What a load of tosh, how can London get a good covering of snow yet here in E.Yorks we got drizzle for an hour or so this afternoon...!! I was led to believe that large cities were heat islands and rarely got snow...at least that was the case when I lived in Manchester for 9yrs...there is a slight possibility that we may get some snow showers overnight but I doubt it, we live in a 'snow go' region, flat farmland surrounded by hills and next to a warmer than average N.Sea, and this supposed Arctic blast is going to last all of 2 days...!!! then it's back to westerlies and double figure temps and rain, which we get plenty of...freakin great...to say I'm slightly miffed is an understatement...

You sure are.  Btw dont forget that £500 you owe me

I have no problems with people seeing more snow than I have seen since at least 2012 ......   it will be their last.   I will hunt every single one of them down.  And eventually I - Me alone! - will be the one to see the fabled snowflake.  For I will be the only one alive! Mahahahahahaha!     Hahahahahahaha!   Hahahahahaha!

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Hahahahahahahaha!

Hahahahaha!

Hahaha!

Ha!

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Lets hope WE ALL get some more (or even some) of this in the next few weeks:

 

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Absolute and utter crap weather. Not a flake of snow!

My 5 year old Grandson is desperate to see snow on the ground, looks like he`s going to be disappointed this year.

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Lovely echos on the radar fo my area (merseyside)


...aaaanddd temp pops up to 3 *c and we have rain.

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Rubbish here for Exeter too - unless you like soft hail ...what's most frustrating was that whenever the showers came the temperature would pop up to above 3+ c and thus turning any sleet or graupel back into rain. So we ended up with wintry showers instead of any wet snow. - exactly the same as Feb 2016 one night and the year before - however, the only comfort is that this is only January and we have another pending cold spell waiting next week, as opposed to last winter when the cold snaps were only one day events - but so far this has been bad for lowland areas of the south west if you want snow. it's hardly event got below +3c yet and it's 1:15am. Terrible, also the fact that these soft hail showers' have occurred at night so it's not like you can observe it in daylight . It's no fun at night! We need wintry showers during the daytime when we are awake. Today was just cold rain for the SW anyway.

Not happy with this so far - hope the easterly would provide something more if not in Feb.

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It's not even cold down here 😂

No sign of frost even at 2am

Grrrr!  That's not Brrr, it's Grrrrr!  Nothing more frustrating than breakfast telly showing 'the snow mayhem' when we haven't had a flake!  The grass isn't always greener on the other side! It's whiter!  

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So all the rain washed any snow away. We only really got the precipitation in the mild sector. Very frustrating but not unexpected.

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One word

Rubbish


Rain and very cold. Whats the point.

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Absolutely disgusting. The last supposed cold spell was utter crap but at least it produced a snow lying day. This pile of garbage has hit an all time low.

God knows why the hell a weather warning was issued because there is absolutely nothing outside and it's not even cold. Temperature up to 4C overnight and still mild now for the time of day at 2.4C. Vile wind rattling away that has resulted in yet another poor night's sleep.

An epic fail from the models. Where are the -3C temps predicted by GFS for NE Scotland http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn0617.gif 

It's beyond a joke how things could have sunk to such a desperate state where dross like this passes for cold. It is absolutely not a cold spell and this winter has been completely devoid of cold. With more utter dross coming next week it has to be asked if this is on course to be the mildest and least frosty winter on record? It certainly seems like it. Just a total write-off that is making the last two atrocities seem cold and snowy by comparison.

This laughable cold spell is just the final straw for me when it comes to enduring the never ending onslaught of complete and utter trash that makes up the most revolting climate on earth 

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Nice one Richard! 😂😂

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All I have to say is, boooooooooooo

Horrid wet morning and 4c, no sniff of snow here!
Martin

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Your so right!
Martin

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Should I moan today .Enjoyed the snow at o6:00 this morning.. The moan being  it did not last ......It stopped falling ....

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That PPN fell as mostly hail & soft hail here. It left a white covering, but nothing to get remotely excited about. Like I said in the snow reports thread, when the more organised band moved through, it was mostly rain.

All in all, a rather p*ss-poor attempt at a cold spell.

 

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And I see little joy to be had in the model output, too.

Well if that was winter, it's worse than 2015/16.

 

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I suppose I should be thankful for small mercies but after waiting for over six years for lying snow my soon to be evaporated effort from last night could be the last of the season if (and it's a big if ) the longer range models verify.

I take it all back after a decent covering of snow last night.

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one half inch slush event does not a winter make (or perhaps it does in the modern winter;)) but i don't think calling winter over is the call with such a very quiet atlantic across most models.

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At least you had a white covering! All the moaning and whinging about those of us down south "getting buried" but actually, although it snowed continuously for about 2 hours, none of it settled at all! All we have is sheet ice on the roads where the melted snow froze overnight.

Now there is a band of snow approaching, but my PWS says 2.4C. So I'm not getting too excited.

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We had NO snow in Fulham just heavy rain yesterday and reading the poster's comments in the model output thread I get the distinct impression we have missed our chance snow for London for the rest of the month. I wouldn't be a bit surprised that one the Atlantic ramps up in a week or so time that's it for the rest of the meteoligical winter.

This post might ruffle the feathers amongst us Kent massive, but I'm LOLing at some people really properly losing their sh1t - and I mean those "This is the worst winter EVER, when will it stop???" kind of people on my facebook wall - over a couple of short flurries here at this end of Kent. Granted, my own coastal location got off lightly compared to inland hilly areas and some roads are being dicey at the moment but that's due to the 25 mm of yesterday's rain turning into ice overnight rather than the snowfall itself. 

If that 25 mm of rain all fell as snow yesterday, then that would end up being a much more noteworthy event in my books - but the fact that it hadn't so I guess it was a pointless statement on my part. However, for now at least I can say that I did get to see an actual snowfall but only so that I don't feel left out.

Get back to me when we have a 12th Jan '87 type event. That was properly something to show off.

PS: It is snowing again, but with an air temp of 3.2 and dewpoint close to freezing, I can't see it settling.

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