"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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"Nick" wrote in message
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I don't think I can ever remember such a combination of all-day
sunshine (literally) and such low temperatures in March in the south
of England (Hampshire) before. This really is a very unusual spell of
weather. The strength of the sun suggested something almost
approaching summer, the temperature suggested we were still in
January. Completely bizarre...

Nick
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Indeed and it continues. I have a friend just a few miles inland of the
North Nofolk coast and I notice at 9.30pm the temp is -3.1C and DP -6.0C

Dave


Well to add my tripe contribution: I went out to do some gardening work and
like many observations here, the strength of the sun light belied the oh so
cold air. I lit a fire as its been dry of late and cut back some ivy which
although pretty is rapidly shortening the life expectancy of my rear fence,
oh boy did my hands get cold.

I cant help feeling that all the present rules and parameters we use to
judge climate and weather are not really good enough. the only reliable data
set of temps we can rely on the satellite record shows , incredible warming
globally yet the NH winter on land seems like a parallel universe.

We are in a time of very newly learnt climate knowledge IMHO