On Friday, April 5, 2013 11:20:28 AM UTC+1, George Booth wrote:
On 05/04/2013 10:58, Scott W wrote:

On Friday, April 5, 2013 10:40:41 AM UTC+1, George Booth wrote:

On 04/04/2013 20:15, Keith (Southend)G wrote:



Maximum temperature for me here at Southend-on-Sea was +2.9�C, which beat my previous lowest April maximum of 3.4� of 6th APril 2008.







Bob Prichards records I have show 2.8�C on the 3rd April 1964, 3.3�C 14th April 1966, 4.4�C 1970.







How we forget it's nothing new.







Keith (Southend)



http://www.southendweather.net



"Weather Home & Abroad"











09-09 maximum of 2.9 here (daytime max 2.1 yesterday) so the coldest



April 09-09 day in my record but only by a squeak. Light snow showers



earlier gave way to brighter conditions and there's a lot of daylight



now before 0900 GMT and the temperature crept up.



Early days I know but the monthly anomaly is running at -7.1 deg of the



1981-2010 mean. The landscape has a barren look.



09-09 maximum here was 3.2C at 0850z this morning. The minimum: 1.4C at 1208z yesterday. Despite snow grains pretty much all day yesterday I only recorded 0.6mm in the snowdon. It looks like the snow was heavier and more intense further east and south of here



..........and to the north of you as well Scott. Heavy wet snow driven

by 30mph gusts. Poor visibility in those showers as well. It's all about

those energy lines we spoke about yesterday. Radar showed these nicely.



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George in Epping, west Essex, 350'asl

www.eppingweather.co.uk

www.winter1947.co.uk

Interesting, what was your 09-09 rainfall, George? I must be in a rain shadow here? Both my gauges are roughly in agreement - and I was laying concrete slabs yesterday - it was only towards around 3pm that the soil was even starting to become sodden with precipitation - so I'm fairly confident no rainfall was missed here...