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Golf today was an experience. Pretty much 18 flags in a giant puddle. I would appreciate some warmth and brightness now as the cold, damp and dark takes its toll moving into March for me, but crap weather at this stage of Spring isn't cause for despondency. Get the dirge out of the way now, and hopefully a change in late April or early May to anomolous warmth moving into Summer.

Bit of a dusting here, I'd say a cm or two. As always in late season cold, big difference between depths depending on the surface it falls on. Struggling on the paths etc. I imagine this will be gone by the end of the day.

Just can't get interested in march snow events. Down here whatever falls generally melts in short order, and that's if half of it isn't lost to wet ground to start with. Really has to be a full house of conditions and timing to end up with anything notable. And we know how hard it is even in the depths of winter, when you can get away with sub-optimal! Really looking forward to having some warmth to compliment the lengthening days.

As much fun as the snow was to see down here over the weekend, I'm done with this cold spell now. Most untreated surfaces are still skating rinks. The work car park and my access road at home is pretty much sheet ice and absolutely treacherous to walk on. Like any weather extremes, they tend to outstay their welcome after a week or so! A few milder days to clear this would be most welcome.

Lost my sky signal now! Better get out there and brush some off the dish.

Under the heavy stuff now. Biggest flakes I've seen in a very long time. Think that will be about it once this passes, but impressive to see. 20221211_220513.mp4

Eased off a bit now, looking at the radar presume the trailing band will pass over us before moving north and giving someone a big hit from the pivot. Interesting to watch.

Still a steady fall seems to have pepped up slightly. Reckon we're at about an inch now which isn't too shabby.

Not sure we'll breach 5cms never mind 10, but all looking very festive out on the green.

Wow, only skim read the MetO update but let's see what happens. Will update if I'm still awake!

Hmm. Might wring a few flakes out of this cold spell later, perhaps a dusting come the morning. To be fair the frost has been so hard, it looks like it's snowed round here.

I for one will be happy with a breakdown next weekend. Several days too long IMO! Been nice to have sun and a few frosty mornings, but watching fivers floating out of my boiler flue and scraping off the car has lost its appeal already. This spell doesn't look like offering much other than cold, and the old pearlers are on repeat in the office... "it's too cold to snow" and "maybe we'll get a white Christmas after all" etc Let's get this pattern shifted and see what happens, it always looked dry, and dare I say boring in terms of surface conditions? Hopefully we'll get a nice clean long draw easterly later in the season... but only for a few days mind!

Indeed. I take no pleasure in a twice-daily car scraping operation!

Appreciate it's only just started, but really struggling to get into this spell. Cold, yes. Synoptically fascinating, yes. But at this rate, I'll be more likely to remember this for my heating bill than conditions on the ground! Of course we are still cold all the way out to FI, but to that I would say to this cold spell (mindful of the swear filter) "relieve yourself or get off the pot!"

Normally I do enjoy extremes of weather, but this year I'm not bothered about deep cold or snow. I'd rather not have the expense of heating the house. So the trend of unraveling a severe cold spell is a win in my book. At least this year. When it comes to cold weather, 72+ is FI for me. Been suckered in more times than I care to mention. Almost ramped it at work today and thought better of it!

I think some would even take that as things stand! I enjoy weather extremes, but I just want some clear sunny days to be honest, as this kind of extreme I can live without!

Oh that's the one! Think I remember Nick Sussex wishing that one away in the end because it was effectively useless... Here's hoping we don't see a repeat for obvious reasons.

I think from a cold perspective it's better to have the euro's developing together. Since I've been reading this site, none of the established members fully trusted the output if the ukmo wasn't on board in some way. Hopefully for those who enjoy the cold, we won't end up with one of those monster highs that stick around forever without advancing West enough, leaving the UK getting drenched on the wrong side. Can't remember what year it was, but I remember once that happened for bloody weeks and we just couldn't get a favourable set up to tap into it. Don't have the knowledge to rule that out though!

Really though, the only reliable range we have is out to around +144 max, and sometimes significantly less in more dynamic situations. We only really have an inkling of what might happen past say the 3rd of Jan. Allowing time for a pattern change to bear fruit, those with a preference for cold could be building snowmen by mid-Jan for all we know. I never pay too much attention when I hear the longer term indicators are pointing one way or the other, since from what I gather invariably they are pretty useless for local level forecasting, and only hint at the potential for pattern changes. Admittedly it looks as though we are in for at least a week's worth of Atlantic driven weather plus whatever time it takes to transition.

Been out of the loop today - I thought the most intense PPN was supposed to track through the midlands/W Wales, and we were staying mainly dry? Now the radar is showing a North/South track? Despite this Anglia news have just announced the snow 'won't be as severe as first thought'. I know these situations are difficult to call but bloody hell. Edit: Just read the above

Have they? They overlap - I can see an icy roads warning but the snow line seems to be further west?

We have had a flurry in Braintree which threatened to turn heavy... then died... think there must be an error!

Urgh that's an ugly Americanism. Shame is he clearly knows his stuff but resorts to self promotion like the above, by speculating on data he knows damn well has < 1% chance of verifying.

Still a fair few inches of cover where the snow's been left, though I'd rather it just thawed now the main event is over. Almost went a*** over t** on the way into the office this morning.