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.

If you define spring that way you're going to be about as happy as
those who think Christmas ought to be snowy and summer perpetually
sunny. Even by that definition it's only 3 days late so far anyway.

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

Nick

Last time here was 2001, when the previous *four* months were all
very wet, and before that, 1994. You haven't been paying attention,
quite apart from the fact that there is a certain amount of March
still to go, one could say.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.