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
Originally Posted by: moomin75