On Mar 2, 4:25 pm, wrote:
In a memory stretching back to the early eighties, can't recall a year
- before now - when all of January, February and March have been both
wetter than average and lacking sustained periods of either cold, or
spring-like dry warmth. Normally at least one of the first three
months of the year is dry and pleasant but this year, unless the long-
term forecasts change (and, given a week ago we were promised an
anticyclonic spell for next week, that's a possibility) it would
appear not to be the case.

It has to be said that at the moment, whilst the temperatures are not
low enough, and the day length is too long for it to seem like winter,
it doesn't feel much like spring either... It may have been a mild
winter but if you define spring as bright, settled conditions with low
humidity, it's a late spring too.

When was the last time, I wonder, when none of the first three months
of the year were drier than average?

I've been travelling down to the Welsh border and working in a place
called Craven Arms since Chrismas. Dark all the way up tothe last few
weeks. This morning I even got up with the dawn. A pretty drive in
daylight.

And yesterday I saw what appeared to be tornado- esque clouds. A long
fish shaped black cloud streching perhaps from Craven arms to Mow Cop
past Stoke. It always brings severe rain.

But what startlingly lovely blue cloud.

Then there was the snow, comparatively severe frost for these days,
and all sorts of misty spells bring home the truth about what this
kook has been saying abouyt their relationship with tropical cyclones.

All in all I have had a good time. I am sorry for those hurt and
terrified by these things of course. But it has been a really
interesting time. I suppose if I was caught in the misty weather over
a long time, I'd see it as drab too.

But I wasn't.