Max Temperature Reports for 5th - 12th April 2015

The first week of possible widespread high temperatures of the year is now upon us. Same thread as last year please post your max temps in here. Meto are going for clear sky and 16c here for the bank holiday tomorrow and hopefully over the next week many people will see some great weather!

Last year's thread was actually for the week 7th - 14th March which was very early for such high temperatures and just scanning that thread it looks like Kew reported 19.5c on the 9th March.

Its already clear blue sky here today so will be interesting what temperature we reach but I think it will be the warmest day of the year so far with tomorrow beating it. It may not turn out all that good in the end but it looks like the first week of 2015 with some real potential. Lets hope this week delivers for many!

Cloud could well be a problem therefore limiting the temps this week!

We shell see.

My station is currently recording 14.2c with a fair bit of cloud cover, so it could be a fair bit higher in places where it is sunny.

In the Sun this morning at 11:22 had an unshielded temperature of  14.4c.  Now with cloud about it is 13.0c.  In a shady corner a reading of 12.5c.

Warmest day so far this year was 7 March with 17.4C recorded at Santon Downham.

Remarkably the second warmest day of 2015 is 9 January when 16.5C was recorded at Exeter AP.

The current forecast suggests that the end of this week will see some very high temperatures. Somewhere around Santon Downham could well reach 19C on Friday. We could see 19C again next Sunday somewhere along the south coast. Monday 13th looks like 19-20C could be recorded quite widely with 21C or more by Tuesday.

Here is a summary of when the first 21C was reached over the past few years

So much for my guess April would start cool and cloudy . Even yesterday the forecast was for the cloud and cool to hang about well into the week.

Presently 19.2C here in Banchory. What a wonderful day!

Some sunshine, but just 13c here mild but not overly so.

It is being a stunningly clear afternoon with the sun dancing around in clear blue skies - but as expected we are feeling the cooling effect of the wind coming in from the North Sea/Strait of Dover with temperatures being pegged down at 9.2 C currently.

No higher than this mornings 14.4c here in Peasedown St John.

It probably blew away last week.

Aboyne reached 20.7C yesterday.

Leuchars and Strathallan both reached 20.0C

Similar temperatures expected in the NE again today. A glorious week coming up for many.

On the flip side the clear skies giving some very low overnight temperatures this morning including down here in the south:

Benson -1.6C
Larkhill -1.5C
Exeter AP -1.5C

Some very large diurnal variations in temperature can be expected with the current set up at this time of year. Aboyne reached 0.9C this morning so almost 20C lower than the maximum yesterday. Not unusual though to see figures around 20C. Can often be much higher than this.

-1.3C to 19.7C yesterday 

-1.1C this mornings low

Only 4 days ago we had snow cover.

Indeed we saw a 21c range yesterday here, very much the norm at this time of year through until early summer.

Last April we saw -3.2c to 19.3c on the 20th which i believe was Easter weekend.

17.3c here in PSJ

Just touched 20C in Crediton (mid Devon) easily the warmest day so far this year. Exceptional after an overnight minimum of 0.3C, beautiful warm sunshine and light winds.

According to some of the readings of local stations On Clevedon Weather it got up to 20c. and over.

Highs here today of 17c in unbroken sunshine.

Bit of a light breeze though getting up.