Today I finally got some of that 'strong March sunshine' that was
rumoured to exist. The temperature 'rocketed' to 6.8C in the
afternoon sunshine.

It was almost 'late-winter like'.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

"Col" wrote in message
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Today I finally got some of that 'strong March sunshine' that was
rumoured to exist. The temperature 'rocketed' to 6.8C in the
afternoon sunshine.

It was almost 'late-winter like'.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.



Lucky you. I think Mar 1-4th is all we've had.

Trevor

East Yorkshire

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:35:10 +0000 (UTC), "Col"
wrote:

Today I finally got some of that 'strong March sunshine' that was
rumoured to exist. The temperature 'rocketed' to 6.8C in the
afternoon sunshine.

It was almost 'late-winter like'.

It's been up to 11 deg C here this afternoon - in glorious Spring
sunshine! Down on the beach at Solent MRSC it was 12 degrees (rounded)
for a while - it's felt *completely* unlike what was implied by last
night's late evening weather forecast on the BBC.

Now, where's that lawn mower...

--
Dave
Fareham

"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:35:10 +0000 (UTC), "Col"
wrote:

Today I finally got some of that 'strong March sunshine' that was
rumoured to exist. The temperature 'rocketed' to 6.8C in the
afternoon sunshine.

It was almost 'late-winter like'.

It's been up to 11 deg C here this afternoon - in glorious Spring
sunshine! Down on the beach at Solent MRSC it was 12 degrees (rounded)
for a while - it's felt *completely* unlike what was implied by last
night's late evening weather forecast on the BBC.

Now, where's that lawn mower...


You mean your grass is actually growing :-o

All still very yellow here and with soil temperatures well below 5 deg C it will
remain so.
Not complaining though, I hate cutting grass.

Will (Haytor, Devon, 310m asl).
--

There's been very poor amounts of sunshine here for the 4th month
running and for the 5th out of 6. Since the 9th only the 17th has seen
lengthy amounts (and the max that day was 6.9C).

Not as bad as last March though when there were only three days with
any sunshine during the last fortnight and I recall 2 weeks passing
without any sunshine during March 1996.

There was a bit of sun today allowing the temperature to soar to 7.6C -
the second warmest day of the month but still colder than average for
March.

Richard Slessor,
Hazlehead, Aberdeen.