Chilly April

You will have noticed(!) it's been cold, but compared to March the chill is especially striking.
Currently April Average is at 5.7C which is almost 3C below average.
March meanwhile came in at 7.8C which was 1.6C above average!
It's unlikely April will catch up to March now although it does seem like becoming a little less cold as we go into the second half - still rather unsettled though - but with winds tending more to the NW we may miss the worst here in the east.

Incidentally the weather website has been having a minor glitch after a Windows 7 update on the 11th, the software kept stalling.
After tinkering with a few settings to no avail, I have simply uninstalled the Windows updates which I hope will resolve it.
No data is lost but sometimes the site might not update if the program has got stuck.
If that happens it will typically need restarting manually.
Data is then downloaded from the weather station software and everything updates.
Fingers crossed it will be OK again now. Usually it will run for weeks at a time with no attention.

You can see how long it has been continuously running at the bottom of the page - and the data received numbers will increase all the while (it gets a packet about every three seconds).
It is doing quite well if it gets above 500,000, the most so far was just over a million.
Then there was a windows update requiring restart ...