Cheshire Freeze

Yeah just like people feel (have felt) these past few winters. I haven't seen proper lying snow since 2013. As I've said before, the UK climate is becoming ever more bland.

The winter equivalent of this summer would have me grinning like a Cheshire cat. I have absolutely no idea what people are moaning about, unless they were expecting a '76? People have short memories. A 2007 or 2012 really would give you something to moan about.

Dramatic much?! This summer has been warmer and drier than average thus far. Even here in Cheshire. There has been plenty of usable weather and there will be plenty more before summer is over.

They updated overnight...ooops was Nov and Dec

Here is the most recent November chart, incorporating the average of the most recent data Agrees with GLOSEA. LP to N&NW and HP to the S A +NAO there. Just out of interest, the December chart is about as grim as you can get for early winter

Yes, starting to get ridiculous. Last decent snowfall was Jan 2013 here. Even in the late 90's and 2000's I can't remember 5 years passing where there wasn't a covering of snow at some point.

Yep I think another dud is on the way sadly. Don't know what we have to do just lately to a) get a decent thunderstorm or b) get a decent snowy spell of weather

What do people expect. Site traffic has seemingly been low for a while now due to the increasingly static and boring weather we have been experiencing. On busy evenings with decent weather events, I'd wager there would have been a fair few in there.

Anyone seen the latest GLOSEA? It's quite ugly really. +NAO as far out as it goes

Woohoo- love autumn. Don't think the thread is that early and I don't think that the summer lovers can moan, given the weather we've had so far this summer. They must be satisfied with what they've seen so far, surely.

Same- nothing here since last September either

Skies are flatter than a witch's t*t here. As expected. Good development a bit back to my east though, off towards the peaks.

Really don't know what we have to do to get a decent storm around here. 6th July and still not one rumble heard this spring/summer.

If you look at the satellite you can see there is a narrow strip of high topped cloud stretching down along the Welsh border from that Chester cell.

Euro4 is about as dire as it gets

I can empathise with what Iceman is saying however. Every time that storms have been shown this summer, they have been downgraded to a whimper- it has certainly hacked me off no end. Back to the modelling here and now, the ECM seems to be out of whack at 72 hours when compared to the UKMO and GFS- from the surface pressure charts for Thursday I would imagine that the focus of any storm activity would be towards the S&E. The UKMO and 12z GFS has the risk more widespread but even the GFS had moved E slightly of its 6z position. Longer term it's a bit of a knife edge as to where we head. I personally wouldn't like to commit to either outcome, whether that be a profoundly more unsettled and cooler outcome or more of a warm/hot continental one.

Hahaha I know all about fridge breakdowns! Oh and nothing left on the pop shelves!

Fair enough. I just know I was quite poorly after struggling through a 9 hour shift on the Monday last week. Completely drained. The weather can do as it pleases, for all I care, when I'm off work though.

Also, I work in customer service...the amount of glum faces I saw during the spell last week was telling. My dad noticed the same thing. So many people were complaining about the heat.

How is 30+C 'warm' IIRC the Metoffice classify 28C as 'hot' and you'd think they'd be experts on the matter.

That's about the number of hours until the equinox

I've not seen proper rain here in yonks. The ground is still baked from last week's heat. It's solid. As the summer progresses and the days shorten the heat seems to bother me less. Last week was too intense for me however, with the sun being so strong (around the longest day).

Personally I will be making the most of tomorrow. The ground around here is rock hard. We've barely had any rain at all since the weather broke at the back end of last week. Will be interesting to see the anomaly maps at the end of the month as I suspect here will show up as below average, even if surrounding areas are average or just above.

The most disappointing aspect so far is a complete lack of convective weather here. I can stand a few days of hot temperatures if there is a good storm in the offing but I haven't even had that!

Agree Nick. Since that horrid heat ended it has been lovely. Seeing heat being picked up again by the models fills me with actual dread. I just cannot hack it. I was all for the hot spell just gone originally, I had a positive mindset and was determined to enjoy it. Alas I had a horrid time mauling about in work and couldn't sleep at night due to my room being an inferno. I was starting to get really miserable with it by the end of the spell and it had made me ill. I do not wish for a repeat at all. I can only assume that these people who champion stupidly hot weather don't actually have to go to work, or if they do, work in a nicely air conditioned office?