Well after 11 out of 13 colder than average months (some much colder) I did
think May would give us some warmth but how wrong could I be!!

Max today of 8.9c in the sunshine we did actually manage 2 hours today.

A lot of heavy showers, some big hail showers too with temps falling down to
4.9c in the really heavy showers.

Forecast for the next 10 days looks dire!

Mean for this month so far is 0.6c BELOW average but hey what's new, seems
to be the norm these days.

Do hope we get some warm days this Summer, 2006 seems a long time ago


Raining again now and current temp 4.6c


Graham (North Staffs)

"Graham" wrote in message
...
Well after 11 out of 13 colder than average months (some much colder) I
did think May would give us some warmth but how wrong could I be!!

Max today of 8.9c in the sunshine we did actually manage 2 hours today.

A lot of heavy showers, some big hail showers too with temps falling down
to 4.9c in the really heavy showers.

Forecast for the next 10 days looks dire!

Mean for this month so far is 0.6c BELOW average but hey what's new, seems
to be the norm these days.

Do hope we get some warm days this Summer, 2006 seems a long time ago


Raining again now and current temp 4.6c

I thought I would struggle to make double figures yesterday but
I made it, just! Max of 10.0°C and that was only because there
some sun between the showers.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On 2013-05-12 09:51:11 +0000, Col said:

"Graham" wrote in message
...
Well after 11 out of 13 colder than average months (some much colder) I
did think May would give us some warmth but how wrong could I be!!

Max today of 8.9c in the sunshine we did actually manage 2 hours today.

A lot of heavy showers, some big hail showers too with temps falling
down to 4.9c in the really heavy showers.

Forecast for the next 10 days looks dire!

Mean for this month so far is 0.6c BELOW average but hey what's new,
seems to be the norm these days.

Do hope we get some warm days this Summer, 2006 seems a long time ago


Raining again now and current temp 4.6c

I thought I would struggle to make double figures yesterday but
I made it, just! Max of 10.0°C and that was only because there
some sun between the showers.

I hate these cool and cloudy May days, they are so depressing.

I always think of May as a warm and optimistic month, with summer only
just around the corner but it seems as though winter is refusing to
loosen its grip, except for a few days over the recent Bank Holiday.

"yttiw" wrote in message
news:2013051214035627536-cuddles@britpostcom...
On 2013-05-12 09:51:11 +0000, Col said:


I thought I would struggle to make double figures yesterday but
I made it, just! Max of 10.0°C and that was only because there
some sun between the showers.

I hate these cool and cloudy May days, they are so depressing.

I always think of May as a warm and optimistic month, with summer only
just around the corner but it seems as though winter is refusing to loosen
its grip, except for a few days over the recent Bank Holiday.

I wonder if 2013 will be remembered as the year when winter
never seemed to end and summer never seemed to start?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On 12/05/2013 14:11, Col wrote:
I wonder if 2013 will be remembered as the year when winter
never seemed to end and summer never seemed to start?

I remember that after a warm start, May 1995 was cool and quite wet.
Then looked what happened! One of the best summers I've ever known.

--
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

Col scrive:


I wonder if 2013 will be remembered as the year when winter never seemed
to end and summer never seemed to start?

Same as 2012 and 2011 then.
It's getting to be something of a habit here.


--
Gianna
Peterhead, Scotland

On Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:29:22 PM UTC+1, Graham wrote:
Well after 11 out of 13 colder than average months (some much colder) I did
think May would give us some warmth but how wrong could I be!!

I do think we are being unduly hard on May as a month in recent years!

Remember, May 2008 was the warmest May in Coventry since 1992.

Only four May months had been warmer than 2008 since before 1892 (1893, 1919, 1947and 1992).

With an average monthly temperature of 11.4ºC, this has been the coldest May in Coventry since 1996 (9.6ºC).

However May 2010 was the coolest May (11.4C) locally in 14 years, though mean May monthly temperatures of this order were very much the normal in the 1980’s, and in that decade 11.4ºC as a monthly average would have been considered quite respectable.

All in all, recent cooling seems to have taken us back to 'pre warming days' of the 1980's.

Summer could still come as apleasant surprise!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk on Twitter @bablakewx

On 11 May, 23:29, "Graham" wrote:
Well after 11 out of 13 colder than average months (some much colder) I did
think May would give us some warmth but how wrong could I be!!

Max today of 8.9c in the sunshine we did actually manage 2 hours today.

A lot of heavy showers, some big hail showers too with temps falling down to
4.9c in the really heavy showers.

Forecast for the next 10 days looks dire!

Mean for this month so far is 0.6c BELOW average but hey what's new, seems
to be the norm these days.

Do hope we get some warm days this Summer, 2006 seems a long time ago

Raining again now and current temp 4.6c

Graham (North Staffs)

Only six weeks and the evenings start drawing in :-0

One would have thought there had been a massive volcanic eruption
given the coolness of the past year.

Maybe we will be pleasantly surprised once we get into June and
Wimbledon is upon us "I'm singing in the rain"

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

Steve Jackson wrote:

On Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:29:22 PM UTC+1, Graham wrote:
Well after 11 out of 13 colder than average months (some much colder) I did

think May would give us some warmth but how wrong could I be!!

I do think we are being unduly hard on May as a month in recent years!

Remember, May 2008 was the warmest May in Coventry since 1992.

Only four May months had been warmer than 2008 since before 1892 (1893, 1919,
1947and 1992).

With an average monthly temperature of 11.4ºC, this has been the coldest May
in Coventry since 1996 (9.6ºC).

However May 2010 was the coolest May (11.4C) locally in 14 years, though mean
May monthly temperatures of this order were very much the normal in the
1980’s, and in that decade 11.4ºC as a monthly average would have been
considered quite respectable.

All in all, recent cooling seems to have taken us back to 'pre warming days'
of the 1980's.

Summer could still come as apleasant surprise!


Yes - we might keep the cool weather :-)


--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

One would have thought there had been a massive volcanic eruption
given the coolness of the past year.

Didn't the GW bandwagon say after the Summer of 2006 we had better get used
to these hot, dry summers with 40c plus very soon.............gone tits up
ever since


Graham