We don’t want to lose this thread so here goes......

Another Scandi block fails to deliver anything of note IMBY, I really hope if the projected SSW takes place we end up with a block over Greenland, failing that mild SW zephyrs please. 😜

We don’t want to lose this thread so here goes......

Another Scandi block fails to deliver anything of note IMBY, I really hope if the projected SSW takes place we end up with a block over Greenland, failing that mild SW zephyrs please. 😜

Don't worry, I'm sure that richardabn will have plenty to say on this thread in the very near future.

Anyway, my moan that we have now come to the end of a so-called "cold" spell in winter which in this neck of the woods, failed to deliver even a single official air frost as all too often, too much wind and/or too much cloud just kept on resulting the temperatures refusing to drop at night because of that.

Now, this spell of weather is ending with prospects of a possible snow/freezing rain event which is now looking as though this will just end up being one big massive non-event here in one of the boring parts of the UK on average when it comes to our weather.

Beyond that, we then go into yet another Atlantic driven spell of milder weather in the run-up to yet another Christmas.

Of course, we had some really mild weather at times at this time last year as well. However, we at least got our first official ice day at around this time last year and always had at least one official air frost during last winter's colder spells. On top of that, we even had some snow by this time last year even though we had to wait quite a bit longer here to get that, than almost everyone else in the UK.

When you add all that up, you have to say that this winter so far has been quite a major disappointment compared to the same period during last winter. We can only therefore hope that whatever happens after any SSW event which happens at around Christmas will more than make up for that during the rest of this winter.

 

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Looking nailed on for another Xmas with particularly crap weather. 

I know 2009 and 2010 were rarities,  but they showed just how brilliant it is when we do get a snowy lead-up.

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Looking nailed on for another Xmas with particularly crap weather. 

I know 2009 and 2010 were rarities,  but they showed just how brilliant it is when we do get a snowy lead-up.

Looking twice as snowy as 2009 in this neck of the woods!

(twice absolutely nothing being still absolutely nothing )

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A decent day today - bright, dry and not too cold. Makes a change from a lot of the rain this month has seen so far.

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Even last year, there was some snow here in Edinburgh on Christmas night which was enough to technically, make that a white Christmas in this part of the world. However, it doesn't look as though we are going to see anything like that this year according to the latest model output.

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For the second time in three years we have made it into the second half of December without so much as a flake of snow falling

Just what is there to enjoy about winter nowadays? It's just an ordeal. It just an endless cycle of miserable soul destroying garbage. All it does is alternate between crap cold windy westerlies that give temperatures around 5-6C by day and 1-2C by night with occasional frost, and horrendous totally vile muck from the SE quadrant that gives temperatures around 6-8C by day with 1C diurnal ranges and nothing approaching a frost

It's just stupefyingly  boring rubbish. We don't even see proper mild any more because instead of getting SW'lies delivering 10-15C with broken cloud, lenticulars and good sunsets we get the putrid SE'ly filth instead. It's not reached 10C once all month but there's been just three frosts the last of which was almost a week ago 

This morning we got no air frost, despite the sky being clear, yet still had to suffer icy pavements - another undesirable that seems to have increased in frequency recently despite the ridiculous reduction in air frosts. Tonight the wind is back in the most toxic of quarters again and instead of seeing a fall the temperature is doing what I detest the most and rising sharply, despite it being several hours past sunset. No doubt it will reach double figures during the night only to be much colder during the day. The sort of nonsense that happens all the time these days.

This horror is every bit as poor as 2013/14 but it started even earlier. It's barely stopped raining in the last four weeks, the vast majority of days have seen no sun or under an hour, and the ground is saturated. It's as if the drought earlier this year never happened.

There is little doubt that this is the most repellent winter weather that anywhere has to endure. Completely unacceptable 

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For the second time in three years we have made it into the second half of December without so much as a flake of snow falling

Just what is there to enjoy about winter nowadays? It's just an ordeal. It just an endless cycle of miserable soul destroying garbage. All it does is alternate between crap cold windy westerlies that give temperatures around 5-6C by day and 1-2C by night with occasional frost, and horrendous totally vile muck from the SE quadrant that gives temperatures around 6-8C by day with 1C diurnal ranges and nothing approaching a frost

It's just stupefyingly  boring rubbish. We don't even see proper mild any more because instead of getting SW'lies delivering 10-15C with broken cloud, lenticulars and good sunsets we get the putrid SE'ly filth instead. It's not reached 10C once all month but there's been just three frosts the last of which was almost a week ago 

This morning we got no air frost, despite the sky being clear, yet still had to suffer icy pavements - another undesirable that seems to have increased in frequency recently despite the ridiculous reduction in air frosts. Tonight the wind is back in the most toxic of quarters again and instead of seeing a fall the temperature is doing what I detest the most and rising sharply, despite it being several hours past sunset. No doubt it will reach double figures during the night only to be much colder during the day. The sort of nonsense that happens all the time these days.

This horror is every bit as poor as 2013/14 but it started even earlier. It's barely stopped raining in the last four weeks, the vast majority of days have seen no sun or under an hour, and the ground is saturated. It's as if the drought earlier this year never happened.

There is little doubt that this is the most repellent winter weather that anywhere has to endure. Completely unacceptable 

As recently as 2006 I envied the Aberdeen winter climate. I'm not sure what's happened up there but winters are definitely not the same anymore. Even here in balmy SE Kent I've witnessed 3 days since mid November with snow falling (insignificant of course).

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What is there to enjoy about the UK in late 2018?

A country divided by Brexit, the laughing stock of the civilised world and enduring yet another mild miserable winter.

I Have been posting on TWO since 2002 and with a few exceptions winters in the UK are relentlessly crap, it's all so predictable and all so utterly boring.

This is my last Bartlett Winter, this time next year God willing I will be living in Spain where the usual Bartlett High is most welcome 

Until then is just one more deep easterly too much to ask?

Andy

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What is there to enjoy about the UK in late 2018?

A country divided by Brexit, the laughing stock of the civilised world and enduring yet another mild miserable winter.

I Have been posting on TWO since 2002 and with a few exceptions winters in the UK are relentlessly crap, it's all so predictable and all so utterly boring.

This is my last Bartlett Winter, this time next year God willing I will be living in Spain where the usual Bartlett High is most welcome 

Until then is just one more deep easterly too much to ask?

Andy

Ruddy hell Andy how’s anyone suppose to compete with that moan. 😁

I don't mind the rain, and yes, it goes get gloomy from time to time, but what I am already bored of this winter is the southerly gale-type wind which I'm experiencing yet again. I can't even seem to go through a week without experiencing that howling through the house and blowing a draught through the tiniest gap.

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Repulsive weather - coldest nighttime min has been +0.5c here in Exeter - we only had two frosts and most melted by midnight - it's not reached freezing let alone got below freezing! No snow of course! We had colder night time mins in October think the 26th or 27th where we plummeted to -3c . Clearly Autumn continues!

Past 2 weeks it's been overcast dull, wet and windy days - its is the worse December I can remember for a long time for cold ...because even if we don't get the snow at least we usually get several days of frost...or cold crisp nights but no nothing so far! It's rained every day since 3rd of December.
SICK weather!

(At least Scotland had snow) - my friend visited Balama last weekend and got a good 2-3cms 1' of snow last Saturday night/Sunday morning!

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What is there to enjoy about the UK in late 2018?

A country divided by Brexit, the laughing stock of the civilised world and enduring yet another mild miserable winter.

I Have been posting on TWO since 2002 and with a few exceptions winters in the UK are relentlessly crap, it's all so predictable and all so utterly boring.

This is my last Bartlett Winter, this time next year God willing I will be living in Spain where the usual Bartlett High is most welcome 

Until then is just one more deep easterly too much to ask?

Andy

Yep! 

Repulsive weather - coldest nighttime min has been +0.5c here in Exeter - we only had two frosts and most melted by midnight - it's not reached freezing let alone got below freezing! No snow of course! We had colder night time mins in October think the 26th or 27th where we plummeted to -3c . Clearly Autumn continues!

Past 2 weeks it's been overcast dull, wet and windy days - its is the worse December I can remember for a long time for cold ...because even if we don't get the snow at least we usually get several days of frost...or cold crisp nights but no nothing so far! It's rained every day since 3rd of December.
SICK weather!

(At least Scotland had snow) - my friend visited Balama last weekend and got a good 2-3cms 1' of snow last Saturday night/Sunday morning!

Don`t worry Tally, at least it will be mild  14c forecast over the weekend and maybe a bbq xmas.

Repulsive weather - coldest nighttime min has been +0.5c here in Exeter - we only had two frosts and most melted by midnight - it's not reached freezing let alone got below freezing! No snow of course! We had colder night time mins in October think the 26th or 27th where we plummeted to -3c . Clearly Autumn continues!

Past 2 weeks it's been overcast dull, wet and windy days - its is the worse December I can remember for a long time for cold ...because even if we don't get the snow at least we usually get several days of frost...or cold crisp nights but no nothing so far! It's rained every day since 3rd of December.
SICK weather!

(At least Scotland had snow) - my friend visited Balama last weekend and got a good 2-3cms 1' of snow last Saturday night/Sunday morning!

Of course, you could always move to Edinburgh which according to all of the reports which I've been reading on both the CC and Precipitation Watch threads, appears to be the only location in the whole of the UK where it has been drier than average during this month so far. Everywhere else until now has been wetter than average and in a number of places, significantly so. Clearly, there has to be some scientific reason why the rainfall patterns for here during this month have been so different from what they  are like in the rest of UK and why we're just not getting anything like as much rain here as what the rest of the UK is getting, yet no-one on this forum has been able to shed any light so far into why that might be the case.

However, that is also another reason why if you did ever move to Edinburgh, you would also be moving to the most boring part of the UK in terms of our weather where very little of anything that is even remotely interesting ever happens. What happens in terms of our rainfall is that when it rains here, the amounts which I am reporting are usually so small that it actually makes the process of reporting that, rather tedious and boring after a while.

 

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Don`t worry Tally, at least it will be mild  14c forecast over the weekend and maybe a bbq xmas.

Not worried at all! I am fed up of wind and rain every hissing day... it's hissing it down!

I can never understand this terminology - at least it will be mild' Darren Bett and sometimes Peter Gibb's always say that!! It's turning wetter or becoming wet and windy but at least it will be mild' - maybe it's a BBC thing?

No point it being mild if you're going to get soaked is it?

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For the second time in three years we have made it into the second half of December without so much as a flake of snow falling

Just what is there to enjoy about winter nowadays? It's just an ordeal. It just an endless cycle of miserable soul destroying garbage. All it does is alternate between crap cold windy westerlies that give temperatures around 5-6C by day and 1-2C by night with occasional frost, and horrendous totally vile muck from the SE quadrant that gives temperatures around 6-8C by day with 1C diurnal ranges and nothing approaching a frost

It's just stupefyingly  boring rubbish. We don't even see proper mild any more because instead of getting SW'lies delivering 10-15C with broken cloud, lenticulars and good sunsets we get the putrid SE'ly filth instead. It's not reached 10C once all month but there's been just three frosts the last of which was almost a week ago 

This morning we got no air frost, despite the sky being clear, yet still had to suffer icy pavements - another undesirable that seems to have increased in frequency recently despite the ridiculous reduction in air frosts. Tonight the wind is back in the most toxic of quarters again and instead of seeing a fall the temperature is doing what I detest the most and rising sharply, despite it being several hours past sunset. No doubt it will reach double figures during the night only to be much colder during the day. The sort of nonsense that happens all the time these days.

This horror is every bit as poor as 2013/14 but it started even earlier. It's barely stopped raining in the last four weeks, the vast majority of days have seen no sun or under an hour, and the ground is saturated. It's as if the drought earlier this year never happened.

There is little doubt that this is the most repellent winter weather that anywhere has to endure. Completely unacceptable 

 

At this time last year Scotland saw quite a bit of snow, with so much cold zonality too! - I recall back in November 2017 end of) - you had at least 2" of snow or 5cms? Aberdeen has hardly seen any this winter so far? What was it like last Saturday night in Aberdeen Rich?

There was snow last Saturday night at Balama my friend said and it settle to a few 2-3cms and lasted until Sunday afternoon! But been poor so far and soon 1 month of winter will be gone and there is nothing cold or snowy in the next 10 days! So all eyes on January and the tropospheric response to the SSW in a few days time. SHould be signs we start to see some model runs turn cold in FI within the next week...!?

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At this time last year Scotland saw quite a bit of snow, with so much cold zonality too! - I recall back in November 2017 end of) - you had at least 2" of snow or 5cms? Aberdeen has hardly seen any this winter so far? What was it like last Saturday night in Aberdeen Rich?

There was snow last Saturday night at Balama my friend said and it settle to a few 2-3cms and lasted until Sunday afternoon! But been poor so far and soon 1 month of winter will be gone and there is nothing cold or snowy in the next 10 days! So all eyes on January and the tropospheric response to the SSW in a few days time. SHould be signs we start to see some model runs turn cold in FI within the next week...!?

Last year, Aberdeen did get some snow from a Northerly and I can recall Richard posting some photos of that onto the snow reports thread at that time. However, I can also remember him not long afterwards, not even being happy about that as though it weren't enough but then, I guess that it just wouldn't be like Richard to actually be happy with the weather in his part of the world.

 

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Last year, Aberdeen did get some snow from a Northerly and I can recall Richard posting some photos of that onto the snow reports thread at that time. However, I can also remember him not long afterwards, not even being happy about that as though it weren't enough but then, I guess that it just wouldn't be like Richard to actually be happy with the weather in his part of the world.

 

Whilst I heard a friend who went to Glasgow then Balama and there was snow in Balama - was there any in Edinburgh? last Saturday night?

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Whilst I heard a friend who went to Glasgow then Balama and there was snow in Balama - was there any in Edinburgh? last Saturday night?

No.

It mostly rained here (albeit not to the same extent as in the rest of the UK as has been the case throughout this month) on Saturday and although that did turn to wet snow for a while, this left nothing other than a temporary slushy deposit.

Now, I know that I live in the north of Edinburgh where we get the least amount of snow on average anyway, due to being much lower down and closer to the coast. However, the reports from Jerry over on the other side of Edinburgh on that night confirmed that it was the same there as well.

 

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