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March 2019 The averaging period used for the following assessment was 1981-2010. Until the 17th, March’s weather was dominated by westerly and north-westerly winds and frequent rain belts moving in off the North Atlantic, interspersed with brighter showery weather. Named storms Freya and Gareth

(North Yorkshire). The 31st dawned clear and frosty for most places, with showers over the east from early on, these mostly wintry and occasionally heavy and thundery as they spread to most parts by mid-afternoon, Copley (Durham) reporting 10 cm depth of snow at 0900. Wales diary of highlights After

there was high pressure blocking to the north and east of the UK, giving settled weather, but there were also spells of rather disturbed Atlantic weather, making it a rather wet month in the south and east of England. The most noteworthy adverse weather came around the 11th and 12th, when

and windy weather to many parts of the UK. Maximum temperatures for the month overall were near average, with minimum temperatures slightly above average across the north and west. The UK monthly mean temperature was 0.2°C above average. The rainfall pattern was variable but generally near average

were above average for the majority of the time, though nowhere reached 24 °C until May 27th. The provisional UK mean temperature for the month was 11.6 °C, which is 1.0 °C above average. Rainfall was above average in a band from Devon to Norfolk, whereas much of Wales, Scotland and north-west England

Scotland, London, North East England, North Scotland, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands, West Scotland, Yorkshire and Humber, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Wales. 28 Anglian, Argyll, Clyde, Dee, Forth, Humber, Neagh Bann, North East Scotland

until early afternoon in some spots, with patchy rain and drizzle affecting Midland and southern counties through the day. The 15th was bright for the north and east Midlands and parts of Yorkshire, cloudier elsewhere with patchy drizzle in the south and occasional outbreaks of rain in the north. 16th

, the cloud slowly burning off except on the east coast, and showers moving into the Isles of Scilly by dusk. The 3rd began cold, with frost in the north-west, the overnight minimum temperature -6.6 °C at Shap (Cumbria), and a maximum temperature of only 1.8 °C at Emley Moor (West Yorkshire); it was mainly

of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. Sunshine was rather below average for most areas with 87% overall. 1st to 7th The 1st began fine, but cold, with a frost in places, and a minimum temperature of -5.8 °C at Shap (Cumbria); showers, initially confined to coasts, developed

into the north of the UK from the 6th onwards, with temperatures reaching 4.0 to 6.0°C below average in some areas of Scotland and northern England on the 7th and 8th. The south of England, however, experienced consistently mild temperatures throughout this cold spell, leading to a large temperature