Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“My hometown is roughly just over halfway between those two locations you named. I'll have to checkout the precise track Storm Katie took in the early hours of Easter Monday.
April begins with a temperature close to freezing at 0.9c currently, and a barometric pressure at 1022mbs, 50mbs above just 4 days ago in the Katie storm, and four or five days before that it was at a similar figure, so a rapid and massive dip and then quick return to high pressure.
9th March was indeed curious and very unusual for being such an astonishingly wet day across most of the UK right in the middle of a decent dry spell immediately before and for a long time after it. Probably the best way to have a decent top up of rain!
Good April's don't always mean poor summers. I give you 1984 to prove my point.”
“My hometown is roughly just over halfway between those two locations you named. I'll have to checkout the precise track Storm Katie took in the early hours of Easter Monday.
April begins with a temperature close to freezing at 0.9c currently, and a barometric pressure at 1022mbs, 50mbs above just 4 days ago in the Katie storm, and four or five days before that it was at a similar figure, so a rapid and massive dip and then quick return to high pressure.
9th March was indeed curious and very unusual for being such an astonishingly wet day across most of the UK right in the middle of a decent dry spell immediately before and for a long time after it. Probably the best way to have a decent top up of rain!
Good April's don't always mean poor summers. I give you 1984 to prove my point.”
Point accepted. I just don't want to tempt fate, especially considering the fine warm April of 1987, just 3 years later, was also followed by a very ordinary Summer.



