Given below, are the final Spring statistics for Edinburgh, Gogarbank from all of the data which I have available which are:    
    
Temperature (°C):       
       
Lowest Minimum:    -7.52 (on 7/3/2023)
Highest Minimum:    12.40 (on 31/5/2023)
Mean Minimum:    4.37
Minimum Anomaly:    -0.20
       
Lowest Maximum:    3.66 (on 9/3/2023)
Highest Maximum:    21.97 (on 29/5/2023)
Mean Maximum:    12.76
Maximum. Anomaly:     +0.70
       
Lowest Average    -1.44 (on 7/3/2023)
Highest Average    14.13 (on 30/5/2023)
Average Temperature:    8.35
Average Temperature Anomaly:    +0.03
    
Lowest Diurnal Temperature Range:    2.84 (on 2/3/2023)
Average Diurnal Temperature Range:    8.39
Highest Diurnal Temperature Range:    17.64 (on 29/5/2023)
       
Other Temperature Statistics       
       
Single Figures Maximum Temperatures    22
Single Figures Minimum Temperatures    74
Double Figures Maximum Temperatures    67
Double Figures Minimum Temperatures    3
Maximum Temperatures above 20°C    3
       
Number of Frosts       
       
Ground Frosts    26
Air Frosts:    15 (145.5% of 1991-2020 Spring Average)
Ice Days:    0
       
Snow Depths (cm)       
       
Highest Snow Depth    2.0 (on 7/3/2023)
Days With Lying Snow    2
Days with snow lying at 09:00 UTC    0
Consecutive Days with snow lying    1 days (7/3/2023)
    
Rainfall (mm):       
       
Total for Spring:    126.4 (85.1% of 1991-2020 Spring Average)
Wettest Days:    17.8 (on 13/3/2023)
Highest Hourly Total    8.4 (on 13/3/2023)
Rain Days:    26 (86.0% of 1991-2020 Spring Average)
Dry Days:    43
Longest Dry Spell:    9 days (11/5/2023 to 19/5/2023)
Highest Number of Days without a single dry day:    25 days (9/3/2023 to 2/4/2023)
Highest consecutive number of rain days    3 days (11/3/2023 to 13/3/2023)
    
Month with lowest Rainfall Total    May 2023: 23.2 (46.2% of 1991-2020 May average)
Month with highest Rainfall Total    March 2023: 70.6 (134.5% of 1991-2020 March average)
    
Month with fewest Rain Days    May 2023: 5 (46.2% of 1991-2020 May average)
Month with most Rain Days    March 2023: 13 (134.5% of 1991-2020 March average)
    
Wind Speed (mph)       
       
Average Mean Wind Speed    7.3 (80.8% of 1991-2020 Spring Average)
Highest Mean Wind Speed    25.9 (on 22/3/2023)
Highest Wind Gust    50.3 (on 22/3/2023)
       
Pressure (mb)       
       
Lowest Pressure    969.4 (on 12/3/2023)
Average Pressure    1014.5
Highest Pressure    1038.6 (on 1/3/2023)
       
Sunshine Total (hrs)       
       
Total for Spring:    402.83 (89.87% of 1991-2020 Spring Average)
Sunniest Day:    15.25 (on 30/5/2023)
Sunless Days:     12
       
Dullest Month    March 2023: 98.75 (88.95% of 1991-2020 March average)
Sunniest Month    May 2023: 162.38 (85.69% of 1991-2020 May average)
    
Month with Fewest Sunless Days    May 2023: 2 sunless days
Month with Most Sunless Days    March 2023: 6 sunless days
    
Conclusion:       

The spring of 2023 was a season which took a long time to get going, and it got off to a cold start with even some snow during March. The spring of 2023 also brought us an above average number of air frosts overall, but these all occurred during March and April.

Overall though, the temperatures during the spring came out at around average although we had a longer than usual wait for our first temperature of the year of 20°C or higher.

The spring of 2023 got off to a fairly wet start as spell, but March ended up being the only wetter than average month during the spring and it got drier over time afterwards with May being an exceptionally dry month.

In the end, the spring of 2023 was drier than average overall.

It is likely that the spring pattern was set by the sudden stratospheric warming event which took place at the end of the winter and because of that, it was a spring which was dominated by northern blocking and easterly winds.

This resulted in the spring being duller than average overall with all three spring months being duller than average.

Overall, I will mark it 3/10.


 

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