Well these CB clouds you saw in the photos above earlier finally arrived here and weakened and guess what!? Temperatures have risen to 3c and we have rain and this is melting all the frost and ice - so temperatures rising in the showers NOT falling: - At least we have a nice rain bow but Exeter is missing out YET AGAIN!

Convective activity pepping up over the Irish Sea and moving eastwards inland. Radar showing them crossing MBY, and there are certainly threatening looking clouds about. But up to now they've not dropped anything - snow or otherwise - near here.

Just watch this rainfall radar sequence - notice how the showers of snow or sleet miss Exeter!??

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Temp here on the rise now at 3.2c with dew points at +0.6c. I would have thought being some 30 miles inland and with an elevation of 120m that my chances of seeing some lying snow would've been much better.

Rain shower just cleared and a sunny, mild feeling morning with temps on the up at +6C.
If this is a cold spell in mid-January we really are in trouble

Neil - the problem is mostly down to the media but to a degree, to the Met Office too. I heard on LBC radio last night that the Met Office issued a Level 3 Amber Alert of freezing weather.... the radio chap used 2c as the widespread temperature for the weekend. LOL.

As mentioned here, Pompey will probably reach 6-7c as a max and probably hover close to zero overnight. The days of getting temperatures even close to 1987, when even the coast maxed at no higher than -7c on Jan 12th 1987, seem well and truly over. It almost seems impossible to ever be achieved again.

To me, it feels like the media and MO just like to issue warnings etc for the sake of it. It is as though they like to write about the weather as everyone knows that it is the nation's favourite pass time and who doesn't like a sensationalist headline? The trouble is that the warnings have almost become meaningless because they have become so diluted.

4-7c by day in the far S was considered the norm in January at one time. Just because mean temperatures have risen over the last few decades, shouldn't mean the criteria for warnings should move too. At this rate, warnings will be issued for temperatures of 10c in another couple of decades

A couple of pots Mike. The Level 3 alert (whether OTT or not) is for the North of England not the south and secondly according to official data the longterm climate maxima in places like Portsmouth/Solent for January are 8°C. So even maxes of 3 to 6°C are 2 to 5 degrees below average.

This chart is very misleading showing rain for S England now 12 midday. Yet we haven't seen any showers here in Exeter - all went to the north and across Somerset and along the M4:

And the wait continues, the snow parting like the proverbial Red Sea before it got to my place this morning.

Very frustrating here as the showers head a few miles to my North as the wind has gone round the WSW yet again!

This is not the thread for being factually correct, Michael. It's for unbridled whinging and I'm making the most of it

You and me both. Sunny, frosty but snowless here. Shouldn't really complain after boxing day but I will anyway, seen as this thread exists!

Where are you? we are currently at 9c here in Exeter and the high for today was forecasted +6c winds are light and feels like spring in the sun.

I'm starting to get that sinking feeling now. Still not a single snowflake seen, and one unused pair of snow shoes go into the wardrobe, perhaps for use in better climes....like Greece!

Meh!

And me three (although our Boxing Day snow wasn't half as good as yours)!

We've had 2 or 3 showers this pm, but all of a rain/hail mix. Hardly surprising when the temp has maxed at 5.3c

Meanwhile, looking to our NE, the sky throughout the afternoon has been black. The Pennine stretches of M62 (from Milnrow/j21 eastwards) has snow, although none on the carriageways. The M61 has a light, slushy-looking covering on the fringes; on the M6 you need to go to j27 to see any specs of snow on the verges. Deffo a case of needing altitude in this region.

All in all, a very disappointing day, given GFS and some others had this region under regular snow showers today - but the MetO got the forecast spot-on, it must be said, apart from over-estimating how cool it'd be (it forecast a max of 3c.)

Just to do a bit more whinging/moaning we never had any snow during the 1962-63 winter, thanks to the bloody Pennine snow/rain shadow.

It was so snowless that I went to work on my motorbike every day (although I did fall off twice on icy roads)

Before my time, but my dad tells me that St Helens suffered a similar fate - had about 2" of snow just after Xmas, which then froxe and stayed in increasingly dirty patches until about March

When people start moaning about what most deem the greatest winter of the 20th Century, there is really no hope left

I'm actually quite glad the MetO have changed their tune today and we won't have to hear them bleating on about a longish cold spell with easterly winds later this week despite most of the output saying otherwise.