What's Your Weather Like...? MK7...

Outside looks pretty like the photo to the left.Snow shovel almost worn out and user decidedly cheesed off. Hang on a minute a pale yellow thing has appeared in the sky, I wonder what that is?! Oh it's disappeared again after all of about 30 seconds.

 

Freezing fog, hesitant to put the plants out in this, there's a difference between hardening off & killing them.

 

At last something resembling a spring day! A bit cool still at 8º but should get up to about 12º.

 

Meanwhile here in the UK, we are looking down the barrel of some historically significant cold that is supposed to come our way next week. If it occurs, we could not only have locally record breaking cold, with temperatures potentially down to -10C or lower in rural areas, but also record breaking amounts of snow for late March. Unchartered territory springs to mind. 1740 step aside, 2013 is here to take your crown.

 

I was gonna say sunny and in the high 70's but it decided to rain today hmm
Weathers been getting pretty warm around these parts besides today

 

I feel a mass emigration coming on... even in mid-winter this would be *exceptional*.. in March it is inconceivable, if it happened then well.. I'd be speechless.

 

Ah but blame it all on global warming...answer lots of wind farms, kerching, kerching, for rich landowners and mostly foreign wind farm developers. Of a population of approx 5,000,000 people in Scotland we will be paying £3 per head of population to a certain landowner who is estimated to earn £1,500,000 pa whether the wind blows or not depending on the contract he has with the wind farm developer. Regrettably I think wind farms (factories) will turn out to be the biggest "white elephants" in my lifetime. Even the developers candidly admit wind farms have absolutely nothing to do with being "green", just MONEY.

 

Back to normal today.
A cold, dull day with leaden skies from start to finish. Intermittent drizzle and sleet added an extra dimension to the general gloom.

Stephen, you don't by any chance work for the Daily Express do you?

Agreed, this March is turning out to be somewhat colder than average. In other respects though, it's fairly typical. March is always a capricious month, often producing a mixture of rain, sleet or snow, frosts, hail, strong winds and also a few warm sunny days thrown into the mix.

Granted, the number of warm sunny days has probably been below average so far, but we have been here before.

I have a photograph taken by me, of my father standing in the garden surrounded by a good covering of snow.
On the back of the photo is written 'Easter Sunday. 30th March 1975. 3 inches of snow.'

 

I give up

 

Well I have no real opinion, just showing what the outputs areshowing. Word from the Metoffice is they are starting to become very concerned. Whatever that means.

 

A lovely weekend in all honesty (plenty of sun and pleasantly warm), followed by an ok day on Monday, occasional snow flurries but not too cold, but things are going down hill fast now, rain/sleet/snow yesterday along with a reading of just 4 degrees on the thermometer, today has seen more sleet and snow and just 3 degrees and the forecast for the rest of the week and into the weekend is max 1 degree by day and -3 at night!!!!

Now I don't usually get overly bothered by what the weather is doing and will try and get something done but this is getting ridiculous now, I've not risked putting in my early spuds yet (usually they go in on the 1st March) as the ground is so wet and cold still!!, I also have other things that need doing out there but its just not comfortable to be out at the mo...

 

I imagine our potato farmers are also starting to become very concerned.@stephenprudence where do you get your Met office info from please?
Jenny

 

I get the updates on a weather forum posted by Ian Fergusson (the forecaster for the BBC southwest).