Watching CBS snow watch coverage that's how bad it is LOL

Been a shocker of a Winter here 

Still convinced our time will come 

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I know the US is way more prone to get snow than us, but just once in my life I'd love the UK to get something comparable. 2 foot of snow and strong winds sounds amazing. Just hunker down for a few days whilst chaos reigns. 

Thing is, both the UK and Ireland are more than capable of seeing similar conditions, but luck is just never on our side.

 

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Thing is, both the UK and Ireland are more than capable of seeing similar conditions, but luck is just never on our side.

 

Agreed it not always the Atlantic to blame but the pressure patterns are always in the wrong place and time of the year in winter we should be seeing lot of LP to the south with HP and LP days in the north.  The Med had allowed Greece to Middle east bordering the sea with snow and did not interfere and the temperatures is around 18C which is more than 10C warmer than the sea temps around here.  

 

Agreed it not always the Atlantic to blame but the pressure patterns are always in the wrong place and time of the year in winter we should be seeing lot of LP to the south with HP and LP days in the north.  The Med had allowed Greece to Middle east bordering the sea with snow and did not interfere and the temperatures is around 18C which is more than 10C warmer than the sea temps around here.  

I agree, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus and Israel as well as Jordan etc are surrounded by the warm sea which is far warmer than the English channel, North sea and Atlantic which we are being influenced by yet they can STILL get snow and plenty of it!

We can get the blocking in the right place to deliver cold to UK despite the influence from the Gulf stream! The end of February into March 2018 we got the BFTE and most of March 2013 are notable cold spells with easterlies. December 2010 occurred without a SSW. Just unfortunate that in recent years we never seem to have the right set up in the winter months especially early and mid winter. This winter is similar to that on 2016/17 but at least in that winter we did have one notable cold snap at the end of the 2nd week of February which brought about an easterly and snow flurries for a time in the south.

Last winter 2020/21 was a teaser. Sure our time will come and we don't always have to rely on A SSW.

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Well, that's January out of the way and so the three worst months of the year are over and done with. It's nice knowing that it will be nine months before that horrid late afternoon darkness returns. Roll on spring and onwards and upwards! 😁

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Evening light is now growing longer...by the end of the month it becomes usable...Dec and Jan have to rank as most couple of non distinct winter months for a long time....if not ever..roll on some pleasant sunshine and 20c towards the months end..☀️

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Well, that's January out of the way and so the three worst months of the year are over and done with. It's nice knowing that it will be nine months before that horrid late afternoon darkness returns. Roll on spring and onwards and upwards! 😁

 I feel the same, we are now out of that long dark tunnel now is the time to look forward to spring and summer.

Well, that's January out of the way and so the three worst months of the year are over and done with. It's nice knowing that it will be nine months before that horrid late afternoon darkness returns. Roll on spring and onwards and upwards! 😁

 

 

 

I love the dark nights of winter. I obviously wish we had persistent cold and snow to go with it, but there's something immeasurably cosy about dark nights, especially when we get those gloomy/foggy days in the heart of winter where it never gets fully light.

 

Saying all that, I love summer, too - especially if it's persistently warm/hot, dry and sunny. Long days and late evening sunshine.

 

In fact, I just wish we had distinct seasons instead of the different shades of autumn that this country is inflicted with.

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Hardly enough snow to go around this season...

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 I feel the same, we are now out of that long dark tunnel now is the time to look forward to spring and summer.

It was nice and warmer today with normal heating all day had switched off first time since October. Daylight now extends to 5pm.

I also love the dark nights - log burner on knowing its wet miserable and cold outside ..................sometime .

 

Once the lighter nights are here watch it turn incredibly wet and miserable 

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The anomaly maps are out and show Scotland was generally about 2c warmer than expected

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-actual-and-anomaly-maps 

The days of air frost one is also revealing - way less than normal up here, much higher the further south you go

330m asl in the Cairngorms and it is an exceptionally mild 8.3c , the least wintry scene I have seen up here at this time of year, only some very meagre patches of snow in the higher hills visible this morning.

Still hopefully a nice active cold front later and perhaps 24 hours of snow shower potential although most of that looks further west. 

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Gloomy day with dizzle and +13c yet again for 3rd day in the row now. New month but same old weather- starting the month exceptionally mild just like in January. Really dire situation we're in! Oh and I have covid as well.

Least Scotland - the Cairngorms will see some much welcome snow!

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I love the dark nights of winter. I obviously wish we had persistent cold and snow to go with it, but there's something immeasurably cosy about dark nights, especially when we get those gloomy/foggy days in the heart of winter where it never gets fully light.

 

Saying all that, I love summer, too - especially if it's persistently warm/hot, dry and sunny. Long days and late evening sunshine.

 

In fact, I just wish we had distinct seasons instead of the different shades of autumn that this country is inflicted with.

Much in agreement. If there is such a thing as the totally opposite to 'SAD', then I have it. I actually dread the idea of longer days coming once January is out of the way, but yet, I love that real mid-summer time when night is no more than twilight. It's the in-between I can't really stomach, and more especially in that March/April period when days are long but nature still sports that winter bleakness. Once May comes in I settle down again. 

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Oh and I have covid as well.

Wow, sorry to hear that Tallyho. 

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Bit of back edge sleety snow in a few spots this morning blink and you'd miss it the only excitement so far this year and apparently turning much colder according to local forecasts to a numbing 7 degrees for one day . Just sums up the dire state of our winters

The only positive thing about this catastrophic disaster of winter was the number of exceptional sunrises and sunsets during January but we have well and truly left those behind now and descended into yet another spell of extreme purgatory.

Thoroughly unpleasant and miserable for the past 8 days or so with that relentless mind-numbing pointless wind that has become almost entrenched in winter over the past decade and which I despise with every bone in my body.

Winter ended on the 3rd December and since then it has been a virtual carbon copy of the grotesque 2019/20. Can hardly distinguish between the two. It was beyond ridiculous that we got such an awful winter in the first place and here we are enduring a repeat just two years on 

At least in 2020 it got down to -3.7C in January and -3.9C in February. This year it hasn't got o even -1C since the 10th January. To put that into perspective May 2018, the warmest on record, managed -1.5C 

May 2015 reached -1.9C - just 0.5C warmer than the lowest temperature recorded so far in this extended non-winter. There will have been Mays that got down to -2.4C before I started recording.

The last few weeks have easily been the most dire and desperate at this time of year, for lack of anything remotely cold, since 1989.

The only measurable snow cover was between 26th November and 3rd December, a time of year when we rarely used to get snow. In the subsequent two months, when we used to be pretty much guaranteed snow at some point, and almost always at least a half decent fall of 5cm, this is the utter crap we have been insulted with:

It makes me so mad that this is the pitiful rubbish our winters have been reduced to year after year. Just one fall of 5cm in almost 4 years now 

The worst ever era for a weather enthusiast just gets worse and worse with each year that passes 

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Its a sign of how mild a winter its been that cold weather actually caught me out yesterday as I walked home at night wearing only my autumn /spring coat(the winter one having been consigned to a cupboard since early December) and without gloves which I've got out of the habit of carrying around with me.
I felt like my hands were gonna drop off by the time I reached the door from a 20 minute walk in what was essentially an average night of English winter weather ! (0C or thereabouts).
Turning the heating on to warm up then also felt like a strange novelty....

Just driven back from Tomintoul to Leeds, which took 10 hours due to a horrendous queue on the M80.
Heavy rain the entire time, apart from some snow above 500m around Glenshee which made for difficult conditions this morning .
Truely awful with the rain lashing down here now and a really gusty wind .

Wish I could have stayed up there until Monday morning as it looks like 6 inches of snow is possible over the next 36 hours in the Cairngorms.

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