And one of your sunniest!

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

 

 

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Have we even gone into Winter yet? seems like perpetual Autumn. I'm not even chasing proper cold now.... think I have "model fatigue". Roll on Spring and the lighter evenings at least I won't have to use as much electric.

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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.

Don't worry cold lovers. You'll get your snow in March and April most likely.

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Temperature now +2.5c and clouding over after early frost. It was -0.5 at 9pm here in Exeter and now at midnight it's +2.5c and still rising - all the frost has melted and wind has picked up too.- What looked to have been a nice cold crisp and frosty morning will probably turn out to be an overcast one now. Can't believe the temperature has risen by 3 degrees in a couple hours ....has anyone experienced the same in the south of England..? is there warm air aloft or warmer sector!? - it's not like it will produce any sleet or snow anyway!!

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Been a horrible day - overcast and cold at 4.3c max - matching December 1st 2016's daytime max. - Coldest day since then.

I don't know which is better - keep delaying the zonal westerly's or bring back the westerly's sooner so that we can get some weather back and build the blocking quicker!? What do you think?

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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!

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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

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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.

more frosts here than in the last 3 winters combined a week of perfect winter sunshine and frost

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  

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Yep - the high hangs on like a bad smell (or literally a bad smell if air quality is anything to go by) and keeps delaying the onset of proper weather with a good gale.
Do one now please and put us coldies out of our misery lol.

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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.

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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.  

Not a moan from me on this occasion.

At 7.4 C under near unbroken sunshine and calm winds in the early part of this afternoon, it is feeling and looking positively spring-like here at Folkestone. Quite reminiscent of '88 & '89.

I really hope this high pressure set up does put up a fight for as long as it possibly can. The Atlantic crap can stay put right where it belong . . . over the Atlantic.

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After a few, dry and at times, sunny days, it is back to the dank, damp, low stratus fest with spits of pointless drizzle. Summer 2016 continues unabated.

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We never learn. Last night it was exiting on the model thread. Something cold on the horizon. But the MET were not mentioning it. So, unless they get exited about something, then we shouldn't either.

Such a disapointment again this morning. Better get used to rain. There will be plenty of it!

Thursday is going to be an utterly repulsive day by the looks of it. The BBC are going for high of 0C here and a fairly blustery wind... and absolutely abhorrent combination.

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Im hedging my bets on a lot of wet drizzle tomorrow. with everyone else at least seeing a flurry.


This has been the story for this winter for MBY.

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Another step closer to the mildest and most frost-free winter on record with another ridiculously mild min of 7.8C last night. We have now completed a full two months of this mind-numbing mild and frost-free anticyclonic zonal write-off dross 

Lost count of the number of mins 5C or more above average this winter. The number 5C or below average is easy to track though because it’s a big fat zero with nothing lower than a truly pathetic -2.3C. It’s over four years since it last got to -5C (16/1/13)

Not even had any days this winter with a sub-zero mean or a sub-2C max and still only six frosts. 1988/89 managed 10 at Dyce and 15 at Craibstone so this horror show is on track to even beat that with run after run of model output showing total write-off conditions up to 384 hours. Absolutely nothing of interest at all in a winter so dire and beyond boring that even clear skies and light winds don’t produce frost. Makes the last few write-offs seem like proper winters by comparison.

Over the last six years winter has developed into an utterly wretched season of relentless soul destroying torture. A dark, depressing and dismal season devoid of any weather interest and the only thing to look forward to, during its three month duration, is it coming to an end

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Today could be the coldest day I see for a very long time, the models after today are shocking for cold 

Still no sign off snow at all the wait goes on and on and on....... 

Coldest day here being forecast since December 2010..........  Personally I think that's it for any sub zero maximums for this winter and  possibly anything remotely wintry.

It's been a half decent winter for frost and fog, compared to the last 2 winters it's been great. 

But been so long since a fall of snow i've forgot what it looks like. Id not be surprised to see it settle down again in a few weeks time, but the same as all Winter has been, with any deep cold and snow way of to the East.