Sorry to bang on about this but we keep hearing that and yet
You'll keep hearing it too, at least until we get our regular(*) midwinter easterlies back. Something changed in 1997 and whatever it was it means we've had an unprecedented-in-the-last-110-years lack of easterlies.
You won't notice if you're far inland like you are, but if you're on the coast and rely on deep cold from the east to generate your snow you can't help but notice it.
2018 was a lovely reminder of what can be, but it was very short (just 3 days of noteworthy cold) and of course it was at the arse-end of winter, much like the last genuine easterly spell we had (late Feb 2005, which gave 14 days of falling snow here.)
* - by which I mean at least a couple of midwinter easterlies per decade, or more, as was the norm up to and including the 90s.
first subzero CET month since Victorian times!
I hadn't realised she was still on the throne in 1986!
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30 December 2019 13:38:41
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