All my good memories of early March are of the cold and snow variety in particular 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010. I won't be including the 2018 Beast from the East in that. Utterly hideous flop. March 2006, on the other hand, was probably the weather event of the century so far but slim pickings there.
Can't recall a single year when there was any warmth in early March. Not one. Even years when there was warm feeling sunny weather in the second half of February such as 1998, 2008, 2019 it turned much colder into March.
Snow should be a feature of March and frost of both March and April. I am every bit as disgusted at the lack of snow in March in recent years as I am at the lack of it during winter. No lying snow since 2013, other than 2016 and 2018, and it's not being replaced by springlike weather. It's replaced by a continuation of the same windy westerly crud that ruins winter or, worse still, the grotesque poison we had to endure today
Northerlies have become extinct so why the hell can south easterlies not go the same way? Utter filth. Featureless grey skies, murk, strong wind, temperature range from 4-6C and continuous drizzly rain. A summary of todays rot and the absolute worst conditions possible following on from the most unfulfilling 7 months of relentless rubbish I have ever experienced
I thought 2006/07 was bad enough but at least we got a 10-day frosty spell from the December anticyclone as opposed to the grotty, murky high of December 2021
March no longer the mix of winter and spring it used to be but a mix of autumn and spring, just like winter itself
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