Phew- back to normal!

Wasn't it lovely though!
I have offered to plant up my DD's new garden next week. I don't think that's going to happen if it's still lashing rain or even snow

Just knew the weather would revert to normal- I picked up my cabriolet today ???

It has been pouring here and one hesitates to say, actually the gardens needed it.
Even here just outside Manchester.
I was staying with my D near the South coast last week, I drove them mad saying just how unnatural the weather and the temperatures were and that we would pay for it later.
They were not amused.

Our 'out of season February' actually brought me out of hibernation.
Half term Days out with DGS's and little gardening put a spring in my step.

The spring flowers and the trees covered in blossom are hugely uplifting, a reminder that spring is just round the corner.

I am counting down the 21st March so I can officially wave goodbye to the winter.
Spring is my time of year.

March - In like a lion out like a lamb. ?

The breeze is definitely picking up now, though it’s due to hit us properly tomorrow late afternoon into the evening here in South Yorkshire.
I really enjoyed the unseasonable mild spell, but it’s looking like I’ll have to get back to accepting the normal run of things - March winds and all that! At least I haven’t packed away the Winter Woollies: never cast a clout ‘til May is out, as they say! ??

Mapleleaf Over 65 years ago I asked my Auntie Minnie about that saying: 'Ne're cast a clout 'til May be out' and she told me it referred to the May blossom (Hawthorn) rather than the month.

I think it refers to both, which is why it's such a good saying. May blossom is so called because it blossoms in May, at least in the north.

No sign of any bad weather here on the East Coast this morning but we are due to travel home to South Yorks this afternoon so hope it's passed over there before we leave!

Raining and miserable looking this morning in Surrey and due to rain all week. The sunny weather we had last week was lovely though . I don’t Id as long as we have no late snow, I hate it!

Mind not I’d phone corrects

Starting to rain here now (Black Country, West Midlands), but I certainly enjoyed the warm weather, and it lasted all over half term, so the granddaughters enjoyed being outside, and exploring their new home.

We are off to Lanzarote next Sunday, so may see some then

Twiceasnice yes it is blustery and wet here in my neck of Surrey too! DH just off to take DGD1 to her football match!

With a vengeance!
That old thing about March coming in like a lion -albeit 2 days late! ???

It was a rather bedraggled lamb two days ago, Maw!

Nice and sunny here but very windy and more to come I gather. The warm weather just felt so worryingly wrong. I found myself harbouring dark old wifey thoughts about needing a good frost for all sorts of reasons (few of them sensible!). Maybe I'm just a miserable Scot and always expect the worst - a good way to a happy life, I'm seldom disappointed!

Bradfordlass, thank you for that explanation, my Grannies were always quoting "don't cast a clout till May is out"

Apologies for this long post but I found this article in the Sunday Telegraph today rather reassuring:

Inevitably last Monday and Tuesday, the Met Office and the BBC rushed to publicise temperatures of over 70F (20C) as the highest ever recorded in any British winter, with the BBC quoting green zealots claiming that this was proof of global warming. Tom Burke, a former director of Friends of the Earth but now described as running an “independent climate change think tank”, pointed out that this was twice the normal temperature for this time of year, asking us to imagine what it will be like when summer temperatures similarly reach double their normal level.

But equally inevitably this prompted Paul Homewood, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, to examine the Met Office’s own records to put these February temperatures into historical perspective. For a start he found that, if this year set a daily record for February, caused by a high pressure cell sucking in hot air from the Sahara, record days for the other two winter months, January and December, date back to 1958 and 1948. Record temperatures for other months include the hottest ever May day in 1922 and September’s in 1906.

But Homewood then focused on the “mean temperature” for February as a whole. Despite its unusual warmth, he found the Met Office’s own figure to show this to have been only 44F (6.7C). making a nonsense of idle media claims that this had been “the hottest winter ever”. A chart meticulously plotted by Homewood from the Met Office’s Central England Temperature record dating back to 1659 shows that February 2019 ranked as only 15th among our warmest Februarys, way behind the hottest ever in 1779, while this was only the 17th warmest winter as a whole.

What the graph shows is how astonishingly consistent overall our Februarys have remained over the past 360 years. As for that absurd comment by Mr Burke, it seems to have disappeared from the BBC website.

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Well gosh!

Be patient Annodomini we have another 28 days to go and a lot can happen in 4 weeks.