Backhomeatlast

What a great couple of months weather wise, and this is our winter
LONDON: Birds nested early, spring flowers bloomed before time and ice cream vans reported an unexpected rise in sales as England and Wales enjoyed the sunniest and warmest February since records began.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/29/weather
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2826895.cms

The winter as a whole was one of the sunniest since records began. Although tomorrow marks the end to the meteorological winter, mean temperatures across the UK are on course to exceed the long-term average again.


Spring will be coming in January at this rate.

TraceyW

Crikey, I'd trade this sunshine and flies for the weather in the UK any day

Backhomeatlast

It was warmer on the south coast
Overall sunshine so far for Weymouth this year is nearly 200 hours or nearly 54 hours above average. By contrast rainfall for the month was down by nearly half at just 32.3mm while rainfall for the year so far is 21.5mm below average. Weymouth's heaviest rain came on February 3 with 9.8mm.

Ground frost was recorded six times during February but there was no air frost while gales were recorded on five days with the strongest gusts reaching 64mph.

All temperatures were well above monthly averages with the maximum up 1.8 Centigrade at 10.1C, minimum up 1.6C at 4.7C, the mean temperature up 1.7C at 7.4C and the average sea temperature up 1.9C at 8.4C.

TraceyW

So what happened to that really awful storm you were supposed to get yesterday then? Have you built yourself an ark yet?

TraceyW

Another thing I noticed on my little jaunt back to the mother-land was the nights didn't get dark until 6/6.30 and that was in February.

Backhomeatlast

Nahhhhh, was a damp squid to be honest aussies blow more wind out of their backsides than we had last night.

Nu-Shooz

so does my OH!!

Backhomeatlast

And have you noticed we always giggle when we do it.

Nu-Shooz

I have 2 sons aswell, so when one of them blow's off, it's always someone else...and when they all drop one at the same time, i get my hammer out

Backhomeatlast

I blame the dog

horrigans

You've just reminded me of another thing I miss. Long summer evenings. It gets dark so quickly and so early here in Queensland. We were in Melbourne and Sydney at the tail end of last year and it made such a change for it not to be dark at stupidly early o'clock... but... oh to have a yummy warm (but not mozzie-infested!) summer evening. Roll on going home!

Sarah

mattmc

Apart from MOTD but I won't keep going on about that. This is the single thing I miss the most. The days seem to go so quickly here and everybody just stays inside when it gets dark. The long days between May and September were bliss. I have worked out that I play more rounds of golf in the UK per year than i do here because I would get 2 extra rounds in a week during the DLS months. This is something I never expected!!!

dunroving

West of Scotland has been raining almost non-stop for most of the winter ...

Backhomeatlast

You have got the South's share then, it has been very dry down here this year

guest5234

Been working in Bahrain for the last 6 months and I cannot tell you how nice it is to actually breath fresh air....god I did not realise that I actually like Frosts, the weather is good in the UK, you do appreciate it after working in a hot Country.