Richard, honestly, your weather posts are brilliant- they rank alongside Gilbert White, Samuel Pepys, Rev Francis Kilvert and Dorothy Wordsworth for honest imagery.

The following images from www.weatheronline.co.uk show the rainfall and sunshine data for Aberdeen Airport in the last couple of weeks (noting that other parts of the NE have been significantly wetter). 2016 has really got off to an awful start.

Firstly sunshine:

Secondly rainfall:

Sympathies in order. The rain is bad enough, but a look at those sunshine bars is a downer. Zero hours this year?

That is pretty miserable

 Just gloating over sunshine at present. Cloud begins to build to spoil the day.... 

Max of 3.2C today and a low of -0.1C.. went to Sainsbury's about 2 hours ago and the grass was frosted nicely, and down to freezing point.. local muddy puddle was frozen over.

So quite a chilly day? The chilliest in a long while anyway. Colder than any day in December.

Do not think any of the whit stuff will show when lamppost watching. Unless high ground is 158meters or 518 feet.

What the hell happened to the colder drier weather? Not one iota of improvement. Exactly the same dark, wet soul destroying filth there was last week with the exact same dire temperatures. More revolting than any words could say

Another 15mm added today and at this rate we'll have beaten 2013/14's vile rain total by the end of the month. Absolutely ridiculous 

www.weathercauseshousepricestodropinaberdeen.com

Lovely drop of sunshine again. Until the rain comes alongt his evening which I wish was white stuff.   

So far at least, this cold spell has been pitiful here. While temps are a small bit below average, it feels much colder yet has done nowt but piss rain which turns the roads and foot paths into ice rinks after dark - despite the fact that min temps are barely falling below freezing.

Pure shyte.

Right in the sweet spot in terms of precipitation tonight....unfortunately it's rain falling from the sky though! The long wait for a snowfall continues (last being Dec 2010).

I've not been lamppost watching that regularly, but when I have looked, it's been rain. Then I watch the Liverpool game on MOTD and they had quite a spell of heavyish snow late in the game.

If last Thursday's 0z charts came into fruition for this Thursday, we could have been on the start of a really potent cold spell.

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?&ech=168&mode=0&heure=0&jour=7&mois=1&annee=2016&archive=1

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/geme_cartes.php?&ech=168&mode=0&carte=0&archive=1&mois=1&heure=0&jour=7&annee=2016

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/navgeme_cartes.php?&ech=168&mode=0&carte=0&archive=1&mois=1&heure=0&jour=7&annee=2016

After incessant heavy rain for most of last evening & night, it's flooding which is again the primary concern round these parts. The rivers/brooks I've passed this morning are at least as full as I've seen them this winter (barring Boxing Day/Night). Run-off from fields is causing problems on may roads.

The depressing thought is that we were only a couple of degrees from this all falling as snow. I reckon it would have delivered around 25-30cm just in the last 18 hours.

The UK climate is sh*t beyond words.

Patchy frost after light rain made our road slippery due to not much use first thing in morning. Car tends to slide down the rise.....

Very deep but VERY localised snow in Hemel this morning: