Light snow in south edinburgh, perhaps a cm or so, made a little snowman this morning :-)

Maybe hasn't been the coldest winter but the snow when it comes has been polite enough to fall at the weekend so we can mess about in it

Reached all of 4C here, with rain, sometimes heavy, on and off all day. Just think - if only there had been some cold air around, and by that I'm not demanding anything much out of the ordinary for mid-Feb, we had the synoptics for the blizzard of the century

Here, here! It's cold rain for most of us in the south!  -all we needed was a blocking HP over Scandinavia but this wasn't to be. 

And a Easterly QBO in the Winter 2016/17 ...................we are laughing

A meteorologist predicts a severe winter, a national newspaper comments on it at the start of December

Mid-March: national newspaper now comments saying the  forecast has gone belly-up, a mild, dreary winter and winter type Synoptics no doubt come in the spring and its 15 years since  a memorable winter.....

Lol, I wish I could post it but the size of images will require a magnifying glass.

Date 1910 and 1911 respectively, the newspaper: the Times.

Does this not sound familiar? 

ROFL!

A sign of the lack of high pressure, is the lack of fog (radiation not hill fog)

There has been hardly any mist or fog this winter despite the dampness.

Wow factor again today...  It was dry but definitely a winter's day with the wind..  

Took a trip up to Braemar yesterday to escape this embarrassingly crap winter. Couldn't have asked for better conditions. Blue skies, plenty of snow lying in both the village and surrounding hills, trees looking picturesque covered in snow Wonderful to be out in these fresh and bright conditions after a winter of hell either stuck indoors or out in damp, mouldy and unhealthy air.

Back here it has been beyond underwhelming. Thinnest of dustings this morning practically gone by lunchtime and lame snow showers that failed to top it up in the afternoon. Pathetic rubbish but standard for the past 3 non-winters. Contrast this with the northerly 5 days from the start of May last year when 6cm accumulated in no time.

Absolute rubbish outlook for the following week so looking increasingly like it will get to nearly 4 years without a hard frost or decent snowfall

haha - more snow in May than in February. - I thought Aberdeen had more snow than a dusting!? What was the daytime temperature like??

On the one and only day this winter where the parameters suggested snow rather than rain, you guessed it - a large clump of showers veered away at the last minute and it stayed completely dry here.

Midwinter easterlies, where have you gone? It's too late this year now, so it'll be at least 20 years since the last one... that's a quarter of a lifetime, when they used to pop up at least a couple of times a decade, every decade! At this rate they'll become as rare as a flurry of snow falling on Christmas Day, 1970 was the last time that happened here... (There was a case a few years ago when literally two flakes fell early on Christmas Day, giving a "technical" white Christmas, but if I hadn't been leaning out of the bathroom window with a torch I'd never have seen them. It wasn't even an "ooh, it's snowing" type of flurry!)

The curse of Steve Murr? 

It seems when he bigs them up, they go belly-up....

Brilliantly expressed. I'd love to see you & richardabdn go head to head in a curse the weather competition!

And if the polar bears get dusted down, then presumably the spell is double-doomed.

Anyone care to start a 'Rate this cold spell' type thread!?

Last night was meant to be frosty and it was but yet by 9am it was already 3c and the frost was melting - we dipped to +1c ...!

It's already 8c here in Exeter at 11am and this is average - okay perhaps feeling colder in the wind but still - NOT WHAT I CALL A COLD SPELL.

Also its never really been that cold in London and reading this made me laugh. - I mean honestly now frost and ice in the forecast!? Well I never! I guess it must be February.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-weather-freezing-start-to-week-and-it-could-even-snow-a3180221.html

Gosh! Nostalgia for the 90's and 2000's when we had proper cold spells - daytime maxes of -1c with night-time temperatures down to -5 or -6c widely. I remember the Late February COLD SPELL OF 2003, 2004 and 2005 etc. absolutely CRAP THIS PILE OF RUBBISH!

Look forward to hearing how much snow settled and how long it lasted, how cold it was in Aberdeen Richard - cheer me up.

At least is dry and sunny.

Was the forecast at any stage for very cold conditions in south Devon? This so called not a cold spell produced the lowest temperature for 3 years. Not very impressive but , yes for a swathe of the country, cold. Certainly not classic or memorable.

We've had this all weekend (albeit clouding over by mid-afternoon).

Whilst I'd rather have been getting snowed on, it's been nice to be out & about in the sunshine in crisp temps just a couple degrees above zero (even if, due to the previous mild nature of winter, it's felt bloody freezing!)

there is none better than Richard than describing our vile putrid and at times ridiculous climate- I would be a sorry second!