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oh well it now seems the upcoming cold snap isn't going to quite as exciting as the charts promised a few days ago. Too much of a marginal set up for many of us. Marginality seems to be the common theme in British winters these days and even when we do have a cold spell we now end up with cold rain rather than snow. Utterly depressing.
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well that was another non eventful winter. Glad to see the back of it to be honest and can't say I'm enthusiastic about the winter 2017/18 either going by the UK's recent track records. I just want some summer warmth now....although even that might be asking too much too.
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5 hours ago, MR EXTREMES said:
sorry to hear of your loss.
and there are signs the vortex will drop into scandi area and the azores heights becoming pushed to the south west or even west.
well thats the take on the ecm the other models do seem to be rather flat.
but im still punting for cold start to march and even april as its not unheard of like april 2008
the thought of a cold spell in March not to mention March fills me with horror. it would be just typical of our climate to start producing the winter goods come the Spring, when it is rather pointless in having them by then. I just want Spring warmth now. Winter's had its chance and failed miserably.
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well I for one am done with this winter now. okay so we did have some cold but as regards snow it was a dismal affair so all I want now is for warmth to start to show rather than this non starter of a winter. it had its chance and blown it as far as im concerned.
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2 hours ago, weirpig said:
Yep will be marginal come Saturday when the heavy precipitation is due to come through elevation sounds the key.
marginal yet again. if only we had some big mountains in this country. Even Ben Nevis is peanuts. we need a 6000 ft plus mountain....but we can't even have that
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1 hour ago, John Hodgson said:
Heavier you can get the precip the more likely it will be snow I guess. Once again our snow is being very marginal. One day we will see a proper easterly again.
I sincerely hope so. The easterlies we have got, albeit rare, these past few years have been awful with hardly any snow attached to them. Wish we could see another February 1991. now that was an easterly blizzard to remember. We get absolute dross these days.
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10 minutes ago, fulham snow said:
Dull,Dull,Dull.What a horrible day.Just seen a shower on the radar in the North sea,who will get it,maybe the start of a streamer or maybe not.
what a waste of an easterly. we wait all winter to finally get one and when we do, it gives us nothing but cold and grey. I'm sure easterlies always used to be a certain guarantee of intense cold and snowy weather or it seemed to be. Our weather is falling apart these days. We can't even get decent summers either, just constant Autumn.
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25 minutes ago, lassie23 said:
Many are expecting the opposite, after this mild cluster of winters comes to an end. Bitterly cold winters are going to make a come back.
I hope you're right but I don't believe anything they say anymore. they are just guessing at what the future will bring really.
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27 minutes ago, Delka said:
Thought i would share this with you all..
Tonight:
Tomorrow:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Most definitely will downgrade now i've noticed but I would definitely take snow flurries for two days..
something like this would most definitely give me at least a dusting..
why is it, even when we get snow, it is always light and basically not worth having?
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1 hour ago, Froze were the Days said:
What utterly dreadful soul destroying weather...so this is what we have been following for the last week on the model forum, dullness and some snizzle (amounting to nothing) and going by the models it looks like surface cold will reign for the next week!
This winter has been in general one big let down, largely non-Atlantic based - January a briefing glimpse of the white stuff and some frosts and there have certainly been worse ones but is this all we can muster?
I agree, this winter has had some many failed opportunities and I was hoping this easterly would finally bring the goods, but it is materialising into nothing but grey and cold, hardly the snow laden easterlies in past decades. I think our winters now are more or less non starters when it comes to snow. Give it a few more years and snow will be such a rarity in the British Isles....even more so than now. Very sad.
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7 hours ago, pureasthedriven said:
Yep - through no other than complete anecdotal hunch and years of watching the weather (with a nod towards potential start warming lag), I see the chances of a cold/cool/chilly March and/or April as odds on, just when we (I) want some spring warmth. Bit like October's set-up when I said to my missus (as I'm sure plenty did) 'give us this set-up in Jan and we'd be buried in snow'. Blocks in all the right places at all the wrong time and vice versa.
yes I'm sure you are right. come March or April we will finally get the cold ....just when its too late and we want the weather to warm up. This country always has its weather patterns topsy turvy. I hate late winter cold in the Spring because even if it snows it hardly lasts until mid morning, so what is the point. Also after several months of dull, cold (but not cold enough for snow) weather all I want by late March and April is some spring warmth at last. I used to love the winter but these days they have become so unexciting and tedious I cannot wait for spring and summer.
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4 hours ago, Nath said:
Such a shame, as we were so near to getting the perfect UK snow and cold setup. Ah well at least heating bills will be lower I suppose!
problem is our heating bills are usually the same whether it is 5c or -5c, we still have to have the heating on regardless. that's what annoys me. at least if we had cold weather we could at least enjoy it and have to pay the heating bills too but if it is just dull, drizzly but still chilly, say under 10c we still use the same amount of heating basically but don't actually enjoy the borefest weather. we can't seem to win either way in this country.
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yet another dire winter after so much promise in the late Autumn. we have seen models predicting real cold and snow only for them to backtrack at the last moment or even if they do materialise, the cold and snow have been far less than anticipated. we have had 1 morning of snow this winter so far and I see no reason for that total to go up before the winter is finally over. at least it beats last winter when we didn't even get 1 day of snow. We used to be more or less guaranteed at least a few days of snow cover each winter, even during the milder winters but even a day or so of snow now seems to be a rarity. I used to look forward to winter but these days I just want to see it over and done with. At least with the summer you don't have to waste money on heating costs (although even that can't be guaranteed with a british summer). All we seem to have these days is cool summers and mild winters, basically one long Autumn. So boring.
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30 minutes ago, Luke Attwood said:
Yes it appears the coldest most severe winters were during the 80's .
I tend to disagree really. apart from 1981/82 the 1980's were not particularly cold or snowy most winters from what I can recall. in fact 1989 was snowless and practically frost free and exceptionally mild.
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1 hour ago, warmintim said:
This will almost certainly get deleted and fair enough, but just because there hasn't been a snowfest, this WINTER cannot be denigrated as a long autumn, unless you are volunteering to scrape the ice from my windscreen when its -8 deg C? In my location we've had more frosts than I can count, including several that have lasted all days in sheltered spots.
We are clearly entering a period where the atlantic weather will edge a few hundred miles further east - it doesn't look like a return to classic zonality. With the SSW (or near SSW) in play it seems likely the the dice are being thrown and this may start to show in the later stages of the models fairly soon. And its not even Feb yet.
Yes I kind of agree that at least we have had some frosts this winter, unlike 2015/16, however I can understand what the other poster is saying too. It's simply the lack of snow that is making everyone so fed up. We had no snow at all last winter and this winter we have seen just 1 day of snow falling which didn't even last on the ground for more than a few hours. I hardly call that a decent winter....or a winter at all really. In our location you could more or less expect at least 5 days of snow either falling or lying in the past few decades but it really seems as though those winters are gone and we are lucky if we get 1 or 2 days of the white stuff now. We do seem to have more of a continuous Autumn and that even goes for our summers too, which have not been great either in terms of heat and sunshine, just mediocre temperatures and hazy sunshine or cloud.
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anyone know if northampton might get a shower overnight as we had sod all today only cold rain. i have given up getting excited about these non events in this country. its pathetic when we can't even get a few cms once a bleedin year.
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11 minutes ago, 2810lollypop said:
I've only just realised what a bunch of nutters we all are lol. All this drama for a 'bit' of snow .... I've spent hours if not days n days watching all this unfold .....Now all I'm left with is about half a millimetre of slush hahahaha . Time for a drink me thinks ...
at least you got half a milimetre of slush...we didnt even get that. what a waste of time.
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2 minutes ago, chillyblast said:
.....and adding to the above +1, any slim tiny microscopic chance of something in Northants first thing tomorrow??? we got next to nothing tonight!
yes we got absolutely nothing in northants apart from cold rain. im not holding any hold for tomorrow either after today's dismal events
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5 minutes ago, Norfolk_N_chance said:
Who else is in the NO SNOW club?
Nothing but cold rain!
Just spoke to someone from the environment agency at Wells-next-the-sea and they are expecting flooding on par with December 2013.
I love snow but hate northerly winds that deliver nothing but coastal devastation to this area.
we have had nothing but cold rain. how come the south has had snow? this country really is tits up weatherwise.
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any crap winters day in the UK. i really do despair now of seeing any even decent snow events as they seem to always be marginal and non events compared to years ago. at least we used to have a few days of snow each winter and now we're lucky if we get even one. i hate this counties climate. wish i could emigrate.
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9 minutes ago, pyrotech said:
In fairness the snow rain mix was forecast pretty well
Was shown as mainly rain by Meto with elevation for some snow
The cravat was it could cause a surprise
It'd didn't , it did pretty much as forecast
Now we watch the possible mayhem in South East Uk as it turns further to snow.
Mean while, here in gods country we get temperatures and dew points lowering
Ice forming and snow showers late into the evening
These will be in bands, hit and miss, so some areas getting many some getting few
But these will be very much snow and only very low areas possibly seeing sleet
Plus lets see if we get that easterly next week, here in SW UK we get best snow events from undercutting lows
i am not even getting excited by the prospect of an easterly next week now. been let down too many times to get excited about anything this countries weather does. it is just so unexciting.
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6 minutes ago, Summer of 95 said:
Snow being reported in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight even, what is wrong with the weather? Colder air coming from the north, it rains here and snows down there?
i agree, what with Greece and its islands getting snow and us further north nearer the arctic getting sod all, there is something very wrong going on. this country is rubbish.
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Just now, #windysnow# said:
I completely agree with you. I wasn't expecting much but the meto did forecast an hour of heavy snow and that didn't happen!!
I cannot even see the south east getting hit the main band is moving to quick. I bet Heathrow won't be very happy the METO.
Tonight will be a non event to trust me!!!!!!
With these events I do have sympathy with METO but I think they are over cautious!!
Anyway see everyone next time for the next non event!!!
yes this countries climate really is pants. people say its exciting because its so changeable and unpredictable. well give me predictable hot sunny summers and cold snowy winters over unpredicable any day.
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Another absolute disappointment and anti climax here in east midlands. just cold rain. is it really so much to ask for even one decent snow day in this lousy country? obviously yes is the answer. i give up.
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The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion
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I wouldn't get our hopes up too much this weekend to be honest. I fear the set up will be too marginal and we are more likely to end up with icy cold rain rather than snow. Why are there so many marginal events in the British winters these days. It seems every time we have some sort of a chance for snow, it turns out too marginal for most of us and we just end up with rain rather than snow. Even a few cms of snow would be nice. That's hardly asking a lot.