Winter 2023/24 - A Post Mortem

[jules216]

 daz_4 analog wise i still like 2016 most.this Has not changed since February forecast.

[daz_4]

 jules216 Very hazy today. Monday will be crazy for sure and there will be another blast from south with summer like temperatures next weekend. It's just relentless this year.

[jules216]

 daz_4 yes makes you wonder what will happen if we get "Egypt" advection in July. 

[ANYWEATHER]

 sundog fiddled data.....

[Catacol]

On 30/03/2024 at 08:54, ANYWEATHER said:

fiddled data…

Yeah - damn that fiddled data. The cloak of mendacity that somehow makes us hallucinate that snow levels are falling, summers are getting hotter, winters are getting wetter, rainfall events in general are getting more extreme… and polar ice levels are falling fast. In this context the oceans are, of course, not getting warmer. That is another illusion.

Edited April 1 by Catacol

[Methuselah]

Given the presence of petechiae and the fact that the hyoid bone was intact, I'd suggest that the winter of 2023-24 was smothered at birth. 

[Metwatch]

 Catacol

I wouldn't even bother. Denies that Spain is becoming drier and warmer this week so that says enough. The ignore button works wonders

[raz.org.rain]

 Catacol my favourites from 2022 include "it's been hotter than this before, like in 1976". No, the records do not confirm that. 
 

*from the general public, not these forums 

Edited April 1 by raz.org.rain

[Don]

32 minutes ago, raz.org.rain said:

my favourites from 2022 include "it's been hotter than this before, like in 1976". No, the records do not confirm that. 
 

*from the general public, not these forums 

Yes, I got that too from family and when I said 'not 40C heat in 1976', they said, 'it would have been close!'. 

No point in arguing though! 

[Summer8906]

 Don To play the devil's advocate, though, 1976 still remains the clear leader in prolonged warm, sunny and settled conditions AFAIK.

I'm not old enough to remember it but looking at reports and synoptic charts, few other years since have matched it. 1989 and 1995 are the only real candidates. 2003, 2006, 2018 and 2022 each featured one changeable month (July, August, August and June respectively).

Edited April 10 by Summer8906

[Don]

 Summer8906 not 40C though, not even 37C!  It had not been hotter than 2022 before

Yes 1976 was hotter overall, but I think that record is on borrowed time now!

Edited April 10 by Don

[damianslaw]

Had to remind myself what thread this is, talk of hottest summers... oh well..

[Don]

1 hour ago, damianslaw said:

Had to remind myself what thread this is, talk of hottest summers... oh well..

Ok, lets talk about coolest summers instead!! 

[summer blizzard]

 Summer8906 I would hesitate to put 2022 on that list. The others produced nationwide summers, while by the time your as far north as even Leeds and Manchester, July 2022 was mediocre outside a handful of days. The two week spell was restricted to the south unlike the others.

August 2022 was worthy of course but an individual month.

Edited April 10 by summer blizzard

[MP-R]

 Summer8906 Correct. Still very much a big daddy of a summer! To get those temperatures from that setup at that stage in the summer was quite incredible and hasn’t been bettered since.

[Metwatch]

14 hours ago, damianslaw said:

Had to remind myself what thread this is, talk of hottest summers

Not even sure why it's still open to posts, winter is long gone now

[Ladyofthestorm]

For us in the far North West of Scotland a very interesting and very long  winter. 

Started with Storm Babet in October and carried on relentlessly , very few anticyclonic episodes for us to calm things down . Wet windy and mild  autumn . December a brief cold spell early on then mild and unsettled. 

However January was interesting . 2 significant snow events lasting 5 to 7 days each. 

February was similar a bit of a non event very cloudy and dull often unsettled. 

Can I include March? Our sunniest month and driest too . Coolish but pleasant. 

April I'm writing off. 

January taster A proper mid Winter. 

 

[cheeky_monkey]

 MP-R IMO 1995 was better than 1976 ..im just old enough to remember 1976 but 1995 was the best summer of my lifetime 

[MP-R]

 cheeky_monkey August 1995 is a month I’d love to witness. I was very young at the time so can’t remember it. You’d think it’d be achievable again given all the talk of us morphing into a Mediterranean climate…

[Met.]

Um, think it won't be long til the "Spring Post Mortem" thread.

[cheeky_monkey]

 MP-R August 1995 i would describe as very much in the vein of a typical July/August i get here on the Canadian prairies..dry warm/hot with low humidity and enough of a breeze to make it almost perfection in terms of summer weather 

[SunnyG]

The heading should be: spring, a post mortem. Because winter is here to stay, apparently.

[Don]

 SunnyG Winter is not here to stay because there hasn't been one!!

[raz.org.rain]

 MP-R if you've jinxed it and we get an August 1995 repeat, I'll buy you a drink

[SunnyG]

 Don We are in winter now.