Do they go to Comprehensive school which is nearby my old school?  Surely you drive pass my old school many times over Church street.

Climate wise in B. Spa have lot of variety I remember from snow events to yearly heatwaves at 30-33C every year during school terms. I know it got bad summers in 1986 to 1988 when I was already in Cyprus every summer holiday so every time I get back lovely warm Septembers.

Yes, it's now an Academy. Driven past St John's many a time

Yes, it's now an Academy. Driven past St John's many a time

I went there last July and half way St John's to Boston Spa main road, there is another former school belong to St John's is St Vincent and you might see it abandoned for years. I saw it abandoned last year July and been told it will be demolished very soon to make way for Old people home.  If you had driven past lately was it still there or gone now?  

Another absolutely stinking awful pile of rotten tedious crud is what we got. That's all we ever get 🤬🤬🤬

Beyond ridiculous. Almost total overcast, frostless and windy again. When in the name of hell did 1040mb highs ever come with force 5 wind before? Never is the answer. Whenever there was a high pressure there would be so little wind that my anemometer, which is sheltered, would record a mean spead of 0.0mph. Never happens any more. Not in this vile decade which makes the dross of the 2010s look acceptable by comparison 🤢

Can't tell the difference between 970mb, 1000mb, 1040mb any more. Just the same godforsaken 💩 regardless. Wednesday when pressure was under 1010mb was far better. Still the same detestable wind but at least it was sunny. Barely an hour of sun since 👎

All I can see is more of this worthless soul destroying tripe. It's looking like one of the worst Februaries on record to mark the centenary of the worst February on record. 

I am seriously wondering if there will even be a frost this month. That's how desperate things have got. Can't get something in the depths of winter that was always possible to get throughout the entirety of spring 😩

Life in the weather vacuum hell continues unabated 😪

Winter is over. Let's close this thread and start the summer moaning thread ASAP. 🤣

Of course, there will still be the spring moaning thread to come before that at the beginning of March once the meteorological winter ends.

As far as the weather is concerned though, you could argue that for most of the UK, our so-called "winter" really ended just before last Christmas as this "winter" really consisted of just a week or so of cold weather at that time with that then being more or less "it" for our "winter".

Sat under a 1040mb high and did we get the sunny day that was forecast? Like hell we did.

Another absolutely stinking awful pile of rotten tedious crud is what we got. That's all we ever get 🤬🤬🤬

Beyond ridiculous. Almost total overcast, frostless and windy again. When in the name of hell did 1040mb highs ever come with force 5 wind before? Never is the answer. Whenever there was a high pressure there would be so little wind that my anemometer, which is sheltered, would record a mean spead of 0.0mph. Never happens any more. Not in this vile decade which makes the dross of the 2010s look acceptable by comparison 🤢

Can't tell the difference between 970mb, 1000mb, 1040mb any more. Just the same godforsaken 💩 regardless. Wednesday when pressure was under 1010mb was far better. Still the same detestable wind but at least it was sunny. Barely an hour of sun since 👎

All I can see is more of this worthless soul destroying tripe. It's looking like one of the worst Februaries on record to mark the centenary of the worst February on record. 

I am seriously wondering if there will even be a frost this month. That's how desperate things have got. Can't get something in the depths of winter that was always possible to get throughout the entirety of spring 😩

Life in the weather vacuum hell continues unabated 😪

 

HP is a winter killer period.  It just there to prevent any wintery weather for the UK, look at the winter snowy weather heating to Greece, Cyprus and the Middle East because of this current HP butt in to stop it heading this way.   I am not bother about it due to heating costs so the sun today help to warm indoors to 18C.  Was a bit hazy which effected indoor warmth levels, hazy sun give cool to luke warm sun rays so hope tomorrow super clear skies to allow strong warm to very warm sun ray indoors.

Weeks of mild, wet zonality with flooding and gales to bring down your garden fence.....Again!

Weeks of cloudy,  drizzly south westerlies with Uncle Barty sat with his fat arse over Spain

Weeks of anticyclonic gloom that brings little frost and eats up what remains of winter after the zonal spell.

One week with a Northerly Wind to remind us briefly what winter could be like

Repeated spells of severe winter cold in the US to fill our TV screens with crazy blizzards and warnings of -38c

The much loved 'Athens Snowfall Special' with Greek beaches snow covered to the waters edge

This winter has followed the recipe to the exact letter, we are cursed to live in this climate Death Zone

Andy

Winters now are made up of the following elements.

Weeks of mild, wet zonality with flooding and gales to bring down your garden fence.....Again!

Weeks of cloudy,  drizzly south westerlies with Uncle Barty sat with his fat arse over Spain

Weeks of anticyclonic gloom that brings little frost and eats up what remains of winter after the zonal spell.

One week with a Northerly Wind to remind us briefly what winter could be like

Repeated spells of severe winter cold in the US to fill our TV screens with crazy blizzards and warnings of -38c

The much loved 'Athens Snowfall Special' with Greek beaches snow covered to the waters edge

This winter has followed the recipe to the exact letter, we are cursed to live in this climate Death Zone

Andy

I felt like this winter had been a sunny one, and looking at the Met Office website I was spot on - January was significantly sunnier than average in Leeds, with over 170% of the average January sunshine. Virtually everywhere in the UK had a sunnier-than-average January, with most places getting around 130-170% of the average January sunshine (Cumbria included). Only NW Scotland had a dull January.

February has so far been dry and sunny as well. Yesterday was glorious from start to finish. 

Far from being a drizzly or dull winter, it’s been reasonably pleasant and usable as far as winter weather goes - plenty of frosts & crisp sunny days. Your description of this winter is pretty wide off the mark from my point of view (and it certainly isn’t backed up by official weather data).

Personally I will take a spring-like February any year. Many recent Februaries have felt like early spring & long may it continue. Let the Yanks freeze in miserable -30 degree weather, that’s nothing to be jealous of. 

Why can't we just get winter in winter??

I felt like this winter had been a sunny one, and looking at the Met Office website I was spot on - January was significantly sunnier than average in Leeds, with over 170% of the average January sunshine. Virtually everywhere in the UK had a sunnier-than-average January, with most places getting around 130-170% of the average January sunshine (Cumbria included). Only NW Scotland had a dull January.

February has so far been dry and sunny as well. Yesterday was glorious from start to finish. 

Far from being a drizzly or dull winter, it’s been reasonably pleasant and usable as far as winter weather goes - plenty of frosts & crisp sunny days. Your description of this winter is pretty wide off the mark from my point of view (and it certainly isn’t backed up by official weather data).

Personally I will take a spring-like February any year. Many recent Februaries have felt like early spring & long may it continue. Let the Yanks freeze in miserable -30 degree weather, that’s nothing to be jealous of. 

Agreed and had helped me cut rapidly on heating costs due to many sunny days.  I find this winter sunshine amount far much better than last year summer which was very dull on social hours and unusable.

Hurry up Spring. 

Sun streaming through the west facing window. A temperature indoors of 20.3c with no heating on. Loving it.

Hurry up Spring. 

Same here was 19C indoors yesterday at 8C outside but today not sure as I am not at home when it was sunny 10C so maybe 19.5 or 20C.  Nuneaton warmer than Slough at 8C and this weekend hope to have heating free days.  SE flow should being full sunshine.

We have recently had several winters (2019/20, 2021/22 and further back 2013/14) pass with essentially no cold snaps at all. This year we saw a ten day subzero CET in December with some snow and night temps low enough to burst my neighbour's pipes (not fun!!), a very cold anticyclonic late Jan spell (I appreciate not replicated everywhere) and now in Feb we are getting superb diurnal.range with frosty nights and mild days. CET is running at quite normal levels too, after a cold Dec and a mild but not v mild Jan.

Will the winter be memorable years from now ? Probably not.

Has it been really poor by recent standards though ?

I would have to say no. 

At 1pm today, the temp outside here, according to the car, was 3c.

And just now it's 6c

😖