Up here we only seem to get decent northerly blasts in spring and autumn these days e.g. April 2012, October 2012, April 2015.
The ones in winter have been feeble embarrassing jokes. The flow gets cut off before it really gets going. This is the 5th successive winter with no northerly spell and consequently the 5th successive crap winter
As for the current weather. It pretty much goes without saying that today was yet another tedious windy day with lots of cloud and nothing remotely interesting happening. No frost and the temperature will still be the same, or milder, in 3 hours just like every evening this winter.
The 13/14 frost season saw a total of 28 air frosts. Currently, with only a couple of months to go, the abomination of 15/16 has produced 12 - only a few more than we should have seen in the autumn alone. Nearly all of them occurred during the mid-Jan cold spell. Just one frost since 21st Jan and only three before 13th Jan. It's beyond awful.
It's not even mild. January mean max was 0.4C below average here and the past two days have seen day temperatures of 3-5C. Yet the amount of snow and frost is far less than in years that did have very mild weather e.g. 2001/02 and 2003/04 or even 1997/98. It's just utter garbage. The worst of all worlds
Originally Posted by: richardabdn