Yes same frontal that brought snow to Athens, Greece/Greek Islands, Cyprus and Turkey etc - just amazes me how far south the cold is going - furthermore Miami, southern Florida only 100 miles west of the Bahamas and surrounded by the tropical Atlantic ocean and warm Gulf of Mexico could see a frost on Saturday with temperatures falling down to 0c or -1c which will make it colder than London (51' N). This really takes the piss.

Did you see the video shared and I posted by Daniel Corbett in the 'unusual world weather comments & reports'?

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Saw it and Dan got more gray hair now than before.  Lot of interesting weather pattern around the world except here.

Feels nice and spring-like today, sunshine and 11C. I'll take this if we can't get snow.

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Lol even Orlando Florida will see colder nights then here...

 

Yes of course - and before you know it (Knowing the UK's luck) - the Bahama's could have colder weather and nights than here in the winter and they are only 100 miles or so to the east of Florida. What a paradox this would be eh?

Seriously this does take this piss a little. Agree?

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Nice to see a bit of brightness today. The incessant gloom over the past week has made me a bit down (I'm sure I get SAD in winter), to be honest and so today has been a bit unlifting. Nearly at the end of January too and things always feel better once we hit February.

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Heating in the car no longer needed as it already went warm enough due to stronger sun

 

The borefest of a winter continues - yet another overcast boring day so far and after a low of -1c cloud rolled in off the Atlantic (not to produce anything noteworthy of course but only to prevent a frost!).

Whilst the UK as ever misses out on the cold and snow/ or anything noteworthy to discuss- The cold air goes back to E and SE Europe and cold air continues into Scandinavia and this is after those area's have just had snow - Greece and Turkey, Cyprus and Israel (Jerusalem) etc to name a few.

Cold air is well and truly locked into the eastern 2/3rds of USA and this could perhaps be one of the coldest & snowiest spell eastern states has had in many years with a nor easter on the way with snow forecast as far south as South Carolina, to DC, to Philadelphia, to Baltimore, to NYC to Long island to Rhode Island to Boston, MA New Hampshire and then Maine - What is this some 1000 miles of snow and powdery snow and some 12" of it or more falling in very densely populated areas? Well I never!? Just to put this into perspective - that's like an area of snow covering Madrid to London or London to Rome! Think about that!

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Its a tenuous comparison indeed trying to draw parralels between the UK & continental Europe/US, especially considering the unique climate we are blessed with in our Green & Pleasant Land. 

Here in NE Sussex I don't think we've had any meritable snowfall since 2018 so this year seems to be a continuation of that trend (although i may stand to be corrected as i'm a distracted soul with a terrible memory!). Last years cold in late jan/feb was notable but the snowfall fell too far east to be of much interest. From a weather watching point of view that was the one that really broke my spirits and formed a calloused cynicism that will be hard to shift.

As a keen gardener and avid weather watcher i only care about one thing - certainty. The last 12months have been notoriously unpredictable in that regard. 

*Although i should add this recent high has been reassuringly predictable, if not stubbornly so!!!

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The #winter storm that hit Greece and Turkey earlier this week has now caused widespread disruption across #Jordan🇯🇴

These were the scenes overnight and this morning in the capital, Amman pic.twitter.com/puROUlwfKz

— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) January 27, 2022

Incredible! Meanwhile it's 10c and overcast here in Exeter - so same old!

btw - how do you embed tweets like that!? 

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The nondescript nonness continues...

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It just gets more and more ridiculous. Barely dropped out of double figures overnight and up to 13C 

Now when the temperature should be rising, it's falling under an utterly vile and hideous whistiing, rattling wind 

AWFUL, AWFUL winter. Pure GARBAGE.

It's the worst winter for cold since 1988/89. Still waiting for the temperature to even dip to -2.5C. 8-12C almost every day for 3 weeks and not even breached -1C since the 10th 

Nearly February and there's still been less snow, less frost and a lower duration of frost than April managed. The latest hideous winter in a run of dross that is off the scale compared to anything we ever saw. Failing to achieve 5cm snow was a once in a decade occurrence. Now it's becoming the norm 

 

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Another snow storm in NE USA.

I’d be happy with just a few CMs of what they have had.

One day we will have a year when we several repeating easterlies.

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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. 

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

 

 

 

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