I’d settle for either. 🤣

I used to have sun recorder and it usually peaked at midday solar strength so if I had them last year it would only show highest index early or late sun strength and rare peaking at midday.  Only 3 times was clear at midday in July and 1 week in August heatwave. 

In the old days of the better old BBC graphics used to show indexes and go up to 9 highest for SE and 10 over Cornwall during clear HP hot days in June to early July.   Maybe last year 19th July was 10 in the south and 9 in the Midlands?

Won't say I can feel it yet, but the light is changing, slowly, and the sunat 21.5° altitude is just clipping the tops of the school trees.

It's nice isn't it B, a bit of sun yesterday and I sat indoors most of the day without the heating on because I felt warm - it was only 17c in my study though, it can be 20c inside and grey out and I feel cold. Pretty much 5:30 now down here for dusk, a few more weeks to go before spring, from a daylight perspective at least, rears its head.

1.8 in Reading today. The 2 is edging closer although bizarrely, the Beeb is forecasting Medium UV for next week in Winchester.

Can't paste and of course the link changes regularly, but isn't M a 3 at least? I'd get a sunny 2 from here on in (although my mean earliest 2 seems to be about the 17th) but a 3? Now? Not possible surely unless a significant O3 dissipation is imminent.

Another peak a bit later on made it to approx 1.99 I would say, I think the 2 was achieved on the 13th if you haven't looked back a few days... felt nice in the garden today that's for sure.

Here that happens about 22nd Feb this year but further south will have been there at least two weeks already.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ 

It's the 12th here - coincidentally the time that it starts to get into the 20s on a sunny day upstairs (flat roof=sun trap) and around the time the grass usually puts on a real spurt; there are some impressive looking clumps popping up on the lawn and the rest of it will follow soon enough.

It's also coincidentally the time there's a marked change in the quality of light. From my POV, spring arrives in mid-February!

It certainly felt like spring in the greenhouse today planting the tomato and chilli seeds into their trays, the batteries on the indoor thermometer need replacing but I reckon it was close to 20c, certainly no jacket required.

11 miles or so to the centre.

Reading still offline 😤

Chilton scraped a 4 yesterday and Weybourne the day before.

5 forecast for the Winchester area today and even a 6 later on- doubt the latter will come to fruition but it looks good for a 5 today.

MetO is forecasting you several hours of 3 today Doc.

Sad the UV option has been removed from their map but can still see forecast after typing location.

Chilton flying at 5.6 on the same day.

Best so far.