Hope it's ok to create this new topic like what we had last year and previous one!?

No snow here in the SW or SOUTH as far as I know - it will be dry until New Years Day then back to square one for at least another week. So a disappointing cold wintry spell for many parts of the south.

No Snow ..not disappointing as long as we have a  white frost or TWO.  People can put up with that  but not the snow panic... 

Nothing here. Nothing last year either. Having been absolutely buried on numerous occasions in the preceding two winters I think I've used my quota up. 

Yes same with me here, Winter 2012-13 was great and I had a cheeky laugh at people in other areas of the North West that didn't get much or were bizarrely unlucky, I even had a covering of snow earlier this year on Feb 11th briefly. So I think the joke is on me now! 

Any snow on Boxing day!? - Just thought if only that snow had fallen a day earlier then some places could have recorded their first ever white Christmas in almost a decade!?

Well said.  We will be in a zonal rut.  January yet again seems incapable of producing any meaningful northern blocking which brings us our coldest weather in winter.  The default flat zonal westerly looks like going into overdrive.  The demise of this opportunity to produce lasting blocking will have consequences that last for many weeks IMHO.  The last week of January and beyond will be the next opportunity for this winter to deliver a flake or two for many millions of folk, and an air frost, once this colder snap is over.

In my view, this has been a pivotal week in the story of winter 2014-15.

A couple of light rain showers (with 850s of -7C) finished off the slim chance of snow here. At least there are few cold days to come (which will have meant a short cold spell rather than a cold snap), then it's back to zonal mush. There are, as always, tentative signs of a colder plunge (this morning's ECM has one at 216) but I'll not get my hopes up as long as the ensembles scream "zonal"!

Yes crap here as well even the flurry that some of Hertfordshire got last night we missed out on. Plenty of winter left but the outlook looks very poor at the moment for the South.

That reminds me....

10th anniversary coming up of you famously writing of a winter and that was early February too boot.....🏆👱

Coastal Ayrshire snowless capital of Scotland....even in the great cold winters 09/10 10/11 we managed only a cple of inches. Since then a passing shower..snowless so far this winter. Cold westerlies or northwesterlies do not cut it here either just days of cold rain and flooding as occurred last week.

Here we are in the middle of the first, much analysed and discussed, alleged "cold spell" of the winter and my location couldn't even scrape an air frost last night - the min was +0.4C.

To describe this as a "cold spell" in the depths of winter is truly laughable. I've had better cold spells here in October before now. 

-1.1c with frost toady is the whitest yet..  No 'dam'  snow.....

Laughable ....I agree just like the bbc headlines temp plunge below freezing !! A uk low of -5c is hardly headline news.

Exactly the same situation here. We have had no decent snowfall since December 2010 despite being the UK's snowiest city. 2012/13 was rubbish. Only had a couple of good days in January before easterlies ruined it and March 2013 was pathetic. Anytime snow lay it was usually gone within a couple of hours. Just a horrid grey cold miserable month.

I thought 2011 was as awful as things could get with only 4 days of lying snow but this latest run eclipses anything in the record books. Nothing lying here since 19th November 2013 and that was only a pitiful barely measurable dusting that was gone within an hour or two. The last time snow lay throughout the day was 13th March 2013 - nearly two years ago. The year 2014 has managed only 7 days with falling snow/sleet. The late 80s/ early 90s never came close to matching this drought.

This winter so far is dire. The most relentlessly zonal I can recall. Even months like December 2011 managed a 36-hour northerly but this month has seen no wind at all from the north or east. Consequently no snow or barely any rain - just 18mm making it the driest month since March 2012 and December is the last month I would want to see the driest of the year

Maybe you have, but it is a "cold spell" whether or not you agree.

The models picked this out a couple of weeks ago and it's still going to be a week of below-average temperatures. It may not be howling easterlies and powder snow but it is at least a spell of weather with below-average temperatures - noteworthy given just how relentlessly mild/warm this year has been so far.

And I'd have killed for this sort of cold weather last winter, during which it was completely absent down here.

No frost here either last night. Min of +0.3C. Just an absolute joke. We have had so much clear skies this month we should have chalked up over 20 frosts. Reality just 10, most of them shallow and short-lived of the type you would expect to get in April, because of unrelenting wind. Never known anything like it. Used to be the case that wind would drop out after sunset. Now it actually increases in strength

I have hated everything about 2014. Sadly no sign at the moment that 2015 is going to start any better 

Oh Andy!  Your posts never fail to stir sympathy with me.  It's hard to believe you still haven't had snow - well, I do believe you of course but you know what I mean.  I remember your posts of previous winters and I just can't imagine Cumbria without snow.  Here's hoping you get some soon! 

Sorry guys, I don't think I'll be allowed on this thread, seeing as we're under several cms of white stuff. 

Since I only got to see splodgy wet sleet for all of 30 seconds yesterday evening here at Folkestone village, it's not classed as actual snow flakes, so just for the sake of it, I'm going to say that it looks like I will go right through the whole of 2014 without seeing any proper snow.
But that isn't new, the same thing happened in 2011 - yes, straight after that December.

Come on guys there's lots of potential. 

Lucky you!

We had 30 seconds of sleety stuff at the end of a hail shower at the end of January. If it wasn't for that it'd have been a snowless year here.

(I'm hopeful this winter will improve on last "winter"'s 30 seconds of sleet, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. An honest-to-goodness snow flurry is all I ask for each year!)