Whats happened to the spring?

[HM Honey]

So we are now on 21st March and it might as well be 1st January.....

Up here in Wakefield, Its 0 degrees and we are told to expect severe snow tomorrow and saturday....

What on earth is going on? Why did I chose the worst year ever to take up beekeeping.........

 

[Tom Bick]

I am in the south east and its a bit grim but is it really all that bad?

 

[MJBee]

Cheer up, IF it has been the worst year ever it can only get better shirley

 

[itma]

I am in the south east and its a bit grim but is it really all that bad?

It will be tomorrow ...

 

[MuswellMetro]

I am in the south east and its a bit grim but is it really all that bad?

looking at old records it a similar weather pattern to march 1909 ,

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/c/3/Mar1909.pdf

if it follows the same patterns then April and May will be back to normal

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/c/p/Apr1909.pdf
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/d/k/May1909.pdf

but july was awful ..BUT WHO KNOWS what the future will bring

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Travelling back from Birmingham airport Tuesday and i could see a bit of green in the hedgerows - the hawthorn was beginning to show green shoots; Surely a harbinger of spring I thought - then i got closer to home and on Resolven mountain - SNOW! can't do anything in the garden apart from take a chainsaw to the hedge (was more than a bit overgrown so it's an ill wind.......)

 

[Tom Bick]

looking at old records it a similar weather pattern to march 1909 ,

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/c/3/Mar1909.pdf

if it follows the same patterns then April and May will be back to normal

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/c/p/Apr1909.pdf
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/d/k/May1909.pdf

but july was awful ..BUT WHO KNOWS what the future will bring

Perhaps and I bet very similar to many other years Geoff but the news and radio is very good in trying to qualify things and all I have heard or quoted to be is its been the wettest March in ten years?? Big deal.

 

[REDWOOD]

I can remember in 2000 I went camping in April (think it was the first week) It was bl@@dy freezing, someone mentioned it was warmer Christmas time, so hang on when warm weather comes the winter is soon forgotten especially when we are perspiring in our bee suits

 

[Ely]

I'm hoping this change in weather to the last few years means a change in summer to the last few years. Here's hoping

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[mbc]

I'm hoping this change in weather to the last few years means a change in summer to the last few years. Here's hoping

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I like the positive spin on this seriously depressing weather

At least the days are getting longer.

 

[Luminos]

20 degrees forecast for tomorrow here

 

[beesknee]

march weather

So we are now on 21st March and it might as well be 1st January.....

Up here in Wakefield, Its 0 degrees and we are told to expect severe snow tomorrow and saturday....

What on earth is going on? Why did I chose the worst year ever to take up beekeeping.........

pretty normal for march as I remember them, used to start lambing on 8 march and always seemed to be bad weather,cold, snow, sleet,rain,but april was usually good, last year summer in march?rest of year crapp,I think this year will be much better,more normal well we can all hope?

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

20 degrees forecast for tomorrow here

Sadist.

D

 

[beeno]

I am in the south east and its a bit grim but is it really all that bad?

Yes Tom! If you have your bee hat on it is. Let's face it it would blow off at the minute and by the time you find it in the morning it would be frozen to the ground!

 

[Hivemaker.]

Best to make the most of this little bit of inclement weather while it lasts, pretty normal weather really, unlike last March.

 

[mbc]

I suppose it would be a bit of a waste to have all the warm weather before the dandelions are out.

 

[Ely]

Snowdrops and crocus' are going to waste. I remember last year walking through the church yard next door seeing hundreds of my bees working them all. Nevermind, at least they'll have a long hot summer.

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[Into the lions den]

Late springs tend to compress the season and there are fewer gaps. This year it is an issue because of there being too many small colonies, so thy could have done with an early opening up of the season.

However.......for those with LONG memories...............1976

Our first cricket match in JUNE was snowed off on the Saturday, by the Wednesday it was beautiful and warm, even hot..................and it stayed that way till late August.

1947 was famous with the old stagers. We had a massive blizzard on 23rd March I think (maybe it was 27th). Even trains were stuck in the drifts (there s a famous photo taken at a spot called Aucterhouse, of a s team train stuck in the snow that year). It is said that they did not see the ground again till May, there was so much snow and frost lasting through April. Apparently it ended up a pretty decent honey year.

So, what can we tell about the future based on this weather? Nothing!

 

[RogueDrone]

Spring will come in its own time nothing we can do about it. Whinging Pom's

 

[enrico]

Just looked out of the window.....oh no! snow on the ground again!