{"id":2479,"date":"2020-04-10T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:13:40","slug":"uk-weather-tracker-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/uk-weather-tracker-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather Tracker #38 – March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the wettest February on record, the UK followed it with an extremely normal (and boring) weather in March 2020.<\/p>\n

The meteorological year starts in December which is why December appears as the 1st data point in the charts below.\u00a0 More information on the layout of the charts can be found in this pos<\/a>t.\u00a0 Points lying between the upper and lower deciles are shown as open black circles, points lying between the deciles and minimum\/maximum are shown as solid black circles and any month with a new record is shown as solid black squares.<\/p>\n

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As I explained<\/a> in October 2018, the addition of a Temperature Range chart (B) means I update 7 charts every month so I rotate which 6 appear in the deck above and \"\"plot the 7th as a separate chart here.\u00a0 Since it is Winter, Sunshine (chart G) is shown here since that is of least interest in these months.<\/p>\n

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How abnormal was March 2020?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Chart H displays my UK Weather Abnormality Index<\/strong><\/span> (Scroll down my May 2019 post for details<\/a>).\u00a0 The closer to zero this \"\"index is, the less abnormal and thus more “average” a month is.\u00a0 The higher it is, the more abnormal the month is.\u00a0 When the index is over 100%, we can describe the month as unusual in some way.<\/p>\n

The abnormality index was 26% in March 2020 which is the 4th lowest on record. Nearly every variable was more or less bang on the median with only number of frost days getting close to being unusual.<\/p>\n

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PS: If you bookmark this link<\/a>, it will be refreshed with the latest month’s data.\u00a0 I usually post the update in the first week of each month.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click the relevant month to see my other weather trackers.\u00a0 Alternatively click the Weather Tracker<\/a> hash tag below this post to see a list of all such posts.<\/p>\n