Felt that things had finally changed for the better over the past couple of weeks with bright mornings and Sunday was glorious. Now it's like we've been hurled back to the dark days of November with grim, soul destroying autumnal gunk

Utter dross today. Mostly Cloudy, windy, 10.9C but didn't feel anything like it. How the hell anyone can think this is desirable I don't know. Just horrible and it's still 9.1C now with that vile wind rattling away again

The totally useless outlook sums up why this is the most repellent and worthless era for weather ever recorded. You endure one of the most dire and depressing three months of weather imaginable only to be rewarded with something even more dire and depressing.

I literally can't think of anything worse than this rubbish. Even rain would be better. Starting to get worried about the lack of rain. Not because of concerns about drought but because the wet stuff may arrive just in time to ruin the outdoor season. A string of wet months now would be rubbing salt into the wounds after another abomination of a winter. The fact that this is currently on course to be the first winter since 2011/12 to fail to record 100mm is really setting off alarm bells 

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What an absolutely stunning day, more please!

 

 

Drizzle? No rain whatsoever in the forecast here. Almost every day is forecast to be partly cloudy, the next 2 days completely sunny. Every day in double digits.

Combine that with the lengthening days, flowers sprouting, various birds starting to sing again and it really does feel that we have turned a corner. 

I just hope we don’t get a cold spell in March like last year to ruin things.

 

I love this kind of weather - in Spring...

I just can't enjoy it in what is supposed to be Winter.

 

Drizzle? No rain whatsoever in the forecast here. Almost every day is forecast to be partly cloudy, the next 2 days completely sunny. Every day in double digits.

Combine that with the lengthening days, flowers sprouting, various birds starting to sing again and it really does feel that we have turned a corner. 

I just hope we don’t get a cold spell in March like last year to ruin things.

 

 

I was talking about what the previous few days had been like.

Today is broadly sunny and mild. As NS says, fine for when you're in spring; awful in February (although was surprised to find my car frosted up this morning)

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I was talking about what the previous few days had been like.

Today is broadly sunny and mild. As NS says, fine for when you're in spring; awful in February (although was surprised to find my car frosted up this morning)

Why on Earth would you find Spring-like weather with sunshine and being able to feel the warmth by the sun awful in February?! Mind you, I also wonder about people who find stormy wild weather exciting, like that god-awful winter of 2104 (remember what it was on this very day of that year) when all I can think about what damage it could do to my house. Even icy cold snowy weather is starting to lose its appeal, especially when it is rare as hens teeth at this end anyway.

I'm making it sound like I'm losing interest in actual weather and now appreciate the calmer more useable days to potter about in the garden, like today for instance. Perhaps I might move away from meteorology and focus on my other hobbies (photography and cartoon drawling).

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Didn't the winters of 2010/11 & 2012/13 have cold easterly spells?

Not down here - no ice days etc. December 2010 is a sore point, as that month sucked compared to what happened elsewhere in the UK - we got a couple of slushy falls of snow and then a load of rain, while it seemed everyone else was having a winter wonderland! I guess last year's Beast kind of made up for it, but that was only 4 days or so...

 

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Not down here - no ice days etc. December 2010 is a sore point, as that month sucked compared to what happened elsewhere in the UK - we got a couple of slushy falls of snow and then a load of rain, while it seemed everyone else was having a winter wonderland! I guess last year's Beast kind of made up for it, but that was only 4 days or so...

 

I even missed out on that came the moment. Just a slight powder dusting and then a short lived but quite rare freezing rain event, and thus the wait to see an actual proper snow cover with drifting since March 2013 continues. But to be honest, it might be time to admit that something is happening to our winters and snow cover will be as rare here as it is in Rome or Madrid.

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Why on Earth would you find Spring-like weather with sunshine and being able to feel the warmth by the sun awful in February?! 

 

Because I prefer cold weather in winter?

I'd be happy to barely see the sun from December to the end of Feb. Much prefer to have deep snow covering everything for the 3 months and, although there've been some exceptions (Dec 10 springs to mind), the sun is normally the destroyer of snow. I actually wish we had less daylight through the winter, too. I'm not going to move, but only having light between, say, about 10am and 3pm would be great. 

I'm not averse to the odd stormy winter spell, either. At least it's exciting!. And I love fog. 

 

In summer, I want exactly the opposite - day after day of sunshine, high temps and dryness. Thunder storms don't do much for me, and come with rain. I hate rain.

 

 

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I prefer any winter weather to stay in December and January and the noticeably longer days in February make me feel positive and excited for spring. I find the short days of January very difficult and depressing.

I'm enjoying this current spell much more than the February easterly last year. Better for the bills too! I even cut my grass yesterday :D

If today was an average winter's day in this country, there'd be absolutely no complaints from me! 13°C in the February sunshine at the moment.

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If today was an average winter's day in this country, there'd be absolutely no complaints from me! 13°C in the February sunshine at the moment.

I'd be happy if today were an average spring day in this country.

Oh.  Wait.   It is! 

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Because I prefer cold weather in winter?

I'd be happy to barely see the sun from December to the end of Feb. Much prefer to have deep snow covering everything for the 3 months and, although there've been some exceptions (Dec 10 springs to mind), the sun is normally the destroyer of snow. I actually wish we had less daylight through the winter, too. I'm not going to move, but only having light between, say, about 10am and 3pm would be great. 

I'm not averse to the odd stormy winter spell, either. At least it's exciting!. And I love fog. 

 

In summer, I want exactly the opposite - day after day of sunshine, high temps and dryness. Thunder storms don't do much for me, and come with rain. I hate rain.

 

 

That's just it, if I can't get to experience any real cold weather in winter, what I'm experiencing right now is the next best thing at this time of the year.  No, I tell I lie . . .  it IS the best thing at this time of the year.  The solar input into the house is now that effective the heating isn't needed (I've got the thermostat at 21.5 but it is yet to click on today).  I've just totally lost interest in stormy weather, especially here at the coastal edge, especially when it does is cause breakages and repair bills but this is me speaking as a homeowner complete with responsibilities.

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Since Monday this month's running mean temperature has increased from 2.4C to 3.6C.

At the same time the daily sunshine average has plunged from 4.3 hours to 3.6 hours.

Horrible, depressing, draining and dispiriting rubbish. Just utterly soul destroying 

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Seems quiet here - thought it was deleted but this is the sort of weather I hate
Today's high was 12.5c with drizzle at times and now the temperature is 11c yet skies are clear but temp is not falling as it's breezy too!? Boring! Gosh!  Little variation between night and day too as well as lack of 'weather' - what a borefest of nothingness this February is turning out to be eh?!

 

Looks like more of the same tomorrow as that weak front pushes through we will expect another dull and drizzly overcast dank and mild day!

Bring on the heat next weekend then!

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This has been one of the crappiest winters I can ever remember. So annoying, given the persistent signals for prolonged cold in the NWP and within MRFs from the Met Office.

Even an 'old faithful' cold NW'ly let me down.

 

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This has been one of the crappiest winters I can ever remember. So annoying, given the persistent signals for prolonged cold in the NWP and within MRFs from the Met Office.

Even an 'old faithful' cold NW'ly let me down.

 

Totally agree with the above. The weather may not have been that different from other mild non discript winter we have had to endure in the recent past, but this one came with hope and belief that maybe just maybe the the Meto and the long range charts might be on to something...... unfortunately they weren’t.

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Totally agree with the above. The weather may not have been that different from other mild non discript winter we have had to endure in the recent past, but this one came with hope and belief that maybe just maybe the the Meto and the long range charts might be on to something...... unfortunately they weren’t.

Yes and to be frank we have not even seen a true northerly? so not have we failed to get an easterly but even a northerly esp for the SW although with that north westerly Cornwall was lucky on 31st Jan with many parts seeing a covering or at least several inches of snow?

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Forget winter now until  December its well and truly over. Enjoy the warmth and rejoice spring has arrived early.

Well I am still hopeful of some snow in March or early April. In 2016 we had a couple of inches of snow on the 28th April.

However i will also enjoy the benign
spring conditions in the meantime and perhaps do some early gardening

I refuse to mow the lawn until at least March though.

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When is this mind-numbing tedious crap going to end? It just goes on and on - the same repetitive dross day in day out. Pig sick of being blasted by that vile wind every time I step outside. It's been like that for a whole week with utterly dire temperatures. Not dropped below 4C for since last Tuesday when it's supposed to be winter 

It's just a totally hopeless situation. No end in sight as this write-off winter limps on like a bad smell that won't go away. 13C forecast later this week which in no way interests or excites me. In fact it is one of the most tedious temperatures there is being neither warm nor cold, and possible to record as a maximum at any time of year 

Nine crap, almost winter weather free Februaries in a row and we are only weeks away from the 6th anniversary of the last time 10cm of snow lay. This horrific sequence of utterly diabolical winters is just unreal. Straight from the bowels of hell the lot of them

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