Two April heatwaves compared
The stats are in and the average maxima for the past few days’ heatwave is 1C lower than the hot spell in 2011: a positive anomaly of 10.6C over six […]
London’s April extremes since 1959
April showers bring spring flowers… so the saying goes though a look at local east London stats shows that eight of the last 11 Aprils have been drier than average, […]
March 2018: cold, some snow and very dull
Though March is usually, meteorologically speaking, the first month of spring this year it felt more like an extension of winter. The mean temperature for March 2018 finished 6.3C, that’s […]
‘So much for global warming…’
Since notably cold weather struck at the end of February I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard this phrase uttered by the public and some sections of […]
Repeat of March 24th 2013 only 10C colder
The weather this coming weekend reminds me of a March weekend in 2013 when large parts of the south-east woke up to a covering of snow. Conditions in Wanstead were […]
Beast MkII or just a late March cold spell?
After the severe spell at the end of February that lasted into this month there’s lots of excitement / dread (*delete as appropriate) that the synoptic conditions that brought very […]
Winter 2017/18 forecast review
It would seem that the winter was most influenced by the ENSO variable up until February when the effects of the SSW were enough to overcome it?
Winter 2017/18: 27th out of 72
A few years ago I devised a winter index to try to decipher how modern winters ranked against legendary seasons, such as 1947 and 1963. With the media hyping conditions […]
Winter 2017/18: average, cold start and end
The winter of 2017/18 will probably be remembered as much colder that it actually was – the exceptionally severe spell right at the end was only at its halfway point […]
February 2018: cold, very sunny, snowy end
February 2018 saw the start of the first decent cold spell since 2013 with thick (by modern standards) snow cover, deep cold air and bitter winds. It was the coldest […]
