This isn't CET data, its my own, but I figured it would be interseting to illustrate the way temperatures have behaved this year, and the vast contrast between 2014 and 2013 across the first 87 days.
What's shown is the current joint-warmest year to the end of March, 2007 (level with 2008), the current coldest year both to the end of March and for the whole 12 months, and then 2014 up to yesterday.
It's clear that 2014 did not feature the exceptionally mild conditions of 2007 during January (days 1-31) and parts of February (days 32-60) as 2007, but has made a bit of a gain during March.
The current model output takes the running mean up to 6.75*C once March is finished... and that would be the highest I've seen since starting the records in 2003.
It would then have to go some to prevent 2007 from taking back the lead in April, though... that month in 2007 was among the warmest on record for much of the UK, including my location, where it is second behind that of 2011.
The contrast between this year and last is just phenominal, but doesn't seem so surprising these days - not as much as I would have found it a decade ago. These dramatic swings between extremes appear to be an increasingly frequent occurence - but I can't be sure as I haven't checked the historical records in enough detail.
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