Despite clear skies last night and a good dry air mass, the temperature did not fall below 2.4c here last night, which is actually above the monthly mean minima for Feb.

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So we are just saying goodbye to the latest attempt at anything wintery in this country and despite one or two on here getting excited in the run up to the latest non event, it was garbage, a bit of snow, sleet, drizzle and even in the best places barely a covering ...in my location, not even a frost from the bitter easterly and in the coming days an early Feb easterly with winds gusting to 40-50mph and temps of 9-10c....what the f**k is going on?.....does it get any worse?

From a meteorological point of view, you could definately argue that this has been a very poor attempt at an easterly. IMBY, the lowest temperature I have recorded has been 1C and brief, light snow flurries is all I could manage. No frost and no snow cover, despite it feeling very cold today in that bitter gale-force wind. For winter lovers, that must be the final nail in the coffin for winter 2016-17 (apart from the opportunities that early spring can still hold, mind you).

From a personal and selfish point of view, it has been a "good" winter easterly for me. No accumulating snow and no frost, which I'm glad to have finally missed for once. Still, that bitter easterly gale was pretty unpleasant though.

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Today saw some of the sunniest skies this month:

 

This is no joke. A whopping 38 minutes worth taking the monthly total to the dizzy heights of 15.2 hours.

That was before we got more drizzly cold rain showers and the temperature has been stuck between 2 and 4C all day. Winter at it's vilest courtesy of the ever-loathed easterly

 

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Still on 15.2 hours after yet another disgusting day of sunless SE’ly murk and flatlining temperatures. So bad it's like there's been no change in light levels since the solstice  

Even my weather station is so sick fed up of this dross it took a half hour nap this afternoon:

I know the feeling as I only managed as far as the next five days of model output before I nodded off 

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Yet another snowless winter draws to a close. We had one thin dusting that lasted a few hours and that was it. We actually had less snow than last winter which is some achievement as that was practically snowless too. It's now over 4 years since we had a proper fall of snow. I can't remember such a long snowless period, even in the mild winters of the 90s and early 00s we usually had at least one decent snowfall.

This winter has also been really bad in the complete lack of any weather of interest. At least last winter we had some big storms, downpours, even thunderstorms. This winter.. nothing. It seems it's been week after week of average temperatures, cloud, fog at night and light winds. I can only hope we get some good thunderstorms come summer so we finally have something interesting happening. The entire past year of weather has been really boring IMO.

This winter has also been really bad in the complete lack of any weather of interest. At least last winter we had some big storms, downpours, even thunderstorms. This winter.. nothing. It seems it's been week after week of average temperatures, cloud, fog at night and light winds. I can only hope we get some good thunderstorms come summer so we finally have something interesting happening. The entire past year of weather has been really boring IMO.

 

 

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I seriously envy those who have been lucky enough to have been blessed with four completely snowless winters on the trot. Annoying how my area can't get one of those. I'm only 93m above sea level after all. Even the winter of 2013-14 failed to do it with half an hour of the rubbish on one evening in February.

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The weather here just gets more and more boring, depressing, non-eventful and uninteresting with each year that passes. Worst of all is the rotten weekend weather and we are now into the 4th year of enduring worse weekend weather than weekday something that there is no rational explanation for.

 

Saturday Sunshine Hours with weekdays in brackets

2014: 3.54hrs (3.87hrs)

2015: 4.05hrs (4.57hrs)

2016: 3.91hrs (3.99hrs)

2017: 2.62hrs (2.99hrs)

 

Saturday Rainfall mm with weekdays in brackets

2014: 2.69mm (2.23mm)

2015: 2.87mm (1.91mm)

2016: 2.78mm (2.08mm)

2017: 4.33mm (2.07mm)

 

Just ridiculous with a significant difference in each of the past three years and it keeps on getting worse. Friday on the other hand, which had notably poor weather last year, is so far the sunniest day this year whereas the ghastly Saturdays just go on and on

Today is the fourth crap Saturday in a row and it's just intolerable when this is the fourth such run in 15 months. It's grey, it's overcast and 9.6C following a min of 6.2C. Utterly awful weather. I just can't see what anyone, either a member of the public or weather enthusiast, could get out of this. It's just soul destroying

 

 

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Richard, may I ask how you record sunshine totals? is it possible to do this with an add on for the Davis V2 pro?

No sun at all here the last few days and I really need some to kick my Pro 2 back into life, as the 'supercap' is gone caput so the station will only transmit data when there is sunshine . Going to cost me 150 quid to replace the ISS transmitter, but given that it is 11 years old now I suppose it is time for an upgrade.

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Experiencing the curse of the sea fog at this time of the year.

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Nearest reporting official station (which records sunshine) to me recorded a whopping 0.8hrs (or 45 minutes) of sunshine over the entirety of the last 7 days   and I'd well believe it. The sun came out yesterday afternoon here for literally 10 seconds before disappearing again for the day. To be honest, it isn't the lack of sun that bothers me, but despite the fact that it has rained very little, the place is just so damp and dreary and soggy, and made all the more depressing by the constant blanket of white grey low maritime stratus. And looking at the forecast, even more of this to come for the entirety of coming working week. C'mon weather gods, give me a fecking break! Am I not chastised enough by now?

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Current cam image from Moycullen weather, a nearby weather station website. Sums up the vista here since last Monday.

 

'Going to be a fine, fine, sunshiny day'.

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no heatwave here, there is a breeze with lught drizzle. Sunday was not upto much shakes either, so saturday was the nicest day when the sun made an appearance.

17C today, what a waste of winter.

At least there's some nice cold eye-candy on display in the models, but it's the same old mirage stuff... it'll take more than a vague northerly waft at this time of year to get anything of interest down here.

I saw more snow (on the mountains) in Japan when I went there in December than we've had here this winter.

While I've all but given up on ever seeing powder snow and icicles down here again, it *would* be nice to get a whole centimetre of snow... last seen in January 2013 here.

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Already set a new record winter min back on 31st Dec with a foul 11.1C and less than two months later it’s broken with a ridiculous 11.6C to be followed by a crap, cloudy and windy day with a max of 14C: akin to the worst days of summer. It’s not welcome then and it’s not welcome now. No doubt we’ll be seeing several summer maxes below 11.6C even in July. Pretty much a given in this putrid era of seasonless dross

After the last few winters I didn’t think it was possible to get an even worse winter then we get this stinking pile of muck. After two months of this stinking muck I thought it couldn’t be possible to get even worse, then we get this month which is so bad as to defy classification

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Already set a new record winter min back on 31st Dec with a foul 11.1C and less than two months later it’s broken with a ridiculous 11.6C to be followed by a crap, cloudy and windy day with a max of 14C: akin to the worst days of summer. It’s not welcome then and it’s not welcome now. No doubt we’ll be seeing several summer maxes below 11.6C even in July. Pretty much a given in this putrid era of seasonless dross

After the last few winters I didn’t think it was possible to get an even worse winter then we get this stinking pile of muck. After two months of this stinking muck I thought it couldn’t be possible to get even worse, then we get this month which is so bad as to defy classification

would a fetid mire of effluent do it?

 

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So winter goes out with a final 'kick in the teeth' as the snow promised for Cumbria today shifts a 100 miles north into Scotland leaving the County to enjoy another day of rain.

Oh well at least this pathetic excuse for a winter is nearly over and we won't have to chase dream FI charts any longer, instead I can get my life back and do something else.

Whether is GW or not winters in the UK have got disproportionately warmer compared to any other season over the last 30 years, it's a shame we haven't seen a similar rise in summer temperatures during the same period!

I thought the winters of the 1990's were bad but every winter of that decade had at least 4 days with lying snow here, but it looks like 2017 will the the third winter without ANY lying snow in the past 11 years! That is a remarkable set of snowless winters, Penrith has snowfall data going back to 1903 and until 2006 no winter in history had been totally snowless!

Other parts of the Country are equally affected, I fully understand Richard's frustration in Aberdeen, that used to be the snow Capital of the U.K. and home of the Polar Low but now snow is a rare luxury in a place just a few hundred miles from Norway!!

Its crap, crap, crap, 

Iam as mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!

Andy 

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So winter goes out with a final 'kick in the teeth' as the snow promised for Cumbria today shifts a 100 miles north into Scotland leaving the County to enjoy another day of rain.

Oh well at least this pathetic excuse for a winter is nearly over and we won't have to chase dream FI charts any longer, instead I can get my life back and do something else.

Whether is GW or not winters in the UK have got disproportionately warmer compared to any other season over the last 30 years, it's a shame we haven't seen a similar rise in summer temperatures during the same period!

I thought the winters of the 1990's were bad but every winter of that decade had at least 4 days with lying snow here, but it looks like 2017 will the the third winter without ANY lying snow in the past 11 years! That is a remarkable set of snowless winters, Penrith has snowfall data going back to 1903 and until 2006 no winter in history had been totally snowless!

Other parts of the Country are equally affected, I fully understand Richard's frustration in Aberdeen, that used to be the snow Capital of the U.K. and home of the Polar Low but now snow is a rare luxury in a place just a few hundred miles from Norway!!

Its crap, crap, crap, 

Iam as mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!

Andy 

 

One of the crappiest winters I can remember - no lying snow at all, and just the odd brief snowfall (which was actually most frequently graupel). I think what's made it feel worse is having the blocks for a good winter seemingly in place, and indeed having some great output at times, only for promising charts to evaporate a few days out.

One point I will take issue with you on is the comparison of winters in the 90's to the 00's/10's. I don't doubt what you say is absolutely the case for Cumbria, but IMBY, late 80's and 90's winters seemed much poorer than what we've had since 2000, when we seem to have had snow falling & sticking most years. Perhaps we've just been lucky (or perhaps I've just been taking more notice!). Obviously, we've had some snowless stinkers, too, but also quite a few good (10cm+) snowfalls.

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