60F today!

[Steve Burke]

60F (15.5C) in East Kent today, 63F(17C) in Gravesend. And it felt like it too! It's the first time I've been outside without a sweater since the autumn.

 

To make it even better the nights are forecast to be warmer now, although there was cat ice on Wingham yesterday morning.

 

If only I can find time to go fishing..........

[big_cod]

Cant of been much above 3 or 4 dec at whitby today thick fog all day snow forcast from next saturday onwards on and off for a week so get your woolies ready.

 

http://www.metcheck.com/UK/7days.asp#.UTZzcDchNvI

 

paul.

Edited March 5, 2013 by big_cod

[Steve Walker]

My wife cycled to and from work today, for the first time this year. I went in with her in the morning and met her in the evening. At 7 o'clock this morning it was bloody cold! The canal and the puddles were covered in ice. This evening was much more pleasant, it really felt like spring.

[Steve Burke]

We did had snow forecast for next week but the latest forecast from Accuweather is saying that next week will be colder than the next few days but temperatures only a little below average at 6 to 8 (43 to 46F). See http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/wingham/ct3-1/march-weather/328966?monyr=3/1/2013.

 

I've long given up on Metcheck for our neck of the woods as its forecasts have been so way out with temperatures usually showing too little variation. Perhaps they think we're out in the North Sea!

 

For the shorter term at Wingham I use the Met Office and the BBC, who get their data from the Met Office. However no forecast is really accurate enough past about 5 days, apart from perhaps in general terms. The only exception seems to be forecasting when an anticyclone is breaking down. Once we get low pressure moving in, and particularly if the weather systems are very mobile, then accuracy drops off a lot.

 

But with it forecast to turn colder next week I'm hoping to get half a day in before it does so.

[Now there's a right un.]

We had no Sun for the whole day and the tempereture barely registered above 4.5 degrees celcius or for our over the Pond bretheren 40.1 degrees fahrenheit.

Still at least, we had no wind, our area was totally becalmed and so the easterly bite we had had for so long was absent.

[dave k]

was a great day in cambridgshire today, i was in the garden from 10am. managed to do a few things before i got too tired. only problem is i have to keep covered as i have just finished radiotheraphy and the burns appeared in the middle of last week.on very strong painkillers now.

mind you i didn't like sitting out in the sun without a hat on before so no hardship.i just need to get a wide brimmed hat now

[poledark]

Lovely day yesterday Put the sun blinds up in the conservatory, sat out there to tie up some rigs ready for the rays when they arrive. Sat out in the garden watching Hazel do a bit of weeding and tidying up. Dogs exhausted themselves playing hide and seek and scrapping. Chaffinch's were singing almost all day long.

 

Checked the Premium bonds and found we had "won" £100 (4X 25)

 

A pretty good day all round............

 

Den

Edited March 6, 2013 by poledark

[chesters1]

So warm i found an angler on my rounds

[Ken L]

38 - 40 degrees on the other scale here and humid.

Just did a trip into town and am about done for the day.....

[Steve Burke]

The forecast now is for 2 to 4 inches of snow on Monday!