Monday brought vile wind, yesterday vile drizzle and today vile cloud and pitiful diurnal ranges. Welcome to the latest week of abject hell from this totally worthless season that doesn't deserve to be called winter. God knows what lies in store tomorrow.

There has not even been a semblance of winter in what has to be the least rewarding and unfulfilling season of unrelenting blandness and misery I can ever recall. It just keeps sinking further and further into the abyss. Today brought a max of 3.9C, no frost, no snow just grey tedium and almost four hours after sunset it's 3.6C. What is this if not the worst winter weather on earth? I'd rightly expect more even if I lived in coastal Cornwall.

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Monday brought vile wind, yesterday vile drizzle and today vile cloud and pitiful diurnal ranges. Welcome to the latest week of abject hell from this totally worthless season that doesn't deserve to be called winter. God knows what lies in store tomorrow.

There has not even been a semblance of winter in what has to be the least rewarding and unfulfilling season of unrelenting blandness and misery I can ever recall. It just keeps sinking further and further into the abyss. Today brought a max of 3.9C, no frost, no snow just grey tedium and almost four hours after sunset it's 3.6C. What is this if not the worst winter weather on earth? I'd rightly expect more even if I lived in coastal Cornwall.

Don’t bet on it..... I am actually thinking of moving out of Cornwall one day mainly because of our monotone weather. I’ve lost count over the last 15 yrs when we have had rain and Bristol northwards has had snow. Take a look at a satellite picture of Christmas Day 2010 and you will see the whole country covered in snow except mid and west Cornwall. 

I dream of a great SW Blizzard like March 1898 I believe, and we so nearly got there with Emma but it was not to be.....

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Sone things never change.

I think our gold medal moaner Richard could benefit from a course of antidepressants. 

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Northern Iceland really has got a mad climate. 

Max of 16C today in Akureyri (current temperature 13C).

Maximum temperature on Sunday, -2C with snow.

Not the same extremes as the States, but still! 

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After a cold sunny day today its back to anticyclonic gloom again tomorrow which will last another week at least.

The last month has brought a repeat pattern of 1 day of sunshine followed by 9 of gloom resulting in a hidious winter of grey nothingness, its like something from a post apocalyptic nuclear winter where the sun is shielded from the earth for weeks on end.

God, how nice it was to go to Southern Spain at the weekend where under the Bartlett High the weather is glorious, cold at night (colder than the UK) but a warm 19c during the day. In 4 days I didn't see a single cloud it was like being on another planet.

Unfortunately, I am now back in miserable, dank, dull, dark, Brexit Britain with its terrible weather, chaotic government and depressed people.

Can the last person to leave this condemned Island please turn out the light.

Andy

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After a cold sunny day today its back to anticyclonic gloom again tomorrow which will last another week at least.

The last month has brought a repeat pattern of 1 day of sunshine followed by 9 of gloom resulting in a hidious winter of grey nothingness, its like something from a post apocalyptic nuclear winter where the sun is shielded from the earth for weeks on end.

God, how nice it was to go to Southern Spain at the weekend where under the Bartlett High the weather is glorious, cold at night (colder than the UK) but a warm 19c during the day. In 4 days I didn't see a single cloud it was like being on another planet.

Unfortunately, I am now back in miserable, dank, dull, dark, Brexit Britain with its terrible weather, chaotic government and depressed people.

Can the last person to leave this condemned Island please turn out the light.

Andy

We haven’t had a Bartlett high at any stage this winter.

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Don’t bet on it..... I am actually thinking of moving out of Cornwall one day mainly because of our monotone weather. I’ve lost count over the last 15 yrs when we have had rain and Bristol northwards has had snow. Take a look at a satellite picture of Christmas Day 2010 and you will see the whole country covered in snow except mid and west Cornwall. 

I dream of a great SW Blizzard like March 1898 I believe, and we so nearly got there with Emma but it was not to be.....

Didn't Helston do well from the beast from the east/? before storm Emma and didn't you get more snow during storm Emma?

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Why can't we just get one northerly or north westerly or something this winter? Just one for Pete's sake!

Even if it was a sleet or soft hail or wet snow shower great! Well we had a frost today -1.5c coldest so far this winter here in Exeter. Back to more overcast weather and milder conditions and 10c by day and 11c by night by weekend! BOO! Boring! YAWNS*

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This winter is one of the most boring i can remember in my lifetime it has had nothing of interest weatherwise we have had no Gales No heavy rains No Fog barely a Frost and as we head towards mid Winter Not even a Flake of Snow has fallen just day after day of mostly cloudy weather with just occasional days of a little sunshine.

Roll on Spring i say you can see most of the rest of Europe and even Greece is getting winter this year i just cannot see us getting any cold weather this winter now.

Of course when we want some Spring warmth the winds will switch to Easterly and Spring will be delayed by snow and cold well into April this year .

The worst thing about this winter so far has been how cloudy it has been. It’s been dreadful - barely seen the sun for literally weeks on end

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If I could set a post for the future, I would set it in this thread for next weekend saying..

'Disappointed that once again the snow has missed us. Woke up to a dusting but that's all. Even more frustrating that just miles away in Failsworth, they have inches of snow. Sick of hearing the media banging on about it and sick of seeing cars with snow on their roof when we have nothing.'

That's my future moan in case I don't get online at the time.

If I could set a post for the future, I would set it in this thread for next weekend saying..

'Disappointed that once again the snow has missed us. Woke up to a dusting but that's all. Even more frustrating that just miles away in Failsworth, they have inches of snow. Sick of hearing the media banging on about it and sick of seeing cars with snow on their roof when we have nothing.'

That's my future moan in case I don't get online at the time.

 

 

I hear you, brother!

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If I could set a post for the future, I would set it in this thread for next weekend saying..

'Disappointed that once again the snow has missed us. Woke up to a dusting but that's all. Even more frustrating that just miles away in Failsworth, they have inches of snow. Sick of hearing the media banging on about it and sick of seeing cars with snow on their roof when we have nothing.'

That's my future moan in case I don't get online at the time.

My thoughts entirely Andy!

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The thing which I hate about this winter up until now, is that we have had no actual winter. Over on the MO thread, you will see the odd member referring to "winter is over" posts. The problem here though is that any event (such as this winter) has to actually start as some point in time before we can then say that it is over and up until now, this so-called "winter" has never really got underway at any time as has been shown by the fact that we have had virtually nothing in the way of snow, and very few frosts.

Instead, all we have had is just a vast nothingness with the odd sunny day thrown in with lots of mostly cloudy or overcast days. In other words, this so-called "winter" has just been one massive borefest with virtually nothing which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather, actually happening. By that, I mean that there has been virtually no snow, very few frosts or gales and not even much in the way of rainfall, especially from the middle of December onwards.

There are parts of the UK which have never fully recovered from last summer's droughts and where, that rainfall deficit has never been made up (this currently dry winter means that the rainfall deficit is now just growing even bigger as a result). This has resulted in a number of farmers and growers in certain areas crying out for some much needed rainfall so that even if we did get a lot of rain just now (without any snow), that would at least be serving some form of constructive purpose.

However, this abject nothingness which we are constantly having to endure these days is serving absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Since this winter has never really ever started, we can never say that it is "over" for the reasons which I have described above. Rather than saying that winter is "over", it would therefore be far more appropriate to say that winter is unlikely to ever actually start on this occasion in the first place.

In fact, it turns out that the lowest temperature at Edinburgh Airport during this current autumn/winter season so far is the -7°C which was recorded during last October which is only halfway through last autumn, and not even part of this actual winter. It is ridiculous that last October should be the time that we get our coldest temperatures of the entire autumn/winter season. However, I did say back then that I wouldn't be surprised if that then, ended up being "it" for our "winter" and as I am writing this just now, that is exactly what appears to have ended up happening.

 

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I think winter may well start in a weeks time but it has been dismal so far. The worst thing is the lack of sun. Since Christmas we have had 12, yes, 12 sunless days and no days of completely clear skies. Only 18 hrs altogether. I wouldn't mind but the whole period has been dominated by high pressure yet just two frosts.

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Welcome to yet another awful totally useless grey and windy weekend. It's been the same every weekend for the past two months 

Not since 1934 have we reached this stage of ‘winter’ without a semblance of winter to be seen and given that is now 85 years ago it’s beyond living memory for all but the oldest. It’s not just the entire absence of snow or the pathetic lack of frost that’s getting to me. It’s the lack of anything. There’s never even a good sunrise. Every day it is the same soul destroying monotony. Wake up to grey skies and frost free gloom, the cloud breaks for a while then reforms leading to another rank mild frost free night.

Where’s the mid-January cold spell we were supposed to be getting? That’s right it’s been postponed just like the late November cold spell we never got and the late December cold spell that never happened either. Just a complete farce. All that’s happening is that this tedious mild, sunless, frost free nothingness is becoming more and more entrenched.

We've only had 4.8mm of rain since 19th December but unlike in the summer when everything took on a nice, seasonable parched look everything looks horrible with the grass taking on a piss coloured yellow hue. Just sums up this winter perfectly

The weather of the Canaries is often derided as amongst the most stable and boring on earth but I find it interesting and changeable compared to the utter dross we are served up here nowadays. More chance of seeing snow there as well, even in the resorts where you can see the top of Mount Teide.

It’s unreal how such anticyclonic conditions can produce so little frost. Not just far less than in a standard low pressure dominated unsettled winter but even the horror show of 2013/14 with its record low pressure and relentless misery still managed more frost than this execrable pile of steaming horse manure.

This decade really is going well beneath even the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.  No winters of the 90s or 2000s decades were as bad as 2013/14, 2016/17 or this winter and no six week spell was as bad as the first half of 2015/16. At least in the other atrocities listed, November delivered either frosty or snowy conditions. For such a dire winter to come on top of the foul and stinking November we endured last year is staggeringly awful. It’s been about the worst three months of weather I can ever remember. Other than a couple of sunsets over Christmas I’ve had zero opportunities to get my camera out at all. It’s beyond desperate and about as enjoyable as being tied up in the basement of a sterile tower block in the middle of Stalingrad with only a daily bowl of gruel to live on

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A cautious moan....
After watching the evolution of the charts over the past week and reading the comments of many I believe a fair wedge of the country will see snow at some point during the latter end of January and through February. However I believe these events will come about through sliding lows moving down from the NW and bumping into cold air. This pattern gave plenty of snow to the north midlands in the eighties.

Now the moan I live in the far SW which does get snow but rarely from this set up. By the time colder air has moved in behind the passing low the skies are clearing and the veering wind to the NE is a cold but dry affair.

We get snow from a northerly and a easterly in the form of heavy showers but the air would have to be very cold for a descending low to give us snow.

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Interesting that The Pentlands have had no snow cover at all this winter and the Lake District mountains have had only a couple of dustings over 750m.
Hopefully that's all about to change 👍

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Welcome to yet another awful totally useless grey and windy weekend. It's been the same every weekend for the past two months 

Not since 1934 have we reached this stage of ‘winter’ without a semblance of winter to be seen and given that is now 85 years ago it’s beyond living memory for all but the oldest. It’s not just the entire absence of snow or the pathetic lack of frost that’s getting to me. It’s the lack of anything. There’s never even a good sunrise. Every day it is the same soul destroying monotony. Wake up to grey skies and frost free gloom, the cloud breaks for a while then reforms leading to another rank mild frost free night.

What about the -6C you had on Jan 3rd?

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Interesting that The Pentlands have had no snow cover at all this winter and the Lake District mountains have had only a couple of dustings over 750m.
Hopefully that's all about to change 👍

Same in Snowdonia when I was there over New Year - no snow patches in sight. 

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