what sort of winter is this, a MICKEY MOUSE ONE, its a joke, never guaranteed a winter in the UK but most of the time we are guaranteed some sort of summer heat, UK weather is getting far to ridiculous  

We're now passed the halfway mark of another crapfest of a winter and the outlook if anything is worse than before, we're now relying on SSW riding into town to save the day but as usual he's left his six shooter at home and quickly gets dispatched by the man in black. Roll on spring.

Summer heat also now not guarantee quite a lot of times like in 2015 after the 37C 1 day wonder we never got any heat back and was rather cool wet summer while the continent baked forever.  Since 2007 onward summer temps in here had been 10-15C less than you see in the continent most of the time and if you are lucky to get the heat it can go down to 2-3C difference.  Then around up to 10C higher in winter (occur on recent cold spells) than opposed 3C difference from what I learned before.  London at 22C in summer and Paris 25C and in winter London was 6C and Paris 3C based on the 1980's average levels being taught at school Geography lessons.

I don't believe the oceans around us are the main cause, is the set-up are denying us from getting decent heat or cold lately.  Think of NE America are very mild but we not getting cold despite the Atlantic is quiet.  Cause? the HP near us are the one that stopping us from getting the easterly and snowy weather from the continent.  

LOL!

Maybe I should do the same! 

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God, I hate drizzle.

 

 

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Gloom and drizzle are part of what it is to be Northern. I like a bit of gloom

 

Its been a very wet few days here in Wirral, spanning back to before the "Cold spell"

 

Though the drizzle just doesnt get picked up by the Radar, or forecasts.  Properly soaks you too.

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Give me one of those mid-winter's days that barely get light, where the temp barely gets above freezing and the misty murk never dissipates, and I'll raise a glass to gloom.

Drizzle is just Beelzebub's urination.

 

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Well I've moved on a season. We have had lovely sunshine, light winds and 10 C here. A beautiful spring day.

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Today is the first day in quite some time that I've not been compelled to view the NWP. 

And it feels great. 

It's nice to not give a monkeys. 

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It’s impossible to be too pessimistic about the weather in these direst of times. My prediction, at the start of December, of a write-off winter with no month managing as much frost as November is well on the way to become reality and not only that, the winter as a whole is on course to have less frost. It’s just unreal that we could get something as grotesque as this so soon after 2013/14 and 2015/16: the three worst winters of my life without doubt

It just keeps getting worse. Utterly repellent this week. Damp, dull, disgusting, stupidly mild crap. The temperature hasn’t dropped below 6C since Sunday morning nor has humidity gone below 89%

Despite the monthly rain total standing at only 16mm there’s barely been a dry day all month. Three trace days, 4 days with 0.2mm, one with 0.4mm and one with 0.6mm. The most dire, mind-numbingly boring dross anywhere on earth

 

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I prefer the wind/rain followed by sun and blustery showers to this drivel...

At least the clouds will be a bit brighter on Sunday? 

Very similar story here. Rainfall total for Jan so far just 25.7mm. Yet despite the fact that the last few days have been totally dry, roads and paths are still soaking wet due to constantly high humidity, low cloud, lack of any substantial breeze and poor drying conditions in general. This is the ugliest of all weather types and no sign of any reprieve at all for the foreseeable.  For me, this winter is just a rinse repeat of last summer, which quite possibly was one the most drab summers meteorologically that I have ever lived through.

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Springlike with a sunny 11c here in north Northumberland, a bright 10c day before. This is all very well but it always ends with gales and rain and sleet from April to June once wenen the NE wind sets in. No NE wind in winte, but bags of it at every other time of year.......

Good news everyone Spring is but a day nearer than yesterday. 😄

It's snowier in Tunisia than it is in Britain

Social media turns white as Tunisia is blanketed in snow

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More drizzle.

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Aye.  This must be one of the most pathetically dire winter weeks in history.  Constant cloud, drizzle and feeling cold even though the temperature remains average by day and doesn't come within 1,000 miles* of approaching any slightest possiblity of a hint of a very very very slight frost at night     If I didn't know better I'd think I was in Aberdeen 

 

 

 

* well actually nearer 25 miles looking at the temp charts.....  But it might as well be a 1,000 miles for all the chance of it getting here.  Bl**dy southern Saxons hogging all the good weather yet again

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It has been drizzling for 3 days!

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I know. Anyone would think it was summer!

 

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No drizzle today thankfully, just cloudy - but at least it's brightened up and the cloud base is much higher than yesterday, and there are odd patches of blue.

With temps currently sitting at 8C, I'd say today is probably the archetypal January day.

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What's interesting is that I saw in a travel agent a tour guide offer magazine titled something like "Escape the January blues of cold & wet weather and return to the warm sun of southern Europe/north Africa" - Just makes me laugh when all parts of southern Europe and North Africa have been unseasonably cold and snowy. - Beit Southern France, Italy, Spain, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Turkey, Tunisia etc  

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Topsy turvy for sure... and now even the uk  has a small scale 'back to front'  with the clear south east at -2 or 3 deg c and the murky North west of Scotland  at 8 or 9 deg c ...but hey that's not that unusual..as the bulk of the cold is still the other side of the channel.

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Snow in Costa Del Sol today and record 30 year lows in the South of France! I think the first thing Theresa May should be doing in her Brexit negotiations is demanding our weather back that they have nicked!

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Yet more logic defying garbage. Even with clear skies and no wind in we can't get  frost. Stuck on 2C for the past 3 hours

The least frosty winter since 1988/89 here. Absolutely nothing since comes close. It is beyond dire 

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