The lack of Spring warmth has been remarkable down here in stark contrasts to many Marches of the last decade (March 2013 a notable exception).
The highest maximum temperature this month remains just 13.1c, achieved back on the 9th.
To put this into perspective January achieved a high of 13.7c and February 14.2c.
Believe it or not my coldest night of the winter -3.7c occurred this month too. Just beating the -3.6c set at the end of the week long freeze back in early February.
A chill month down on the corner with a mean of 6.4c to date.
High pressure sure has tended to be 'west-based' when across the UK this month.
Here in the central-south, a high of 16.5°C on 16th comfortably beat the Jan-Feb peak of 13.6°C set 24th Feb. In fact, it was the joint 10th earliest reaching of that temperature or higher in daily records back to 1973.
It was an outlier event compared to the rest of the month, though, which has been lacking in particularly warm days here too. The next-highest maximum has so far been 13.4°C on 15th and that's the only other day that's got above the 12s °C.
The highs have been very steady in the past week, ranging from 11.1 to 12.7°C. The lows have often been chilly or cold, with 20th reaching 0°C and the past two nights dipping to near 2°C.
Yet overall, the mean temp for 1st-23rd has come in at 6.79°C, 0.06°C above the 1991-2020 average. With so many warm Marches in recent years, it's been easy to forget how cool the normal is, even of the most recent 30 years!
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