Looking at the visible satellite image of Europe there is still much
snow on the ground over quite an extensive area, which is probably why
we don't really seem to be warming up atm. This is going to take some
time to shift and subsequently leave us with another below average
month as far as temperature is concerned. Springs a coming, but it's a
slow slog I'm afraid :-(

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

On Mar 10, 9:14*am, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:
Looking at the visible satellite image of Europe there is still much
snow on the ground over quite an extensive area, which is probably why
we don't really seem to be warming up atm. This is going to take some
time to shift and subsequently leave us with another below average
month as far as temperature is concerned. Springs a coming, but it's a
slow slog I'm afraid :-(

Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net

If the winds do change and blow off the Atlantic though Keith, there
won't be much snow there to blow off! ;-))

It won't take long for us lowlanders to warm up with the forecast wind
directions during next week - except over our home-grown remaining
snowfields, of course. Even a change to northerly later this week will
see the west warming up a little, as we lose that easterly.

Wild daffs flowering in the woods behind tha house today, but it could
stil be a below average CET or UK month, as you say, with this cold
start.

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Dawlish writes:
On Mar 10, 9:14*am, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:
Looking at the visible satellite image of Europe there is still much
snow on the ground over quite an extensive area, which is probably why
we don't really seem to be warming up atm. This is going to take some
time to shift and subsequently leave us with another below average
month as far as temperature is concerned. Springs a coming, but it's a
slow slog I'm afraid :-(

Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net

If the winds do change and blow off the Atlantic though Keith, there
won't be much snow there to blow off! ;-))

It won't take long for us lowlanders to warm up with the forecast wind
directions during next week - except over our home-grown remaining
snowfields, of course. Even a change to northerly later this week will
see the west warming up a little, as we lose that easterly.

Wild daffs flowering in the woods behind tha house today, but it could
stil be a below average CET or UK month, as you say, with this cold
start.

According to Philip Eden's website, the CET for the first 8 days of
March was only 2.5°C, with an anomaly of -3.0. (That anomaly is relative
to the mean for the first 8 days rather than that for the whole month,
which of course would be higher. The mean CET for the whole of March for
1971-2000 seems to be 6.23.)

So - with the next week or so still likely to be on the cold side - the
second half of the month will have a struggle to get the mean CET for
the whole month up to the 1971-2000 average.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

Still a complete snow cover above 800ft in the central lowlands and still
rather deep above 1000ft. I'm told at the top of a local hill (2,400ft)
there's well over 1.5 meters of snow on most upper slopes.
Even given an average end to the month temperature wise, I can't see the
snowline retreating much higher for quite some time yet, there's so much of
it to shift.
The ground is unusually dead looking in my lower snow-free area, no sign of
daffodils even shooting yet. The snowdrops are just out, the latest I can
ever recall that happening.
Rivers are very low, firstly because there's been no rain for 11 days - but
also because so much of Dec, Jan and Feb's precipitation is still locked up
in snowfields.
Lovely sunny day today with a max of 8.5ºC, but that was after a minimum
of -6ºC. The average march max and min are very similar to these widely
opposing values.
Alex
Wishaw, Central lowlands.

"Keith (Southend)G" wrote in message
...
Looking at the visible satellite image of Europe there is still much
snow on the ground over quite an extensive area, which is probably why
we don't really seem to be warming up atm. This is going to take some
time to shift and subsequently leave us with another below average
month as far as temperature is concerned. Springs a coming, but it's a
slow slog I'm afraid :-(

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

get a spell checker lamer


Dawlish wrote:


Wild daffs flowering in the woods behind tha house today, but it could
stil be a below average CET or UK month, as you say, with this cold
start.

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