Woke up to blue skies this morning. Quite a shock to the system and still taking me a while to adjust.

Perhaps instead of thinking of a 'Scandi High' or a 'Greeny High' or 'Uncle Barty' as features of British winters, we should be thinking of a 'UK high' which could be christened 'Uncle Brexit' as it sounds like the state of mind of current politicians.

Havn`t seen any sunshine here since last Friday, just grey,dark skies with occasional drizzle. Very depressing, I think even our cat is depressed as she usually enjoys sunbathing in the back garden.

Just look at that rosette you wear come election time

1872-73, I wrote an article on that a couple of years ago about the long wait

December 1872 CET: 5.3C
January 1873 CET: 5.2C
February 1873 CET: 1.8C

21st December 1872-18th January 1873 had a CET of 7.8C

Oh well Kev after 130 years we must be due a rerun of 1872/73!

Actually all it would take is for the next European block to locate 1000 miles further north and the U.K. Would be very cold, not impossible and the MetO rank the chances as low but hey you never know.

It's not enough however to stop my countdown to spring.

Andy

This putrid run of winters has given us one of the wettest December’s on record (2012), one of the wettest January’s on record (2014) and the wettest January on record (2016).

No close to record breaking wet February so I’ve been thinking that perhaps we’ll get one of those, since getting anything remotely decent now appears impossible, and low and behold absolutely horrific charts like these start to appear

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn3361.gif 

Who knows whether that will transpire but what is clear is that this dire month joins December and a shedload of recent January’s as a total write-off month. It was unreal just how bad January was between 1988 and 2004 with few heavy snowfalls but since 2005 it has sunk to a whole new level of awfulness. Just three of the past 13 January’s have produced more than 2cm of snow. There are no words to describe how ridiculous this is. At least before 2011 December and February often delivered but since then they’re all in the same sinking boat of despair

And one of your sunniest!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/2015/sunniest-winter-on-record

In here was sunny for 4 days straight and possible to continue until early next week.  That wondering why in summer we cannot get 4 to 7 full sunshine days? Recent summers had been very hard to get a cloudless skies and when it does only 1 day or twice occur during the 3 summer months.  Spring and early Autumn does get the most sunny days.

who knows....the days are numbered in the south anyway, but of course no guarantee that the block will rebuild and if so would it be in the right place anyway as Europe would be mild by then too. It sure has been a bore fest this winter, if cooler and much dryer than last. 

Well as a cold or convective weather enthusiast myself, I would like to see some snowy weather and I am tired of this benign rubbish we are getting! What's even more bizarre is that we are having a cold front on a southerly wind coming off the France and the channel right now. Since when was it meant to turn colder weather a southerly? Yet this will not bring anything and even if some did see a few flurries or snow grains it won't amount to much.

I would rather see the zonal westerly winds came in earlier and broke down this European high pressure so that it can rebuild then sit in a different location - (hopefully over Scandinavia this time). - We shall see!

Another crap frost free evening courtesy of North Sea murk which spread in during the late afternoon and is keeping the temperature stuck on 3C 

Looks odds on this winter is going to end up even worse, in terms of wintry weather, than 2013/14 - my most detested ever. This endless damp and frost free muck is as unhealthy as it is mind numbingly boring. Even with clear skies we can't get frost and the humidity remains well over 80%. Last time it was below 80% was 13th Jan 

Six frosts all winter when it is 21st January is beyond a joke and the current model output is so dire that there could conceivably be zero in the next fortnight. By then there would be almost no hope of even getting near the ridiculously poor total of 17 frosts recorded in 2013/14.

Severe cold and snow all over Europe: snow lying on the beach at Benidorm for the first time since 1926, the lowest temperatures in Naples since records began in 1929 and what does this hellhole get? - the least frosty winter on record. A disgusting abomination

Another grey laden depressing day. I've seen as many frosts this winter as I did the last but unlike last winter which actually had some interesting weather this one has had one day of interest only, the countdown to spring gathers pace and quite frankly it can't come quick enough.

Never mind, guys. Don't forget, the great Winter of 1947 didn't get going until the end of January . . .

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The same as last night - overcast crap with the temperature stuck on 3C 

If it does clear then it will no doubt be too late to get a frost like last night and after that it's just mild frost free dross the entire run which now goes up to 7th February. Just unreal that it has now become virtually impossible to even get temps 1C below average 

If I were betting on February's weather I'd place the money on it being an entirely frost free month rather than opting for it to produce the first decent snowfall in years.

An absolutely toxic winter that is just a total disaster. Having to endure this in isolation would be bad enough but following on from the last three write-offs, it is horrific beyond words  

Temp had fallen to -1.1c by the time I went to bed last night. Come 7.30am, it's +2.2c and foggy.

All this gives me mixed feelings. I'm narked because the temp rose (the min was apparently -1.8c), but relieved because the car was free of frost.

Often the forecasters kept saying freezing fog which mean you expect temps to continue to drop in foggy conditions otherwise it more like mild foggy type.  Last time I saw real freezing fog was back in Dec 1991 after it was -10C at night when fog came and stay subzero at -3C max then drop to -9C by next morning, the fog cleared and left a beautiful rime covered landscape.