One of the crappiest winters I can remember - no lying snow at all, and just the odd brief snowfall (which was actually most frequently graupel). I think what's made it feel worse is having the blocks for a good winter seemingly in place, and indeed having some great output at times, only for promising charts to evaporate a few days out.

One point I will take issue with you on is the comparison of winters in the 90's to the 00's/10's. I don't doubt what you say is absolutely the case for Cumbria, but IMBY, late 80's and 90's winters seemed much poorer than what we've had since 2000, when we seem to have had snow falling & sticking most years. Perhaps we've just been lucky (or perhaps I've just been taking more notice!). Obviously, we've had some snowless stinkers, too, but also quite a few good (10cm+) snowfalls.

Dont get me wrong Saint winters of the 1990's weren't good but as I said all had at least 4 days with lying snow, but just look at my recents stats.

2012: 4 days

2013: 12 days (East Cumbria missed out massively that year)

2014: Nil

2015: 9 days

2016: 4 days

2017: Nil

The winter of 1992 was very similar to this year but I still had two 8cms snowfalls that covered the ground of 6 mornings.

I guess this winter coming so soon after the snowless winter of 2014 makes me feel hard done by.

Its pure pants mate!

Andy

My recent years are probably little different to yours (except MBY was oddly in a sweet spot in 2013); I think the difference was that the 90's winters here were worse.

The only thing that is preventing me from getting fed up with this wind (even though it's not that exceptional) is how it's coming with regular bursts of sunshine as well as drying everything up in double quick time.

 It rained here for much of the day but has cleared now. Inland Aberdeenshire and parts of S Scotland saw quite a bit earlier. 

No snow here at all as expected/forecast although I guess we may catch a few wintry showers later.

Completely agree with this apart from the point about warmer winters as, despite the extreme lack of frost and snow, we are not seeing any more milder weather except during the night. Just shedloads of vile days like today with cold rain, grey skies, no frost and temperatures in the 2-6C range.

Lots of winter months since 2011 have returned average or below average temperatures e.g. Jan 11, Dec 11, Dec 14, Jan 15, Feb 16 but have produced almost no meaningful snow, or hard frosts, whereas plenty of mild/very mild winter months in the 90s and 2000s did deliver e.g. Feb 1999, Dec 2000, Dec 2001, Jan 2004, Feb 2004, Feb 2009. Even Feb 1998 was snowier than most of the dross in this decade courtesy of a northerly at the end of the month. Snowed most of the day on Saturday 28th Feb 1998 whereas I can’t think of a single winter day in the last four years where that has happened.

The most shocking thing about this winter is the lack of frost – just ten air frosts all winter which beggars belief considering that even 2013/14 chalked up 17 despite having relentless low pressure. It has been an utter write-off with only 1988/89 seeing a comparative lack of wintry weather in my lifetime but the conditions during that winter were nowhere near as downright vile and depressing as what we’ve had to endure this year particularly the weeks of mild gloom before Christmas and this utterly awful, dull and exceptionally wet February.

Easily the worst era for weather in recorded history. Worst ever run of summers with 9 out of the last 10 wetter than average and worst run of winters with 7 out of 11 having below average snow. Given the average of around 18 days lying even most below average winters should still have one reasonable snow event but pretty much all of those seven have fallen well short of average, failing to produce more than transitory dustings of under 5cm. 06/07, 07/08, 11/12, 13/14 and this winter all had under 10 days of snow lying whereas this should be a 1in 5 event.

Never has the climate ever been more like an eternal autumn and that is a fact not an opinion

I think if the winter could be summed up, it would be 'close, but no cigar'.

We need a GH to produce nationwide  cold, and I don't think I saw one of those this winter.

Winter has really gone out with a whimper here.

A check of my stats revealed that February did not fall below 0c at all. 

The lowest temperature of 0.4c occurred twice this month. The first time was during the light snowfall back on the 11th, the second time early on the 25th under clear skies and a PM airmass.

Not enough snow this month to help winter along. Only TWO days.   Just one day with low below zero .-0.3 on the 10th.   

This sick joke of a climate strikes gold once again with its toxic poison. After enduring yet more vile, unpleasantly wet write-off weekend weather yesterday - another 6mm - the sun shone most of today from a brilliant blue sky  

While February 2016 was about the best a winter month with virtually no snow could be, this has undoubtedly been the worst. Frost-free, wet and dull with the shortage of sunshine exclusively as a result of utterly grim and depressing weekend weather. Absolutely nothing going for it at all. Just another month that, like so many in the past 2 years, has what seems like a small sunshine deficit but when that deficit is entirely due to poor weekends it’s not a minor issue at all.

So little decent weekend weather since I came back from Cyprus on 12th November that I have probably seen less sunshine in that 3 ½ months than I did in the 2 weeks I was there. Like living in a dark, damp depressing cave

Nope, a proper easterly will do a better job than a GH in terms of bringing nationwide double digit negative 850s. You'd be forgiven for forgetting that, though, considering the last one was 21 years ago (and longer than that for a textbook example).

Surely the drought of decent winter weather has to end soon, doesn't it? Roll on winter 2017/8!

Moaning because it is the last day of Metrological Winter. Bring on the Spring Snow...

Not sure I agree with that. A Greenland High is much better for bringing in prolonged deep cold for northern areas. Easterlies are only really good for the South East.

Seeing snow falling heavily as I was driving into work, watching it quickly begin to stick... magical.

And then it all melts within a couple of hours.

Still, the thick falling snow was a good reminder of just why I love snow so much. Just a pity we can't have a Jan 10 every winter!

I thought winter ended weeks ago?    Felt like it .....