From It's Grim Up North:
The recent trend of chilly winters has continued, with figures showing that this season has been the fourth in the last five years to be colder than average. As the 2012/13 winter draws to a close, Met Office statistics for the UK revealed the season was 0.4C cooler than mean temperatures.
Over the last five years, only last winter saw the mercury rise above the 3.3C (38F) average - taken from 30 years of statistics from 1981. The Met Office news blog said: "For the winter as a whole, the UK mean temperature of 3.3C makes it milder than 2008/09 (3.2C/37.8F), 2009/10 (1.6C/34.9F) and 2010/11 (2.4C/36.3F), but colder than 2011/12 (4.6C/40.3F).
All in all, I preferred global warming (like in the late 1990s, early 2000s) when everybody's lawn died in the summer, it was a small price and one worth paying.
UPDATE: Sobers says it's all something to do with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Or perhaps this is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
Big Green Bills
2 hours ago
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As the snow covereth the land and people crouch in front of fires burning on the wreckage of bureaucratic offices.
Lawns died considerable more in the 60s and 70s, there were far drier summers in those days. Its all down to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation - it was constantly negative in the 60s and 70s, and we got very dry summers (the glorious summers of the youth of anyone over the age of 45) and has become severely positive in the 00s, hence the wet summers. The previous time it was as positive was the 50s which were very wet summers as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amo_timeseries_1856-present.svg
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/actualmonthly
It looks as if the 60s and 70s were a little bit drier than the 80s, but there were some outliers - such as 1976.
I've got my own well point. It's never been dry. I don't know whether that was relevant, but I thought I'd post it anyway.
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