Could it be the fact that it's the Winter 2017/18 Moaning thread?

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I don't have as much to moan about as I did earlier on, but there is still one remaining niggle in that whilst other parts of the country are now getting some really low temperatures, the temperature in this part of the world are refusing to drop and have hardly budged since about 4pm this afternoon. The reason for that is of course, the fact that we once again have too much wind and too much cloud.

This is exactly what has been happening for so much of this winter. OK, we have an official air frost and the temperature is below freezing. That in turn at least makes this not quite as bad as it has been during a large part of the winter when this was happening with a temperature that was above freezing and preventing us from being able to get that official air frost.

However, the temperature here is only just below freezing and no more. Other parts of the country are already seeing temperatures which are well below freezing and we are supposed to be moving into the period where we have the coldest upper temperatures. Because of this, the fact that the temperatures are only just below freezing and refusing to drop any further, has to be considered as very poor fare indeed under the current circumstances with the synoptic setup which we have just now.

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How is it that even when we have the same Siberian easterly wind coming across the same N.Sea the East Riding of Yorkshire is the only eastern county not getting any snow showers yet for the past 24hrs they have been piling in to Lincs/Norfolk/Suffolk/Essex/Kent/N.Yorks/ Northumberland etc, surely they should form everywhere and be equally distributed but it seems not...been this way for the past 30yrs though so I guess I should expect it now...!

The pub run snatches away the last dregs of hope that the Fri/Sat low would spin highly disruptive snow northwards over the whole country (albeit with the southernmost counties making a valiant, if rainy, sacrifice for the greater good)

The long wait for that catastrophic 'Day After Tomorrow-esque' snow event continues. 

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If rain shower it widely unrestricted and distributed everywhere but with snow showers like in Kent had been restricted from going further west and already wasted 2nd day and night for not getting any proper snowfalls.

Hi Jiries - Had much snow where you are!?

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While the sub zero temperatures and the even lower dewpoints are fascinating in themselves, I'm getting a bit p***ed off with the lack of actual real snow bombing down at this end. So far, all I'm seeing is just the merest of dusting from very occasional powder puff showers. I can't help thinking of this being a gigantic waste of a decent winter set up - although to be fair, West Kent did - and is still doing - well out of it which is making it all the more frustrating for it!
  To do a slight twist on what someone in here said before (forgot the name of the poster), it's like being at the party which is now in full swing but I'm still having trouble pulling a girl.

Think I'm tired so I'll hit the sack.

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I think my only issue is that although this is something relatively special at this time of year, especially in the last 20 years, it isn't as widespread (yet) as the media want everyone to believe. Once they cottoned on to the "Beast from the East" they are refusing to accept that everyone isn't buried in 20 foot drifts and it melts in the sun in about 2 minutes! It is the nature of the beast in March. It is an extreme weather event for near the beginning of March but in the context of any cold  whole winter it is no big deal but it is the best we could expect at this time.

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Bloody "Beast from the East" has become the latest media buzzword. Driving me mad!

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These snow or the showers of snow were so hit & miss - in Newton Abbot there AREA there was nothing but between and from around Teignmouth and Dawlish there was a dusting - perhaps 0.025 of a cm on cars roofs and grass etc - then got to Exeter where it was nothing - just frozen flakes on cars and tomorrow the snow will be to the west and south of Exeter yet again so really hope Thursday comes off.

My concern now is that this low pressure or 3 lot;s of lows Thursday night and Friday morning and Saturday morning may not arrive!?

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Yes tell me about it - beast from the east on TV on One Show, on the Radio and social media ! Gosh! They never hyped this up so much back in 1991 did they or Jan 87? Why is it so hyped? It's not really that bad anyway? Snow is dry so less accidents it';s not heavy wet and the ground isn;t wet before etc. I just don't get why they, the media hype this so much!? Even some of my twitter followers are going on about it ! For Pete's sake stop calling this spell the beast! They never call the relentless wind and rain "Pest from the west" do they!? When we have gales and floods!?

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From a cold perspective, that is good news in a way because that would then keep the cold weather going for longer across the whole country. Having said that though, that is not what you want to be seeing happening when are going into spring and therefore, looking for things to start warming up a bit because of that.

 

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I don't like the cold but actually Exeter esp along the quay has been shelter in estuary and out of the wind flet pleasnt in the strong late feb Sunshine! But when the cloud came it felt bitter.

Most of Devon escaped the snow so far - hope this snow event on Thrusday and Fri comes off.  

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How far are you from Richard!? I see different reports as well as totally different views in weather!?

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Those of you who haven’t got snow, you can have mine!  For the first time ever, I don’t want it!  I’ve waited all winter for more than a mere dusting and it comes when I’m going on holiday!  At least I am if we make it to the airport tomorrow!  

Hubby’s on a night shift and should have been home twenty minutes ago but he isn’t.  That suggests the roads are not good!  

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Well at least you're trying. I can't even see the b***y girl.

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Blizzards up here... and yet somehow I've managed to miss 90% of them! All around me got clobbered.

And to add insult to injury, it's all been graupel, which is a waste of snow.

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  Should have gone to Specsavers!  

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 There's always a plus of course and in this instance it is that I will leave the party early and wake up with a clear head tomorrow morning unlike the rest of them!

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Hubby has arrived home safe and sound.  The roads are usable but ‘greasy’ in his words, and he didn’t get into fourth gear all the way, even on the A roads.

Just looked at the M1 traffic cams and the motorway to Birmingham looks clear at the moment.  If it stays that way and we can get out of the village tomorrow, we may be OK!  

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 And at least you won’t be seeing girls through beer goggles!  So no great shock the morning after!  

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 Very true.

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Here in Edinburgh, we had an overnight minimum of -4.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank which is the lowest temperature of this month at that particular station. My other local stations are also below freezing as well (overnight minimums of -3°C at Edinburgh Airport and -3.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh) but the temperature at those stations has never even been low enough to make it the coldest night of the month at that particular station.

Those temperatures are actually no different from what we would expect to see on a typical frosty night at this time of year (the fact that it was the coldest night of the month at one of my local stations is therefore more of an indication of just how poor this month has been for air frosts, rather than this being any sort of great cold spell) and not one of those above temperatures come close to being our coldest temperatures of the winter at the particular station. where it was recorded. Given what the models have been showing for the upper air temperatures which we have been supposed to get, I would have expected those surface temperatures to be a bit lower than that.

This shows that in terms of the temperatures in this part of the world at least, this isn't exactly turning out to the spectacular cold spell which it has been built up to be, and it certainly isn't even our coldest spell of this winter up until now.

May I therefore suggest that there is still an element of hoax in that?

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79 was legendary around these parts also Brian as was 91. I can’t complain that much about the here and now we’ve still got lying snow in the shade and a patchy covering out of it, but compared to the above years it’s a poor mans attempt at a cold spell even the temps haven’t been all that low. Still at least I’ve had a covering of snow which has lasted 24 hours, the last time such happened was in 2010.

The disappointment is becoming tangible down here on the SE coast as another night of huge convective opportunity goes to waste. A mere 0.5cm dusting will be gone soon.

NW Kent has been clobbered. Up to 25cm in places now. 

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