Well we could certainly do with that. However what we really need is some early spring warmth with it too, would help slow the Coronavirus spread to a degree.
I'm a bit confused as to whether warmth is necessarily a good thing. On the BBC website this morning:
Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, said "nobody has the right answer" when it comes to tackling the virus.
However, she said having sports events played behind closed doors could be counterproductive as it might instead lead people to gathering in pubs "in the warmth, where viruses love it".
I wonder whether it might turn out that high pressure alone is the significant factor in stopping the spread of viruses. It's long been known in horse racing that when a particular stable's horses have been running badly owing to a virus, what clears it up is a freeze-up. In this country that means high pressure being in control in winter (i.e. the opposite to the one we still seem to be in). Maybe it's as simple as a lack of wind preventing these viruses being blown about.
Anyway, let's hope the bullseye col shown at day 8 on the ECM this morning comes off.
2 miles west of Taunton, 32 m asl, where "milder air moving in from the west" becomes SNOWMAGEDDON.
Well, two or three times a decade it does, anyway.