thursday was.... we have been blessed with a reprieve just in time for Easter... there might be something in that after all

[baddie]

I love it when a forecast goes from rain all day to cloudy. I hope the 4th/5th April forecast goes the same way as 18th March did this year. One time it was meant to rain all day and it turned out to be quite a nice spring day instead

[stainesbloke]

Gorgeous spring day here in Czechia, the sunshine is quite hazy but feeling lovely and warm

[SunSean]

An unforecasted hour of blue sky! Met Office had guff for this entire past week but they got it wrong pretty much every day. Hasn't been a bad week comparing to what they had lol.

[baddie]

 SunSean I dont hate low pressure now. Why????? The wet second half of March has felt spring-like

If only last Sundays glorious weather was the day after (My birthday), instead of it raining on my birthday for the first time in a decade

Edited March 30 by baddie

[Metwatch]

I suppose today isn't far off the wonderful end of March 2021; sunny calm nice sunny spells, not as warm but still good in the sunshine, but the difference is this time in 2021 we were heading into a very dry and sunny April. Not so much now. The strength of the Greenland blocking in the upcoming week is just sickening!

[raz.org.rain]

 baddie not sure about the 4th/5th but there have been hints of a warmer and drier spell for around the 9th, fingers crossed it comes off.

[baddie]

 raz.org.rain A similar affair to today or 18th/19th March would do. Improved from rain all day to spring sunshine

Edited March 30 by baddie

[reef]

 Roban The farmer across from us hs had similar issues. The fields remain with nothing in the ground as it has been relentlessly wet and the ground partially flooded. There were similar issues in 2019/20 but different in that it went from flooded to parched in the space of two months. I think he just settled on turnips that year and got them up in the November.

Edited March 30 by reef

[Azazel]

My partners parents live in a little village called St. Mary Bourne and every time I drive over there, even though it’s only like 5 miles away, it takes me half hour because the route is full of trucks and equipment pumping the floodwater. They’ve been there every day since December I think. The water is coming up through peoples downstairs toilets etc and the road is lined with sandbags. Never seen that before. 

[raz.org.rain]

Very sunny and actually quite warm here, albeit the breeze still has a chill to it. Definitely feeling very springlike. Personally I'd rate this March as distinctly average temperature wise overall, with a mixture of what you'd expect from early spring.

[LetItSnow!]

 raz.org.rain Scary that +2.5C above normal feels average nowadays! 

I don't have sunshine statistics at hand but March 2024 feels grimmer than March 2023. I'm also unsure of rainfall anomaly distribution so far but is it one of those times where even though last year was wetter for the UK overall that this March is wetter down south? Apparently Heathrow is about 5mm away from beating the March rainfall record set in 2001.

[danm]

16c with largely sunny skies. 

[Josh Rubio]

Looks like we’ve got a rare spell of sunny, warm and settled weather for the majority. Tomorrow also looks dry albeit with more cloud around. Then next week normal service resumes with the Atlantic onslaught. 

[cheese]

15C with plenty of sunshine today. As spring should be.

[Azazel]

Sun is out here. Everyone is sat inside but I am sat in the garden legs akimbo and splayed out in the sun like a washed up bin bag. I can feel the strength on my pallid, grey skin and it’s glorious 

[AWD]

26 minutes ago, Azazel said:

 

Sun is out here. Everyone is sat inside but I am sat in the garden legs akimbo and splayed out in the sun like a washed up bin bag. I can feel the strength on my pallid, grey skin and it’s glorious 

 

I’d be one of those sat inside still.  It’s sunny here today, lovely compared to recent days, but still only a fresh 13.8c currently.  Not warm enough for me to sit in a beer garden/park/beach yet.  Need to get up towards 20c for me personally, for that.

Nevertheless, still feels lovely in the sun, nippy when clouds pass over though.  Shame the outlook is more of what we’ve recently had, rather than what we have today.

Edited March 30 by AWD

[In Absence of True Seasons]

Pretty wild how much better today panned out than was forecasted. A few days ago, the entire Easter Weekend in my area was just showing as cloud and rain. But yesterday was pretty decent with sunny spells albeit quite chilly, and today is a genuinely good Spring day at 15c and mostly sunny all day.

Just goes to show that things can, and do, change on the day of. It's usually a case of the change being a downgrade of conditions and it being less sunny and pleasant than forecast, but today is a rare example of the opposite.

Next week's forecast is looking dire at present so I'm fingers crossed that it'll be similar case where the weather won't be quite as unpleasant once those days actually arrive. 

[markyo]

A near enough perfect Easter Saturday and possibly Sunday coming, warm plenty of sunshine and certainly no need to put the central heating on!! Monday not so good i admit.

Edited March 30 by markyo

[Alderc 2.0]

Probably the best day of the year here though admittedly it’s a low bar, just need about another 18C on top lol. 

[markyo]

42 minutes ago, Alderc 2.0 said:

just need about another 18C on top lol. 

......why ruin a perfect day?

Edited March 30 by markyo