Spring 2024

[SunSean]

 Weather Enthusiast91 Spring 2025- "Hold my beer!"

Lol.

[LetItSnow]

 Weather Enthusiast91  SunSean I have an unscientific gut feeling that 2025 may bring about a much more continental and drier theme to the weather with all the seasons having a bit of a kick to them. A bit like how after the very wet years from 1998-2002 it turned dry and mostly seasonable in 2003.

[SunSean]

 LetItSnow! It would be very nice! Surely Spring 2025 at least will be better than the last 2 monstrosities right? Right??? Lol.

[Daniel*]

Well the spring was crap in fact it worse for me than 2023 which takes some doing. Regardless it was 3rd warmest spring on record at Heathrow all top 5 have occurred since 2007.

 

[Addicks Fan 1981]

 Weather Enthusiast91 hopefully la nin̈a will get to work to alter things for the better.  

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 SunSean hold on to the roller coaster more like!

[damianslaw]

Ive seen the met office anomaly maps, take away the warm temps, which never produced any notable warmth, what a shocker of a Spring, exceptionally dull here and very wet. 

Edited June 3, 2024 by damianslaw

[Heat lover]

A bit less scientific than some of the other contributions, but what this spring lacked (apart from dry weather) was a nice direction of travel. So better (i.e. warmer, dryer) periods would always get trumped by cold and rain, and you felt like you were being dragged backwards. There was some decent weather in the middle of April, but the last week was horribly grey and cold, which is depressing. May (like last year) was the best month of spring, but again, the warm week in the middle was then undermined by the return of heavy rain and greyness. Obviously, we are living in the UK so have to be realistic -- our weather is changeable -- but a great spring/summer has a bit of a narrative to it, a sense of things building. This spring completely lacked that.

[Addicks Fan 1981]

 damianslaw what makes me sick on X is the sheer volume of corbyn/icke fans on X thinking the data are lies.   Then again they comment for their own PR basically, deniers of AGW often do.    

[Snowshine]

While Spring 2024 may have been warmer than average, it was an overall terrible season. The lack of sunshine and high rainfall totals (especially in March and April) was the most notable thing for me, and the lack of thunderstorms. 2/10 

[al78]

Some articles on the BBC kind-of sum it up:

Spring 2024 has been very wet and mild. Will summer be warm?

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Parts of the UK could have seen their wettest spring on record. Chris Fawkes looks back at the conditions we've seen and what might be in store for summer.

Failed wheat and hungry cows: farmers count the cost of a wet winter

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Around a quarter of the wheat crop is lost and cattle farmers struggle to feed their animals.

Wet weather sees farming morale at 'all time low'

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Prolonged wet weather impacts pastoral and arable farming across the south-west of England.

It is irrelevant that Spring 2024 is the warmest on record when there is clearly weather-related hardship going on. A massively temporally and spatially smoothed out anomaly of one meteorological parameter says next to nothing when it comes to human impact.

[sebastiaan1973]

From 

Weerwoord | Europese anomaliekaarten voor de lente van 2024.

WWW.WEERWOORD.BE

 

Luchtdrukafwijking = pressure anomaly. Temperatuurafwijking = temperature anomaly and neerslagafwijking = percipitation anomaly

[Snowyowl9]

Had some snow in early march...

Nothing memorable about march and april this year..

The second half of april at least dried up and it was cold...

The first half of may was the highlight by far very warm spell very thundery a may somewhat like 2008..Second half not good wet..cool.

[Snowyowl9]

May was the warmest on record here..average max temps higher to 2008 just checked..

I thought may 1990 was a record at the time..

 

[The PIT]

Came across the load of rubbish

Yup they're stupid. I wonder if the May had been reversed with cold spell at the start the memories would have been different. Glad I'm part of the conspiracy in recording the 2nd warmest spring on record.

[Weather-history]

Nothing going for spring 2024. All the talk is on how warm it was. It was also  one of dullest and wettest springs on record. 

[al78]

 The PIT  We live in a world where perception, opinion and personal identity trump fact, which is why dumb and even destructive decisions are frequently made.

Edited June 12, 2024 by al78
typo

[SunnyG]

 al78 That's been the case since the invention of the gutter press, obviously made a lot worse by social media and the internet in general. Science is always years ahead of the herd. They'll get there, eventually.

To be fair, the Meto are shockingly unreliable as to forecasts. They only thing they have going for them is collecting data, which is done by machines anyway.

Edited June 12, 2024 by SunnyG

[al78]

 SunnyG  I have to disagree regarding the Meto.

[East Lancs Rain]

 The PIT To be fair they do have a point though. While it technically was the warmest spring on record, it didn’t feel like it due to it being so dull and wet, and mostly down to mild nights rather than warm days. Definitely one of those cases where temperature is just academic and doesn’t tell the whole story.