Max Temperature Reports for 7th - 14th March 2014.

With 'hopefully' many of us having the chance over the next week of some mild/warmish/warm weather I thought it would be good if people can share the maximum temperature's that are reached in their part of the UK. Its bound to be a week that ends up disappointing for some but there may also be some surprises for a few places so I can't be the only one to be a little excited! Here meto are going for unbroken sunshine and 14C by 3pm and quite a few other places too like London, Oxford, Torquay, Bristol, Exmouth, Dartmouth, Poole, Bournemouth, all forecast to be 14C by then so I'm wondering what the actual figures for today will be and what the next week will bring? We're not even forecast to have full sun until the afternoon but the cloud is already rapidly burning off and the sun is out so maybe that forecast of 14C can be broken by the few extra hours of sunshine.

It would be great if people could report daytime maxes either from themselves or from local media/weather stations etc over the next week.

Its 12.3C here at 9:56am so only another 1.7C+ and we will beat the forecast!

We've gone from 12.3C at 9:56am to 13.1C at 10:17am thats only 21 minutes so could be a very good day!

12.7c At 10:05... Time to higher in the next few hours.

16.9C at 12:15!!!

So far exactly 9.0C as a max here today, but with a strong NW wind it feels chillier.

A chilly 10c here in the breeze.

I,m close to Gravesend ..... 15.8c  briefly at 16.05 this afternoon

14. 3c.   At 13:14

15.9c max in Hampton Hill, SW London

15.7c max in Egham, Surrey

5.6C here now, chilly air filtering south out of Scotland to here.

12.9c was the max here today. The SST's are a few degrees warmer compared to last year. We are off to a good start. 

Indeed Ian. I have some ghastly memories of last Spring and early Summer. There was one occasion on the 20th April in unbroken strong sunshine we took a trip to the beach and encountered max temperatures of just 7c on the coastal fringe and another occasion in early June when the BBQ was fired up at 2pm with a temperature of 17c..by 4pm the mist had rolled in with a fresh SW'ly breeze, I was left cooking the remainder of the sausages chilled to the bone as the temperature fell back to 11c and everyone rushed indoors.

Hopefully that sort of stuff will not be as common this year as a result. 

Birmingham airport 0C at just after 10pm, at the same time London Heathrow 10C, a distance of "only" 80 miles.

This warm spell is actually a bit special; I just had a glance over my records up to the first week of March for the years 2003-2012, and not one of them saw 15*C so early on in the spring season. 2012 was close, with the first on 11th March, and behind that is 2011 with 14th March. 2009, 2005 and 2004 all took until 16th March. 2006 never got there, and 2013... well that one peaked at 13.7*C 

Oddly enough, the earliest 15*C in any of those years occured on 27th January 2003. The following year, 15*C was seen twice in February, on the 3rd and the 4th.

The next 'record' up for grabs is for the earliest occurance of consecutive days hitting 15*C or above, currently held jointly by 2009 (2 day run) and the far more impressive spell of 2005 (an 11 day run, averaging 17.7*C and peaking at 20*C. By comparison, the high-and-dry March of 2012 only managed 8 days!). Both of those spells started on the 16th.

My records don't go back as far as yours but I thought this might have been one of the warmest temperatures I'd seen earlier than the first week of March. However, to my surprise, both 2013 and 2012 had higher temperatures earlier on. I recorded a max of 17.0c on 23rd February 2012 and a max of 16.3c on March 5th 2013. Today saw a max of 15.9c, which is the highest temperature I've recorded so far this year. Wouldn't be surprised if 17c or maybe even 18c was breached on Sunday though. 

good and after certain individuals rubbished that notion of yours the other day im starting the write up . and fully expect to get banned