March will go out like a lamb – and it may be roasting
MARCH goes out, by tradition, like a lamb. This time round it is certainly bleating with almost no rain forecast for the rest of the month.
We will have to wait until April for the showers that are that month’s hallmark. Better still, slow-moving high pressure over Denmark means we will be enjoying potentially recordbreaking temperatures, especially in northern Scotland, which was forecast yesterday to be hotter than Malaga.
If this is all sounding too good to be true then, alas, it is, albeit briefly and only on the east coast because today a small area of low pressure will creep in there to spoil the party.
It will bring some rain and even soft hail in East Anglia and the south eastern corner of England with temperatures dropping sharply to 48F (9C) anywhere from Norwich up through Hull to Newcastle and even over the border up to Aberdeen.
Elsewhere, though, it should be 54F (12C), down on the day before because of the knock-on effects of that rogue low pressure, but with plenty of sunshine the further west you go.
Come tomorrow, everything will be on the rise again in most parts, with just eastern Scotland experiencing the tail end of that low pressure. As the week progresses, we should all see temperatures heading upwards to 61F (16C) as the still dominant pressure causes them once again to rise.
And as the month draws to a close, the whole of the UK will find itself in a sweet spot between two branches of the Jet Stream, the current of air in the high atmosphere that shapes our weather. One is to the north and one to the south, and because the Jet Stream is often the bearer of rain-bearing weather systems, that means being in the middle we will go rain-free.