Yet again failed to record a frost with an annoying min of +0.2C Three weeks since the last frost and March's dire total of three equalled my record low for the month following on from a record equalling low of five in February. Those three frosts are the only frosts recorded since 11th February. It's incredulous
26 frosts for the season is one more than was recorded in 2016/17. However 14 of those frosts occurred between 17th Jan and 5th February meaning that the remaining 131 days of the November to March period, when we should be getting regular frosts, produced a total of 12 or an average of just one per 11 days
Unbelievably awful. This is easily the most tedious boring and pathetic late autumn, winter and early spring I have experienced. Just woeful.
As if that wasn't bad enough the wait for decent weekend weather goes on. While we have seen several weekdays reach 15-17C not one weekend day has even reached 12C and it's always windy. A glorious 16.2C on Friday but yesterday the vile wind was back again making the max of 10.6C feel distinctly cold. Today will not even reach 10C as despite a clear start the sky has filled with loads of cumulus resulting in very little sun at what should be the warmest time of the day. Always happens under these types of synoptics and means the temp is just 6.9C at the moment
The warmest at the weekend is just 11.5C which has been beaten 15 times during the week. That is again incredulous and defies rational explanation. Just how the hell can none of the top 15 warmest days over a three-month period fall at the weekend? 2013 is the only year in my 14 years of records that we had not seen warmer weekend weather by this stage. Even during last years cold grey March the weekend of 24th/25th comfortably beat anything we've seen so far this year.
Warmest Weekend Day up to end of March (number of weekend days with 12C+)
2006: 13.3C 26 March (1)
2007: 15.0C 10 March (3)
2008: 13.3C 23 Feb (3) plus 13.0C on 27th Jan!
2009: 14.8C 21 March (7)
2010: 12.8C 21 March (3)
2011: 14.9C 20 March (1)
2012: 20.4C 25 March (3)
2013: 11.5C 3 March (0)
2014: 16.3C 16 March (2)
2015: 14.0C 7 March (3)
2016: 14.6C 13 March (2)
2017: 17.1C 26 March (7)
2018: 12.2C 24 March (1)
What a truly hideous start to 2019. With April likely to prove a cold, wet month we could have to wait even longer than 2013 for some pleasant weekend weather as 14.2C was reached on 14th April 2013. Wouldn't be so bad if we were seeing some interesting weather but of course we're not
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