Today got worse as the day went on. By the second half of the football I had drizzle blowing into the stand

And a large depression over Ross County fans? 

Well over the 50 or so there

Not a rant but an observation of how uneventful the weather has been today - overcast & dull. Temp has been 6.5c all day...well just dropped to 6.4c.

Kept seeing WIO in the model thread and took me a while to realise what it meant .....   didn't help that in some places, winter hasn't even started yet!

The only good thing about this winter has been the lack of E and SE winds. Now that one positive has been well and truly nullified.

Clear skies all week until Thursday, when I was stuck in an office during daylight hours, then the most revolting synoptics possible arrive yesterday in time to write-off the weekend completely. Absolutely sick of this nonsense being repeated time and time again

Just putrid out there. Dank, foggy, murky depressing as hell grey filth with the temperature stuck on 5C since yesterday afternoon Easily the worst spell of this winter bringing back painfully unpleasant memories of the horror show that was 2014 

Loving the rants - getting better and better Richard!!

I heard NE Scotland was forecasted the warmest part today in brighter spells.

Went to a concert this lunchtime. Saw the fat lady, and she sang. That's it, it's all over. Roll on Spring proper

Well, I think it is time to write the obituary on this winter. A dull, pasty, boring affair, a rotten winter, only less bad than last winter since we had some frosts and dry weather this time around. Will the winter of 2015-16 be any better? I doubt it - the Yanks will probably get all the fun weather yet again!

Well if the current model output is correct, I reckon that winter may well not be over yet, especially for northern areas. I'm not expecting a repeat of the near record cold March of 2013 but what is being indicated looks a lot like March 1995 style cold zonality to me.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if there are a few wintry outbreaks during March; I've seen it before many times, and sometimes after fairly non-eventful winters such as this one.

What a load of rot to end this dire flop of a winter. Mild muck today and the outlook is of yet another northerly being cut off, before it gets going, by useless cold zonal dross which will deliver nothing wintry to NE Scotland just endless wind, little frost, bone dry when it's cold enough for snow, rain when it's not

Hideous rubbish to write-off the last couple of weeks with proper snow potential which will mean going 5 years without a decent snowfall. Unimaginable even in the 90s

Not "very" unseasonal

Nope but it felt like it earlier today between 12-1pm with sun, little or no wind and seeing people in T-shirts etc along with temps in double figures.

I heard somewhere in Scotland reached +16c?

Yes, classic föhn effect conditions. The wintry/snow showers in the coming days will be a bit of a contrast. However none of that is especially unusual.

Come off it Richard for once instead of playing to the audience and loading your posts with emoticons here there and everywhere, just how bad a winter overall has it been? Yes lack of snow maybe but just how sunny had the winter has this been for you area?

That's a fact that seems to be convenient ignored until conveniently remembered in the summer when you have a dull day......

Up North Got the Weather warnings for the next few days.. All we got here is just weather... Not even on a promise

Just another observation as well as a moan.

YET AGAIN - we have had showers on and off throughout the day - perhaps a period of wet snow for a few minutes around 9am and some showers ending in sleet around 11am when temperatures dropped to +3c. However, now we're in night time the temperature is rising and NOT falling we are back up to +5c. This sort of weather pattern has been typical of the last few cooler snaps, when temperatures rise during the night and the coldest time of the day is between 11am and noon. Just frustrating to the extreme.

I remember when we had proper northerlies when temperatures plummeted behind showers and they turned more and more to snow giving coverings. But the past couple years (since 2010) temperatures have risen as the evening/nights have progressed and showers have turned more to sleet and then finally rain before fizzling out.

Oh well, fun over for now. Was enough to tease. Back to square one tomorrow. 

Absolutely revolting start this morning. Cold, exceptionally windy, grey and raining. Couldn't ask for worse conditions. Truly HATE this horrendous nasty cold wind that has barely let up for months and continues to rattle away this evening 

This has been as dire an end to winter as I can recall. Two pathetic transient frosts is all we've had since the 12th and no snow except for the wet stuff mixed in with rain on Sunday which was one of the most disgusting days of the winter. The previous weekend was repulsive as well so there has been very little opportunity to get outdoors for fresh air

Last February was better than what we've had over the past 12 days

I've missed out on the snow again and just got wind and rain.  I had a feeling it would be another relatively mild and dull winter, although we have had a bit of snow here.  While I was on holiday! 

I'm not usually a moaner, but…...Missed out entirely this winter  - being over in the east: They even had a bit of snow a few miles up the road. Here zilch. radar today is full of something - no reports on current weather. It missed us again whatever it was….