On Apr 13, 1:55*pm, Adam Lea wrote:
On 13/04/13 11:19, Nick wrote:
On Apr 13, 8:29 am, Adam *wrote:
On 13/04/13 07:10, Dawlish wrote:
On Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:48:32 AM UTC+1, wrote:
All over media weather forecasts I keep hearing about "relief" on the way
with milder air.
"Relief" I think is the word most people would use, don't you?
OK we will certainly lose the easterly but from the Midlands northwards is
it really going to get much milder after we lose the sun and still stay in
relatively deep cold air? I think not.
Fortunately it has.
I also heard today on R4 the
presenter saying she is "looking forward" to the milder weather next week.
What she does not realise is that in the south at least there is the
potential for a lot of wind and rain and for the north more snow.
I know
this easterly is far too cold for many because of the low wet-bulb
temperatures, but at least it is mainly bone dry and one can get out and do
things, unless you have deep snow cover which the majority don't have. The
one consolation for wet is that plant growth will start in eaernest and it
won't rain all the time.
I guess what a lot of people really want is a summery Azores high and we
ain't going to get that, it is going to be a long process of warming up with
the jet still way far south. Keep the expectation down, deep cold air will
never be far away in the next two weeks.
Will
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"Relief" I think is the word.
Just got back from a week in Rome (18C, sunshine every day; a beautiful Roman spring and what a fantastic city) to find, as expected and forecast from 10 days out, spring has sprung in the UK. *))
Well it has got milder here, but on the other hand I have just woken up
to what is looking like a fifth consecutive day of virtually no sunshine.
This seems to be the theme this year, we have a couple of nice days,
then we have to have a week of crap as a punishment.
Yes, I agree it still does not feel spring like here (Southampton).
Actually the most spring-like day recently was last Saturday, when we
were still in the easterly and temperatures got to decent values due
to the sunshine and little wind.
Very reminiscent of an unpleasant day in February today, sadly. Really
beginning to wonder if spring will ever arrive at this rate. This
dull, sunless, bleak, lifeless, bland, anaemic month has done
something quite remarkable: already beaten April 2012 by some measure
for sheer unpleasantness. At least the former had more plant growth
due to the warm March and actually resembled a bad spring month at
least. This month just resembles a bad February.
Nick
Nick
I have to say I can't remember the last time the landscape looked so
bleak at this time of year.
There are signs of spring, the daffs are mostly out as are the early
spring flowers (e.g. primroses) but the trees and shrubs are still bare
(although they are budding now). It is the latter that is mainly
contributing to the bleakness.
I can't exactly remember what it was like in 1986, but that seems to
be the last time we had a "perfect storm" of cold late winter/early
spring and dull, sunless mid to late spring.
I certainly would not like this year to go the way of 1986. Spring and
summer that year (according to old weather reports) lasted a mere six
weeks, from around June 10 to July 20.
Nick