Metcheck            7.18c            Anomaly        0.26c

Netweather         7.72c           Anomaly        0.97c

Peasedown St John    7.52c    Anomaly        0.46c.

7.1 to the 28th

0.7c above the 61 to 90 average

0.1c above the 81 to 10 average

After such a mild opening third, it's pretty astonishing that a single 5-day cold spell was then able to fully offset it and bring the CET back close to average. Three of the daily CETs were over 5°C below the 1991-2020 average, and all from a not particularly dramatic weather pattern. Things shaped up 'just so' for it to be about as cold as possible for the setup, so much so that there was even a bit of lying snow here in lowland NE Dorset!

Mixed conditions have since that the CET dancing around the 1991-2020 average, on course to finish very close to it, perhaps within 0.1°C.

Metcheck             7.22c               Anomaly           0.30c

Netweather          7.71c               Anomaly           0.82c

Peasedown St John   7.56c          Anomaly          0.42c.  

7.1 to the 29th

0.6c above the 61 to 90 average

0.1c above the 81 to 10 average

Congratulations to ARTzeman who is closest with a 7.1 prediction

grandad        9.00

sswd             9.20

frank h          9.77

bolty           10.58

ricm            10.67

col              10.89

caz              11.16

hungry tiger 11.17

scillydave    11.24

kendalian    11.45

snowshoe    11.53

gezm          11.60

taylor 1740 11.80

sussex snow magnet 11.98

lanky            12.14

windy willow 12.22

ap snowman 12.78

stormchaser 13.20

saint snow    13.94

dickeyboy68 14.56

dingle rob     14.67

artzeman      16.60

redmoons     18.55

I was suckered in by the forecasts and models at the end of last month showing prolonged mild weather. The raw figures for the first 9 days were nearly 2C warmer than it turned out to be , which is a huge anomaly these days.