Good news everyone Spring is but a day nearer than yesterday. 😄

It's snowier in Tunisia than it is in Britain

Social media turns white as Tunisia is blanketed in snow

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More drizzle.

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Aye.  This must be one of the most pathetically dire winter weeks in history.  Constant cloud, drizzle and feeling cold even though the temperature remains average by day and doesn't come within 1,000 miles* of approaching any slightest possiblity of a hint of a very very very slight frost at night     If I didn't know better I'd think I was in Aberdeen 

 

 

 

* well actually nearer 25 miles looking at the temp charts.....  But it might as well be a 1,000 miles for all the chance of it getting here.  Bl**dy southern Saxons hogging all the good weather yet again

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It has been drizzling for 3 days!

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I know. Anyone would think it was summer!

 

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No drizzle today thankfully, just cloudy - but at least it's brightened up and the cloud base is much higher than yesterday, and there are odd patches of blue.

With temps currently sitting at 8C, I'd say today is probably the archetypal January day.

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What's interesting is that I saw in a travel agent a tour guide offer magazine titled something like "Escape the January blues of cold & wet weather and return to the warm sun of southern Europe/north Africa" - Just makes me laugh when all parts of southern Europe and North Africa have been unseasonably cold and snowy. - Beit Southern France, Italy, Spain, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Turkey, Tunisia etc  

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Topsy turvy for sure... and now even the uk  has a small scale 'back to front'  with the clear south east at -2 or 3 deg c and the murky North west of Scotland  at 8 or 9 deg c ...but hey that's not that unusual..as the bulk of the cold is still the other side of the channel.

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Snow in Costa Del Sol today and record 30 year lows in the South of France! I think the first thing Theresa May should be doing in her Brexit negotiations is demanding our weather back that they have nicked!

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Yet more logic defying garbage. Even with clear skies and no wind in we can't get  frost. Stuck on 2C for the past 3 hours

The least frosty winter since 1988/89 here. Absolutely nothing since comes close. It is beyond dire 

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Well, after 3 near perfect meteorological set-ups, end of Nov, Dec and early Jan it has all come to naught...and although it is only mid Jan by the way the charts are looking and model outputs I feel that this winter is slowly slipping away from us, and to rub salt into the wound we see news reports of countries bordering the Med that are experiencing sub zero temps and heavy snowfalls...how depressing the past 3 winters have been in the UK...

All to do with Brexit for sure!! Our punishment! - The UK goes it alone.

 

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My only complaint about the weather recently is that it's been pretty boring. Wouldn't mind the odd Atlantic storm roaring through actually just to spice things up a bit. Still, I'm thankful I'm not getting those severe frosts that those in the south are getting though.

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Another day of 'Blade Runner' weather, thick cloud, drizzle and semi darkness, if you weren't depressed before this current spell of weather you will be now!

This is fast becoming the most tedious miserable winter for Decades, reminds me very much of 1991/92 although at least that winter had a few colder spells and wasn't quite as gloomy as January is turning out.

When forecasts of a cold winter first came out in November I was afraid that despite good background signals the winter would downgrade into the anticyclonic gloom type with a persistent UK High and so it has proved.

Scenes of snowy beaches from Crete to the Costa Del Sol have only heightened the feeling of betrayal, loss and disappointment. On purely practical terms this winter is still better than last year because I hate wind and rain but it will still go down as one of the worst and most depressing winters of my 55 years on planet Earth.

And please spare me the 'there is still time it's only late January' replies, any pattern change will only bring the Atlantic back so a cold spell is a million miles away. Check the CET record and you will see a mild December and January is NEVER followed by a cold February. The cast is set and the only relief from this miserable excuse for a winter will be the arrival of spring in 6 weeks time.

I often thought about moving to Lanzarote for my retirement but now that escape has gone due to bloody Brexit, the U.K. feels on its own these days in more ways than one.

Andy

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I was just coming to this thread to moan about the drizzle. Still some in the air this morning. This is now day 4! 0.0 hours of sun so far since Monday. 

 

We also had a few days a drizzle before Christmas if I remember. Least it was sunny over Christmas: 

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Depends how cold?

Winter 1993-94?

Winter 1980-81?

Winter 1872-73?

Winter 1852-53?

 

 

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FOUR days of dire coma inducing maggot infested crap, another day of overcast drizzle with temperatures stuck at 4C. No sun, just grey vomit inducing misty dampness, the smell of rot and mildew in the garden briefly waking me from this continuing winters nightmare.
Roll on Spring......

Winter 2011-12 was  a mild winter overall with a cold spell in the CET area during first half of February. A bit like was happened exactly  100 years previous to this. The very mild second half of that February stopped it being a cold February overall.

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I'm usually fine with quiet weather as it is usually sunny, but this is so depressing. Since Sunday we've not had an ounce of sunshine and it has been semi-dark since. The heavy rain of Sunday is still lingering in the air as the air is so moist and the ground has gone from dry to sodden in the space of a few days (considering how dry it was before this hasn't taken much doing!).

I feel sorry for those with SAD on days like this. I'd actually take some wind over this dank, dark, thick moist air.

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Glorious weather here for the last few days. Frosty mornings and chilly (but not cold) afternoons. 

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Am I allowed to remove an email by the site owner for trolling the moaning thread? 

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Lol, 300 years of records and that's the best examples Kev?

The cold Februaries of 1981 and 1994 weren't really that cold and the easterlies that did occur were weak with only transient snowfalls, also the pattern in the preceding December and January was better than this year with several cold spells in each month.

Anyway thanks for looking!

cheers,

Andy

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I don't recall much of the 2005/6 winter (so it can't have been particularly remarkable!) but there was a cold spell in late Feb/March. It was initially created from blocking to our north, bringing a NE'ly, flow, which gave heavy snow showers to favoured areas, before the high retrogressed into more of a Greenland High to allow low pressure to move in from the NE shifting the flow more to a N'ly and more north-facing areas got snow (North Wales was a winter wonderland), before the flow moved briefly NNW'ly (I got snow!!). The high then looked to topple, but made a last stand as a smallish Scandinavian High that allowed trough disruption as the Atlantic moved in. Western Scotland, Cumbria, North Wales all got plastered (12-18" of snow widely) but we were just too far east to get anything other than light snow for around 4 hours that gave about 2" level depth.

 

Quick change, too. Went from this 'no hope' set-up on the 15th Feb:

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsreaeur.html

To this just 10 days later

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsreaeur.html

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