Dreary grey, another day ....

Is winter ove yetr?..... No, it's not even f**** begun.  

This has been the most dismal winter I can remember.  At least in 1988/89 it felt milder, and had the occasional cripser day... this year the endless depressions plunge us into an endless rainy gloom....  a rainy gloom that gets colder, but never cold enough for a bit of snow.   I've got a feeling we'll get our winter in March like last year.

I am in total agrement with everything you have said.

Funny thing is I have never seen a crocodile around NSW  Well actually that isn't true as I have seen some in Toronga Zoo in Sydney lol

They are all up the top end, which feels like another country altogether up that way!

Oooh, -8c uppers, just preparing to head out into the bitter cold: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGQL.html 

Fill in the missing letters in this most worthless of wind directions: S---Ely 

This weather is complete pants yet more rain on the way just for a change,nightmare to travel,the somerset levels are really really bad. When you see a car on a  flooded road with water up to its roof and you know the river should be at least 10/15ft maybe more lower,thats a hell of alot of water. I personally like the cold with snow but thats most not likely to happen or will it.

The roads are terrible everyone seems miserable,not surprising really,hope we get some sort of dry weather for stuff to start drying out. Ive been reading posts saying possible cold snap and here we are,one day of it. So much for coldest winter for 100 years eh,well not here in the uk,maybe next year.

Having cast my learned (and weary) eyes over the outputs and being concerned for those who are going to be/already being affected by flooding, this sprang to mind after having seen the film only the other night.

The bit at 0.56 mins matches my thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Tdw5nG4dQ

I can't wait now for the 1st of Feb and we see the SPRING thread open up on here .... No doubt that will be full of snow potential then and no sign of early sun, warmth and dry conditions 

And so, even a foretold incursion from the east has failed to materialise into snow. This winter is the most pathetic, depressing, mild, dark and wet well beyond living memory. The only clear skies have been at night and even then have mostly been frost free.  What a sick joke of a winter.  I could go on but Richard has described it perfectly.  

I now wonder about a white Easter - which will be quite an achievement given it's lateness.

Snowing all day in Mansfield.  Am I happy?  No!  I live five miles further North where it's rained all day! 

Yet another horrendous day! Vile and disgusting infact. Stupid pathetic weather presenters banging on this morning on tv and radio!! "be careful out there today as it will be very cold and wintry in the south east". 

REALLY?? I mean REALLY? What drugs are these presenters on? I was up at 5.45am to travel up to London and my weather station was showing 5.9 degrees! By the time we got up to London it was 8 degrees and drizzly!!

What of the easterly blast? What of the big freeze? What of the driving snow and blizzards?

ABSOLUTE JOKE! Made worse by the jokers that masquerade as weather presenters warning of freezing temperatures and winter weather. I hate the way they sensationalise any weather event (even non events) and also the fact that they dumb down meteorology!!

Whilst here in Sydney we are having one of the driest summers on record lol We are having a 1976 Australian style summer. All the grass has gone yellow and crisp, could do with some rain. This is usually a wetter part of the year around NSW.

More clear bly sky and highs between 26c - 28c so popping up the coast for a weekend away

Send some rain this way ya miserable *******

Yes there is a cyclone but you are right, it is too far way and the set up isn't ideal for sucking that tropical moisture down our way. Got to remember the distance between Sydney and Carins is like London to Rome probably. Last year at this time we did get the remains of Cyclone Oswald down our way with flooding rain and storms, all very different down this way this year.

Great movie, that is

His facial expression at 1:24, i've noted by the time this weekend / start of next week is done

Deep Lows... strong winds... more high spring tides... It's not going to end well, considering a lot of sea defences got damaged / weakened during the stormy weather of the beginning of January

The Somerset levels are already looking like 'Waterworld'

Cheer up chaps - it's only the weather.

This always makes me smile - a classic OTT Jim Kosek forecast for snowaggedon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpxiCxO5k0g

Quick.... Send for a Dutch Navie... Need some dykes built...

What we need is a spate of James Madden inspired Daily Express headlines about, floods lasting years, the wettest year in history and a deluge of rain to fall every day for the next 6 months ......

Only that will appease the weather gods. I suggest stocking up on water now, just in case ......

James Madden only forecasts snow, he doesn't seem to understand that there are different types of weather bless him 

100% spot on.  If I hear a local presenter blurt on a about how cold it is or the wintry week which lay ahead...LOL. Turning colder with wintry showers blah blahbeen the same since mid dec rain rain temp not mild to be honest always around 7/8/9c as for those jokers on weather"one"liner and he crops up on local tv jokecasting wintry weather yet nver so much as an apology when they get it wrong......today has been a washout and quite cold but guess what not cold enough...

So... Nathan, Jonathon etc, how did this work out for ya

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/443462/Winter-2013-expected-to-be-worst-since-1947-with-heavy-and-persistent-snow-forecast-for-UK