Aside from a very mild week of >10c days in early December and a lack of air frost (just one so far), it hasn't been especially notable in my neck of the woods. Wetter than average but nothing extreme, a few stormy days but nothing that caused much in the way of problems locally (unlike 2011/12).

There's been no snow of course but as my last meaningful snowfall (i.e. a cm or more) was December 2010 that's nothing new.

 

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Down here it's been very windy, very wet, and despite average to mild temps it's felt cold.

Miserable would sum it up for me.

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Agree on the above.  Regarding rainfall, it's been a different world in our region compared to elsewhere.   Seems to have been plenty of sunshine this Winter so far, with much of the rainfall being light and sporadic.  

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Got to say that it doesn't seem to have been particularly wetter than average round here, either. The rivers are at levels you'd expect and have never looked like flooding. I think because fronts have approached from south of west, we've had protection from Snowdonia - hence why many rivers in NE Wales have been very swollen at times, with the Snowdonia run-off

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If I was to order the winter rating by means of class, it's been a chav winter here so far.

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2010-11 and it was virtually over red-rover by this stage.

Last winter hadn't even started.

At the moment, it has been devoid of anything wintry.

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As other south coasters have posted, it hasn't actually felt that mild here, simply because of the strength of the wind.... A pretty rubbish winter so far due to both the complete absence of, or prospect of, snow either here or up on the downs.... obviously that is not unusual in these parts so I must be realistic about our chances here.... But more realistically, and equally dissapointing, has been the lack of any calm, cold, anticyclonic days and nights, with that gorgeous soft golden winter light, with flocks of brent geese and dunlins flying against the backdrop of a winter's sunset and the mournful cries of the curlew..... If we have had any days like that I've been at work and missed them... A trip to Pagham Harbour with a 50mph southerly gale and rain lashing into my face is not quite the same!

I'm looking forward to Richard from Aberdeen's contribution to this thread very much!

Wild and mild.

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Darren. I enjoy snow and the beauty it provides as much as many of the cold winter rampers on this site. My tastes have not changed in that aspect.

I have simply reached a stage in my life where the responsibility of a family being a homeowner and holding down a responsible career somehow take more of a priority in my life these days.

Less snow and ice means spending far more time with my family and loved ones.

You may be correct...Age may not be anything to do with it but responsibility does.

 

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Wet with mostly 'average' temps here so it certainly hasn't been very mild, had quite a few single digit max temps last few weeks. Night times however have not been all that cold with the cloud cover, just a few air frosts so far this Winter. November funnily enough was colder than last month especially by night.

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I also have more responsibilities than I did as a kid, you know, and it hasn't diminished my love of snow and ice one little bit. That includes a commute onto the mainland along roads which get covered with snow in no time due to lack of traffic, even having - as a couple of years ago - to shovel sheet ice off the road in which I live in order to get out.

As such, I disagree with your assertions. It shows that your views aren't the only ones, just as my "I'll always love snow" views aren't the same as everyone else's (or even the majority, I'd suspect).

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As someone with a family, house & career, I take the opposite line to Gusty. Snow is fantastic, and my love of it has not diminished one bit.

 

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Thank you - I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way!

 

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I'm sure I'm a bit older than Steve (Gusty). I'm also a homeowner, and have a wife and children, and a "responsible" career (though unlike Steve, I mostly work from home now).

I can't imagine that I will ever grow out of loving snow, the more the better. I got stuck in the snow on the M25 on 30th November 2010, and got stuck again a couple of weeks later in Tunbridge Wells in December 2010. It took my wife 6 hours to get home from work on 21st December 2009 because of the snow. And yet, despite some mild inconvenience, I can't wait for it to snow again. I'm looking on in envy as my brother, who is currently in western Pennsylvania, is experiencing a snowstorm today.

In relating to my status as a homeowner, the gales have done more damage than a bit of snow could ever do! So I'm rating this winter as 0/10. (Has it even started, or is this just an autumn extension?)

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This is what the uk winter should be: mild,wet and stormy punctuated by the odd frost/sunny day.

I for one love this atlantic weather and hope it doesn`t stop until april

Mild winters usually mean hot summers

this winter is an absolute disgrace

Hardly any frosts all autumn as well - I remember that in the autumn of 1989 we had a lot of frosts in Autumn and was very anticyclonic in Nov - at that was good consolation for the poor winter that followed

this autumn and winter has been absolute pants - and is well on the way to being the worst winter of all time

 

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You're in one of your strange argumentative moods Darren.  I did actually say that I do enjoy it, I even stated a week of snow would be nice ?

My crime was that I said 'I could take it or leave it'

Anyway...the clock is ticking for the south on winter and the zonal express continues for the next 7-10 days. I sense your frustration.

 

 

 

 

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I think, when it comes down to it, you'll find the majority of adults love snow. Many would probably add an "as long as I've not got to travel" to that statement. As with anything, you're seven times more likely to complain than praise, so I've heard, so it always seems most people hate it when I don't think that's the case.

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I love snow but I have also been enjoying this wet and windy weather. I didn't enjoy the dank and dull anticyclonic first half of December, but the past two or three weeks have been really quite interesting weatherwise. Lots of people on here claim to be weather enthusiasts but are actually just snow enthusiasts, I think :)

 

Also, I reckon I am running a fuel surplus this winter - I've gathered more timber from all the fallen trees than I've actually burnt in the wood-burner! Obviously it won't be ready to burn until next winter, but once it's seasoned I'm well set up!

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Have to agree with Retron on this....despite being 50 plus, i still absolutely love snow...mind you no doubt if we always had snow that stayed on the ground for weeks and weeks, i would probably feel different... But the magic of the transformation of an over night fall of snow on the local landscape and the pure whiteness set against a blue sky does take some beating.... And is well worth some inconvenience.

 

I actually love a reason to have to travel in the snow. The only problem is other drivers being arsewits and getting stuck through being crap at driving.

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Yes, I like driving in snow too. Just need all the clots in their RWD cars to stay at home, please!

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Do we know level of acuracy here, seems a bold statement to make, none of this out put is legislated?

 

 

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LOL, no - far from it! I just disagreed strongly with your comments. And if I feel strongly enough about something, I'll post.

You've missed out the actual bit I disagreed with, which was:

"I am at an age now where I can take it or leave it." (my emphasis).

That implied that you thought age was related to liking snow, which isn't the case. You then said:

"I have simply reached a stage in my life where the responsibility of a family being a homeowner and holding down a responsible career somehow take more of a priority in my life these days."

As I and others then pointed out, having responsibilities - which frankly all of us on here will have compared to when we were children - doesn't necessarily make a difference.

That's all there is to it, really. Neither age nor responsibilty need have anything to do with liking snow. Some people will enjoy it no matter what.

NDJF - see this link.

 

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Somewhere between 'none' and 'effing none'

 

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