If you prefer to just enter into a general discussion on what's happening during this spring though, you can also do that here and if you wish, you can also give your own statistics for this spring at the end of it on here.

Seconded, the rest of this week isn't looking bad at all.

Just a shame I've been dealing with a nasty stomach bug since Friday night 🤢 

Beyond abysmal start to Spring. Absolutely disgusting, cloudy, windy, mild-but-feels cold 21st Century horror with ludicrous mild nights. Not a single frost so far in this dreadful excuse for a spring month and last night barely dropped out of double figures to be followed by a day of overcast dross with temperatures barely any different. Completely sunless since Monday lunchtime.

I thought this year was getting off to a much more promising start than the recent bottom-of-the-barrel dregs but the past five weeks have been up there with the worst I've ever experienced. Shedloads of grey nothingness with barely a frost or anything remotely interesting. Could end up even worse than last year when there was no frost after 4th March, weeks earlier than any other year.

The last two springs produced more sunless days than any consecutive pairing within living memory and here we are going through more of the same excruciating, wrist-slittingly awful poison. The worst of all worlds. Totally depressing, unpleasant and uninteresting crap. It's simply unbearable when we've already endured eight consecutive duller than average spring months almost all of which were rendered even worse by the illogical and irrational Weekend Curse.

Currently 12.8C with a light ESE breeze does that.  A southerly even more so. Still to reach 14C here this year.

Conversely a very light NE wind and sunny conditions at this time of year can mean warmer temps 18C plus whilst other places nearer the North Sea shiver.

Which part of North Cumbria? Might not be long until I move up there myself. It's a beautiful part of the country, especially in warm, sunny weather.

On the Solway plain south west of Carlisle, It is indeed! easy access to the Lakes too. Summers are like Lancashire though but plus one wind and cloud 🤣

Very nice. That's not too far from where I'm looking (just outside of Maryport and Aspatria). Aha, you get used to the cloud and rain in the North West 😂.

As a side note - what’s happened to Gav’s delivery? He’s gone from plodding and methodical to some sort of weather forecasting TV evangelist 

It's not an SSW, it's the final warming, around a month early.

As we have a final warming every year, I assume he writes off every summer! 😁

You’d have to ask him

I hope the upcoming cold doesn't last too long, however. It is to be expected though, because it is only March after all, and we're not even at the equinox yet. Hopefully it will be quite a bright colder spell, rather than a grey one 👍

But the BBC reports that 13mm fell in Peterborough in half an hour in thunderstorm this afternoon - a good omen for interesting weather to come?

Last March was slightly warmer than average overall with a below average number of air frosts and this month appears to be heading in that same direction although the coldest night of this month was colder than the coldest night of March 2024.

Furthermore, this year just like last year started off with a sunnier than average January followed by a duller than average February but that is where the similarities with last year ends.

We have had a fairly wet spell just recently but this is nothing like enough to bring our rainfall totals and the number of rain days for this month even close to the 1991-2020 March average and so this is clearly going to be a substantially drier than average month on both counts.

That is in complete contrast to last spring which actually ended up being last year's wettest season here in Edinburgh. The wettest of the weather didn't come until May 2024 but all three spring months were wetter than average last year and even as early as last March, it was already quite thoroughly wet here.

That has not been the case this year though and this spring is already starting off with a drier than average month which we didn't see at all during last spring with the outlook if anything, continuing to look very dry as we head into the month of April.

As regards to rainfall though, SEPA will start issuing weekly water shortage reports for Scotland during May and given that we had a drier than average winter, these reports could be very interesting indeed if this spring continues on a very dry note here.

Finally, this month is also going to be sunnier than average here as there has now been more sunshine this month than the 1991-2020 March average. This means that two out of the first three months of 2025 have now been sunnier than average with February being our only duller than average month so far this year.

Last year on the other hand, started off with a sunnier than average January but after that, we then had a run of consecutive duller than average months between February 2024 and July 2024 inclusive which didn't therefore end until August 2024. This meant that every single spring month was duller than average last year and that is something which already isn't even possible this year because we have already had a sunnier than average month right from the word go.

Looking back on my end of season summary on this forum for last spring, I ended up giving that season 0 out of 10 because of the fact that it was so bad but this spring has already been much better overall and so, it will at least be getting some marks from me this time at the end of it regardless of how the rest of this spring pans out.

The first half of he month was unmemorable, tedious and boring. No proper late winter cold spells but plenty of the worst type of cold rubbish 6-10C with no frost. The second half, while I was thankfully away, looks like it was Weekend Curse hell yet again. 

Today I'm back and instead of the fine day that was forecast it's hideously overcast with a pointless area of stagnant cloud and no sign of any sunshine. Utterly vile and beyond depressing. After the last few springs my tolerance of this utter crap is zero. The house is freezing cold as well. Not even back one day and all the good the holiday has done seems to have been cancelled out.

I hate living here so much. You go away to a decent climate and get a taste of the quality of live that others enjoy. Then coming back here is like coming back to a cold bleak dungeon where every day is an endurance.

Saturday 22nd: 0.0

Sunday 23rd: 0.1

Saturday 29th: 0.1

Sunday 30th: 1.8

Sunday 16th: 2.6

Dullest weekday was Monday 17th with 3.0 hours and this was followed by a 3-day spell with 33 hours. Then a vile weekend with 18mm of rain on the Saturday.

You could not make this crap up. Absolutely AWFUL month. I'd be glad to have avoided this in the past but now there is no avoidance because it's a constant month after month. Good weather only occurs during the week to be followed by a rancid concoction of gloom and wet for the weekend. It's just never ending when all but a handful of months in 2 1/2 years have been subjected to this irrational, ludicrous curse. Completely bereft of any logical explanation.

Try to find a job that have shift patterns where you can get day off during the week days like myself I am off today to Thursday then back to work Friday to Monday.  I hate Mon-Friday work and weekend off and hate BH weekends as well before when i used to work Mon-Friday.  For this month had been very good and rated 10/10 with little rain and very few cloudy days, most other days was sunny and cold nights with frosts some mornings.

I would much rather be getting a decent summer though, but this spring is at least a lot better than what we witnessed last year at this time.

Indeed. It's just nice to know that at the very least we will have had a very good spell this year, even if it's the only one. Summer is still anyone's guess at the moment though.