[Ian Williams]

Running at 1.8C above average here so far after 10 days of March

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[Dave W]

Hadley CET up at 7.3C, thats +2.3C above average after first tercile ..

[Richie]

Maximum: 15.8c ------ Day 10
Minimum: 0.9c ------ Day 06

Lowest Maximum: 7.8c ------- Day 05
Highest Minimum: 6.9c ------ Day 10

Mean Maximum: 11.4c
Mean Minimum: 3.5c

1 Min Mean: 7.2c

Mean: 7.4c

Air Frosts: 0

[Dave K]

Recent Marches have had a cool and sometimes frosty first decameron here but this has been an above average start to the month, with no air frosts as yet. Sunshine hours are a little down on the normal, around 26 hours or 80% ish.

[Andy Mayhew]

After 2 weeks:

Mean (1 minute) 8.1c
Mean (min+max) 8.3c

Mean Minimum 3.8c
Mean Maximum 12.9c

Minimum -1.1 (6th)
Maximum 17.9 (11th)

Air frosts 1

(had our 2nd air frost this morning)

[HSEA2]

First 17 days

Mean Max: 11.0c
Mean MIn: 3.0c

2 frosts, very average so far.

[Ian Williams]

Well after the 2nd decarum/tercile my mean has dropped by 0.3C but is still 0.8C above average, the reason for the drop over the last 10 days is down to the mean minimum with some colder nights due to fog and a couple of frosts, the mean maximum has actually increased by 0.2C

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[Dave W]

Hadley CET at 7.3C to the 19th thats +2,0c up on average

So far this year has been about 1.8C up on average

[Ian Williams]

Dave W, on 21 March 2012 - 09:09, said:

Hadley CET at 7.3C to the 19th thats +2,0c up on average

So far this year has been about 1.8C up on average

Hi Dave, I see how you have come up with +1.8C but you need to divide the 3.6C by 3 and not 2, which gives the anomaly to +1.2C. Hadley says on its page however the anomaly to the 20th March is +1.14C. My own anomaly to the 20th March for St Germans is +0.88C

• Average so far this year
  • Average CET to February: 4.63
  • Normal CET to February: 3.78
  • Anomaly to February: 0.85
  • Provisional CET anomaly (up to 20th March): 1.14
  
  
  
  
• http://www.metoffice..._info_mean.html
  

This post has been edited by Ian Williams: 21 March 2012 - 10:52

[Richie]

Maximum: 17.5c ------ Day 11
Minimum: 0.9c ------ Day 06

Lowest Maximum: 7.8c ------- Day 05
Highest Minimum: 6.9c ------ Day 10

Mean Maximum: 11.7c
Mean Minimum: 3.9c

1 Min Mean: 7.6c

Mean: 7.8c

Air Frosts: 0

[Dave K]

Running above average here on the simple mean at 8.25 °C which is +1.20 °C to the 20th only. Consistent rather than peaks and troughs so far. Sunshine hours total is getting back on track towards average at c. 73 hours so far.

[Lightning Hunter]

Running pretty close to average here still for March, though still warmer than 2010 and 2011. To 1700 on the 23rd:

Mean temp = 7.67°C (+0.28°C)

Mean max = 12.4°C
Mean min = 2.9°C

Air frosts = 4
Mins <3°C = 13

[Ian Williams]

Running at 1.1C above average and looks like being the warmest March since at least March 2003 and we all know what the summer was like that year!! My warmest ever March with a mean of 9.46C in 1997 with 6 days left looks safe even with this warm weather forecasted for the rest of the month

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[Dave K]

As at the 26th my site simple mean for March is 8.93 °C, the 4th warmest in my records. The bad news is that all those warmer Marches were followed by mediocre summers

[Dave W]

CET March 8.0 +2.5

[Ian Williams]

Big Dave, on 26 March 2012 - 21:15, said:

As at the 26th my site simple mean for March is 8.93 °C, the 4th warmest in my records. The bad news is that all those warmer Marches were followed by mediocre summers

Just looked into my warmest Marches and the following summer

1997 warmest March followed by a warm summer especially August 1997 CET Jun 14.01C/Jul 16.75C/Aug 19.02C

1998 2nd warmest March followed by a cool summer 14.03C/15.26C/15.81C

2003 3rd warmest March followed by a warm summer 15.97C/17.43C/18.48C

Figures are from Philip Edens adaption of the Manley CET method

[Ian Williams]

Ended up being my 2nd warmest March on record. My warmest was in 1997 and it did come close. Mean maximum for March is a new record. My mean temp was + 1.4C above my rolling 16 year average, and +2.5C above nearby Plymouths 1961-1990 average.

My previous daily maximum for March was 17.6C this was beaten 5 times between 24th and 29th inclusive. Strangely my mean minimums were close to average, due to clear skies and the rural location.



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This post has been edited by Ian Williams: 31 March 2012 - 19:28

[Dave K]

Mildest March in my site records based on simple mean

2012: 9.24 °C
1997: 9.15 °C
1990: 9.00 °C

[Lightning Hunter]

The third mildest March in my records, after 1997 and 1998, but very close to 2003.

Minimums ended up below average, despite some warm days at the end of the month.

Mean temp = 8.39°C (+1.49°C)

Mean max = 13.8°C
Mean min = 3.0°C

[Andy Mayhew]

Mean (1 minute) 8.9c
Mean (min+max) 9.3c

Mean Minimum 3.7c
Mean Maximum 15.0c

Minimum -1.1c (6th)
Maximum 23.9c (28th)

Air frosts 3

Easily my warmest March on record. Previous warmest was 2011 with 8.15c