So what is the Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband of Cold spells?

0.6c with 5cm at 1:30pm. Not bad at all. Certainly looks and feels like winter this afternoon. 

 Yes , Got to agree with you there . This winter so far has been the greyest warmest winter i can remember and that is in 50 odd years. The warm grey damp has been replaced with colder grey damp. The fields are extremely soggy not in the main due to the amount of recent rain , but the fact we went into the winter with a high water table and any extra rain just stays there. We have grass in some fields that in the summer i would consider cutting for silage and not once have i had to thaw out cattle troughs . Most peculiar season.

I don't like to brag   but no snow shield in the UK can hold a candle to the South Cambs model 

Weather fronts from any direction can be guaranteed to slow inexorably and fizzle just before they get here. Any showery activity arriving from any point of the compass is sucked dry by the time it gets here.

I confidently predict that if and when the next ice-age arrives, the last little bit of green grass left in the UK will be in South Cambs 

i'll double you up that Portsmouth would be the last remaining green spot 😂

Pretty happy with the results of this cold spell. Yes the cold hasn't been too penetrating, and the lack of night-time frosts still has been remarkable, but 2cm of snowcover is not to be sniffed at, given results elsewhere. I feel we've nearly maximised our cold spell here. Leeds did very well 

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i'll double you up that Portsmouth would be the last remaining green spot 😂

Even worse in the snow desert of Chelmsford

Managed to get some snow today. Traveled to it! Made snowmen and snow forts, even though it was 3c in the Brecon Beacons and there was a constant light drizzle. We had fun!

There is still February and March. The best snow arrives when you least expect it 

Well we ended up with just over 1cm of snow from last night when I left the house at 8am to travel to Worcester, where it was raining, when I got back it had all melted, not unexpected though, I think we all hope for a 2 to 3 day spell of snow sometime this winter, very unlikely though in the near future.

Spent most of the day looking at fog and drizzle...

Well, at least you got some lol. But 1cm of snow (probably slushy mess) for the coldest spell since 2013'? - Hardly anything to write home about, What was Birmingham's minimum temperature?

Tell me about it. Was a horrible day here - same for north DEVON too - very misty/foggy over Exmoor too.

It wasn't too bad slush wise, although it didn't really settle on the paths very well, but did settle on the road by me.

Temps wise I can only go by the VP2 in my back garden, where the min temp was +0.1C and dew point -0.3C at 6am. The dew point stayed above 0C for ages until around 1am.

I'm not moaning about the cold spell as such, although it's not gone below freezing since it started.

No, I'm moaning about the way that the midwinter easterly seems to have gone extinct. This is now the 19th year since the last one (which was in January 1997) - just what is it that's changed to make them impossible? In the 19 years prior to 1997 we had loads of them* and a winter containing some ice days (-1C or below) wasn't considered that unusual.

The last winter easterly was in 2005, but it was so late in the season it was just a slushy mess rather than deep cold: we had 14 days in a row with snow falling and snow on the ground, but it was melting all the while. No icicles, no ice days - just slushy snow. Yet before 1997 we didn't have all this "will it, won't it" with easterlies - you would read in the papers or see on TV that cold was coming and it did - the only question was whether you'd get 3 inches of snow or a foot. Remember, I'm on an island jutting out into the North Sea, so in an easterly we get absolutely plastered.

It's depressing that the youngsters around here haven't seen proper cold... something that was once taken for granted is now something only found in the history books!

I daresay we will get another easterly one of these days, maybe even in February, but I'll not be holding my breath. The only fun thing will be seeing how the forecasters on TV describe it - if they use "bitterly cold" to describe temperatures above freezing, I'd love to know how they'd describe a high of -2C with persistent light snow and a stiff easterly breeze!

* I know I've had arguments with people about this before, but the 80s were littered with easterlies and even the 90s had a few: 90/1, 93/4, 95/6 and of course 96/7.

Congrats to all those who have had some snow (assuming that they wanted it...). Unfortunately for my location it was the worst case scenario - awful cold rain. About 2 deg C, grey, drizzly... Horrible. And made worse by the jealousy factor of others getting snow. And a snotty cold that threatened to become a chest infection. And its monday morning....

Oh well - here's looking for the next chance!

In East Anglia we have definitely had several cold spells with Easterly winds in the past ten years. However one major difference to the Easterlies we had in the 70’s/80’s/90’s; the recent ones just haven’t been picking up any moisture to produce any snow. I remember a few years ago, we had a very cold Easterly but all we got were a few clouds. Further North up the East coast was getting hammered with snow whilst we didn’t even see a flake. 

Our two snowmen were still standing this morning, although both had lost half their faces

This. I remember those very cold midwinters past, when a winter actually lived up to its name. I remember truly cold biting winds, icicles (that lasted for many days and grew to impressive sizes), and excitedly waiting for those famed snow events to arrive! And all of this in the south of England! I'm sure we'll experience these again, but it sure is frustrating today (for me at least) when a cold spell is almost described on TV in the same way those winters past were. There is no comparison. So for me it's back to model watching hoping for something similar to what I experienced back then.

Indeed. Both what you say and Retron is pretty much how things are now. It's like weather itself has started dumbing down as things are certainly not as cold(when they turn up) as I remember.