LAST DAY OF WINTER.

Wind NW. Varying Sc Cu bits, fair amount of sun.

Began to chill out about 9.30am, when I reached the roundabout on the outskirts of Ipswich, and got the idea that I wasn't going to work. Sky dirty, with dark Cu bits below high pearly grey As, but even that had a special beauty.

0900. 8 As with dark Cu bits below, light wind. Gradually 8 Sc, more wind. Very cold.

0900. Wind E, cold, 3 Sc bits, bright sun. Gradually to 8 Sc by 1500.

Bright sunny day - one of those hard-edged, windy, cold sunny winter days that feel over-exposed and headachy. Wind NE, 3-6 low Cu all day.
Very cold in wind, warm in sun.

0700. 8 low Sc again, 1°C, wind E, very cold, but more sun-breaks today.

Coating of snow on the ground first thing, and wet snow falling. Deployed thermal leggings.

0700. Snow overnight. 8 Sc, wind NE, snowing.
Snow continues, growing wetter, stops about noon.

0700. 8 Ns/Sc, rain, 3°C, wind NE, very cold.
Rain stops, 8 Sc all day, wind perhaps round to E.

0700 8 Sc 2°C Wind NE, very cold. Sun breaks, but heavy rain in the morning.
1600. 8 Sc with pannus, light rain.

0800 8 S/Sc. 5°C. Wind NE. Cold.
Sun-breaks, but
1600 8 Sc, cold rain.

8 S/Sc all day. Colder

Frost 0800, but Blue Skies, av 5 large Cu.
Sun warm.

Varying amounts of Cu and Sc bits all day.
As little as 3 Cu in the afternoon.
Wind W, light.

Some real sunshine today: blue sky and white cumulus, then dark clouds and a heavy shower, then back again. It's still obviously late winter, but it resembles spring.

Odd feeling of happiness on the bus home, with a powerful westering sun shining up through yellow-grey horizon clouds. Warmer weather revives my feelings of 'spaciousness' - I'm not sealed in a tiny bubble of in-clothes warmth when I'm outside.

Mostly 3 Cu, wind NW, sun, heavy shower c.1330
More shower clouds seen later, but 4.

Much rain overnight
0800 8 S drizzle
Wind W. Then 0 at times Sun
More cloud mostly

0700. 5°C, wind NW, 8 Sc thinning
More sun till
1600. 4 Sc chunks, wind SW. Warmer

0700. 5°C, wind NW, 8 Sc thinning
More sun till
1600. 4 Sc chunks, wind SW. Warmer

0700 8 Sc. 9°C
Wind light N. Glimpses of Ci, but
1600 8 dark Sc.

0700 8 Sc. 9°C
Wind light N. Glimpses of Ci, but
1600 8 dark Sc.

8 all day, rain all day.
Warmer.

Rather an evocative dull Saturday afternoon with long high stratocumulus.

Wind W, warmer, 'large' dark Sc

Mostly grey, festoon clouds 1600, cold

0700. Clear. Bright sun. Wind N, very cold.
Slightly more cloud in day

Clear. Sun. Wind NW. Never more than 2, flat Cu bits. Warmer (4°C 0730)

First proper 'evening' of the year, with an orange sun sinking into open sky at the trailing edge of the clouds about 4.30. When you go home in the dark in the winter it's as if evening hasn't happened - just day, then night.

0700 8 S, wind NW, warmer.
1700. 6 S, sun free at W edge, wind SW.
2000 Wind stronger

8 S, very light wind, same all day.

0900. 8 S
1100. Sun break
6 S
Overcast again rest of day

8 S all day. Cold

0700. 8 S. Wind very light. Very cold -1°C.
Same all day.

CANDLEMAS. GROUNDHOG DAY. 0700. 8 ripple S. Very cold -1°C. Wind very light. Mist.
Same all day.

0700. 8 S/Sc Wind much lighter NE.
1300 Almost sunbreak, but not quite.