Cold March

With wintry weather likely to dominate until at least the last day or two, this will be the coldest March for many years - probably since 1979.

At the moment the mean is running at about 2.2C which is 3.5C below normal.
It's also below January's mean, which is unusual considering that month was near average. March is noted for having cold and snowy events and they can be as severe as anything through winter - but usually they are short-lived affairs and the most characteristic weather type is drying winds often from a rather chilly North Westerly direction.
Apart from 4 or 5 almost dry breezy days near the start, this March has been very disappointing.

 On balance, good weather in April might be preferred over what happened last year with a pleasant March then a cold, wintry wet April!
Paul Hudson suggests it will be the coldest since 1969.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/More-snow-as-March-set-to-be-coldest-since1969

Timelapse

I did this a few days ago after buying a cheap intervalometer for the SLR.

In the past I did the easier 'timelapse' technique of simply speeding up video in moviemaker, but this is 300 jpg stills at one second intervals, combined into a very fast slideshow.
I found some free software which has the ability to pan and zoom in the frame if I ever work out how to do it!
Anyway for a first go it worked OK and it would be nice to get some moving skyscapes through the year.