Yes in 2013 the cold weather lasted way into April 2013 with a good 5cm that fell and settled in the south and east.
So you believe that this SSW could affect our weather patterns and give us a cold March into April?!
Originally Posted by: tallyho_83
I don't know whether or not we can blame the SSW for that (although that could possibly be the case since the SSW at the end of January 2013 didn't fully affect things until March of that year). However, it certainly wouldn't surprise me if it was to get colder, just when it should be getting warmer (i.e. some time during the spring months). This is after all, the UK where it is possible to snow on the Cairngorms on the day of the summer solstice (and it actually did so back in 2015), yet find it so difficult to the point of being virtually impossible these days, to get any snow here on the day of the winter solstice.
However, most people down south can't really complain too much about this winter since England (and especially, SE England) at least got to see a colder than average January, even though they didn't see much snow either. We kind of saw the opposite of that during last summer as well. The main difference here is that we did at least see a warmer than average summer last year. However, it was the south of England which got just about all of the good summer weather and for here, the best weather didn't come until September (although the west of Scotland did at least see some decent summer weather during June) which again, is too late since that month contains the Autumn Equinox after which the nights are then longer thanthe days which means that it should then be in the process of getting colder, with all thoughts turning to the following winter.
To a certain expent, I can buy the fact that the south of England got most of the good weather during last summer since that is much further south and closer to the Equator which means that you would expect it to be warmer down there. However, that should be the case regardless of the time of year and so the fact that it has been the south of England that got nearly all of the cold weather during January really takes the p*@s because since they are further south, it should be warmer down there and that means that the coldest weather has actually been at the wrong end of the UK compared to where it should be.
It is as though Theresa May and her extreme right-wing, xenophobic, Brexiteering (the fact that Scotland is about to be taken out of the EU against its own will shows just what they are like) Tory Government down at Westminster has taken a tight iron grip on the UK's weather to ensure that it is the SE of England which always gets all of the proper seasonal weather, and that wouldn't surprise me one bit since that is what the Tories are good at (after all, there might not have been such a loud cry during the 1990s for Scotland to get its own parliament had that not been the case, and there might not have been so many people campaigning for Scottish independence had that not been case even though that wasn't quite enough to win a majority for that back in 2014).
Io me, it feels as though that would be the more of the case rather than any ban on the cold air entering the UK which is similar in nature to the one which President Trump has just imposed on immigrants from certain countries entering America (if that were the case, the SE of England wouldn't have got its cold weather during January. Of course, it is stupid to suggest that any government could control our weather since that is something which none of us can ever hope to have any control over. However, the nature of how our weather has been over the last year or so means that you wouldn't think that this is actually the case.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.