Oh God, Richard will be on the rampage! I look forward to his next poetic post.

i can not imagine showers being rain once the cold northerlies set in later today, you a guaranteed snow surely.

andy

---

Not according to the forecasts and data. I remain hopeful but the data say no.

---

Quite a decent morning with overnight rain and drizzle starting to clear. No frost, no ice, no snow. The weekend looks dry with average temperatures (7C near the coast), and Monday's attempt is now slithering away to the SW.
The next day another trough is due to slide S across the UK bringing a mix of weak surprises and disappointment, so all in all a terrific Arctic blast which will be long remembered down here

---

Dunno about no snow, its not even a cold spell here.  More like mild spell (max of 7.5c yesterday lunchtime in my garden and it hasnt got close to freezing yet).

If this is a cold spell I look forwards to some 16c heatwaves in July!

---

As expected, an extremely marginal snow event here in the south east. A few sleety flurries yesterday afternoon and then it started snowing around 9.30pm last night and gave a light dusting. Woke up this morning and it has all melted. Damp and disgusting out there!

The modern winter in the south is becoming a joke! Thankfully we are heading back to France in two days!

I live 70 miles from Glasgow, Tally, in easternmost Fife. The climate is very different. Many parts of the East Coast of Scotland  are yet to see any snow (see Michael's posts).

P.S. Michael, I would be amazed if you haven't seen snow by Monday? Met O going for snow showers as early as tomorrow evening up there, are they not?

 

---

Standard fare as many of us said it would be. Not over yet, before someone says it. 

---

I've just seen the fat lady, she wasn't singing but she looked like she was limbering up 

Tally, I feel like a form tutor who's considering giving you extra homework

If you look at people's location it's actually quite easy to work out why some have had good falls and others have not. You can be in the same country and be a substantial distance apart!

Except in Exeter that is, which hardly ever sees snow and definitely won't be getting so much as a flake for the rest of the winter

---

Had snow yesterday afternoon and overnight. A heavy shower this morning and although it's white up here it's all very wet and cruddy. Can never understand why people are so desperate for snow that they'll happily take this crud - I'd far rather it was mild if I can't have 80s-style powder. Guess I was spoiled rotten in my teens.

---

Nothing happening.... Roll on next Tuesday.... Maybe.....

---

8:30am and we're knocking on the door of 5c already!!  

Cold spell? Many of us predicted - no read off any forecast going - that it wouldn't be cold for many in the south this week. "But the wind will make it feel bitter" Not here it hasn't. Chilly, yes, bitter cold? Don't be daft

---

looks like being a nice calm, warm & sunny spring-like day here now

Oh well, winter is over.   I wonder if we will get a thunderstorm this year?

---

It's just the usual hype, yes some have had snow cover, but generally it's just stadard winter stuff. It's it but like the trend of recent years to ramp up autumn/ winter storms.

Yesterday we had a balmy 8C down here, with temperatures widely between 6-7C elsewhere in the far south...  Last night we briefly had a little frost on the sheltered car roof tops 😂

Now this is just taking the p*ss!

Londoners 'disappointed' by snowfall as other parts of UK freeze - and they post up pictures of wonderful snow covered streets - the likes of which some of us haven't seen in years!

---

It is looking marginal for low lying areas in Aberdeenshire for Sunday. ALthough, it might deliver by Sunday night / Monday morning (a few showers at least).

We resorted to going up to Tomintoul last weekend and may get away with Gartly Moor this weekend for a sledging obsessed kid... The Insch road off the Glens of Foudland is an interesting one... you can basically drive along the A96 from Inverurie up the Glen where it is mainly snowless, then hang a left at the top to the Insch road and there can be several inches lying (think we will see the same tomorrow). Tomintoul a step too far this weekend I fear.

What a pathetic amount of snow over Dartmoor:

 

---

I am beginning to wonder if this could be one of the mildest northerlies ever - It's 9c and not even 11am and we forecasted a high or 7c today and for what it's worth we are forecasted a low of +2c tonight. Also it's worth noting that the coldest temp recorded in this cold spell so far was 3.1c. It hasn't dropped below that temperature.

---

Being virtually on the sea and so far SW it is to be expected Tally , a repeat of 2010 in the next zillion years is unlikely

---

 

Yes but this is mild - at least we have some frost to look forward to next week and proper cold weather but meanwhile temps to rise during the night I guess. How is Banbury doing out of this "Northerly?" - Better than last?

---

I remember 30-plus years ago discussing the effect of northerlies down here. In those days, without weather models or sea-surface temp maps or anything but the broadest idea of weather outside of the British Isles, we had a rule of thumb: northerlies would always be far milder than forecast, because forecasters underestimate how well the seas over which the winds travel retain their summer heat; and easterlies are always much more bitter than forecast because people don't realize just how cold the Continent gets in winter (I'd just got back from working in W Germany for winter 1981-2).

The ridiculously mild and snowless northerlies of this winter just illustrate that there's still some mileage in that outlook. At least last winter I did see a 5-min snow flurry even here, and there was all the excitement of the gales and the river bursting its banks. The first 2/3 of this winter have been way worse than the last one imo.

---

 

How is Taunton doing out of this? What's the lowest temp recorded there so far?

---

I haven't enough interest in the weather to record temps, I'm afraid. We've had a few proper frosts thankfully, which were absent last year. Great news for breaking up the soil and keeping pests under control. Just after Christmas there were one or two evenings where I took the dog out over fields white with frost that had hung around from the previous night.

But this and the previous "cold spell" which have followed in the New Year have just been perfectly normal and uneventful bar the Sunday I spent out in a deckchair during the preceding one. You wouldn't have a clue they had occurred without being informed about them on here and in the media.

---

 

So now snow in Taunton either?

 

---

rantmodeon/ This appalling, vomit filled winter continues unabaited. We can't even get a frost down here from a so called north/northwesterly that promised at least that.

Lowest temp overnight was 3C, rain in the middle of the night, not even a flake of snow overnight.

For me, this is a worse winter than last year, simply because the expectation is higher this year.

At least last "winter" and I use the word with tongue in cheek, there was rarely if ever any sign of anything cold with the zonal express rattling across the Atlantic.

This "winter" - and again very much tongue in cheek - it's really just been a perpetual November throughout - we have had two "so-called" coldest spells in years, and neither have delivered a flake of snow and barely a frost.

I am hopeful, at least, that the straight northerly over the weekend might actually make it "feel" like winter, because yesterday felt like a late Autumn or early spring day.

As for the forecasters saying it's "bitterly cold"....No it isn't. It's a bit chilly in the wind, but bitterly cold...do me a favour. This is sodding January, and 6-7 degrees is average for the time of year.

This winter, therefore, goes down so far in the annals of history for me as the most puss-filled, vomit-inducing, rancid and pathetic attempts at winter I've witnessed for many a year.

Roll on spring, when no doubt we will have fantastic northern blocking, cloud-filled Easterly winds with a miserable, wet, drizzly and wintry March to May just when it's not required.

"Winter" in this part of England is putrid in the extreme, and personally I would rather stick my private parts into a live electric socket than have to experience anything of the like again.

Last winter at least had some interest.

/rantmodeoff

---