And thus ends what has been a grotty grey damp murky ol' day today here at the coastal edge.

The only thing that had prevented this winter from being "the worst one ever" is the relative lack of stormy wet weather. As a result, the current phase of restoration works at the Folkestone harbour (now called The Arm) which is converting the disused railway viaduct section into as a public walkway has been going along like great guns and thus will be finished earlier than scheduled. Would have never stood a chance if we had a 2014-style winter instead of this year's comparatively benign winter.

Disappointed again - The Met Office forecast has been inaccurate - we (SW) were forecasted win try showers last night and into today - but it's been bone dry but over-cast , however this meant that temperatures rose and didn't fall during the night due to the wind and cloud cover but even more frustrating, is that it's overcast and dry at 3.8c. No wintry showers at all. In terms of low temps in this easterly, I would give this a 0/10. It hasn't even reached freezing yet.

This is the webcam over Dartmoor: - They have had more snow on a NW'ly .

http://www.dartcom.co.uk/webcam

Despite clear skies last night and a good dry air mass, the temperature did not fall below 2.4c here last night, which is actually above the monthly mean minima for Feb.

Today saw some of the sunniest skies this month:

This is no joke. A whopping 38 minutes worth taking the monthly total to the dizzy heights of 15.2 hours.

That was before we got more drizzly cold rain showers and the temperature has been stuck between 2 and 4C all day. Winter at it's vilest courtesy of the ever-loathed easterly

Still on 15.2 hours after yet another disgusting day of sunless SE’ly murk and flatlining temperatures. So bad it's like there's been no change in light levels since the solstice  

Even my weather station is so sick fed up of this dross it took a half hour nap this afternoon:

I know the feeling as I only managed as far as the next five days of model output before I nodded off 

Yet another snowless winter draws to a close. We had one thin dusting that lasted a few hours and that was it. We actually had less snow than last winter which is some achievement as that was practically snowless too. It's now over 4 years since we had a proper fall of snow. I can't remember such a long snowless period, even in the mild winters of the 90s and early 00s we usually had at least one decent snowfall.

This winter has also been really bad in the complete lack of any weather of interest. At least last winter we had some big storms, downpours, even thunderstorms. This winter.. nothing. It seems it's been week after week of average temperatures, cloud, fog at night and light winds. I can only hope we get some good thunderstorms come summer so we finally have something interesting happening. The entire past year of weather has been really boring IMO.

I seriously envy those who have been lucky enough to have been blessed with four completely snowless winters on the trot. Annoying how my area can't get one of those. I'm only 93m above sea level after all. Even the winter of 2013-14 failed to do it with half an hour of the rubbish on one evening in February.

The weather here just gets more and more boring, depressing, non-eventful and uninteresting with each year that passes. Worst of all is the rotten weekend weather and we are now into the 4th year of enduring worse weekend weather than weekday something that there is no rational explanation for.

Saturday Sunshine Hours with weekdays in brackets

2014: 3.54hrs (3.87hrs)

2015: 4.05hrs (4.57hrs)

2016: 3.91hrs (3.99hrs)

2017: 2.62hrs (2.99hrs)

Saturday Rainfall mm with weekdays in brackets

2014: 2.69mm (2.23mm)

2015: 2.87mm (1.91mm)

2016: 2.78mm (2.08mm)

2017: 4.33mm (2.07mm)

Just ridiculous with a significant difference in each of the past three years and it keeps on getting worse. Friday on the other hand, which had notably poor weather last year, is so far the sunniest day this year whereas the ghastly Saturdays just go on and on

Today is the fourth crap Saturday in a row and it's just intolerable when this is the fourth such run in 15 months. It's grey, it's overcast and 9.6C following a min of 6.2C. Utterly awful weather. I just can't see what anyone, either a member of the public or weather enthusiast, could get out of this. It's just soul destroying

Richard, may I ask how you record sunshine totals? is it possible to do this with an add on for the Davis V2 pro?

No sun at all here the last few days and I really need some to kick my Pro 2 back into life, as the 'supercap' is gone caput so the station will only transmit data when there is sunshine . Going to cost me 150 quid to replace the ISS transmitter, but given that it is 11 years old now I suppose it is time for an upgrade.

Experiencing the curse of the sea fog at this time of the year.

Nearest reporting official station (which records sunshine) to me recorded a whopping 0.8hrs (or 45 minutes) of sunshine over the entirety of the last 7 days   and I'd well believe it. The sun came out yesterday afternoon here for literally 10 seconds before disappearing again for the day. To be honest, it isn't the lack of sun that bothers me, but despite the fact that it has rained very little, the place is just so damp and dreary and soggy, and made all the more depressing by the constant blanket of white grey low maritime stratus. And looking at the forecast, even more of this to come for the entirety of coming working week. C'mon weather gods, give me a fecking break! Am I not chastised enough by now?

Current cam image from Moycullen weather, a nearby weather station website. Sums up the vista here since last Monday.

'Going to be a fine, fine, sunshiny day'.

no heatwave here, there is a breeze with lught drizzle. Sunday was not upto much shakes either, so saturday was the nicest day when the sun made an appearance.

Already set a new record winter min back on 31st Dec with a foul 11.1C and less than two months later it’s broken with a ridiculous 11.6C to be followed by a crap, cloudy and windy day with a max of 14C: akin to the worst days of summer. It’s not welcome then and it’s not welcome now. No doubt we’ll be seeing several summer maxes below 11.6C even in July. Pretty much a given in this putrid era of seasonless dross

After the last few winters I didn’t think it was possible to get an even worse winter then we get this stinking pile of muck. After two months of this stinking muck I thought it couldn’t be possible to get even worse, then we get this month which is so bad as to defy classification

would a fetid mire of effluent do it?

So winter goes out with a final 'kick in the teeth' as the snow promised for Cumbria today shifts a 100 miles north into Scotland leaving the County to enjoy another day of rain.

Oh well at least this pathetic excuse for a winter is nearly over and we won't have to chase dream FI charts any longer, instead I can get my life back and do something else.

Whether is GW or not winters in the UK have got disproportionately warmer compared to any other season over the last 30 years, it's a shame we haven't seen a similar rise in summer temperatures during the same period!

I thought the winters of the 1990's were bad but every winter of that decade had at least 4 days with lying snow here, but it looks like 2017 will the the third winter without ANY lying snow in the past 11 years! That is a remarkable set of snowless winters, Penrith has snowfall data going back to 1903 and until 2006 no winter in history had been totally snowless!

Other parts of the Country are equally affected, I fully understand Richard's frustration in Aberdeen, that used to be the snow Capital of the U.K. and home of the Polar Low but now snow is a rare luxury in a place just a few hundred miles from Norway!!

Its crap, crap, crap, 

Iam as mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!

Andy