I was in Aberdeen on Tuesday and enjoyed a lovely sunny day but I was amazed at the lack of snow in Eastern Scotland, loads of snow around Sterling and Perth but nothing after Perth and from Dundee northwards it felt like spring! Even on the hills and mountains inland from the A90 the snow line was well above 1,500 feet.

No wonder you are so pis*ed off!

Andy

1/10 - Nothing here? a couple of days of light frost in the Chilts in January and a max temp of 5 degrees for a very short while. Even then there were kids in t-shirts!!

4/10 for me

At one stage, on the eve of the forecasted colder spell, it looked like we could be in for 7-10 days of winter, but it didn’t turn out like that.

We only got 2 air frosts – and one of those nights the temp began to rise soon after midnight and was above zero by dawn.

The saving grace was the snow – but even that was a frustration. After being forecast to be within the ideal area, the snowier zone got shunted eastwards. The result was that, although snow was falling for much of Saturday and the temp hovered around 0.2c to 0.5c, we only got a thin, slushy covering as every time the snow rate increased, it’d quickly die back or even turn to sleet. It was only from around 6pm onwards, when the bulk of the front had moved southwards, did colder air wrap around the PPN band & proper snow began to fall. We ended with about 2cm on all surfaces – enough to build a couple of modest snowmen & get the sledges out for. Unfortunately, a slow thaw set in mid-morning & by nightfall Sunday, most of the snow had melted.

Still, snow is snow.

With lows of -1.7, -3.8 and -1.5 plus around 2cm of snow (that`s being generous, I didn`t go out to measure it) it was pretty poor as cold spells go. The snow only lasted half a day as well. 

So I`ll give it 3/10.

1 out of 10 is all it was worth, without the decent frost a couple of nights ago it would've been zero.

Not a proper cold spell at all, just a bog standard chilly period we'd expect a few times in an average winter.

Barely registered here.  Best that can be said was it was a  period  when the outrageously mild  regime briefly  lost its grip.

No snow and a  frost or 2 -

1/10.

 I love the jet stream streaming into Norway

If I was still in Pompey, this 'cold' spell would have been a 0/10.

Sure, some upland parts (especially) had snow as well as some lower lying areas but my god.... day temps between 3c and 5c (on average) would hardly constitute a cold spell. In the late 70s, 80s and early 90s, cold would mean below freezing by day. Average would be 5-7c and mild would be 8-11c. Nowadays, the mild spells often reach the teens. That just about sums it up.

If I was rating the cold spell versus recent cold spells and more historic ones it'd barely rate - maybe a 1 or 2 out of 10 if I was being generous.

If I was rating it in the context of this winter and what's gone before I'd probably go as far as 5/10 purely because of the contrast from the record breaking warmth and dull rubbish of December. A week or more of chilly/cold days with plenty of crisp sunshine, overnight frosts and some settling snow seems pretty remarkable following on so closely from that

1/10 and that was given to the passing interest of observing an overnight low of -3.4c on one morning. Snow was never expected but the carrot was dangled last Saturday when it appeared that the trough may extend its influence this far east to give a dusting. As it turned out the dusting stopped 5 miles west of here. The rain shower at noon on Sunday just added to the grey let down.

My prized Aster that was purchased in 2012 and has survived each winter and has grown notably large was destroyed by the frost.

Temperatures in the peak of this cool blip still peaked at 4-6c..testament to the warm environment and depth temperatures still being fedback from that remarkable December. It could have got down to -5c or overnight here but stratocumulus drifting down at 3am on Tuesday and Wednesday morning prevented that from happening locally.

Very disappointing and ready for Spring now.

One thing this thread demonstrates is "what cold spell".

Just for fun I did a quick frequency chart for all the scores so far, and the evidence screams a resounding 'rubbish' with regards this 'cold' spell.

Mean score = 2.9 so far with a St dev of 2.19.

Would be interesting to see how New Yorkers rate their cold spell out of 10. lol?!

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/new-york/new-york/times-square.html

I'll be generous and give it a 3.5.

It was nice to see some cold weather for a change, and it did snow (although not much), but it didn't last long and the canal near me didn't even freeze over (although that may be a reflection of the unseasonable warmth of this winter affecting the temperature of the water somewhat).

So 3.5/10