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The depression centred 987 mb with gale force winds and provided folk with a bit of of shock country-wide. Even for those in the Southeast. :P Not enough impacts forecast to warrant it being named apparently. Total rain in 24 hours here was 16.7 mm. Nothing unusual. It came down in torrents though f...

Temperature climbed to 23.4°C today here on the south Devon coast in a brisk easterly wind.

I can't help feeling we don't get high temperatures in May these days.
I remember 27.4°C on 3rd May 1990.

85% of the rainfall for April here fell on the first and last days. 9.9 mm on 1st and 15.6 mm on 30th. Total for month 30 mm. The rain on the last day ruined any chance of record dryness. Otherwise it would have beaten the previous driest April of 14.8 mm in 2011. It just goes to show how arbitrary ...

Only 12.7 mm here to 19th in my standard 5 inch copper raingauge.
Monday 24th looks likely to be the next possibility of rain, but the forecast charts don't show good agreement for any return to a westerly regime with rain bearing systems.

The garden could do with a wetting.

8 dry days out of 10.
Total to 10th is 11.7 mm.
9.9 mm fell on 1st April.
Looks as though dry weather will continue in South for the week up to Easter.

30 yr average for April is 68.6 mm.
Usually a relatively dry month but can vary hugely.
2011 14.8 mm
2012 142.9 mm.

Winter 2016-2017 was warmer than average as the graph shows.
There is a large yearly variation about this average with a standard deviation of 1.1 deg.C.
The warming trend of 0.2 deg.C is very small.

Quite warm here with only one air frost.
Mean temp. for Feb. was 7.6°C.
1.4 deg.C above 30 yr average 1981-2010.

Rain total 82.2 mm.
Almost spot on average. 98%

Thanks Adrian for that info and the link. Fascinating to see the 'Snowdon' was apparently just one of 5 patterns in 1920. Cost £2 . Somebody must have dreamt up the name 'Snowdon' having designed it I suppose. Present price £234. I can't find the receipt but I think I paid about £50 for mine in 1980.

A hint of increasing wetness although not for this Jan.

Max 4.8°C yesterday.
Max 9.4°C today.

Yesterday (21st) was my coldest day since 19th Jan 2015 when it only reached 4.4°C.