I see the model thread is as friendly as ever! :D

Is it too much to ask to get some objective model analysis in there, rather than overly emotional, sensationalist bullsh1t? 

The Country file forecast was the most depressing one that I've see for years!

Dull, dreary mild muck. And the continent is still in the freezer.

Just a boring benign week with nothing really happening weather wise!? 10c overcast weather , dull and damp. No wind or snow or anything. Any rain would be nuisance drizzle. BBC monthly outlook from the 23rd Jan - 12th Feb suggested drier and colder than average weather to return.

I wonder what tomorrow's update would be like!?

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I really do need to find another hobby - this is too boring now.! Maybe it could turn milder but only briefly ! Will the SSW produce a blocking pattern and when? anyone? How long does it take to have an effect on our weather systems?

Couldn't agree more - I was speaking to others at work and they said how over exaggerated and hyped this cold spell was when people in the SE of Europe - I spoke to someone from 50 MILES north of Athens - it was -10c during the night with 45cm of snow. Also most of the Balkans are freezing.

Come on let's admit it - it was over hyped wasn't it? Temperature at it's coldest was 1.8c in Exeter and we never even managed a frost. The coldest day (Friday) temperature was 7c. I can't believe they cancelled up to 80 flights due to a bit of sleet at Heathrow.

i didn't realise you southerners had such a dearth of snow until I started reading some of the posts on here. I've lived in the central belt of Scotland, mostly at low altitude, all my life and never seen a year without snow. The worst year I can recall was 1988/89, when we had one light fall of wet snow in January, and a couple of inches in March. One compensation for us is that if winter itself doesn't give some decent seasonal weather, the spring that follows usually does. But then summers up here can be dire beyond anything experienced down south. It's a trade off of sorts. 

Seems fine to me Joe!...but then I have blocked the WUMs, their WAGs, the miserable gits, and the wannabes, so I don't see any of that shite now . Downside is, you have to scroll though reams of white guff space to get to the sensible content 

what sort of winter is this, a MICKEY MOUSE ONE, its a joke, never guaranteed a winter in the UK but most of the time we are guaranteed some sort of summer heat, UK weather is getting far to ridiculous  

We're now passed the halfway mark of another crapfest of a winter and the outlook if anything is worse than before, we're now relying on SSW riding into town to save the day but as usual he's left his six shooter at home and quickly gets dispatched by the man in black. Roll on spring.

Summer heat also now not guarantee quite a lot of times like in 2015 after the 37C 1 day wonder we never got any heat back and was rather cool wet summer while the continent baked forever.  Since 2007 onward summer temps in here had been 10-15C less than you see in the continent most of the time and if you are lucky to get the heat it can go down to 2-3C difference.  Then around up to 10C higher in winter (occur on recent cold spells) than opposed 3C difference from what I learned before.  London at 22C in summer and Paris 25C and in winter London was 6C and Paris 3C based on the 1980's average levels being taught at school Geography lessons.

I don't believe the oceans around us are the main cause, is the set-up are denying us from getting decent heat or cold lately.  Think of NE America are very mild but we not getting cold despite the Atlantic is quiet.  Cause? the HP near us are the one that stopping us from getting the easterly and snowy weather from the continent.  

LOL!

Maybe I should do the same! 

God, I hate drizzle.

Gloom and drizzle are part of what it is to be Northern. I like a bit of gloom

Its been a very wet few days here in Wirral, spanning back to before the "Cold spell"

Though the drizzle just doesnt get picked up by the Radar, or forecasts.  Properly soaks you too.

Give me one of those mid-winter's days that barely get light, where the temp barely gets above freezing and the misty murk never dissipates, and I'll raise a glass to gloom.

Drizzle is just Beelzebub's urination.

Today is the first day in quite some time that I've not been compelled to view the NWP. 

And it feels great. 

It's nice to not give a monkeys. 

It’s impossible to be too pessimistic about the weather in these direst of times. My prediction, at the start of December, of a write-off winter with no month managing as much frost as November is well on the way to become reality and not only that, the winter as a whole is on course to have less frost. It’s just unreal that we could get something as grotesque as this so soon after 2013/14 and 2015/16: the three worst winters of my life without doubt

It just keeps getting worse. Utterly repellent this week. Damp, dull, disgusting, stupidly mild crap. The temperature hasn’t dropped below 6C since Sunday morning nor has humidity gone below 89%

Despite the monthly rain total standing at only 16mm there’s barely been a dry day all month. Three trace days, 4 days with 0.2mm, one with 0.4mm and one with 0.6mm. The most dire, mind-numbingly boring dross anywhere on earth

I prefer the wind/rain followed by sun and blustery showers to this drivel...

At least the clouds will be a bit brighter on Sunday? 

Very similar story here. Rainfall total for Jan so far just 25.7mm. Yet despite the fact that the last few days have been totally dry, roads and paths are still soaking wet due to constantly high humidity, low cloud, lack of any substantial breeze and poor drying conditions in general. This is the ugliest of all weather types and no sign of any reprieve at all for the foreseeable.  For me, this winter is just a rinse repeat of last summer, which quite possibly was one the most drab summers meteorologically that I have ever lived through.