It's nearly over folks, the winter of empty promises and garden paths will soon be a distant memory of a truly forgetful winter of nothingness and mind numbingly boring weather. Surely the winter of 2017/18 couldn't be any worse, could it?🤐

 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.

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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

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Yet watching the BBC forecast it did show snow for a wide area of Scotland and central and southern belt including Glasgow and Edinburgh - Obviously they both missed out, including Aberdeen. - Must have been so close to the rain /s/now line? what was it? 2c with heavy rain? any hits of wet snow like large splodges of flakes falling fast and full of water?

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Wet snow for 6 hours here at 80m but not settling much. 2cm at 100m (Fairmilehead), 10cm at 200m (Penicuik) and 20cm at 300m (Carlops)
Further north in central Scotland heavy snow fell to low levels

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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.

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Reykjavik had half a metre of snow yesterday which one of their highest ever totals. Here's me wondering if we'll manage a dusting on the windscreen overnight Monday/Tuesday.

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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.

 

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

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It may of been posted before (i apologize if it has), but the daft thing is that Spain, Italy and Greece have had far more of the white stuff than we have, and in three month's time our weather will be exactly the same (if only a couple of degrees warmer or should it be milder), and they will be basking in sunshine and decent temperatures.

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

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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!

 

 

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

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Another winter has passed us by in Worcestershire, without a single day of falling snow, let alone, lying snow.
Sickening! (Although Clee Hill in the distance is snow topped right now, for the first time for a couple of years).

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Northern hemisphere be like; "Oh, hello UK, is it Spring time already? Here, have this nice long lasting northern blocking set up".

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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.

Very inaccurate forecasts re the temperatures - yesterday high was due to be +5c by 15:00 when in actual fact it was +10.5c. Today they forecasted a high of +8c to +9c and it's already +11.5c! They also said there would also be some showers around when it's been sunny and partly cloudy.

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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!

 

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

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Ended? I'm still wondering if it actually started in the first place.  

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We had several days of winter here in late November, early December - the best since at least 2012.

Obviously no snow.  But then we don't get supercells in summer either.

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And for the West Country.

Easterlies have just been a waste of time in the 30 years I've lived down here.

I'll reserve final judgement until we once again have an easterly that Retron defines as a proper one. But in the meantime it's only yellow over Greenland that gets me excited in the model output.

Yet another winter with zero snow here, except for half an hour of sleet back at the start of winter. But being stuck at 35m asl here, what else can I expect?

I simply have to find some way of moving to a place at altitude before I get too old.

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I disagree for these parts as a Greenland high will always bring wintry conditions IMBY, whereas a long fetch Easterly is an hit and miss affair.

As the meteorological Spring season begins and thus I officially call time on what was an easily forgettable Winter.



Of course, knowing our UK climate, it will do what the heck it likes regardless of season.

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Many many hours of cold rain and sleet yesterday. Had it been snow you can bet the precipitation would have lasted 2 hours not 12!

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