none of that constitutes a blizzard.

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Awful winter so far matching the political landscape. Even though I was expecting it, the lack of sunshine and frost are depressing.

Only good aspect has been the lack of rainfall.

2nd half should partly make up for it, but I always value December more than February. 

Argh ok so I got it wrong as did the Met Office then, even though you were not in it to experience storm Emma? Ok thanks for that! :D

IMO it certainly was blizzard at times anyway! The snowfall on 17th and 18th March was more heavy snow but the event on 1st of March is something I have never seen ever before in the UK let alone along Exeter Quay. 

Thought so. You have been unlucky to live through the least snowiest decades of the last hundred years. The good news is you are still young so you have time on your side to get to see conditions pre- 1980 ish. The last decade was better than the previous two. if you get a chance read Leo Bonacina's year by year account of UK snowfalls. https://durhamweather.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bonacina.html

I don’t disagree but that doesn’t mean the word blizzard isn’t ridiculously overused,

Exeter, and Devon in general, normally gets a flurry or two each winter, further South down here it is definitely less common away from the moors. Last March was a rare event, that said, I am sure we will get similar again, maybe even during this winter.

It is what it is, nobody can change it, that's why if it is going to be clear and dry and less cold, then look on the bright side.... it could be alot worse. 

Winter 2019 is far from over though.

This is a moaning thread for moaning people. We'll have no optimism here!!

 Ok Tubbs 

Yes you are right. It definitely is. They weren't that common then and certainly rare now.

What happened to the mid-January cold spell? I can only assume it ended up in the bin. I would check but unfortunately it's overflowing with the 46 days of winter already in there 

At this half way point we have seen two frosty mornings and not even a blob of sleet mixed in with rain. It went beyond a joke a long time ago. Can't even remember the last time it dropped below freezing as day after day of rancid mild tripe just blends into one never ending pile of rot.

It's 8.2C just now and after this ridiculous mild, near average temperatures of around 5C are forecast for the remainder of the week. Will likely fail to dip below freezing as surprise,surprise the usual vile wind is also being forecast. Can hear it starting to pep up already

Horrible winter which is just an even more extreme version of the utterly awful rubbish we have suffered for the majority of this hideous decade.

Well, this is just bloody typical of our weather (or rather, the lack of any weather) in this part of the world during this complete non-event which is known as this "winter".

Here in the most boring part of the UK during our most boring winter on record, the Sun is shining and the skies are clear. Yet even with those clear skies and a northerly wind, we still CANNOT get a F@&KING frost as once again, too much wind meant that the temperature just refused to drop during the early hours of this morning once that occluded front had moved through and so, our frost-free hell just goes on with no end to that in sight just now (so much then, for that really cold weather which we were supposed to be getting from the north).

This just shows that this so-called "winter" continues to be one massive borefest in this part of the world where it just seems to be asking too much for anything which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather, to actually happen even when there is a lot of excitement elsewhere (Richard from Aberdeen occasionally claims that title of the most boring part of the UK in terms of the weather for his area, but even he has got to witness a bit of snow already during this latest northerly outbreak as reported by doctormog (who is after all, in the same city as Richard) on this forum) and so this surely has to prove once and for that I live in the most boring part of the UK here in Edinburgh, in terms of our weather.

I'm getting my pre-event moan in early (as someone else did not long back)

I foresee this spell going as follows:

The initial PPN-laden periods will deliver rain, sleet and non-sticking snow only. The real cold will come from an easterly and it'll be bone dry IMBY, with the east & south and Jockland all enjoying a snowfest.

Yet another embarrassingly lame and pathetic 'dry' northerly. These type of synoptics used to produce frequent heavy snow showers that might add up to about 5cm over a day or so. Now it's weak infrequent snizzly showers and a depth of 2cm that doesn't even completely cover grass 

Worse still it's thawed out and turned to sludge with no top up throughout the day and non-cold temperatures.  More than two hours after sunset it's still above freezing 

A desperate state of affairs when this is what a cold spell in the midst of winter brings. The biggest joke is this may well be the only snowfall this nightmare of a winter produces. As if the past two months haven't been bad enough it looks like getting even worse. All I'm seeing over the weekend and next week are utterly depressing grey skies, rain and vile temperatures of 3-5C 

I'm struggling to get excited about this upcoming spell. All looks too marginal, then too dry/easterly for here.

I dare say it'll get chilly/cold, but I can't see other than light dustings here.

Ah well, another winter, another year to wait for another 2009/2010

I see the models are doing their best to fulfil my doomsday scenario, with the Tue/Wed 'event' more likely to deliver rain and not snow, then afterwards the snow focus shifts to the fecking east.

Once the cold front's through it looks like a chilly unstable NW'ly, so I wouldn't give up on it just yet.

You should run a Casserole Pot Size Index for this cold spell Saint, to help measure the extent of your prospective dumplings.

Sorry. 

Thanks very much for that link, fairweather.  I had a read through and was reminded of several snowy times, and managed to date some that I couldn't remember exactly when they happened.

Now, as this is a moaning thread (and bearing in mind my heating bills)... it looks as though it's going to stay colder than average for quite a while, and we might have lots of snow. ...........

Still, I never go in for hopecasting. The weather will do what the weather will do.

Hoping I'll need one of these....

Fearing, it'll be just one of these...

I think this thread might start attracting mild winter lovers soon. 

Yes, I'm guessing that Bolty might be on here before too long if we get any snow since I know that this isn't exactly his favourite type of weather.

At least Aberdeen got something although 2cm's isn't anything to write home about! That's pretty lame - I thought you'd had more from that northerly with snow showers feeding in one after the other last night??

If I rightly remember you got 5cms of snow end of November 2017?

That's something better than nothing - although Exeter had 6 to 7" during storm Emma in space of 6 hours on 1st March 2018.

At least you'll get plenty more in due course.