Big moan knowing we (south) will see temperatures reaching dizzy heights of +13c or +14c by day with a warm south westerly wind and for the next week! Overcast dark and dank whilst the rest of Europe get's proper winter with cold and snow as has been the case for weeks now esp for Scandinavia and the NE. Oh well! "Brexit means Brexit!" after all! - Theresa May was right all along sadly!

PS Saw the first snow drops yesterday and daffodils protruding through flower beds and it's not even Xmas yet! wow! 

The last three Fridays I've been working have seen brilliant sunshine only to be followed by sickening filth come Saturday 

Now I am off that sickening filth has extended to Friday 

The vilest Christmas Eve imaginable, entirely devoid of festive cheer. 3.6C and yet another grey rain sodden day 

Phenomenally bad, wrist-slittingly awful garbage and it has been like this all week. Barely any sun at all. Just day after day of cold grey/wet soul destroying crap that is completely sucking any enjoyment out of the festive season 

The completely frost free winter continues. Not even on Wednesday when it dipped to -2C was there any sign of frost. Just endless horrible suicide inducing grey. Nasty cold, unpleasant vomit.

This is the worst run into Christmas since the flooding of 2012. Absolutely disgusting. I'd far rather have the 12C bright dry weather we had last week (before yet another rank weekend). While unseasonable and unwelcome at least it's suitable for doing things outdoors. This dross has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It's beyond horrific 

This current weather is what you used to get in cold winters between the heavy snow and hard frosts. Now it has to be endured without any sort of reward 

Well I didn't win my White Xmas bet, anyway 

Groundhog day. Cloudy, dark, grey, mild, drizzling.

In the last two weeks we have had just 5 hours of sun. Yes 5 hours - must be an all time record. The most on any one given day is less than two hours. The worst of the worst.

Merry Christmas Richard! 

'Tis the season to be jolly! - but it's hard work when the forecasts for next week, bar Boxing Day, are continuously 'overcast with light rain'

It's a grim outlook for sure.

With the aim of planning a long walk this week,  I just searched in vain for a sun symbol in the MetO 7-day automated forecast for my location. 

Best to focus on the ‘maximum temperature’ column; or even the minima; then think of the savings on the heating bill. 

The snow boundary for this front moving up from the SW is forecast to site a frustrating 40'ish miles from my house.

Despite being in the middle of a yellow warning area for snow here in the Scottish Borders, I haven't seen anything of that nature here in Hawick, and everything around me is still as green as ever.

Indeed, this is more like typical Edinburgh weather rather than typical winter weather. In other words, it is dark and dank with constant grey skies where I am, but with nothing which is even remotely interesting in terms of any sort of actual weather.

Oh winter, where have you gone? This morning's forecast is the most depressing (as a cold fan) that I can imagine for this magical week between Christmas and New Year's Day...

Click for full size, screengrab from the Met Office site.

(And so far this winter - starting 1st Dec, of course, there has been one measly frost here. Whoopee!)

Not a bad start to winter here in the Massif Central. Early December brought snowfall, particularly above 600 metres, but not exclusively. This was then followed by a glorious period of sunny days and cold frosty mornings. Some decent overnight lows of -7 to -9. Virtually no wind. Quite a bit of the snow persisted and in shady areas a permafrost built up over about 10 days of seriously cold nights. 

The run up to Christmas Day saw a rapid deterioration in the weather and now we are stuck for a least a week with rain, gloom and mild temperatures (7 to 10 degrees centigrade). It's pretty grim when it is this mild at this time of year, but at least we have alredy had snow and over 10 days of proper cold. New years day is forecast to be 16 degrees and full sun here...bonkers for January!

Here's some lying snow which fell about two weeks ago which we saw on a walk at about 850 metres asl on 20th December.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xtF7EmzPVLyxUpSG7

Every year you think there can't be yet another rotten December with yet another putrid festive week of weather and all it does, in defiance of any reasonable expectation, is get worse and worse 

What an utterly revolting run of Decembers since 2013. It beggars belief. Complete lack of variety and variation. Year in year out of the same hideous mind-numbing rot. Only 2014 and 2017 provided anything like the normal amount of snow/frost. 

Almost all of them back-to-front with what little wintry weather there is coming at the start and the final week consisting of sickening, repugnant, frost-free, snowless dross on an annual basis when it should be one of the coldest weeks of the year 

2013, 2015 and 2019 were the worst festive periods, all being utterly vile, but 2021 is so far eclipsing them all with it's unrelenting rank, murky, sunless grey horror. Can't do anything I enjoy in my time off with this incessantly poor garbage 

Just bleak depressing unfestive Scrooge weather day in day out. The last 8 days had 4 hours of sun in total and today is another day of soul destroying grey filth with diabolical temperatures. Pretty much the entire time it's stuck between 2 and 6C with no concept of normal diurnal variation. 25mm of stinking cold rain since Wednesday evening 

It's a toss-up between this year and 2011 as to which produced the worst second half. Both years almost incessantly vile rubbish with barely anything acceptable. 2011 probably just shades it because of July but if just looking at the last 5 months then August to December 2021 has to be the most dismal and appalling without any near rivals 

When the hell are we going to get some sort of break from this ludicrous rubbish? 

Rotten, putrid, revolting, hideous, mind-numbing rot, sickening, repugnant, murky, garbage, soul destroying grey filth, stinking vile rubbish mixed into the rank remains of a badger I ran over earlier, covers the range of bleak superlatives found in this part of Dorset today.

It must be bad up North when it's like that 24/365.

Is yours a spoof account Richard? You are soooo angry all the time? I can't work out if you are really that angry and unhappy with the weather or if your posts are done for the entertainment of others on TWO? Have you ever thought of moving? Just a thought?

I find myself day dreaming into a Walter Mitty world of how I would like the weather to be if I had the chance.

A kind of Jan 87 blended with the Beast of 2018 but lasting 2 weeks.

A change in the weather here. Gone from easterly cloudy, drizzly and miserable to westerly cloudy, drizzly and miserable. Just two hours of sunshine in the last 18 days and 16 sunless days !!!! If you call a sunny day one with more than 50% sunshine there have been just 4 in the last month.

This is the worst 2nd half of December I have ever experienced without a doubt. Just wrist-slittingly awful day in day out. Completely devoid of festive cheer 

Even 2002 was leagues above this utterly catastrophic garbage due to the three day frosty spell. Can't even get anything like that now. Can't even get one frosty morning.

Sick to death of reading about heavy snowfalls in the Pacific North West, California, Nevada, Japan when all this repulsive little island gets is smothered by a sickening grey blanket day after mind-numbing day 

After yet another horrifically dull and gloomy day yesterday the muck shifted after sunset to give clear skies and the temperature dropped to -1C but what do I wake up to this morning? Sunshine and sparkling frost? Of course not. The wind is coming from the SE yet again meaning yet another day of dismal, dark, grey stinking rot scraped from the bowels of hell 

This godawful month has already recorded the lowest weekend sunshine average of any since my records began 15 years ago and now it looks like recording the most sunless Christmas Week as well. This following on from months of dismal grey depressing weekends like nothing I have ever had to endure in my lifetime 

I'm struggling to remember the last decent sunny day here when I wasn't working. Must have been September just after I returned from my holiday 

Winter has never been my favourite season but there were always seasonable days to enjoy but not any more. I despise every minute of it. A worthless and torturous ordeal of a season 

I've never thought of going abroad over Christmas but  I'd rather be in the Caribbean enjoying unseasonable warmth and sun than enduring the unseasonable grot that has completely ruined the festive period since 2011 

He's been at this for years now. He used to be quite funny but now it's just boring. Goodess knows what he gets out of it.

Surely no spoof. Just doing the "winter moaning thread" complete justice !

I have decided I prefer mild, or even very mild weather, to cold but not quite cold enough to snow weather.

There’s my glass half full perspective. 😂😂