Spring 2024

[damianslaw]

 WYorksWeather Quite odd maps, greens and oranges all over the shop for rainfall, the green over Spain for rain combined with orange for higher  heights doesn't add up, also looks like strong heights to our NW and some form of trough to the NE with heights into central europe, trying to pick the bones what the mean surface pressure charts would be but can't. These are average means I guess and can't tell you synoptics on the ground. 

Edited April 10 by damianslaw

[SunSean]

 B87 I meant for the last 100 days in April, somehow forgot that point haha.

[B87]

 SunSean True.

20c+ days in the last 10 Aprils here...

2024: 0 so far

2023: 0

2022: 2

2021: 0

2020: 10

2019: 6

2018: 5

2017: 2 

2016: 0

2015: 3 

2014: 0

It does look like we will finally get our first 20c of the year this weekend.

Edited April 10 by B87

[raz.org.rain]

2 hours ago, B87 said:

It does look like we will finally get our first 20c of the year this weekend

We've already had our first 20°c, last week

[damianslaw]

 raz.org.rain Usually have to wait until May for our first 20 degrees, and could well be the case this year. 

[Summer8906]

 baddie I don't remember May 2019 being especially spartan, the first half in particular had good flowering. But aside from the Easter weekend, April 2019 was frequently cool, IIRC (the end of April was not warm here, as soon as the Easter warm spell ended it was mostly cool and breezy), and the first half of March was also relatively cool if I remember right.

Edited April 11 by Summer8906

[B87]

 raz.org.rain Not here we didn't.

[TheOgre]

I feel like Spring 2024 (and February) is a duller version of 2014, especially this April being dull, very mild and fairly wet.

[Sun Chaser]

 TheOgre Difference being that March 2014 was genuinely lovely and very opposite of the March just gone. A lot of dry, sunny weather in 2014, with midmonth especially nice! While 2024 had nothing but 27 days of slate grey skies and torrential rain to offer, with odd springlike days scattered between.

[Addicks Fan 1981]

 summer blizzard in 2006 I think there was a lot of northern blocking in May, but did the robust wave activity on a repeated basis along with rising AAM ensure we had a very hot two months ahead? 

[carinthian]

Mid- Spring  and well on course for the warmest Spring ever in Austria. Today quite a few places broke 30c mark and recorded the warmest April Day on record. Just incredible spell of weather in these parts. River beds just a trickle and that mostly from melted snow.

C

Edited April 14 by carinthian

[ANYWEATHER]

Typical April showers in a rather potent Pm airmass . 

[carinthian]

Sunday recorded the highest April temp ever in the Villach area with a reading of 30.9 c. Today it has snow cover in the same location with a current temp of +1c at 500m asl.

C

[ANYWEATHER]

Better day here, more sun, less wind

[carinthian]

Evening. Heating back on . Icicles now showing on roof tops with blowing snow . Looks like a April of two halves' over here. First two weeks summer with a record 31 c recorded near Graz on Sunday, and now looks like winter for the remainder of the month. Current temp outside -0.5c.

C

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 carinthian That's seriously harsh!

[SunnyG]

 carinthian At least you had 31c before

[ANYWEATHER]

Jack Frost doing the rounds at minus 1 this morning! But a beautiful morning.

[ANYWEATHER]

Lovely April afternoon here now, bit  of a wind but who cares!

Edited April 19 by ANYWEATHER

[Fen Wolf]

Been a good few days here, got out every day this week and my head is thankful for it.  Just need to try and get off social media as it us bad for my brain 

 

Hoping for more sunshine, long happy sunny days lay ahead 

[Freeze]

Another beautiful spring morning 

 

[richie3846]

60 hours of sunshine over the last 9 days, with maybe another 10 hours to add today, fingers crossed. So for the first 20 days, it seems like locally (records from Brize Norton) we'll be around the 100 hour mark.

Quite a turnaround from the dreary 29 hours recorded in the opening 10 days of the month. 

[Daniel*]

 

[B87]

 Daniel* Since July, we have generally been very dull as well. There is zero chance of April getting to average sunshine this year. Infact we probably won't even get to 140 hours (which itself would be poor for April).

We are due a year with 4 or 5 months of 200+ hours.

4 months would be average yet we haven't seen that since 2018.

Edited April 20 by B87

[richie3846]

 B87 I think you mentioned something about 4 months over 200 hours of sunshine recently also, and it got me thinking. Now you've mentioned it again, I'll bring the up the point that popped into my head.

If there's 800+ hours of sunshine over the 4 months period, then that would be the level you are talking about. Within those 4 months, there may be some up and some down, so one may get 250 and another 150, which would still be 400. It seems unlikely for 4 months in a row to have over 200 hours of sunshine each in our climate, and when it happens it's probably more of a rarity. 

What I'm suggesting is, total hours of sunshine over the 4 months period may be a more balanced measure of sunshine. We could have 900 hours of sunshine and still end up with 2 months below 200, so I'm not sure that taking the average for each month in isolation is a true reflection of a 4 month period as a whole.