I'm racking my brains to think of when I could possibly of had an entire calendar year without seeing a single snowflake fall in my lifetime....this could be a very unwelcome first!  (not even a wet splodgy one here Ian )

The following calendar years had no snow here, not even a flake of sleet:

1988

1989

1998

1999

Only 3 months to go and we will have gone 2 whole years without a single snowflake being observed in Evesham ......

Can we do it?

We got a frost last night but temperature never got below freezing only 2c. Here's for hoping tonight will be a colder crisp one. If it get's below -2.3c it would be the coldest since winter 2012/13. Best chance would be Monday night.

Location is everything isn't it..!

If you lived in Sheffield you'd probably think differently :) 

At my age, I'm hard pushed to remember where I was yesterday, let alone in all those years gone by...

I was however working in Hertfordshire, and commuting from Medway during some of that time, so I'm pretty sure I would have seen a least a single snowflake on my travels/at work. Can't be sure though of course.

It's been poor here also. We at least had a good covering in Jan 2013 but otherwise nothing since December 2010. What I've also noticed is the lack of low minimums since then... even if we don't get snow we normally get some proper frosty spells. We've had some frosts this month for eg. but they've been light. Can't seem to get below -4,-5c.

Looking at the models.. realistically there will likely will be no cold spell until the second half of the winter. This GEFS mean chart for day 10 as bad as anything last winter served up. Plenty of time yet though, some of that dreaded word "patience" is required I suppose.

Why, did it snow in Sheffield?
You think about where you live - it's natural. The MetO obviously do not have that luxury.

Personally I have had several totally snow free years down here, but never two snowless years in a row. I'm with Andy, if it's not going to deliver here then I'm rooting for the record of two whole years without snow - snow that last fell on March 11th, 2013

...is pointless. Why do people get so hung up on something which is utterly useless at that range? It happens on the other channel too...

By 240 you have 11 members with a mean low near Iceland. You have 5 members with a ridge near Iceland. 2 members have a Greenland high and 2 more have complex low pressure around the UK.

Ruddy normal winter

Winter's just starting to gear up.

The BBC dramatise the weather graphics with a yellow warning bunged in just incase it does get bad, and sending out the reporters all over the UK over dramatiics again reaching to an anti-climax with an inch or so of snow on the ground!

Expectations are too high!

Of course I am disappointed that there has been no snow in my part of the south east but at least we,ve had some nice frosty mornings, so compared to last winter thats a 100% improvement as far as I am concered and still a long way to go yet before spring arrives

Think you`ve summed things up well there and imho these few days could very well be the coldest of the whole winter,certainly in my neck of the woods and from New Years Day its back to mild/atlantic zonality for the foreseeable future.

Conversely, I did very well in the 2012/2013 winter (numerous snowfalls in January+March), and had a dusting in November last year, as well as 15cm in Feb 2012, and got 2cm on Boxing Day, so can't complain. I get the feeling that my luck will run out eventually.

The snow here has largely disappeared bar shaded areas though.

This shows how extensive the snow wasn't and think it confirms that most of the UK population hasn't seen snow yet this winter! 

My bit of town is literally the only bit of Derbyshire without full and deep snow cover. The wind direction meant caused a snow shadow. The lightish snow couldn't overcome the wet ground. The exposed hills above 250 metres got plenty. 

I know you have a bee in your bonnet about this sort of thing. 😉 Of course it's natural to think about where you live.. I was just making the point that one shouldn't necessarily label a cold spell as "not cold" because you haven't had snow in your back yard.

It always amazes me just how different the winter weather can be in the UK, even over very small distances. I guess I should count myself lucky that I can get on a train at my local railway station and arrive in Narnia (Buxton :p) within 45 minutes. Not many people have that luxury. 

I used to think Glossop was the bees knees when it came to snow, but to be honest since reading your posts I've started to think differently 😉 .