Saturday 27 April 2013

Late April snow

Hail and west snow gave a brief cover this morning, 27th April.
Even the nearest field was white briefly.



Wednesday 10 April 2013

Yo Window update

I noticed this had stopped updating so installed the latest version which has subtle changes.
ScreenSaver Forecast by yr.no

Thursday 4 April 2013

March figures

A month rivaling December 2010 in how far the temperature deviated from the mean.
http://weather.westerdale.info/climatedataout32013.html

The first week was not unusual but around the 10th some very cold air arrived from the east and is more or less still with us 1st week of April.
The second half of March is probably the coldest such period in at least 100 years (1892 may have beat it)

March and indeed April will often have a few snowy days often associated with a brief Northerly.
This period has been quite different with a long fetch easterly bringing exceptional cold air for the time of year across most of Europe.
Germany for example has also been extremely cold.

Paul Hudson now says it has been the coldest March since 1892
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/Latest-weather-climate-news