“This outcome was always clear to me, a cold spell was never looking likely and shame on you sad little people for getting excited about it. You’ll never learn”.

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THIS! 😂😂😂

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’I’ll get my **** (insert as appropriate).’

On that note, I’ll get my (thesaurus) 😎

"At least it will be mild".

"I never bought into it like everyone else did"

"The razor blades will be out"

Surely it's already got a name hasn't it? Isn't it called the positive phase of the AMO?

From what I've read about it, doesn't it also answer all the other posts on this topic (death of the Easterly, no decent snow IMBY since 1995 etc.) which carry the same sentiment but aren't obsessed with repeating a label they claim to have invented?

In my simplistic view there's nothing 'broken' and no reason to assume it won't switch negative again.

The increased background warmth presumably explains why more records are seen to be broken in this current phase, with the reason for this warmth and whether it will continue, or possibly even decline, the subject of an entirely different debate. 

To answer the original thread topic, any terminology that states there's 'something wrong' in the nature of winters of the last 30 years!

"just one run"

"the train isn't coming til you can see the train"

"slider low"

"Kettley High"

"it will feel bitterly cold" (when the max temperature is around 7 or 8c and its windy.)

As far as I know, the last major switch in the AMO when the current positive phase began was around 20 years ago, which happened to coincide with a major El Nino event at the time.

Usually another way of saying I am right

2012/ 2013 did prove that patience is sometimes needed though.

"Still there's always March. Remember March 2013?"

"Euro Slug" when referring to a euro high - just say euro high! Grrrrr....

That narks me that one. Just look at the CETs for the other two months. 

In other words - south of the Cairngorms, it's looking zonal for the next 3 weeks.

Easterly

1995 according to this. Does kinda fit. So only about another 7 years to wait! 

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/noaa-releases-2017-hurricane-outlook-atlantic-ocean

'Mildfest'

This is a weird dislike, I know, but..."Chilly"

Can't explain it, but just hate that word! (In all walks of life, not just on here)

Two with an IMBY slant:

"Cold zonality". No such thing if you live in Kent... at least, not since the 1980s.

"Northerly" - rare beasts in winter. Whenever people go on about them, it normally equates to a NW'ly flow down here!

My post saying “easterly” was shorter.