Can I get the members gut feeling???????

I hope a sunny warm spring starting early as I'm fed up with this dull damp weather.
A long sunny summer not to hot with a little rain for the gardens.
With a late frosty winter.
If only :gnthb:

 

Thanks Guys, .............................not sure I am any the wiser but thanks anyways.

 

I have my stone ready :D

 

Is that because you're off to warmer shores ?:D

 

:lollol::hehe:

 

Walnut, would that be at all times of the year? Dee, along the same lines, we have a saying in Wales. " If you cannot see the mountain, it`s raining. If you CAN see the mountain, it`s going to rain ":gnthb::hehe:

 

Stone me, this is getting out of hand, some sanity is required, I think.:hehe:

Now the way I see it is this, that spell of real cold weather over the Christmas period would have been a scorcher if it had happened in mid summer rather than mid winter, also they say the easterly flow is getting established again in the next few days, (not good news).

But its not the kind of weather pattern we have had the last couple of years, if it continues we could get a very good summer, I think, but a cold spring.

If on the other hand it goes back to the westerly flow, like the last couple of weeks, we will get a summer like last year.

Another encouraging sign is, that as I understand it, Australia is getting some scorching temps, a bit like they were a couple or more years ago, when we were getting good summers as well.

Is it El nino, or maybe sunspots, who knows, but I do know that global warming has no effect on our weather at all.
A degree or two of warming makes no difference to us, only, the places that get the two extremes of weather.

 

So that`s Scotland bugxered up then LOL

 

This thread got me thinking back to the last hot summer I remember, 2004!!!! I can remember it particularly well as I spent a large part of it landscaping a big development.

The ground was rock hard and I was having to run the digger i was using to level the soil the on sheets of ply as the tarmac was so soft. Oh yes and a nasty case of prolonged lobster sun burn on my back lol!!!

The grass seed didn't germinate for almost a month!!!

 

I remember the summer of 2006 as very, very hot, at least June and July. I was riding up to London everyday on the motorbike to get to work. Try riding in full leathers, in rush hour traffic, in London, when the temperature is around 30'c. THAT was hot!

I also remember photographs of London parks parched and bare of grass, with the trees as the only greenery around. Even when we did get some rain in August, the gardeners then were saying it wasn't enough as the trees would take most of it. There were dire warnings that THIS WAS THE FUTURE, stand pipes would become the norm every summer and other wondrous calamities. In September of that same year we went to Bewl Water in Kent and saw the reservoir levels were well, well below normal.

Couldn't we have similar this year please? We have plenty of water now for a dry summer or two! But I bet Thames and Southern Water will still manage to lose most of it!

 

Sorry Shiney, I was 3 years old in 1976:thmb: