So where are you then?

Those are great Brian.

Ah, snowdrops. Sign of Spring. A reminder that it's a great to time split clumps into single bulbs and replant just after flowering.

Failed to bring hard frosts with grass min at -11.2C before the snow events arrive which will help to settled well and follow by very heavy snow instead of heavy rain follow by moderate snow before petering out leaving more colder nights and sunny days.

This one was too high temps, slush puppy snowfall follow by useless hard frosts later on without snow cover.

Sadly this nasty winter killer HP gloom and wet are now here to stay foreseeable despite stupid app showing full sun today, they were severely wrong during the cold spell non-stop.

Lowest overnight temp was -4.1c, which is chilly for MBY but not unusually so. 

Looks like a fairly gradual warm up towards average and no wet weather to speak off for a while, so a gentle end to things rather than the abrupt switch to wet and windy we often see. 

Finished off with some ice days and severe overnight frosts.  8/10.

If I lived 5 miles south it would have been 8/10 with 12 days of frozen snow and blue sky in The Pentlands, managed to experience that on 2 days walking up there

If I lived back in West Yorkshire/Dales it would have been 9/10 with 12 days of deep snow and blue sky

Edinburgh is an unremarkable place for interesting weather!

In a way you can have too much snow. More than about 10cm if it lies for long becomes a nuisance - there is usually lots of ice and rutted frozen snow which makes getting round difficult. It's great to watch it fall, and see it on the ground for a couple of days but after a while it gets a bit wearing. This spell we had about 5-7cm throughout here, and that was almost perfect - it was easy to get around and didn't really get in the way of getting on with daily life.

It has also been slightly tempered by knowing a week in advance almost to the hour at which the cold spell would come to an end - the models are too good!

Well done for realising that Edinburgh just doesn't generally get interesting weather, especially in comparison with elsewhere in the UK.

That is what I have been saying all along for quite some time on this forum.

If I were comparing it to my whole life so far, including the 80s and 90s, it would have barely scraped a 2/10. That's mainly for the frost persisting and building up over several days, plus the freezing fog yesterday - something which is and always has been rare here.

But it's not the 80s or 90s any more, snow on the ground at 9 AM is now a 1-in-4 or 5 year event, and as such measuring it against the past 15 years comes up with a much higher result - 7/10, I would say. Points gained for:

* A brief dusting of snow at half past midnight right at the start - good job I had my Nest cam going! That made it the snowiest spell for 4 years.

* More than the traditional "three frosts and it wets itself" type of cold spell (it started off that way, had a blip, then came back even colder).

* Frost persisting on the lawn for three days, ending up looking for all the world like a heavy dusting of snow (even down to the "crunch" as you walk on it). Ice developed on ponds etc and stayed there throughout the coldest part of the spell.

* An interesting transition to and from the mild blip on Sunday/Monday - going from 5 to 11 in just an hour or so on the way up, and 11 to 4 in an hour on the way down. Shame about the gales that accompanied the latter!

* A 3-day 1-minute mean temperature of -0.9, and a 4-day of -0.2 - very unusual these days.

* Freezing fog and rime

* A daytime max of 1.0 - as close to an ice day as you're going to get without snow on the ground.

And above all, it actually *felt* like winter - for 10 glorious cold days, plus the day or so where it reverted to autumn and then went back to winter, a remarkable experience and more like a Continental climate than the good old UK. The run up to it was good, as well, and more widely there was noteworthy cold in the north. I've enjoyed it very much, and I think it's about as good as you could get without a proper snow covering.

For those wondering what would give a higher score, a few inches of snow would add a point, an ice day would add a second and the third and final one would come from an easterly/northerly reload.

Temperatures were beyond diabolical. Only four nights as low as -2.5C and many nights struggled to get below zero at all despite clear skies most nights and maxima of only 0-2C. Shocking for the heart of winter and the worst of any spell of comparative length, apart from January 2013, which was mostly overcast yet still managed a lower extreme.

No ice days which even last December, one of the mildest on record, achieved with no snow on the ground. The absolute low was only 1.3C lower than Decembers despite the snow. Just pathetic.

It doesn't matter what set-up it now produces almost non-existent temperature variation and diurnal ranges. Beyond tedious.

The winter so far has 2008/09 vibes about it down here. We haven't seen quite the low overnight temperatures that winter had.. yet.

February 2009 delivered some decent snow for some down here, Portsmouth even had a dusting 😂

It never really got going here.

After a deposit from the 'slush puppy', thanks Jiries, the frosts were no more than a hiccup here.

After a deposit from the 'slush puppy', thanks Jiries, the frosts were no more than a hiccup here.