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How much longer will this cold weather hang around

[THE FIFER]

How much longer will this cold weather hang around

 

think we are to get snow here in Fife 2 morohttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0138-thinking.gif

[Guest snowy2011]

:emoticon-0157-sun:

I wonder how long it will last but I suppose enjoy it while it lasts

[William Reid]

Doesn't matter what the weather is going to be birds will be out all day

[andy Burgess]

How much longer will this cold weather hang around

five weeks

[greenlands]

Just done the birds,bitterly cold and looks like snow. :emoticon-0138-thinking:

[Tony C]

Monday 18 March Published at 10:00

Monthly Outlook

 

Summary

 

Spring refuses to spring

This coming Tuesday sees the spring equinox, and on Sunday 31st March we will all be springing forward our clocks by one hour and lamenting a lost hour of sleep.

 

However, the lighter evenings will be welcomed by many as thoughts turn to longer, warmer days.

 

Perhaps a pity, then, that the weather seems resolutely stuck in winter?

 

 

Monday 18 March—Sunday 24 March

 

Spring arrives, winter won't budge

The week begins with low pressure dominating and looks set to end in a similar vein. A cyclonic easterly to south-easterly means it will be mostly unsettled and rather cold. Ice and frost will be night-time hazards, but we'll also be talking about snow on most days as well.

 

The air across the UK will be cold enough such that any precipitation may fall as snow at times, and this will be the case on Monday and Tuesday in north-eastern parts of the country. The snow will fall over the hills at first, drifting in strong easterly winds, but across the east of Scotland the snow soon be falling at lower levels too. On Tuesday the zone of wintry weather will shift southward, increasing the risk of settling snow across inland parts of northern England and especially higher ground exposed to the brisk easterly wind.

 

Further south on Monday and Tuesday there will be a mix of sunshine and scattered showers, some of these heavy with a risk of hail and thunder and perhaps some sleet or wet snow in the heaviest ones.

 

From around midweek a ridge of high pressure starts to nudge southwards, which will help to cut off the strong easterly flow across the north. Wednesday and Thursday will see fewer showers, and overnight there will be fog patches and a widespread frost, locally severe over any lying snow.

 

On Friday, as an Atlantic low tries to encroach on the UK, a strong southeasterly wind establishes itself. As weather fronts try to push in against the colder air across the north and east of the country, hill snow is likely in the west, with some heavy rain in southwest England. The most noticeable feature on Friday, however, will be the increasingly significant wind chill.

 

At the weekend, as the battleground between mild and cold sets up over the UK, there is a risk of significant snowfall and even blizzards over central and northern parts of the country.

 

 

Monday 25 March—Sunday 31 March

 

Only the clocks will spring forward

A new month approaches, as does British Summer Time, but it doesn't look as though there'll be much change in the weather. Spring still looks like being put on hold, with a cold easterly likely to persist for much of the time in the north. This will lead to northern and many central areas seeing below of well below average temperatures, with overnight frosts.

 

Southern parts may see temperatures recovering a little closer to normal, but with low pressure tending to dominate the south and west of the country this isn't likely to be accompanied by much in the way of spring sunshine.

 

 

Monday 1 April—Sunday 14 April

 

New month, same old weather?

As April begins, the pressure pattern looks like becoming easterly for northern parts and more unsettled with west- to south-westerly winds for southern and central parts of the UK.

 

This will therefore continue the cold theme across northern and eastern parts of the country, with night frosts possible. However, with milder weather arriving on those Atlantic winds, south Wales and southern and central parts of England could see temperatures close to or even a little above the early April average.

 

Unsettled of course means precipitation, and as a result sunshine will still be lacking despite the trend towards something less cold in the south and southwest

 

 

[Guest stb-]

sleet and rain here very cold , i only paired up last week and now i cant be arsed with it , no pleasure in going up and down to loft all day :emoticon-0138-thinking:

[andy Burgess]

sleet and rain here very cold , i only paired up last week and now i cant be arsed with it , no pleasure in going up and down to loft all day :emoticon-0138-thinking:

its rotten here too Rob. cold ,very wet and snowing .like you say "no pleasure going back and to the loft in this"

[alex wight]

snowing here in lochgelly fife

[Ian McKay]

White out condition here son just informed me it wont lie :emoticon-0136-giggle: I said look out the window, it's pure white :emoticon-0179-headbang:

[sapper756]

snowing here in lochgelly fife

 

same here in Levenhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0138-thinking.gif but at the moment not lying, too damphttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0138-thinking.gif

[kirky]

gave snow for us last night and all day today, NONE AT ALL,just rained on and off

[Guest chad3646]

Doesn't matter what the weather is going to be birds will be out all day

 

 

top man get them out in any weather fog mist hail thunder storm,s

[billt]

Has been a very nice dry day here and certainly not cold

[tiger]

snowing here now