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James Peacock discussed this a few weeks ago too, it's looking like the lower North Atlantic could be a major source of humid heat this summer.

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Dark Horse Manchester usually falls within the Cheshire plains gap which gets a more southern influenced climate compared to the rest of the north. You can always see the Cheshire plains on temperature gradient maps.

Another day that turned out better than what was forecast (at least for this neck of the woods). It was forecast to be cloudy this afternoon, but instead it is sunny with scattered clouds.

Wade surface based, those. Even though it's just a short crossing to Kent you can already see the channel instantly killing them off.

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Wade it's only early May heat is pretty rare this soon. I'm sure at some point in the next 12 weeks we will be in the furnace. It seems to be a given over the last few years.

General perception from many is that April was a cold month, but statistics would suggest otherwise, with the average temperature for the whole month coming in just above the 30 year average for the UK as a whole. A warm first half to to the month averaged out the cold second half. View the full blog here

Everything has grown excessively this year and there is no surprise given how much rain has fallen and now temps are higher and the sun is shining, much better than 40C and arid looking landscapes

China, 4th time this year alone in this location!! Brazil ... Indonesia

Your fluffy, wuffy clouds Thinking of you at this time: Today's Bournemouth Pier sea temperature is 11.2 °C.

Blossom has gone nuts on my Wisteria. Absolutely loaded with bees as well.

Mostly cloudy now ... of course ... Because we can't manage a full day of sun here!

AWD Just lit ours, but it's clouded up here now and much cooler without the Sunshine. Looks much clearer in most directions.

Mostly cloudy now ... of course ... Because we can't manage a full day of sun here!

Good to be on the sunny side at last up to 16C.

The NW Scotland effect is by no means a modern phenomenon. I stand to be corrected, but my memory from training school back in the 70’s was that spring in Scotland was the only period anywhere in the UK that the prevailing wind was not SW’ly, but SE’ly. A more recent tendency is so many people pretending to forecast for the nation without having a clue about the climate here.

Had Worse that’s first of three there isn’t a fourth

Rain All Night It's an ensemble mean- it doesn't mean it's definitely going to happen. I think people jump to conclusions by focusing on the mean when the mean is simply a middle ground between the more settled and less settled scenarios. The means shift all the time anyway and aren't very reliable more than 5 days out. Only about 10 days ago the ensemble mean was showing prolonged below average temperatures and within 2 days it had flipped to above average 850 hPa temps.

Some pretty potent cells near Calais, providing they don't weaken, could be a nice surprise for anyone in the far corner of the SE i.e. Hythe eastwards

12.3 to the 3rd 1.2c above the 61 to 90 average 1.7c above the 81 to 10 average

Rain All Night Infuriating...