Thanks god I had a day off on Thursday and was able to go on a snowy walk up Brimmond Hill in glorious sunshine because yet again the weekend curse has struck to give a vile weekend.

Can't beat blue skies, snow and sparkling sunshine at this time of year whereas it would be hard to think of more unpleasant conditions than the cold, horribly windy and grey conditions with static temperatures and no frost being endured this weekend. 

This is reminding me exactly of the end of the February 2009 spell although there had been far more snow and sunshine from that. The lack of sunshine this month has been horrendous and depressing and more notable than the snow or cold. A wretched 16.6 hours is all I've recorded so far with today looking like another zero day.

I hope to god the second half is nothing like the horrendously cloudy, mild and frost free horror second half of February 2009. What a crap end to winter that would be  Desperately need some sun now.

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Yay! Fffffiiiiiiiiiiiinally got rid of the never-ending cold! After about 15 minutes, I feared it would never end.

Looking forward to wet, cool Autumn weather then a brief warm, wet Autumn, before cool, wet Autumn returns, before the definitive Astrological "Summer" monsoon Autumn begins.

Yay!

Also looking forward to central England soon becoming the "Omega" bog.

 

 

... and

 

 

Just saying:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/houston/77002/weather-forecast/351197

 

 

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Yay! Fffffiiiiiiiiiiiinally got rid of the never-ending cold! After about 15 minutes, I feared it would never end.

Looking forward to wet, cool Autumn weather then a brief warm, wet Autumn, before cool, wet Autumn returns, before the definitive Astrological "Summer" monsoon Autumn begins.

Yay!

Also looking forward to central England soon becoming the "Omega" bog.

 

 

... and

 

 

 

 

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The excruciating dullness continues with another dreadful day of depressing and disgusting grey grot. Messy slush all over the pavements to add to the misery as well as a tedious dose of drizzle.

Only 5 out of 15 days this month have managed 3/4 of an hour sunshine The highest daily total has been just 5.7 hours and that was on the 1st. In the past fortnight the highest daily total has been 4.2 hours 

The absolute pits 

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Yes - i am not keen on a cold spell, my heating bill has problem gone through the roof however after weeks of cold weather it's fair to say a bit more snowfall would have been the least bit appropriate - it was a non event for many parts esp the far south and south west as well. If we had a decent spell of snow earlier today a couple days ago or that channel low last Tuesday then I would be happy and would be craving warmer milder weather but because we have only had flurries/flakes and dustings at best and looking at many precipitation charts /radars which looked to bring so much snow potential only for these showers to evaporate right as they approach you is very frustrating and makes you still crave more snow. Furthermore, the caveat is that many who have had a lot of cold and snow - Aberdeen for instance are sick and tired of it now where as those who have missed out are still craving it.

I feel like it's not been accomplished and we (south & south west) were left out. London also did poorly for snow as well despite it being cold for a long period of time. Good to see Kent get a decent fall.

Rich & Doc - good Aberdeen has seen an end to it's snow drought. 

Indeed, my first cold snap since I've had a smart meter and it is scary when you see your gas usage is double at 2C what it is when it is at 10C.

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Much better these last few days. Some decent spells of sunshine at times and getting up to 11°C, with some very mild nights thrown in too. I was able to start toing some clearing up in the garden before.

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More snow and historic cold in Athens:

Also the extreme cold in Texas and southern states - is this caused by the SSW last month?

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I thought this week was going  to be mainly dry when we looked at the charts last week. Not any more. Maybe next week?

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I thought this week was going  to be mainly dry when we looked at the charts last week. Not any more. Maybe next week?

Or the week after that perhaps?

The garden's saturated again. 

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Or the week after that perhaps?

The garden's saturated again. 

 

According to the BBC automated, we can expect rain in 8 of the next 11 days.

By hey... at least it will be mild 

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Damn its even snowing in Israel.and the middle East,

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/more-than-just-sweater-weather-israel-meets-snowstorm-659228

https://www.egyptindependent.com/heavy-snowfall-hits-syria-lebanon-israel-in-winter-storm/

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Damn its even snowing in Israel.and the middle East,

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/more-than-just-sweater-weather-israel-meets-snowstorm-659228

https://www.egyptindependent.com/heavy-snowfall-hits-syria-lebanon-israel-in-winter-storm/

It snows in the Middle East more or less every winter and is reported more or less every winter that it is uunusual.

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It snows in the Middle East more or less every winter and is reported more or less every winter that it is uunusual.

Indeed. And most of the photos you see are in the more mountainous areas, of which there are several in the Middle East. Similarly highland areas in Morocco and Algeria are highly susceptible to winter snows. 

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Or the week after that perhaps?

The garden's saturated again. 

Every time I look, the dry spell gets pushed back further!

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Apart from last week pretty much the rest of winter whatever the charts have shown has delivered grey and wet average temps to sometimes bit below to sometimes bit above with the grey and wet punctuated by the odd sunny crisp day and a frost. Every winter somewhere else records record snow and cold cold except in this part of the globe in sure we will get again a cluster of colder winters that will deliver properly but it seems so hard to get anything other than frequent rain these days. More chance of snow it seems on a beach in Athens 

I thought this week was going  to be mainly dry when we looked at the charts last week. Not any more. Maybe next week?

Looks mainly dry here according to the Met Office forecast. 

Just checked the forecast for Billericay and it shows every day being dry after today.

What forecasts are you lot looking at? 

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It looks like a very typical late winter-into-early spring affair to me. Generally changeable with some spells of rain, interspersed with the odd drier day at 7-11°C. I'm not too fussed about nothing particularly settled on the charts just yet though. I'd rather have it changeable/unsettled now, to be honest. There's nothing more frustrating than a long period of dry weather in February/March only for it to flip to a washout in April/May (ala 2012 being a classic example).

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Winter is over!

Winter is over!

 

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