My 12.57 guess doesn't look as if it'll be too far off the mark, but even with a reasonable April guess, the first three months were so wildly out I'll still be at the spoon end overall!

Never say never.  There’s still plenty of time to claw it back!  👍

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IMANSF22                13.0c.
Kilmersdon               13.1c
Metcheck                  12.31c         Anomaly        0. 90c
Netweather               12.91c         Anomaly        1.62c
Peasedown St John   12.23c         Anomaly         0.11c.

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Hadley

12.6c to the 28th

1.4c above the 61 to 90 average
1.1c above the 81 to 10 average

IMANSF22                13.0c
Kilmersdon               13.0c 
Metcheck                  12.29c           Anomaly      0.88c
Netweather               12.89c           Anomaly      1.6c
Peasedown St John   14.91c           Anomaly       2.71c.

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Hadley

12.5c to the 29th

1.4c above the 61 to 90 average
0.9c above the 81 to 10 average

Hadley

12.5c to the 30th

1.4c above the 61 to 90 average
0.9c above the 81 to 10 average

12.54c to 2 decimals

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/cet_mean_2023.txt 
 

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Congratulations to Bertwhistle as the May winner

Table to May

caz               1.53
rickm           1.80
grandad       2.51
artzeman     2.53
Gavin D        2.68
dingle rob    2.81
bolty             2.83
tierradelfuego 2.85
windywillow 2.96
taylor1740    3.10
kendalian     3.31
norseman     3.38
stomchaser  3.39
hungry tiger 3.41
lanky            3.41
scillydave     3.67
jacee            3.93
gezm            3.96
ap snowman 4.20
jmm2005      4.21
snowshoe     4.36
sswd             4.41
redmoons     4.54
sussex snow magnet 4.65
col                4.94
whether idle 5.18
frank h         5.55
bertwhistle   6.60
 

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Had to check what I went for. I went for 12.0C thought it was 12.5C.

Reasonably close I was 0.5C out.
 

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Congratulations to Bertwhistle as the May winner


 

Thanks Frank. First time I've ever won but it was only by 0.1C!

As predicted, I'm still well off the pace at the bottom. 

 

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Well done Bertie 👍

 

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Well done Bertie!  👍

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Well done Bertie!  👍

And well done Caz who is averaging a 0.25 error margin so far this year! The quality of this competition seems to improve year by year 😊

Still quite tight overall though and if we have a couple of big anomalies, there could be quite a shake up. Let's see what the summer has in store! 
 

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Congratulations to Bertwhistle and Caz.

June looks a difficult one could still be cold or hot.
 

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And well done Caz who is averaging a 0.25 error margin so far this year! The quality of this competition seems to improve year by year 😊

Still quite tight overall though and if we have a couple of big anomalies, there could be quite a shake up. Let's see what the summer has in store! 
 

I can’t believe it.  This is very unusual for me and I’m feeling the pressure now!  The last time I was top of the table was January a few years ago and I started my slippery slide down in February. 😂

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And well done Caz who is averaging a 0.25 error margin so far this year! The quality of this competition seems to improve year by year 😊

Still quite tight overall though and if we have a couple of big anomalies, there could be quite a shake up. Let's see what the summer has in store! 
 

Seconded! And apart from RickM no one else is even in Caz's slipstream as we near the half way mark!

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