Spring weather 2012

[Hoy]

Serious rain here this morning!  Though we need a truly wet April to make up for the lack of rain over the winter

Serious rain every day here! We need at least a week to get the lawns dry enough to walk on. Now it's like bogs everywhere.

[mark smyth]

Saw on the forecast this morning Scotland is due to get snow again

[angie]

Saw on the forecast this morning Scotland is due to get snow again

Every year my Paeonia molly the witch or should I say P. mlokosewitschii gets either covered in snow or hail just when the flowers are ready to open. So we are sure to get snow soon.

Angie 

[Casalima]

Serious rain here this morning!  Though we need a truly wet April to make up for the lack of rain over the winter

Serious rain every day here! We need at least a week to get the lawns dry enough to walk on. Now it's like bogs everywhere.

According to wikipedia (so open to correction), the average rainfall in Stavenger (as close as I could find to you) is 1,180 mm/year while near me it's nearly 1,500 mm/year - this is normally a very rainy part of the world. 11 years ago it rained 2,500 mm from one summer to the next!

[chasw]

Doing the Hokey Kokey here at the moment with the April showers .......................................hailstones as well

[Anthony Darby]

That's what April's all about.

[Hoy]

Serious rain here this morning!   Though we need a truly wet April to make up for the lack of rain over the winter

Serious rain every day here! We need at least a week to get the lawns dry enough to walk on. Now it's like bogs everywhere.

According to wikipedia (so open to correction), the average rainfall in Stavenger (as close as I could find to you) is 1,180 mm/year while near me it's nearly 1,500 mm/year - this is normally a very rainy part of the world. 11 years ago it rained 2,500 mm from one summer to the next!

1,500mm/year is some water! But you have higher temperatures and higher evaporation   However farther north of me is the place that officially receive most precipitation: Brekke i Sogn with 3575mm/year.

My weather looks more like this, but it is not that low temperatures (we have had no frost in March, and little before Xmas) as this is inland from me:



Today like yesterday, started with rain, then some sun and probably rain again later in the evening.

[Magnar]

April in North Norway has been cold, north wind and a little snow or sleet almost every day. No fun at all 

[cohan]

Up and down weather here- typical enough for spring! Still large mounds of snow around the yard to melt, in spite of many warm days and major melting already! But several recent snowfalls and its snowing again now- like Trond, I wouldn't mind drying out a little before the next one  though the moisture will be good for wildflowers and mosquitoes 

Here's the drive home from work today, just started snowing a while before that, still coming down now at almost 2 am- supposed to be on and off through saturday, maybe some rain mixed in...

https://picasaweb.google.com/111492944361897930115/April122012SpringDriveHome

[Neil]

We did have rain this week 32mm in total and more due next week

A usefully site for you weather history http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/peacehaven/bn10-8/april-weather/43174_pc?monyr=4/1/2012&view=table

[Mallotum]

Very wet and chilly the last few days.

[Neil]

OK when is it going to be nice again fed up with all this rain and wind!!!

[David Nicholson]

Seconded, and I'm used to it!

[ashley]

I thought you all wanted rain

[Maren]

We do want rain, lots of it, between midnight and sunrise.