If you want cold and snow head south. We are on the western edge of the Massif Central in Central France and we have had lying snow for about a week now. Got a thaw going on now though as the wind is coming from the south west, it's about 2 degrees outside. More snow forecast for next week. We are quite low down at only 478 metres above sea level, but we got about 10cms of snow, higher up they had about 40cm. Be nice to have an early spring now!

Salut! :)

Sorry are you moaning because of the snow or to inform us you have more snow than us?

And to jolly us up even more the alleged 'connection' between low solar and north atlantic blocking is a 'mirage'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0293-3

so we can no longer look to that to shut down our zonal feed and release the cold!

Where the hell is the colder air that was supposed to be arriving overnight? It didn't even drop to 2C 

This is just a sick joke. The only thing coming down from the north at this time of year should be snow not the vile and disgusting conditions being spewed out once again.

Shades of 2013/14 now with this weekend by far the worst of all the Grade A crap this winter has vomited out. It's appalling beyond words. Wet, sunless, windy. Just absolutely horrible and the 3rd Sunday this month when the conditions are too vile to even leave the house.

Being able to exercise in fresh air should be a basic human right and it's not possible in this utter toilet. ZERO quality of life in this miserable, depressing hellhole.  

It has been obvious since early January that this winter was never going to deliver and all it's doing is getting more and more depressing and intolerable. A catastrophic horror show like so many of the nasty and unpleasant rot we have suffered over the past 10 years or so.

Oh yeah? At least you've got a house in which to escape the weather. Try being homeless in winter. That might give you something to really moan about.

At least the sun would have lifted your spirits a little Rich?

Looks a lovely sunny day in Aberdeen with a light covering of snow on the beach in Aberdeen but can't make out the depth - but is it more than the 7cms? - I know that's what you;re looking to beat?

TWO much sunshine today. 

And here.

What joy.

The Met Office forecasts and warnings go from bad to worse. We currently have a warning in place for snow from 9pm tonight. Great except that the local forecast shows the precipitation (all rain with a bit of back edge sleet) has cleared through by 8pm and the rest of the night is dry and cloudy. The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing. I could write a better and more plausible warning during my half hour train ride to work.

Actually I could write one now: “There will be heavy showers of toys in the vicinity of prams this evening as the forecast 1-3cm of snow turns out to be three hours of rain followed by a couple of sleety blobs.”

Let it snow, let it fall.

Let it fall and settle.

Let it fall and fall.

Let it settle and fall,

 So Mote It Be.

Repeat times three.

Wicca Spell. 

Just light rain here. Temperature hardly falling at all. 2.3c . Band re-forming to the east of here with more intensity, as models predicted.

Edit : Sleet is falling. But little chance of anything else given the band is weakening.

After a long wait, we have the white stuff falling.

Today was rubbish IMBY

3 hours of cold rain followed by 15 minutes of snow.

This winter has been full of potential, none of which has been realised.

Very true Col. My wife helps run these church hall homeless night shelters. Like a hotel they have limited capacity - as much as I like the snow it's not easy turning someone away when it's cold and snowing

Ah well!! We now have just over another month of this completely snowless hell which is known as this "winter", left to endure. I will therefore be glad when it's all over and we move into the spring and whatever that might throw at us in terms of our weather.

This has been a winter which has promised so much. We are virtually at solar minimum and we have even had a SSW event. Yet even with those things, we are still contriving to remain on course for this winter to end up being completely snow-free in this part of the world.

You really couldn't make that one up.