Weatherlawyer wrote:
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.

Nice part of the world - we've got a supplier in Welshpool and I used to
work for a company based in Newtown so I've travelled a few of the back
roads in the border area.