This has to be up there with the worst ever starts to spring. Even March 1996 wasn't this bad in the first week and, while 2018 was even duller, at least then we had snow and an ice day.
All we have had since Monday afternoon, bar a respite from late Friday afternoon to late Saturday morning, is solid gloom. Mind-numbing, soul destroying grey skies with dire nasty temperatures and nothing of interest at all.
One solitary frost and not a single day reaching double figures. Not a single flake of snow. Just day after day of bleak overcast grot with temperatures around 4-5C. Today is the worst of the lot with a vile steady drizzle to contend with as well
As usual the only thing worse than this appalling weather is the standard of BBC forecasts. On Thursday they forecast a sunny day with 8C for yesterday and similar for today with more cloud. Topped out at 6C yesterday with gloom all afternoon and today is looking like a washout when no rain was shown at all.
Month after month of prolonged easterly garbage and not a single northerly all autumn/winter/spring is beyond a joke. March used to be possibly the most interesting month of the year but is now just as boring, bland and tedious as the rest.
No sign of the frosts, late season snow, convection, first warmth and high diurnal ranges we should be seeing. Just endless grey crud with barely any range between night and day
Between 2001 and 2010 only two Marches failed to record lying snow (2003 and 2009) whereas only three did between 2011 and 2020 (2013, 2016 and 2018). Now we are looking increasingly likely to draw blank again. It's utterly tedious and all down to the lack of northerlies.
Every year between 2006 and 2010, except for 2007, I recorded -5C or lower in March but not a single instance since 2011 and since 2014 it's not even dropped to -4C
All we get nowadays are constant reminders that this is the blandest and most boring era for a weather enthusiast in recorded history
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