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I’m pleased for you, but it illustrates how low the bar is set now for winter expectations. I can’t wait until this pitiful excuse of a winter, where the only snow I’ve seen falling was on a trip to Newcastle in late November (technically Autumn).

And we now move from average to cool rain to mild rain for a few weeks. What joy lol 😂 

https://www.portetta.com/en/ski-and-recreation/snow-camera/ 

Snow depths must now be well above the average for the time of the year. If this trend continues I wonder whether it could have an impact on our summer weather patterns? Bad news for the heat hounds?

I know I am clutching at straws but at least if we have a hot dry spring and summer then there would be plenty of water in our reservoirs and rivers left from all the rain that fell this winter thanks to the Atlantic. Just be nice if we could see the sun for more than a few hours!?

Lovely to see snow falling in health temperatures of -12C and people enjoying it a lot.  Seeing this on their live cam reminded me of the 1980's snowfalls with SUBZERO maxes and powdery.   Not interested with less cold and cold rain here tonight as some think we will get snow but sorry the temperatures is LESS COLD all the time.  

Since Scandinavia, Europe, USA had a very good cold winter but UK missed out a chance for a good winter so what will happen next year? if Europe are mild and Scandinavia might not get a good winter like last year meaning we can't get anything cold chances at all.

Scroll down to 'Winter in 1963' and see what even lowland winter could be like

I spent a month of daily exercise skating to Grantchester and back but wish I'd taken photos

On the hills and mountains in contrast, because of the lack of any really mild conditions, it has been great for skiing over the midterm break. Today has been a little less pleasant due to the stronger winds.

Last seen here, oh so briefly, in 2018. And that took record-breaking cold air aloft and record-breakingly low thicknesses to happen. And, being that it was March, it all went "poof" the microsecond that we lost that deep cold Continental air. 

It all seems so long ago now, like a shimmering mirage, a dream that you can't quite remember. The snowless period here (in terms of snowcover) is now unprecedented in the last half-century, and I feel for those who, like me, just want to see some snow on the ground. It really shouldn't be too much to ask but this winter in particular has felt like one long tease!

I've noticed the same with my own temperature observations. No day this year has managed double digits yet, very unusual.

It may not be the coldest winter I've experienced, but it might well be the un-mildest one!

Exactly and even more frustrating is the fact that there has been substantial and long periods of high latitude northern blocking in Greenland & Scandinavia yet we (UK) still failed to get proper cold air and to see the cold air just on our doorstep with pretty much 2 thirds for Europe in the freezer with the core in N.E Europe bitterly cold and then repeated cold Arctic plunges into eastern 2 thirds of USA/Canada is incredibly frustrating and on top of that we have not had a reversal of zonal winds despite being in a la Nina winter in combination with easterly QBO. SO near yet so far!?

I was watching GavsWeatherVids the other day and he believes may be that one of the factors of us being unlucky with us not getting any  sustained cold could be the warming of Ocean in NE Pacific and also the fact that the Easterly QBO has been very strong this winter and sometimes an exceptionally strong easterly QBO can scupper our chances altogether of getting colder weather.

Another reason I think could be solar maximum. - Anyways, if this is the case - why is it so many other countries saw record breaking amounts of snow and cold!?

Also, the persistent cold weather in NE America hasn't helped as it has blasted up the jet and given us (UK) cyclogenisis time after time. Others may argue that it is the tilt of the block which has been more SE'ly rather than easterly and of course this meant low pressure systems are not passing though the country to give is even the briefest of NW'ly's between frontal systems and the low pressure systems  stalled over us before fizzling out before another developed to our west and so on etc...

It's proved costly for many and these potholes are everywhere now here in Devon.

We had this chat back in November, where we saw a rare early SSW. Whether the blocking that then set up a few weeks later was due to it is up for discussion, but we definitely had an SSW. The ECM-46 also, correctly, picked out the colder spell well in advance. As I said at the time (not quoted), it's always worth paying attention when the ECM-46 shows average or below in winter, as it's pretty rare for it to do so.

EDIT: And IMO Gavin's IMO wrong as to why we didn't get much of a winter this year. It's quite simply global warming - it means the margins for error are getting ever-smaller for us, a tiny island perched on the edge of a massive ocean, or, as I've said before, we now need 5 sixes rather than just 2 when we roll the dice. Remember we've warmed 1.5C down here in 30 years! 

Perhaps if the models didn’t exist we might had got this winter to be one that we used to see in the 1980s.  It always in my mind about those and felt it absolutely normal to get deep freeze at times as the season say winter.   

Why would removing computer models change the weather? 

I guess in a very convoluted argument you could consider the energy requirements and the associated carbon emissions but I suspect that would be negligible in the overall picture.

That can only happen to subatomic particles when the act of observation collapses the particles waveform (decoherence).  This is a problem in quantum computing but never seen in global weather patterns so far as I know

AI Overview

Decoherence is:

The process by which a quantum system loses its quantum properties—such as superposition and entanglement—due to interactions with its surrounding environment. It explains the transition from quantum to classical behaviour, causing system states to effectively collapse into definite, observable outcomes, which is a major hurdle in maintaining stable qubits for quantum computing.

I'm suffering from incoherence after reading all that.

Do these machines use water for cooling. If so did they contribute to the drought conditions we had last year also. (my tongue in cheek moment - sorry in advance)

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQGB7_osCwZ9sA/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/B4EZx27.qdGsAk-/0/1771521961005?e=1773273600&v=beta&t=Ovt8eWbotvZbfiLxM5RlHEFBHtZ33RLFJgvEoNESklY 

You might, in a similar way, ponder how much social media/web sites,  run on similar servers, could have contributed to reducing the prospects for cold and snowy weather… 🤔😉🙂

I hope it’s rust proof 😄

LOL, how very true.  I guess if ‘we’ excludes everywhere south of a line from The Severn Estuary to The Wash it might perhaps qualify?