Morning all, today is the third day in a row that the mist and low cloud has broken to leave a mostly sunny sky. In past years this synoptic set up would have brought mostly overcast days with little diurnal temperature difference - indeed you used to have to wait until May for any chance of the sun 'burning back' the low cloud. There's obviously a cold, drying wind so perhaps this is having an influence? I'm not complaining it's actually quite nice in the sun if you can find shelter.

Scott W wrote in
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Morning all, today is the third day in a row that the mist and low
cloud has broken to leave a mostly sunny sky. In past years this
synoptic set up would have brought mostly overcast days with little
diurnal temperature difference - indeed you used to have to wait until
May for any chance of the sun 'burning back' the low cloud. There's
obviously a cold, drying wind so perhaps this is having an influence?
I'm not complaining it's actually quite nice in the sun if you can
find shelter.


If the forecast is correct the low cloud won't clear from Tuesday onwards
if you live in the SE and East of the country.

Alan

On Monday, 14 March 2016 09:42:18 UTC, Scott W wrote:
Morning all, today is the third day in a row that the mist and low cloud has broken to leave a mostly sunny sky. In past years this synoptic set up would have brought mostly overcast days with little diurnal temperature difference - indeed you used to have to wait until May for any chance of the sun 'burning back' the low cloud. There's obviously a cold, drying wind so perhaps this is having an influence? I'm not complaining it's actually quite nice in the sun if you can find shelter.

The low humidity must help but as you say it is quite unusual with such a marked NE'ly flow in March.
Despite the sunshine the air is distinctly cold (max here 8°C) and quite cutting. However, Stav Danaos assured me that the wind would "take the edge off it". If he believes that he's bonkers though no more so than other presenters who have perpetrated the same solecism. I think they're training to be footballers and have had their brains removed as preparation.

Tudor Hughes.