Is still on the cards looking at the latest runs. Frustrating really, all
this recent anticyclonic weather would have been much more welcome in
Spring. Ah well March is very much a winter month for me so I'm not too
bothered as long as it starts to warm up to early teen maxes in April!
Highest temperature so far this year still +11.8C

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On 20 Feb, 21:06, "Will Hand" wrote:
Is still on the cards looking at the latest runs. Frustrating really, all
this recent anticyclonic weather would have been much more welcome in
Spring. Ah well March is very much a winter month for me so I'm not too
bothered as long as it starts to warm up to early teen maxes in April!
Highest temperature so far this year still +11.8C

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Would you care to put a percentage on this, Will? This weekend is
looking like it will be relatively spring-like (at least in the South
East)

Unless its going to be a repeat of 2003 March that year was unsettled till
the 12th then it really fired off. Best late Winter/Spring/Summer for years.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/2003/index.html

"Will Hand" wrote in message
...
Is still on the cards looking at the latest runs. Frustrating really, all
this recent anticyclonic weather would have been much more welcome in
Spring. Ah well March is very much a winter month for me so I'm not too
bothered as long as it starts to warm up to early teen maxes in April!
Highest temperature so far this year still +11.8C

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Another March 2003 would do for me, then again last year's March was pretty
good as well.

The thought of a cold and wet spring - yuk! I still haven't got over last
summer. That's going to take a few good heatwaves to erase.
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
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Another March 2003 would do for me, then again last year's March was
pretty good as well.

The thought of a cold and wet spring - yuk! I still haven't got over last
summer. That's going to take a few good heatwaves to erase.
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
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Only good thing about that is we do need some rain badly here, else I will
be watering the garden from April.
Nov- Feb so far 121mm.

Dave, S.Essex

On Feb 21, 9:11�am, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:
Another March 2003 would do for me, then again last year's March was pretty
good as well.

The thought of a cold and wet spring - yuk! I still haven't got over last
summer. That's going to take a few good heatwaves to erase.
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amslhttp://www.ottervalley.co.uk

I wouldn't get too despodent just yet Nick because Will's prediction
of a cold and wet start to Spring is what normally tends to happen
- hence the oft quoted saying of 'March coming in like a lion'.
CEP Brookes writing in his 'The English Climate' (1954) quotes
statistical evidence that the frequency of cyclonic storms at the
start of March was so great that the odds of it being due to chance
were more than 2000 to 1 against.
In the updated edition of the same book by HH Lamb (1964) he says that
the period 1-9 March has a notable peak frequency of 'northerly
types' with the years highest peak frequency of snow in Edinburgh and
the years 2nd highest peak in London.

Dick Lovett
Charlbury

"Scott W" wrote in message
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On 20 Feb, 21:06, "Will Hand" wrote:
Is still on the cards looking at the latest runs. Frustrating really,
all
this recent anticyclonic weather would have been much more welcome in
Spring. Ah well March is very much a winter month for me so I'm not too
bothered as long as it starts to warm up to early teen maxes in April!
Highest temperature so far this year still +11.8C

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Would you care to put a percentage on this, Will? This weekend is
looking like it will be relatively spring-like (at least in the South
East)

Hi Scott, I'm pretty confident now.

I'm still expecting some sort of northerly at the end of the month and then
a wet and cold spell with wind, rain, sleet and snow as we go into March and
the start of Spring.

People will have to be patient if they want warm and sunny Spring weather!

Will
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