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....

0C? I wear shorts in temps like that on my daily early morning walk to work!

As a southerner and non postman I find such behaviour baffling and strange...
I always think gloves are the most important weapon anyway... keep the extremities warm and your body will be better able to keep the core warm too

I find it so much more comfortable wearing shorts for walking so that's what I do. It's a 2.5 mile walk to work and as long as I keep moving it's perfectly OK. Keeping your upper body warm is the key of course. I find that as long as I do that I can have bare legs at 0C without feeling all that cold. That is pretty much my lower limit though. I have worn shorts down to -2C and that's rather too much to take. I very rarely need to wear gloves but if I do, it's definately time for long trousers!

I thnk I have more chance of winning last week's lottery than I do of seeing a single flake of snow this winter.

Wouldn't be surprised to get some snow in April though!

(Nice March/April day down here today)

Sorry , gloating , 10cm snow today -5C for tonight, great winter up here 😜🥶

Sorry , gloating , 10cm snow today -5C for tonight, great winter up here 😜🥶

Oi 

less of that 

Put some pics up as we don't believe you 

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Sorry , gloating , 10cm snow today -5C for tonight, great winter up here 😜🥶

Sure was the case. Got home last night from weekend in Torridon. Snow showers down to sea level on west coast, and tricky drive at various places on way home, especially first 10 miles up Glen Torridon on snow and ice-covered road. Winter’s here - or here is where winter is! (And caught first salmon of the season on Friday morning, in a hail shower).

It's occurred to me that although I'm often to be found out and about, I've not worn gloves once this winter. Don't know whether that's a moan or not

The brief cold snap late last week brought nothing more than a couple of hail showers here.

Of course when it warmed up a touched on Saturday over 70mm of cold rain managed to find its way to my area!

Sunday sleet and hail showers. Nothing to get excited about.

Rain showers are the most boring weather type here unlike abroad I watch it with excitement. In the past showers of snow or hail during Spring with sharp avril cloudscape and lot of sunshine in between had become extinct now as it replaced with cloudy showers all year around and very offensive in summer months.

I thnk I have more chance of winning last week's lottery than I do of seeing a single flake of snow this winter.

Wouldn't be surprised to get some snow in April though!

(Nice March/April day down here today)

At least you live in an area which can get snow in April. Hasn't happened here since 1984...

(Frustratingly a few miles inland on the mainland it can and does happen, maybe once a decade if that, but even then it's pretty rare.)

As for this winter, it's one of the worst I've ever seen in terms of seasonality... nothing lower than -2.9C and, of course, not even a hint of a flake of sleet, let alone snow. The only plus point is a lack of very windy conditions, my least favourite weather type.

 

At least you live in an area which can get snow in April. Hasn't happened here since 1984...

(Frustratingly a few miles inland on the mainland it can and does happen, maybe once a decade if that, but even then it's pretty rare.)

As for this winter, it's one of the worst I've ever seen in terms of seasonality... nothing lower than -2.9C and, of course, not even a hint of a flake of sleet, let alone snow. The only plus point is a lack of very windy conditions, my least favourite weather type.

As this is the moaning thread, it seems like a good place to discuss least favourite weather types. Mine is winter hail. Cold & unpleasant and usually driven on by a nasty blustery wind. Never larger than small pea sized it can briefly turn the ground white but soon melts into a slushy mess. Can most certainly do without that!

That’s it’s. The strengthening PV has destroyed any confidence I have left in this ‘winter’. It’s over for us in the south at least.

We really do live in the worst climate in the world. We’re always in halfway house nothingness territory.

Despite the often favourable signals leading into winter. This will go now as one of the worst, if not the worst.

0/10 is my rating. 

 

As this is the moaning thread, it seems like a good place to discuss least favourite weather types. Mine is winter hail. Cold & unpleasant and usually driven on by a nasty blustery wind. Never larger than small pea sized it can briefly turn the ground white but soon melts into a slushy mess. Can most certainly do without that!

Cyprus reported lot of proper hailstorm and once in 1992 when I stay in Nicosia I see large clouds south of us stood there for long time, then find out on the news that10cm of hail depth recorded  on the area between Nicosia and Larnaca towns. This winter they had lot of hailstorm and up to marble sizes.