I'm here Saint 

This current cold spell failed to create a winter wonderland here at pretty much every twist and turn. It isn't that surprising, but it really reminds me of winters from the bad old days of the late 90's and early 00's, when snow was a few temporary coverings which melted within a day or two. Who knows if we've shifted back into that pattern (at least we'd likely get a nice summer for once!), but it still looks like we may have a few more shots at Winter into March. Even the overnight frosts here are very light and form just before dawn under clearing skies. Yawn!

Farewell post from Warminster (about 1cm) from last nights unexpected fall. From the sound of it many others will also be departing...

Very excited to see the snow as hadn't thought about it (probably the best way to be), but now a bit miffed that not far away (Downton  south wilts) reporting a couple if inches and that's only about 25 miles away!

Hi Patrick!

I dunno whether the cold spells in 2009 & 2010 spoilt us, but you're right about snow cover since then being too short lived. Even the falls in 2013 didn't last much beyond a few days. We did actually get a covering of snow (2-4cm depending on surfaces), and there is still the odd patch in shaded spots and small piles where people cleared paths. But the widespread cover was always a bit slushy underneath and mostly disappeared in the sunshine the following day.

The pity is that we only tipped below sub-zero for the first time in this spell on Sunday night (got to -2.9c last night, too), too late to preserve the snow.

And now all the snow focus shifts north, south, east & west of this region.

Looked Like Twinkle had been scattering fairy dust around this morning.. At least it was white with the grains...  

All I've had so far today was two wet splodges of snow during what has been a generally cloudy and damp morning involving occasional light rain - but it was as per my own forecast anyway so it hadn't come as too much of a surprise to me.

It seems that all my hopes of seeing some proper snow at this end rests on Thursday afternoon, through the night and onto Friday morning in the form of Kent Clippers/Channel Streamers. Even though the parameters does look more favourable for it, but will I be setting myself up for a let down? All it'll take is a tiny shift in wind direction and the whole thing is ruined.

In any case, that would be our last chance saloon before high pressure settles over us thereafter.

It's like staying dry till it gets warm.

Chances of a significant (ie at least 1" level cover that lasts for at least 2 hours before melting) snow fall in Evesham this winter look slightly less than that of me winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year ...

Even here, it is total gash 

Another all time low reached this week with the crappiest northerly in history. If I didn't have an anemometer I would swear the wind was coming from the east the past few days

It's an embarassment. 4cm lying yesterday but no tops up and it reduced to 3cm by this morning. Several hours of wet easterly type snow this morning added nothing and this was followed by a sunny afternoon which melted it further.

Now plenty of grass showing so not even a full cover. This is a disgrace for the heaviest snowfall for over 2 years:

The 36-48 hour topplers in the 90s and 2000s used to deliver more than this which is pitiful. There has not been a single day, from this current spell, with a daily mean below freezing. It reached 3.2C today and currently, 1.5 hours past sunset with clear skies and snow on the ground, it is still well above freezing at 0.8C  For a supposed cold spell in early February this is a joke.

No more than 4cm of snow and no lower than -4C makes it a stinker of a winter as far as I'm concerned and nothing good on the horizon with potentially the worst weather of winter coming up in the form of anticyclonic gloom

Loving your rant - keep it up, I guess that's poor for Aberdeen?! But still can't understand why you're moaning when you have actually had a covering of snow?

Indeed Richard. It is just awful for a Northerly in February. I have known better northerlies in October and many better northerlies in April. Basically all of the winters in the 2000s had better snow than this year. I am not old enough to remember the 1990s but I can imagine they were better than this.Long gone are the days of march 2006 it looks set to get worse into next week too.

I would be dancing naked in the street if we had snow like that!

What is galling is that down here looks like we could have a month of cold dry weather which, had we had a decent snowfall, would have meant it lasting for ages ......


Maybe I should move to Aberdeen?

Probably depended on where you lived. Im sure there were several generally poor (lack of snow) winters back in the 90's. ANd Im even more sure that one year was particularly bad and quite a few areas completely missed out on snow.

Well that's it for the SW - Apparently there was a snow shower over south Devon and a flurry in Exeter around 7am Monday morning but I was fast asleep and apart from some hail and soft hail showers which turned to sleet and ended with 30 seconds of wet snow last Thursday (Just flakes in the wind) as the shower cleared and temps fell. This cold spell has been a disaster for East Devon, and Somerset as well as Dorset.

We were due some snow showers Saturday night into Sunday but the streamer was to the west of Exeter and all the snow showers went to Dartmoor. - So it was better for Dartmoor and I think even parts of Cornwall saw more wintry showers than Devon. I heard Taunton did poorly too - friend of mine said NO snow in Taunton. We could have seen more persistent sleet or snow today from that weather system coming down from the north but even that fizzled out and the low on Sunday went too far west of the UK and headed straight to Spain (Must be some good skiing over the Pyrenees Mountains.

This cold spell (so far) has really been a deja-vu of the last one but I'll give it 1/10 this time instead of 0.5/10 - At least we saw some heavy hail showers and sleety rain and a flurry of wet snow for less than a minute. But honestly this was very poor and it was only last night when we actually dipped to below freezing before rising rapidly again. Also most of the showers fizzled out as they headed inland anyway. and those showers that did reach Exeter (Fri/Sat night) ONLY fell as icy rain or ice pellets in heavier bursts. That night was the most frustrating one ever experienced because temperatures rose in the showers and one night the temperature was stuck at +4.1c for several hours. ANYWAY RANT OVER, this will probably be it from me for a while - as some of you maybe aware I only post in the forum if I think there is something interesting weather wise or if there is a cold spell on the way. So anyway to rate this:

1/10 - POOR!!

The focus now will be the SE and E but accumulations are nothing to write home about.

There is cold weather due to last into the weekend but if there isn't going to be any snow with it then there is no fun and I bet you with the strength of the wind - it will prevent a frost forming too.

Not very eventful or impressive.

Let's hear you rant's? Please cure my headache and make me feel better!?

The metoffice website promised me an 80% chance of heavy snow yesterday afternoon, followed by two more hours of a 60% chance of light snow

Of course none of it turned up, even as it was forecasted at t+3 :-)

I know they say snow is hard to forecast, but there was no precipitation whatsoever, so i think it's mostly a psychological thing. When they predict snow, people will watch and wait and moan when it doesn't happen. When they predict rain, people don't watch as much, and definitely don't moan if it doesn't turn up - so my theory is snow isn't that much harder to predict than rain, it's just that everyone holds the met office to their forecasts for snow and remembers when they get it wrong. Someone would need to collect figures or something.

at about 8pm we did get an icing sugar dusting.

This thread could get a lot more busier over the next 48hrs 

Pants pants pants apart from some flakes for about 5 mins still no snow,there was snow on the hills in the distance from my house but nothing here seems even parts of devon cornwall have had more than I have,looks like time is moving on now,mite change who knows.

More snow fell last night taking depth to 6cm but it was dry by morning with clear skies yet the temperature still failed to drop below freezing. Just incredulous. A pale imitation of even the most pathetic cold spells from years gone by

Clear skies soon filled in after dawn giving a day of grey skies with nothing falling so a lot of what was lying melted and turned to slush.It's now 2.2C and a frost is not looking likely either tonight or at any point in the next 7-10 days as this atrocious winter continues to get more and more tedious.