Gets 1 mark out of 10 from me thanks to being able to spend Sunday afternoon out in the garden in a deckchair reading the paper. Very pleasant indeed in the warm sunshine.

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every cold spell is hyped  then gets downgraded near the time,  I do like a red herring, of a cold spell.    we still have feb so lets see.

a 2010 repeat is big boots to fill. a rare occasion

And you're reporting from?

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1/10 for Cheadle Hulme, 2.5/10 for the Macclesfield area after a couple of visits there.

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4 years Tally??

2years IMBY mate

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3 out of 10, given the Synoptics I should have been in the sweet spot but snow went north and south of me and never exceeded 2cms.

We had two great winters in 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 and have been paying for them ever since.

Andy

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-6.6c IMBY the other night

followed by a day of 0.3c , a covering of snow late last night

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classic reply Lol

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Am I the only one who thinks we have only had 1 bad winter in 5 prior to this one???

IMBY we had 4 winters on the bounce with good snowfalls causing problems

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Coldest since 2013. - well that was forecasted.

You have had the snow and settled, how long did it last? what would you rate this out of 10?

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Sure, Gooner. For me this is the first bad winter around here for donkey's years. Even last winter offered its own version of West Country wintriness with fences toppling, branches falling and the river flooding the fields and depositing a bonanza of firewood. 

But from the point of view of a weather enthusiast the only event of note this time around has been the extreme warmth of the cold spell. 

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I'd make that 5 winters on the bounce with good snowfalls in our part of the world from 2008/09 to 2012/13

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I'd give it 2 out of 10....not a single snowflake in Chichester as far as I am aware but we have had several decent frosts...especially last Saturday....a whole lot better than last Winter...I am not aware of any hype from the BBC about this cold spell...there has been some snow around in Midlands northwards....most of the hype has been on certain weather forums!...not to see a single snowflake in chichester in winter is not that unusual.... We were just spoilt in 2011/2012!

That's ok then , thought I was on my own with this thinking

Has someone changed the title of this thread...........................didn't it say 4 years

I'd rate it as 6 as I had several frosts and saw falling snow , which settled

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Correct, even Winter 2011-12 delivered

To put this current spell into context - mid December 2011 I woke up to full snow cover on the ground here one morning and then that lasted 24 hours with no melting, wasn't a lot probably a couple of inches max but more than can be said for this recent spell. Then we had a good 4 inches in early Feb.

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Indeed. The models never looked very cold unless one had the right sort of glasses on. I haven't see a forecast of more than 'perhaps' snow.

Almost certainly a case of tabloids exaggerating but the Met O being blamed...

Flipping 'eck Marcus you're easily pleased!! 6/10?????? That would rank up there as among the best spells in the last 30 odd years....Have you been on something? Lol. 

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I would say about 3/10 - 4/10

Ive had frost, ive seen snow, ive seen snow stick )and hang around for a few days - albeit a dusting, but looked nice) and its been pretty cold during the day (today especially raw in the dampness)

IMBY we dont usually get that much snow, so my take on cold spell usually goes on how much enjoyment i get from photos from other people in their BY's posted on here and other forums. Last year although we didnt really get a winter, seeing what scotlands mountains got was a little relief. I also saw snow on some mountains in the Lakes (fairfield horseshoe - 1-2feet off snow and white out conditions) on a trip there last Feb.

Seeing the photos from Sheffied was really interesting, and bumped up the cold spell a notch or two.

Like ive said before - 2013 was historic for winter and in some ways was better than 2009 and 2010, as it went on so long with lots of varieties of snowfalls in some unusual places. Blizzards were common in areas that snowfall is usually rare. During that year IMBY we got no more than say 5-6 cms in any fall, but mostly was dustings, whereas in other places people got pastings.

I think there is a delusion on here that if you dont get a 6" snowfall in a winter - its a poor winter. Snowfalls of that size are very rare, and usually are a 1 in 10 yr event for most of us. Where they do occur they are usually in a hillier range - or next to one. Sheffield today highlights this point.

If you live in the south - these odds are reduced even further - but then you get better summers, so theres the trade off.

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Saltcoats on the west coast of Scotland.

 

Completely agree Q.

 

Very rare that, and will be brought up again in future discussions i reckon.  Did anyone save the radar data?  Would make an interesting case study that as to the conditions that assisted it.

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It is the coldest spell since 2013, no "so-called" about it! And it's still going on, of course.

Let's see:

• -4.7C recorded here, which is a typical overall winter low temperature here.


• Three days of falling snow, of which one had "proper" snow for a time rather than just sleet


• A brief dusting at work in Sittingbourne


• Snow from a westerly flow - rare as hen's teeth here

And nationally:

• Several places with more than a dusting in Kent and of course some places "up north" there was much more


• Low temperature of -13C or -14C over Scotland

Accepting that ice days and a proper snow cover are rare events here, I'd rate this a 5/10. I was hoping for a cold spell before it started, perhaps with a little snow and that's exactly what I got. No complaints here, it certainly feels like winter!

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This cold snap brought the longest, most horrible spells of cold rain here. No snow, not really any sleetiness. Just pure cold rain at +1/2c most of the time it was falling.

The only thing that it had going for it was the one or two hard frosts we had. Managed a low of -5.2c which is pretty impressive for inside the M-25, and without snow cover. And as a result, these were coupled with nice blue-sky crisp days.

However, since this is just standard winter weather really, and was much better in late December due to the absence of the cold rain, I'm going to give this cold snap a generous 1/10 

The best since 2012/13, but then it didn't have much competition from last year, so overall 2/10. Plenty of falling snow, but not cold enough for any sustained accumulation.

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2012/13 was pretty poor in these parts unless you like slush .....   Didnt once have total ground cover, even after it snowed, on one memorable occasion, for over 12 hours ....   Just never cold enough.

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Depends on your perspective really. Had this spell occurred in '09/'10, I'd have said "what cold spell" and called it a milder interlude. However, given last year's dross and considering that at the beginning of January we thought that we might be in for a repeat of last year, so to be honest I was glad to get a week or more of seasonal weather.

Given my location, we're unlikely to see much in the way of snow from the West/North-West. We had a couple of very light snow flurries, not enough to give a covering. A few air-frosts, down to -4.1 at best. Not much, but better than nothing. 3/10. 

 

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