The Manchester Winter Index backs up what I think of this winter, worst ever. I like seasons to resemble at least in some part in what we traditionally think of them. The lack of wintriness has been remarkable, I never thought that 1988-89 would be surpassed to this degree.
We have had some out of kilt seasons recently, this winter gone, last spring, summer 2012 and autumn 2011.
I thought summer 2012 took the biscuit but this winter takes the whole packet! The two worst seasons I can recall summer 2012 and winter 2013-14 and both within 2 years of each other.
Originally Posted by: KevBrads1
At the other end of England an equally amazingly mild and winterless winter is now dead, a "zombie winter" as it was never really alive...
Some stats from this station:
Days of sleet or snow or snow falling ---0
Days of snow laying----------------------0
Days recording an air frost---------------3
Mean temperature December------------7.4
Mean temp January----------------------7.2
Mean temp February --------------------7.5
Mean for winter---------------------------7.4 (For comparison mean for April 2013 was 7.2 )
Rainfall winter---------------------------368.4mm
WI
Dover, 5m asl. Half a mile from the south coast.