Damn. Even the stormy stuff gets downgraded. Was looking forward to Tuesday, with a vicious low tracking across the south of England. Would have given some interesting weather, a choppy English Channel, and a cold feed for the Midlands-north. Now it's put back, is less vigorous, and further north. FFS.

 

 

I, for one, am glad it's going that way - at least for now as damaging winds just doesn't do anything for me. Anyway, there's still Sunday and into Monday's protracted windstorm to "look forward to". 

My idea of interesting weather is a decent (and better still, surprise) snow event, like for instance the unexpected wintry weather with drifting snow at my end of Kent on this day in 2012 when I was actually forecasting rain under a strengthening southerly wind. But since decent snow is now as rare as hens teeth at my location these days, I can truly forget that and just want to experience the first decent bit of spring-like warmth as soon as possible as I'm done with this so called "Winter" (more like Autumn 2019/20). 

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I, for one, am glad it's going that way - at least for now as damaging winds just doesn't do anything for me. Anyway, there's still Sunday and into Monday's protracted windstorm to "look forward to". 

My idea of interesting weather is a decent (and better still, surprise) snow event, like for instance the unexpected wintry weather with drifting snow at my end of Kent on this day in 2012 when I was actually forecasting rain under a strengthening southerly wind. But since decent snow is now as rare as hens teeth at my location these days, I can truly forget that and just want to experience the first decent bit of spring-like warmth as soon as possible as I'm done with this so called "Winter" (more like Autumn 2019/20). 

 

It was more the dragging southwards of cold air that I was looking forwards to with a more southerly-tracking low.

As for 'interesting weather', I include anything where nature reasserts its dominance over humans: heavy snow, extreme cold, storms, fog, heatwave/drought.

 

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January turned out to be a dry and sunny month in the East Midlands, Yorkshire, NE England and NE Scotland. No wonder I was so content.

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Yes, ignoring the total absence of winter, January here was quite a decent month in terms of brightness and dryness.

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Knowing how nature likes to "balance things out"

Im dreading the idea of April and MAy when things become unseasonably chilly... just when the rest of europe starts to enjoy proper sunny and warm spring..

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Knowing how nature likes to "balance things out"

Im dreading the idea of April and MAy when things become unseasonably chilly... just when the rest of europe starts to enjoy proper sunny and warm spring..

If that's the case the rest of Europe should be in a big freeze by then!

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Knowing how nature likes to "balance things out"

Im dreading the idea of April and MAy when things become unseasonably chilly... just when the rest of europe starts to enjoy proper sunny and warm spring..

If that was the case, the number of colder than average months in the longer term would always just about exactly cancel out the number of warmer than average months over time with the temperature anomalies cancelling each other out in the same manner.

As we all know that, that hasn't been the case over recent decades in particular and during every year, almost every single month usually turns out to be warmer than average in the end, with very few months being colder than average (the odd colder than average month does still occasionally crop up, but never with any really significant temperature anomolies as is the case with a lot of our warmer than average months).

That was something which was even admitted to in the official reports for the average temperatures during the 2010s as these reports clearly state that there was quite a vast number of high temperature records being broken during that decade, with only about a couple or so low temperature records being broken during that same period.

When we take all of that into account, my gut feeling is what has happened during this so-called "winter" has itself, been nature's way of making us pay for the cold autumn which preceded it and if that is the case, I don't believe that there will be any further payback from that.

 

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January turned out to be a dry and sunny month in the East Midlands, Yorkshire, NE England and NE Scotland. No wonder I was so content.

 

Drier than average, duller than average, milder than average here.

Triffic. 

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Miserable winter but glorious here today.

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoother/sky-eye-gallery.aspx?id=20200206115457_20200206&user=brian%20gaze&ut=Berkhamsted&uc=Hertfordshire&ucr=United%20Kingdom&ud=Bright%20blue%20sky%20over%20the%20Grand%20Union%20Canal&lat=51.8&lon=-0.6

 

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A lovely afternoon. Just took the dog out and it's the first day where I've noticed there to be a slight feeling of warmth to the sun.

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A lovely afternoon. Just took the dog out and it's the first day where I've noticed there to be a slight feeling of warmth to the sun.

 

 

I only want to feel heat from the sun May to September.

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Well, so much for this so-called "cold" spell which we were supposed to be in for the next couple of days.

It all started so well earlier on today as we had our first covering of snow here in the north of Edinburgh which we have had all winter, and the temperature even dropped to just above 0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh for a short period of time during the latter part of the afternoon.

However, the temperatures have been refusing to drop ever since then, and have actually gone back up a bit over the last few hours (to around 2°C as at 9pm this evening) with the wind going back round to that all too familiar SW quarter.

Now, the snow which was falling here earlier on has turned back to rain which in turn, has already washed away that little bit of lying snow which we had here in the north of Edinburgh.

It is absolutely scandalous that even a spell of weather like this in what is supposed to be the coldest part of the winter on average, still can't give us a single official air frost in this part of the world, but that is what is now looking likely to happen with the way that this is going.

All of this though, is just typical of how this so-called "winter" has gone up until now and so, I'm not surprised that this has ended up happening.

 

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This should be a classic Greenland sourced north westerly and yet at home in Cumbria the day Dawn's with the snow level at 1,500 feet.

Even on the M6 at Shap at 1000 feet yesterday's snow has been washed away by overnight rain.

What a total utter crapfest, thank God I am writing this from southern Spain where its sunny with an expected high today of 22c, thanks of course to that huge Iberian High that has dominated Europe this winter.

I would rather be under a Bartlett High than in the rank south westerlies to the north of it.

Andy

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A wind that cuts through you without the reward. This pathetic winter knows no bounds.

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A gloat from me as I type this from a dry and mostly sunny Folkestone where the early afternoon solar output is now effective enough to heat up my famed west-facing hobby room thus giving the central heating a break. I've got shorts and t shirt on as it's baking hot indoors.

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A gloat from me as I type this from a dry and mostly sunny Folkestone where the early afternoon solar output is now effective enough to heat up my famed west-facing hobby room thus giving the central heating a break. I've got shorts and t shirt on as it's baking hot indoors.

 

You want to pop across to Baghdad Ian - it's proper winter there

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200211-baghdad-covered-in-snow-for-second-time-this-century/ 

 

 

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Really really odd how the Irish Sea (at least the area between North Wales and SW Scotland) has not generated or sustained virtually any showers over the last 36 hours. Its been virtually devoid of convective activity. A convective dead zone.

The cynic in me says if 850hpas and dewpoints were higher, there would be frequent squally rain showers firing in. 

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A wind that cuts through you without the reward. This pathetic winter knows no bounds.

That’s what we’ve had to endure all winter. A vile nagging wind that never lets up. This week it’s at its absolute worst and consequently this current spell is the most disgusting of the entire season. Having rendered the day thoroughly unpleasant it's now preventing the temperature from falling anywhere near a level that might be considered cold for the time of year 

Maxes of 5C, a stiff bone dry wind and overnight lows of 2C equates to totally worthless garbage. There was more chance of it dropping below freezing when it was milder. It’s the very definition of useless crud. This winter is such a sick repulsive joke you wouldn’t even dream of making it up

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Really really odd how the Irish Sea (at least the area between North Wales and SW Scotland) has not generated or sustained virtually any showers over the last 36 hours. Its been virtually devoid of convective activity. A convective dead zone.

The cynic in me says if 850hpas and dewpoints were higher, there would be frequent squally rain showers firing in. 

 

Made a similar point earlier about areas of PPN dissipating over the Irish Sea before they hit NW England 

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Knowing how nature likes to "balance things out"

Im dreading the idea of April and MAy when things become unseasonably chilly... just when the rest of europe starts to enjoy proper sunny and warm spring..

I'd love the idea, but we know it won't happen - hell, the 30-year averages have gone up by half a degree in the last 10 years, so the chances of anything even remotely cold in April and May is lower than it's ever been. I'll still not give up hope, though, as I'll happily take sleet or snow in April and May!

As for this winter, there would have to have been a winter in order to moan about it. There were a few frosty days in early December, I think, so I guess that was winter. The rest of the time it's just been autumn...

 

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