After what has been very benign weather through March, when I wouldn’t have been too surprised to see a cold plunge, and there have been notable snowy episodes in past Marches, we now seem to be getting tantalisingly close to something truly remarkable for April. The way the cold plunge piles down from the Arctic like an express train looks like the east-west jet stream has just tuned 90 degrees and is now north to south. It hasn’t of course, but the cold keeps tumbling...and not much sign of a sustained warm up from the extended charts.
Is this to be a year without a summer like 1888? Too early to call that, but whilst sunny days will make ice-days difficult, an overcast day and snow fall could be - with those uppers.
1886 (I think) - 1ft of level snow on Newmarket high street, but GW would suggest such things were.no more, but I guess the right Synoptics - it is still possible.
Anyone know what is pushing the southerly plunge from the Arctic?
So much for my bedding plants - just planted out...I would add cloches, but at that level of cold, I think they’ll be little icicles.
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28 March 2021 23:57:41
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Brecklands, South Norfolk 28m ASL