Yet another putrid wet Saturday as this horror show of a winter does everything it can to wrestle the title of 'worst winter of my lifetime' from 2013/14

Current model output suggests it will win the battle with ease as there is no end in sight to the most revolting of SE'ly synoptics that have hung round like a bad smell for the past 10 days. Should be noticing an improvement in the weather by now with lengthening daylight and stronger sunlight. Fat chance of either of those things becoming apparent under these filthy and disgusting synoptics.

Hard to believe a winter as bad as this has been could get any worse never mind this much worse. Grim beyond belief when even the hunt for frost is proving fruitless. Just one in two weeks and two in the second half of winter and absolutely zero likely in the coming week

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6.6 mm of rain had fallen so far this morning, that's twice as much than what "Doris" gave us yesterday evening.     

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Quite a nice day today with sunshine and light winds. I think we're now at the point where the sun starts to have an effect on daytime temperatures. The period where large diurnal temperature ranges are possible will be here soon.

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Well, it is certainly windier than what it was yesterday, and it looks as though we still have that same weather system in place as what moved in yesterday evening (i.e. the remnants of that French storm system). Apart from the wind though, the weather wasn't too bad earlier on this morning. The Sun had come out for a while, and it had even looked as though this area of rain had already cleared away from the south, especially as the radar map as showing all of the rainfall sitting to the north of us.

Since that weather system moved in a bit quicker last night than what was originally forecast, I therefore assumed tnis system would also have moved away a bit quicker than what was originally forecast. Over the last hour or so though, it has been raining quite heavily once again and upon looking at the latest radar map, it now looks as though this sytem has actually come back southwards a bit once again, leaving us right in the midst of it and of course, I can't find a single forecast which had even hinted about any possibility of this happening since all the forecasts until now, were pointing towards an improvement in the weather as we went into the afternoon, which is clearly not happening so far.

I'm pretty sure that something similar to that happened last Saturday as well because back then, it rained throughout the morning, though never all that heavily. That rain was then forecast to clear away later on but instead of that, it actually got worse as the day wore on with the rain getting a lot heavier, and even turning to snow at higher altitudes which in turn, left quite a covering over the Pentland Hills. This clearly shows how the forecast models have such a problem predicting what the weather will be like even on the same day and if they can't even get that right, it is difficult to see how on Earth, we can be expected to trust those longer term forecasts such as those which are predicting the possibility of a Scandy High becoming more influencial by the end of next week.

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Roads, pavements and cars covered in a glaze of black ice currently. Had to hold onto the wall just to get to the front gate! Yet only  slight air frost recorded though, currently -1.1c.

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Absolutely disgusting yet again. Grey, wet and vile easterly muck and the outlook: more of the same 

Yet to go below 2C this month and more rain at weekends than weekdays this year. Not just in terms of average but in absolute terms as well. Just insufferable. The most revolting winter weather that anywhere on the planet has to endure. A living hell

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And please spare me the 'there is still time it's only late January' replies, any pattern change will only bring the Atlantic back so a cold spell is a million miles away. Check the CET record and you will see a mild December and January is NEVER followed by a cold February. The cast is set and the only relief from this miserable excuse for a winter will be the arrival of spring in 6 weeks time.

I often thought about moving to Lanzarote for my retirement but now that escape has gone due to bloody Brexit, the U.K. feels on its own these days in more ways than one.

Andy

I am reminded of this......

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Absolutely disgusting yet again. Grey, wet and vile easterly muck and the outlook: more of the same 

Yet to go below 2C this month and more rain at weekends than weekdays this year. Not just in terms of average but in absolute terms as well. Just insufferable. The most revolting winter weather that anywhere on the planet has to endure. A living hell

Didn't you experience that crack of thunder this afternoon? Apparently it was seen - or rather, felt - by most in the Aberdeen area.

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For the next week or so this site is forecasting continuous heavy snowfall - stuck in the middle of the North Sea What a waste!

 

(But there is a glimmer of hope at the end of the forecast period)

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For the life in me I just can't get excited at the prospects of a SE/E flow IMBY, unless we see some kind of Atlantic incursion then the thoughts of dry, cold and grey laden skies isn't my idea of winter nirvana.

I've just mowed my lawn, even worked up a sweat whenever the weather did brighten up (only had jogging bottoms and a cardigan on).

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Regrettably it appears we've yet again managed to dodge a decent easterly by a whisker as the low uppers and dps rapidly moderate from Sunday. No amount of analysis and abbreviations can disguise the fact that what could of been, won't. Shame but I'm not so bothered these days as my work now involves truckloads of travel and I can't be having snow disrupting my calendar 😎

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My prediction of February being catastrophically wet to rival December 2012, Winter 13/14 and January 2016 has become a reality Continuous rain since 9pm yesterday totalling 33.4mm and monthly average close to being reached already following the wet weekend. 72.2mm in the last 10 days - absolutely repulsive and almost a repeat of last January really.

Funny how the models picked up on these toxic SE winds weeks ago, and they have come off, but anything decent just keeps getting watered down until it disappears completely. Another week at least of this suicide-inducing crap to endure according to this exhibit from the Chamber of Horrors:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?LANG=en&CEL=C&SI=mph&CONT=ukuk&LAND=UK&REGION=0003&WMO=03091&LEVEL=52&R=0&NOREGION=1 

As vile a forecast as it’s possible to get with almost zero sunshine over the next week, stupid amounts of rain and another write-off weekend worse than the last one. The snow will be flurries at best and I doubt the temperature will even get to -2C due to cloud. In any case even if what’s shown does transpire it’ll only equal what was recorded in the week of 2-8 May 2015. An absolute disgrace for February and in no way constitutes a cold spell.

Could there be any worse a synoptic chart than this nauseating, mind-numbing rubbish? http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1321.gif and when we finally get rid of the SE’ly muck we end up with drizzly mild dross spewing in off the Atlantic courtesy of a high sitting in the wrong place yet again when it should be to the NW http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn3121.gif

Absolute torture from a February hell-bent on rivalling the record breaking dull and wet write-offs of 1923 and 1994

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I honestly feel concerned for your mental well-being, Richard.
Have you ever thought of moving to Canada? 😂

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Wow what a turn up, another borefest cold snap blink and you miss it fiasco.
Roll on spring, this winter is utter pants.

Just typical...when we do eventually get a blocking pattern with a Scandi high the temps in the Baltic region are pretty balmy by their standards, even in Moscow it's only -2degC...! hence all the UK will get is a couple of chilly days with patchy rain for most, before it all breaks down and winter will have eluded us once again...maybe for good...!!! lordy...we just can't catch a break...

It's been a bit like this trying to get a cold spell into the UK this winter - this is my head most mornings after looking at the model runs:

https://www.facebook.com/wtfwatchofficial/videos/344218495963608/ 

😂😂

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Real cold spells always come out of the blue. We have scared them away with our weather models. Winter 16/17 will be remembered as a dire season that promised so much and delivered NIL!

Not even one snow flurry here that lasted more than half an hour. No snow cover for over four years now 

Was really hoping to show my 3yr old snow this year.... oh well, there's always next winter :)

Well, one bit of good news: if the models are to be believed, I won't need to worry about changing the duvet cover next week, cos it'll be going in the cupboard till next "winter"

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