I think/guessing (If thats allowed) that most are waiting to see what occurs next, around the middle of next week, so we can

moan at how pathetic the remaining winter weather is, if the storms and rains clear off and we have dry mild weather

Wonder what the window cleaners  are doing....

And it isn't very mild.

I've had many years with no snow lying IMBY. To be honest, like I've said previously, at least the storms have held my interest - far more than a mind-numbingly boring Bartlett winter.

I don't think this winter would rate in my 'worst ever 3'

Yes, this really is the Winter from hell, as bad as previous mild winters were none have been as bad as this bast*rd. Most very mild winters have at least one or two days with lying snow, not 2014 Most very mild winters have several spells of mild, southerly winds, not 2014 Most very mild winters have at least one frosty spell, not 2014 I have never known a winter so remarkably wet and windy with unrelenting poor conditions, give me an 88/89 or 74/75 winter any day. This winter is the pits and has no place in the UK climate. Andy

Originally Posted by: Solar Cycles 

I was wondering if my calander was correct, it says the 12th February but how can this be so, as I've only recorded 4 frosts a brief snow shower  and copius amounts of rain. 

Originally Posted by: Andy Woodcock 

Winter hasn't even started; its not even march yet. 

I've known since early January that this winter would be a hopeless write-off but could never imagine it would turn out this bad. I thought we would at least see a brief snowy spell but the dross just goes on and on with 200mm of rain now racked up in just 4 weeks it just keeps getting worse and worse for wintry weather ore anything even remotely tolerable

Who on earth could believe that December would turn out the wintriest month but January and February have been so vile that the first week of December has had more frost hours and snow days than the rest of the winter combined

Absolutely disgraceful not to even manage a snowcover during winter 57degrees north. 1988/89 is the only other winter not to but it's understandable not to see much snow when it is exceptionally mild and dry. This winter there is barely a dry day, an extreme lack of mild yet still nothing

It hasn't even reached -3C - something even 1988/89 managed - and so far in February it's not got to -1C and there has been less than 10 hours of frost. Today is yet another digusting cold, grey windy day with the threat of rain after yet another large total yesterday. 

December was very dry for the first 3 weeks and even January had a 5-day dry spell. The relenteless low pressure this month beggars belief. Barometric pressure currently averaging only 979mb - more than 32mb below average and 11mb below February 1990 which had the lowest mean pressure in almost 150 years of records.

A vintage winter then.........eh Rich? 

So far this winter is getting a mere 1/10 for me!! On the plus side at least we have seen hail! The coldest days were end of November into 1st Week of December but oh ! so frustrating! Winter didn't start until 21st December. Anyway, I am off to Las Vegas next week. A least it's sunny there. I can't take much more of this!

Winter didn't start at all here this year! There are no official definitions of the season in the UK btw.

Besides, the MetO definition and the traditional UK farming definition is the 1st December. Americans consider the solstice as the beginning of the season, but their climate is different from ours. Late February is closer to spring than winter IMO, it's damned hard to get decent snow by then around here and the sun starts to pack a punch - thus to imply it's still winter in mid-March down south is just daft!

Nah.  April will be full of Northerleys :-)

Winter appears to be petering out in a cloudy wimper here.  It's not even been especially mild either.  I haven't recorded anything as high as 8C since December.

Seen comments on it being Forever Autumn...Might be right about that....

Not a case of "still" finding insects - this year's batch has already hatched.

There were swarms of little flies on the fields above the wolf centre on Sunday - more like what you'd expect in late March or April rather than mid-February. The complete lack of any cold weather so far will , if it continues, lead to a massive population of flying insects this spring - great if you're a bird, not so great if you're a human!

yes my fear a greenfly explosion , hopefully a ladybird explosion to eat the blighters .  I think its going to be a tough year in the garden :-(

I am a garden designer, landscaper and gardener..and yes I agree with you it is going to be an horrendous year for gardening. I have worked on a few designs over the winter months and taken on part time work. I have not been able to start on anyone's garden because it has been so unremittingly WET!  It's a disaster. As I type it is grey wet and windy outside again!!

Absolutely sick to death of it to be honest  The word "relentless" does no justice to the crap we have endured this winter. It hasn't been particularly cold and it hasn't been particularly mild, but god damn it has been WET! Everywhere is saturated. Even here in the south east? We haven't seen one flake of snow!

I have mentioned before that we had to leave North Wales because I was losing so much work time due to bad weather and the constant grey, wet and windy climate was making me ill (physically and mentally). Kent is a temporary stopover for about three-four years, but I must admit I have been massively underwhelmed by the famed "south eastern continental climate"?

We have spent three winters here 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 and non have been very snowy, but at least the last three were on the cold and dry side (that's a continental climate isn't it?......hot summers & cold snowy/sunny winters).

Yes we had a half decent summer last year in the south east, but that seems like decades ago!! Summer 2012 was a pile of poo and 2011 was just average. It really does seem that these green islands suffer from far more bad weather than benign weather?

This is the very worst winter I have ever experienced in my 46 years and I really just want spring to arrive early now! 20 degrees, blue skies and NO RAIN!!

I appreciate it's no consolation, but much of NW England (especially the SW'ern half) has, so far this winter, had no more than average rainfall (slightly below ave Dec, slightly above ave Jan). In fact, Liverpool has had below average rainfall for both Dec and Jan (and, so far, Feb)