I also love the dark nights - log burner on knowing its wet miserable and cold outside ..................sometime .

Once the lighter nights are here watch it turn incredibly wet and miserable 

330m asl in the Cairngorms and it is an exceptionally mild 8.3c , the least wintry scene I have seen up here at this time of year, only some very meagre patches of snow in the higher hills visible this morning.

Still hopefully a nice active cold front later and perhaps 24 hours of snow shower potential although most of that looks further west. 

Much in agreement. If there is such a thing as the totally opposite to 'SAD', then I have it. I actually dread the idea of longer days coming once January is out of the way, but yet, I love that real mid-summer time when night is no more than twilight. It's the in-between I can't really stomach, and more especially in that March/April period when days are long but nature still sports that winter bleakness. Once May comes in I settle down again. 

Wow, sorry to hear that Tallyho. 

The only positive thing about this catastrophic disaster of winter was the number of exceptional sunrises and sunsets during January but we have well and truly left those behind now and descended into yet another spell of extreme purgatory.

Thoroughly unpleasant and miserable for the past 8 days or so with that relentless mind-numbing pointless wind that has become almost entrenched in winter over the past decade and which I despise with every bone in my body.

Winter ended on the 3rd December and since then it has been a virtual carbon copy of the grotesque 2019/20. Can hardly distinguish between the two. It was beyond ridiculous that we got such an awful winter in the first place and here we are enduring a repeat just two years on 

At least in 2020 it got down to -3.7C in January and -3.9C in February. This year it hasn't got o even -1C since the 10th January. To put that into perspective May 2018, the warmest on record, managed -1.5C 

May 2015 reached -1.9C - just 0.5C warmer than the lowest temperature recorded so far in this extended non-winter. There will have been Mays that got down to -2.4C before I started recording.

The last few weeks have easily been the most dire and desperate at this time of year, for lack of anything remotely cold, since 1989.

The only measurable snow cover was between 26th November and 3rd December, a time of year when we rarely used to get snow. In the subsequent two months, when we used to be pretty much guaranteed snow at some point, and almost always at least a half decent fall of 5cm, this is the utter crap we have been insulted with:

It makes me so mad that this is the pitiful rubbish our winters have been reduced to year after year. Just one fall of 5cm in almost 4 years now 

The worst ever era for a weather enthusiast just gets worse and worse with each year that passes 

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

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 😜🥶

Oi 

less of that 

Put some pics up as we don't believe you 

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I have been trying !! Haven’t managed to work out how to do it yet 

Oi 

less of that 

Put some pics up as we don't believe you