Probably why when the Meto give out a warning we get our very own mention " MEDWAY " alongside Kent

I've done ok here the last few years so not complaining at the lack of anything cold to start off with this Winter, I remember people saying the same balderdash this time last year

Was going to have a moan . There is a chance now for the wintry stuff to happen ,,,.

I find myself living back almost in the same place that I grew up in the late 70's and 80's - south-west Wiltshire. Although I remember some great snow events from the late 70's early 80's , my abiding memory of Wiltshire winter is that it doesn't snow before (or at) Christmas, and the, if you are lucky, you might get one shot at some decent snow (and by decent I only mean more than 2-3 cm!). So rare was decent snow that I can clearly recall three main events from the my secondary school years, but that's about it.

When I moved back here in 2005 from Norwich I resigned myself to going back to a less snowy place, but to my pleasant surprise, since 2008 we've done very well (by Wiltshire standards of course) and in a way I think I've become more demanding of my winter weather.

None of this is to say that it is a waste of time looking at weather charts in December down here, its just that I shouldn't be surprised that its not Dec 2010 again. There is a reason that such months are once in a hundred year events.

I won't be moaning about the winter until we hit mid Feb with no sign of cold.

Today was about as grim as it can be - mild, damp, heavy drizzle.
If that's your thing then good luck to you.

Nothing gave during the 90's or the 00's mild mild and mild , cold was well overdue but it didnt show but I take your point, don't forget last year we didnt get snow until January 20th

Jan 13th here    (and a better fall on the 18th) - the other night I was going through all my pics from the last year to make the calendars for the granparents and had forgotten how snowy January actually was!

It was Martin, people do tend to forget. I chap who works for me said today " this time last year we had snow on the ground" he was shocked when I said that the snow came much later in Jan

We had snow last winter (in Jan - after a very wet Christmas) - but here the snow was always very marginal and I never had 100% ground cover in my garden, though it did at times linger for days in places.  

It's quite interesting to see how perspectives differ according to your location.

Here in rural Kent, this winter has certainly not been without interest.

So far this month, I have recorded 8 air frosts. Yes, I live in a frost pocket, but to put it into perspective, last December I had 9 in total. The December before, 8.

These have included a few spectacular hoar frosts, and a few nights of freezing fog, sometimes very dense.

This has led to a few exceptionally icy mornings where the rural roads were transformed into a white icerink.

Combined with some nice sunshine in between, it's actually been quite a memorable spell of weather.

The tide is now turning to an unsettled and windy spell of weather. Again, not without interest.

All we need now is some snow at the end of the month, and the picture is complete! 

Anyway, better go before I get booted out of the moan zone! 

8th crap day in a row here to round off the mildest ever December week with a ridiculous mean temperature over 9C

Just vile today - dark, gloomy windy and raining. Almost as bad as the Saturday before Christmas last year. Utterly awful unseasonable filth and yesterday was barely any better. Even people at work who hate cold and snow were complaining about the gloom yesterday saying how much better it would be if it were clear and frosty.

Really can't think of anything positive to say about this disgusting, depressing spell. Yet again the temperature is continuing to rise after dark - up to 8.9C. If it hadn't went down to 3.8C in clearer skies last night - which did not appear until after dark yesterday and were gone by morning - then we would have completed a full week without dropping below 6C

Out doing some winter gardening this afternoon, and I spotted a bumble bee. That's a December first for me.

I've still got geraniums flowering which is incredible really, normally the first harsh frost kills them off

My summer baskets are still flowering!

Max temperature here today 11.8c checked back to this date last December 11.2c so hardly any difference but we had some  proper winter weather in the new year and into spring  so the same thing could happen again, fingers crossed.

I do love this guy..says it how it is..fantastic!!

Makes me realise that I am not the only one who finds the British climate to be a constant source of dissapointment and deep depression!!

Let's face it......it's CACK!! 

But you are 100% on an Island and part of the UK , and this sort of weather will always be the dominant type

Even the nearby northern fringes of the actual Continent rarely have continenatal type weather.