I said listen, not talk. I can’t let it go completely! 😉

WELL there was an event back in the late 1880's  that did dump huge amounts of snow south of the m4, and the worst hit areas were along the south coast (Solent) and IOW. Portsmouth was one the areas that saw the most in that blizzard with around 30 inches of level snow falling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_January_1881

well reading what was being projected by some on that other site, I was expecting something similar this week To be fair though, having seen various wewther advisories for people to take care due to the cold weather, here in Chichester, this morning we did have a drizzle shower for about 10mins...and there was just a hint of sleet...

Sneer all you want, but you won't be complaining of tediousness when you wake up tomorrow and look out onto your patchy dusting!

And what will this SSW fizzle into?

with the U.S. limb of the split looking to continue to warm what are the chances that this is some long drawn out final warming with an abortive Easterly bringing nothing but cold Grey for most areas not sat on the east coast?

Im really looking forward to seeing all those pictures of snowmen people have made on their roof of their cars with what didnt thaw in their hand

I don't want to be unreasonable but isn't there a Winter Moaning thread for this sort of stuff?  It really isn't adding anything useful here, is it?

Will this be the coldest week of winter or the most horrible week of another horrendous winter? The evidence from today suggests the latter.

Clear skies and no wind at all yesterday from sunset until midnight saw the temperature plunge to a truly bone-chilling -0.4C. Couldn’t contain my excitement at seeing it get that low. After midnight it shot up as rain and cloud moved in continuing the vile start to February.  By dawn it was not in the slightest bit cold, at 2C, to be followed by absolutely useless soul destroying grey rubbish all day long.

There is no sign of any decent snowfall on the horizon. The synoptics for the foreseeable are dire and the situation is beyond desperate when we are rapidly approaching the unprecedented  5th anniversary of the last time there was more than 6cm of snow on the ground

As far as I can see the outlook for here is 3C grey rubbish for the next few days then mild wet crap on Thursday followed by another miserable weekend. If we do get any snow overnight tonight  it will likely be horrid wet stuff, aka ‘white rain’ that fails to produce photogenic scenes. The stuff nightmares are made of and reminiscent of the unpleasant and extremely uninteresting pile of dross that was February 2017.

Increasingly likely that the cold spell in the 2nd week of December won’t be beaten and, apart from one night, that wasn’t even particularly cold. It’s telling that the mean minimum for the coldest week, a pathetic  -1.8C, is the highest for any winter since 2013/14. A further piece of evidence to support my view that this winter has been poor even by the standards of the past few

Saint-you should read a short story by Richard Jefferies- The Great Snow (1876); fantasy in a book. If it's not too obscure to Google, it really is a good read. London gets totally paralysed.

There is indeed a winter moaning thread. And this is it!

This should be in the media thread but i am moaning as I live in Exeter and this is the reason why:

An organised but light band of snow approaching N. Devon and Cornwall and then as it moves inland and southwards across mainland Devon look at above map and what it will bring to Exeter as and when it doe at 15:00 as seen below!? - Of all places guess what Exeter experiences!? But have to LOL - PS That blue shade on the map over DARTMOOR to the west of Exeter is frost (daytime frost) I assume NOT rain if there is rain you will no where it will fall in Devon tomorrow!!

It's a wind up really. -Has to be Exeter doesn;t it! ha ha!

Oh dear. 

You won't hear the last of me - It's snowing at +1c in St Austell, Truro and most of Cornwall esp the north as well as north Devon It's even snowing in Plymouth too- this is south Devon! What!??? - yet here in Exeter it's +4c and sunny!

Although this one delivered for me, I do feel your pain, having often missed out in the past! Hopefully, the snow might still get to you...

Nope +5c now in Exeter and it's partly cloudy/partly sunny - when places further west and esp south west like St Austell, Truro, Plymouth, Newquay, Bude and Barnstaple are experiencing hours of light persistent snow and temperatures of 0c to +2c 

Not only is North Devon and most of Cornwall staying colder but it's more snowy too!

Feels balmy here - little or no wind at all. The max for today was meant to be +3c at 1500 well we are already some 2c above that anyway!

Just noticed this myself! 

Over the past 27 years there have only been 2 occasions in Portsmouth where a significant amount of snow has remained on the ground as snow for more then 24 hours, and by significant I'm talking 4cm or more!!!

So if anybody wants to moan because they missed out on a little snow then please spare a thought for us down here on this little island.

Well I was only comparing the two set-ups, in that the snowly one fizzled and the rainly one intensified. Sod's law if you like. I wasn't really complaining about the lack of snow on Tuesday, it was never going to be a significant event.

In contrast what you might consider to be a poor summer would be probably be a good one for me, so remember that the next time you are complaining you haven't reached 30C all summer :)

I missed your post.. But my post was just a vent/rant at how dire the snow prospects are down here. 

What a stunning ‘coldest week of winter’. Deep, crisp and even snow, brilliant blue arctic skies and sharp frosts. None of those things were evident during this dire, grey and depressing week. When the sun did come out this afternoon it reached 7.6C– a mild, March, springlike day.

-3.2C was the lowest managed all week, similar well inland at Aboyne and further inland Braemar managed about -5C. Simply dreadful and even that was just a one off . The rest of the nights either didn’t get below freezing or only just.

Each successive cold snap in this embarrassment of a winter has been more puny and inadequate than the last: 

Cold snap #1, 8th–11th December: -6.1C 

Cold snap #2, 27th-29th December: -5.5C

Cold snap #3, 6th-8th January: -5.4C 

Cold snap #4: 17th-21st January: -3.9C 

Cold snap #5: 5th -7th February: -3.2C

No snow lying for 6 weeks now bar that utterly useless watered down wallpaper paste there was on Tuesday morning which thankfully was gone by lunchtime. Shocking outlook as well so that’s the first half of February as good as a write-off now. At this rate it’ll be joining January as the least wintry since 2014. Would be the 8th poor February for snowfall in a row which would exceed the dire run of seven duds in a row from 1979-85

Looks like the cold snaps are getting less cold' as time goes by for Aberdeen!

What bugs me is France - Paris has seen almost 1ft of snow a few days ago and expect to get up to 10cms of fresh snow tomorrow -That's on top of Existing snow! Yet southern England (most areas) - take London hasn't even seen a flake!! Yet this system passes the south as rain but turns to snow over France !!

Not fair really! DOn't you think?