Despite a pleasant sunny morning yesterday, rain set in by 14:00 to give 28.1mm by 09:00 today and a total of 40.9mm in the 40 hours to 09:00 today.

This means:-
March so far 160.2mm, or 177% of the norm for the entire month. THis is certainly an understatement, due to snowfall.

Total for Dec-March inclusive (so far) 690.5mm

I'm only 19m AMSL!

Despite this February was sunnier than normal, March sunshine is running close to normal, there was exceptional snowfall 28/2 01/3, March is currently the 2nd coldest since 1991.

Certainly not a boring time to be an observer!

Sunny again tomorrow

Last April it was warm enough for me to go in the sea, looking at the SST and the model forecasts, it's going to have to wait until May this year.

Graham
Penzance

Graham Easterling wrote:

Despite a pleasant sunny morning yesterday, rain set in by 14:00 to give
28.1mm by 09:00 today and a total of 40.9mm in the 40 hours to 09:00
today.

This means:-
March so far 160.2mm, or 177% of the norm for the entire month. THis is
certainly an understatement, due to snowfall.

Total for Dec-March inclusive (so far) 690.5mm


I recorded 585mm for the whole of 2017!

144.6mm so far this year.


--
Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather
Live obs @ 09:44:58 : 6.9C, DP 5.8C, RH 93%, 2.0 mm

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 9:46:07 AM UTC, Brian Wakem wrote:
Graham Easterling wrote:

Despite a pleasant sunny morning yesterday, rain set in by 14:00 to give
28.1mm by 09:00 today and a total of 40.9mm in the 40 hours to 09:00
today.

This means:-
March so far 160.2mm, or 177% of the norm for the entire month. THis is
certainly an understatement, due to snowfall.

Total for Dec-March inclusive (so far) 690.5mm


I recorded 585mm for the whole of 2017!

144.6mm so far this year.


--
Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather
Live obs @ 09:44:58 : 6.9C, DP 5.8C, RH 93%, 2.0 mm

A lot wetter than a normal mobile winter here, a combination of factors. Fronts being repeatedly particularly active over the far SW, streams of showers in the rather dominant cold conditions of late. Off the channel in easterlies as well as the normal northerly dangler.

Luckily some sunshine inbetween. At nearby Bosullow it's already sunnier than March last year. Despite all the rain, we are one of the sunnier spots in the UK so far this month
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/sums.jpg
and
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/percs.jpg

I think due to the fact we've occasionally stuck into the sunnier Atlantic air away from the cloudy easterlies. It's just to get into the sunnier Atlantic air meant passing under very active fronts.

April 2017 saw just 7.8mm, that last really dry (& really sunny) month.

Still, by the law of averages . . .

Graham
Penzance

On 24/03/2018 09:36, Graham Easterling wrote:
This means:-
March so far 160.2mm, or 177% of the norm for the entire month. THis is certainly an understatement, due to snowfall.
Despite this February was sunnier than normal, March sunshine is running close to normal, there was exceptional snowfall 28/2 01/3, March is currently the 2nd coldest since 1991.

Sunshine running way, way below average here Graham. This could well end
up my dullest March since I started recording sunshine in 2006.

It has also been my wettest March by a wide margin, and could end up my
coldest.

Definitely cold, wet and dull. But that doesn't mean it has been
uneventful. This March has been one of the most interesting and varied
months I can remember.

1st - 23rd
Mean temp = 6.1C (over 2C colder than my eLTA)
Rainfall = 132 mm (230%!!!)
Sunshine = 67 hours (46%).

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 2:26:18 PM UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 24/03/2018 09:36, Graham Easterling wrote:
This means:-
March so far 160.2mm, or 177% of the norm for the entire month. THis is certainly an understatement, due to snowfall.
Despite this February was sunnier than normal, March sunshine is running close to normal, there was exceptional snowfall 28/2 01/3, March is currently the 2nd coldest since 1991.

Sunshine running way, way below average here Graham. This could well end
up my dullest March since I started recording sunshine in 2006.

It has also been my wettest March by a wide margin, and could end up my
coldest.

Definitely cold, wet and dull. But that doesn't mean it has been
uneventful. This March has been one of the most interesting and varied
months I can remember.

1st - 23rd
Mean temp = 6.1C (over 2C colder than my eLTA)
Rainfall = 132 mm (230%!!!)
Sunshine = 67 hours (46%).

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

Yes, I see sunshine totals are around 55% of the months norm in your part of the world, about 75% at both Bosullow & Camborne, up to 23rd. So very close to normal here. None today though, but tomorrows looking great

Temperature wise the mean here is 6.4C so far, that's -2.2C. It's all doing nothing for the SST.


Graham

Graham Easterling wrote:

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 9:46:07 AM UTC, Brian Wakem wrote:
Graham Easterling wrote:

Despite a pleasant sunny morning yesterday, rain set in by 14:00
to give 28.1mm by 09:00 today and a total of 40.9mm in the 40
hours to 09:00 today.

This means:-
March so far 160.2mm, or 177% of the norm for the entire month.
THis is certainly an understatement, due to snowfall.

Total for Dec-March inclusive (so far) 690.5mm


I recorded 585mm for the whole of 2017!

144.6mm so far this year.


--
Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather
Live obs @ 09:44:58 : 6.9C, DP 5.8C, RH 93%, 2.0 mm

A lot wetter than a normal mobile winter here, a combination of
factors. Fronts being repeatedly particularly active over the far SW,
streams of showers in the rather dominant cold conditions of late.
Off the channel in easterlies as well as the normal northerly dangler.

Luckily some sunshine inbetween. At nearby Bosullow it's already
sunnier than March last year. Despite all the rain, we are one of the
sunnier spots in the UK so far this month
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/sums.jpg and
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/percs.jpg

I think due to the fact we've occasionally stuck into the sunnier
Atlantic air away from the cloudy easterlies. It's just to get into
the sunnier Atlantic air meant passing under very active fronts.

April 2017 saw just 7.8mm, that last really dry (& really sunny)
month.

Still, by the law of averages . . .

Graham
Penzance

.......Meanwhile, in Tideswell, we have a sunshine total for the month
to date of only 20 hours. It's now a near certainty that this will be
the dullest March, by quite a margin, in my 10 years here. The curent
low record is 57.5 hours in March 2013

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr

On 24/03/2018 16:55, Norman Lynagh wrote:
......Meanwhile, in Tideswell, we have a sunshine total for the month
to date of only 20 hours. It's now a near certainty that this will be
the dullest March, by quite a margin, in my 10 years here. The curent
low record is 57.5 hours in March 2013

It really has been a dull one. Normally by now the old suntan's starting
to come along nicely but the lack of any decent sunshine has scuppered
any thought of lying in the hammock. Plus, it has just been too cold.

My dullest March since 2006 was in 2013 with 94 hours. The only sub-100
hours March month I've recorded - until now... Possibly.

My sunniest March(s) were 2011 & 2012, both with 190 hours. My average
for the last 11 years is 145 hours.

Tomorrow should add 10 or so hours, and a chance on Monday for a few
more. It'll be close.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk