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What time of year does it warm up here?

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AndSoFinally · 15/03/2022 10:16

When in the U.K. can we expect average temperatures of at least 14 degrees ish? Can't really turn our heating off until then but not sure when that will be and trying to budget. I know it varies year on year, but as a rough guide. I can't say as I'm usually ever as invested in the ambient temperature as I am this year!

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mudgetastic · 15/03/2022 10:19

Where in the uk?
Scilly isles or Shetland ?

Ifailed · 15/03/2022 10:26

Surely you must be aware that it can be 24 degrees one day and 14 the next?
We are told that 2020 was a particularly warm year, yet I had a frost kill off plants in May. Like PP, it does depend where you live but there's no guarantee that temperatures will be above 14 for any length of time.

Nnique · 15/03/2022 10:30

It really depends where you are...

In my flat down south we used to turn ours off mid to end of March. Where we are now, in a Victorian semi, we’ll probably turn it off mid to end of April.

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outdooryone · 15/03/2022 10:38

OP - you need to say where you are.

I cycled in 2c this morning, last week was -5c at my house, and I've woken to frost in the hills in midsummer.
Being a small island our weather changes daily, and being near coast or mountains affects this even more.

So, where are you living?

SalsaLove · 15/03/2022 10:40

My definition of warm is at least 22c, so the answer is in late July for 3 days, every other year.

MissyB1 · 15/03/2022 10:44

We are south west. I usually turn the heating off first or second week of April.

AndSoFinally · 15/03/2022 10:46

I'm in south Wales. I realise it'll be different year on year, but as a vague average. Can I expect 14 degrees by mid April? Or mid June for example?

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Paranoidandroidmarvin · 15/03/2022 10:48

U can’t say. I remember a few years ago we did an Easter egg hunt in shorts and T-shirts. Then one year there was snow at the same time of year.

Ifailed · 15/03/2022 10:49

According to Wikipedia, Cardiff's daily mean temp gets above 14 degrees June - September.
The average low never gets above 14.

Cryingbutstilltrying · 15/03/2022 10:53

Depends if you want to include the overnight temperature I guess. It can get very cold in the night through into April and May but daytimes are warmer.
When I lived in Cardiff the heating ‘went off’ at Easter. I well remember being freezing cold revising for exams in May so that might have been overzealous but my parents always preferred a colder house.
Do you have the option of setting a thermostat so it comes on but only below 14, if that’s the figure you’ve decided on?

deadlanguage · 15/03/2022 10:55

Here in Berkshire it’s already warm - 14 today in fact. Haven’t had the heating on for a week.

abouttogoon · 15/03/2022 10:56

I think summer is on a Wednesday this year, not sure which Wednesday though

Sebastianthecoo · 15/03/2022 11:31

We can get snow in May here but my heating usually goes off early April till October with the odd hour in the morning if it’s really cold for DC getting ready or baths at night.

AndSoFinally · 15/03/2022 12:01

I think I'll have to just go on hoping for a warm Easter!

I do have thd thermostat set low, but every time someone walks past it they tend to push the boost function 😡. If I turn it off completely I can just hide the control box somewhere til winter

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BarbaraofSeville · 15/03/2022 12:05

@Paranoidandroidmarvin

U can’t say. I remember a few years ago we did an Easter egg hunt in shorts and T-shirts. Then one year there was snow at the same time of year.
Yes, my FB memories keep reminding me of that. I go out and visit certain work clients at certain times of year and sometimes have an hour or two to kill and one year I went for a walk on the beach, had and ice cream and got sunburnt, the second time, I had to cancel because of heavy snowfall, exactly a year to the day later. That was late March IIRC.

OP if you're in the UK, the last thing you should use as a guide to the weather is the calendar. The weather currently is quite good, beautiful for spring, but it's not impossible that we could face frost, ice, snow or simple cold, wet and miserable within the next month, such as Easter, that's often bad weather.

I remember many an Easter trip out to local beauty spots where we would have to shelter from rain or even snowstorms in doorways, under trees or in cafes.

August is also often cold, wet and Autumnal, before brightening up later in the year. In particular, I remember one year that 1 November was particularly warm and sunny.

But do you have to be all or nothing with the heating? We just have ours on a temperature setting and if the house is cold, the heating comes on, if it's not, it doesn't. Or you can boost it manually, or turn it down/off if you're not cold, away, or want to cut the cost. The calendar doesn't really come into it.

TupilaLilium · 15/03/2022 12:06

I've lived in Wales for 20 years and grew up aborad. I find it best to think about light season and dark season.

This is the beginning of light season, and it is relatively marvellous.

Mumsnet hates a cardigan - so forgive me, but I also think there is warm winter cardigan weather and lightweight cotton cardigan weather.

Somedays it may get to be 19 degrees and all of the UK will be melting. It is rarely hot. It is often damp. May and September are often very pleasant.

BarbaraofSeville · 15/03/2022 12:06

@AndSoFinally

I think I'll have to just go on hoping for a warm Easter!

I do have thd thermostat set low, but every time someone walks past it they tend to push the boost function 😡. If I turn it off completely I can just hide the control box somewhere til winter

In that case, you need to talk to that 'someone' about how energy costs have increased massively, and that they need to put a(nother) jumper on, or use other ways to keep warm.
gamerchick · 15/03/2022 12:10

Just turn it off and stick a jumper on. Mines barely been on all winter, we survived.

RuthW · 15/03/2022 12:13

It's that temperature today here. Will prob be minus 2 tomorrow

Svara · 15/03/2022 12:13

I have a thermostat and timer and know how it works but I do still turn the heating off for half the year. When it's on auto I need to remember to close windows, my bedroom window is open all of summer. If it gets cold I prefer to close windows then switch heating on for an hour than for it to click on without me realising.

ForcingSmiles · 15/03/2022 12:19

It depends where you are surely?
For example its 14 degrees today, according to my weather app it could be lows of 2 highs of 16 for the rest of the week

Rosehugger · 15/03/2022 12:20

Now.

But then often it's a False Spring and suddenly it's back to 5C again until about 25th of May.

WellNotReally · 15/03/2022 12:22

You can find all the averages here: www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/gcjszmp44

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