Richard2901

Anyone that's had anything decent this winter must be very much in the minority. Seems like Sheffield is the only major city to have a good depth of snow (10cm+). Can't wait to see the back of this waste of time cold spell. There's been snow lying all week here but nothing worth having. Pitiful 1-2cm dustings with plenty of grass visible. It's really a shocking state of affairs when this is as good as it gets in 2 years. It even rained yesterday turning the snow to slush which then froze over so pavements are a nightmare. Only three winters in 40 years have not bettered 2cm here: 1982/83, 2006/07 and 2013/14. The fact that 2 of them have been in the past 8 years just says it all. If we don't get anything this February then that would be five write-off Februaries in a row and the last time there was a snowy February after such a write-off December and January was 1991!

Well up here in the far North East it's certainly not a bit of a disappointment. It is a huge disappointment. I've not had any lying snow at all this week, this year or last year. This current spell is just horrible, cold windy weather that further extends the record breaking snow drought. Barely dipped below freezing at all this past week either and there has been increased amounts of rain after a dry first half of winter. Exactly the same as what happened this time last year. It's bad enough enduring cold zonal dross where the snow doesn't make it past the mountains but now with a northerly we are getting rain when it's past mid-January I'd rather have the Euro High than more of this awful cold windy weather that has persisted all winter so far resulting in barely any more frost than last winter and even less snow

The idea that there is not currently an unprecedented snow drought in this country and that people have unrealistic expectations is the only thing that is a bigger joke than this winter. All the lying snow there's been here (where the long term average is almost 20 days lying per annum) in the past 21 months has been a transitory dusting of less than 1cm and that was nearly 14 months ago. The notion that there were similar snowless spells in other eras not noted for snowy winters such as the 1920s, 30s, 70s and 90s is laughable So far on a par with last winter for unrelenting tedium and lack of extremes. The most relentlessly zonal since 1988/89. Consequently it has been ridiculously dry and absolutely pathetic for frost and snow. Actually less snowy than last winter, so far, with just 4 days of falling snow/sleet and nothing lying at all. Only two proper winter frosts with the rest being shallow and transitory - the type associated with autumn and spring. While there has been no real cold it's only reached 10C three times with no foehn effects or anything noteworthy. Monotonous beyond belief just like the past 13 months. So that the Festive Holiday wasn't a complete write-off like the past 3 years I took a trip up to Braemar last week to enjoy proper winter scenes. Even there it was poor by usual standards with nothing more than a couple of cm on the ground but still the only lying snow I saw at ground level during 2014

More or less the same here. Nothing decent since 2010. 2009 and 2010 stick out like a sore thumb in an absolutely shocking run of snowless winters abysmal even by the standard of the 1990s

Best years were 1995, 2001 and 2009 followed by 1993 and 2000. These were years with a White Christmas and the snow remained on the ground into the New Year (except 1993). 2010 had the best Christmas Day with 18cm on the ground but after Boxing Day it was dire with four sunless days, no frost, rain and a thaw. 2006 was very good and frosty with ice floes on the River Dee but it turned much milder after the 27th. 2003, 2004, 2005 all managed short-lived snowfalls at some point over the period while 2007 had a very frosty Christmas Day. Worst years: 1997, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013. Absolutely atrocious the lot of them with barely even a frost. 1997 and 2002 in particular were horrifically wet and sunless.

An exceptionally poor start to winter. Ridiculously awful with barely even a frost. On top of what we endured last year this is intolerable. To get to the winter solstice with just 16.2 hours of frost and nothing lower than -1.1C is unbelievably pathetic. Even by this stage last year there had been 62.4 hours of frost and a low of -2.0C. April 2013 managed 38.9 hours of frost in the first 13 days and a low of -2.7C which has not been beaten since Even a December as grim and gloomy as 2002 managed a three day frosty spell so will have accumulated more frost than this sorry affair. 1994 is the probably the last time there had been so little frost and no snow by this stage of winter The longest any day has managed below freezing point is just 4.3 hours on 3rd December. Shocking considering that in the lighter half of the year, and in a spring with one of the highest mean minimums on record, there were 6.1 hours of frost on 26th March 2014 and a low of -1.8C.

1/3 of the UK landmass has not had lying snow. There has been very little lying snow at all in Scotland away from the Highlands and High Ground. Here, in Britain's snowiest city, there has been no lying snow since 19th November 2013 which is ridiculous and unprecedented to go so long without snow on the ground. Apart from a few flakes of dandruff the other night all there has been this month is cold rain and not even much of that. It's just been bone dry with a relentless nasty cold wind that smacks you in the face every time you go outside. As much as I am longing to see proper hard frosts and snowy winter wonderland scenes I welcomed the milder temperatures today because it made the wind feel less unpleasant. It really has been an atrocious December so far. Because the wind never lets up it's barely dropped below freezing at night. A low of just -1.1C so far and 12.6 hours of frost. It's going to be the least wintry first half of December since 2006 here.

An awful start to winter. Into the second week of December - and more than 2 months into the frost season - we've had less than 10 hours of frost and not a flake of wintry precipitation Five transitory frosts of which the lowest has been -1.1C and the other four: -0.1C, -0.7C, -0.1C and -0.3C. It's pitiful. Every month from November to March last winter managed a lower temperature and there was more wintry weather in November and the first week of December 2013 than there's been in the 12 months since. Not only is it more than a year since the last snow lying day but it's now more than a year since there was last a day with at least 9 hours below freezing. To say this is unprecedented for my location is an understatement. Absolutely despise "cold zonality". It delivers nothing of interest here. The only type of precipiation that gets through is rain and night after night there is clear skies but the temperature is not falling due to the wind. It's as boring as anticyclonic gloom only more unpleasant due to the nasty cold wind. Worst of all it usually gives way to mild zonality as in 1992/93, 1999/2000 and 2011/12

Atrocious season with no redeeming features whatsoever. Relentlessly dull and gloomy with an unbelievable lack of fine days. Just dire with almost unceasing wind from either S or SE making it the dullest Autumn locally since 1968 with less sunshine than the winters of 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2011/12. As has been the case throughout the year low diurnal ranges and an extreme lack of temperature variation were evident. No high temperatures worthy of comment and only one pathetic frost of -0.1C on the 10th November. Countless nights where minima were as mild as the long term average maxima. Mean Max: 12.97C (+0.97C) Mean Min: 8.03C (+2.03C) Rainfall: 280.2mm (126%) Rain days: 52 Wet days: 43 Sunshine: 224.2 hours (73%) Sunless days: 25 Rating: 0/10

Execrable month that, as far as I’m concerned, is the worst November in recorded history. Wind almost constantly from the SE yet again delivering extremely low diurnal ranges and a lack of extremes. No high temperatures at all during the month with only November 2010 having a lower maximum since the start of the century. 11 minimum temperatures were above the long term average max of 8.3C. Exceptionally dull, wet and miserable with no day managing 6 hours sun for the first time since 1995. The dullest of any month since December 2002 and the dullest November since 1997, rounding off the dullest Autumn since 1968. The majority of the sunshine was recorded in the first third of the month with only 12.9 hours between the 11th and 30th. This vile period recorded a mean max of 9.7C and a mean min of 7.2C with nothing lower than 2.6C or higher than 11.5C. The number of wet days was the highest for any month in my records since 2005 with October 2006 the only other month to record more than 20 wet days. Mean Max: 9.7C (+1.4C) Mean Min: 6.2C (+2.9C) Highest Max: 12.7C (1st) Lowest Max: 6.9C (26th) Highest Min: 10.7C (14th) Lowest Min: -0.1C (10th) Air Frosts: 1 Rainfall: 119.8mm (147%) Wettest day: 17.4mm (16th) Rain days(>=0.2mm): 25 Wet days (>=1mm): 22 Sunshine: 41.6 hours (57%) Sunniest Day: 5.9 hours (2nd) Sunless days: 13 Rating: 0/10

It’s been horrific month here. In contrast to November 2013, which managed 117.9 hours sunshine, I've recorded just 28.7 hours so far this month. Aviemore has had only 12.4 hours so far. The past week has been putrid with only 0.2 hours sun, near constant rain and light levels akin to just after sunset all day long under gloomy SE'ly winds. The type of conditions that make you want to shut down completely. The mean for the month to date is 8.1C which is 1.7C above average but since the 12th the mean min has been higher than the long term mean max for this time of year at 9.0C (5.6C above average) and the mean max has been 10.6C (2.3C above average). Similar types of Novembers in the past like 1946, 1951, 1984 and 1997 did not see anything like this ridiculous lack of temperature range with nights nowhere near as mild. If the predictions of E/SE winds to the end of the month come off it could end up as the dullest month locally since December 2002 and the dullest Autumn since 1977 so yet another exceptionally poor season. I wish there were published data on light levels as well as sunshine because this year has seemed gloomier than anything I can recall even years like 1993 and 1998 which had lower sunshine totals.

The current weather is beneath contempt and it's making me tired and fed-up in the extreme having to suffer this repulsive dark gloomy dross day in day out. No temperature range at all. It's just stuck around 10C all the time day and night with appalling light levels. Horrible and depressing. The only other November to produce this type of garbage was November 2011. Absolutely nothing like this pre-2000 when even horrid November's like 1997 still managed something of a diurnal range and not even the maxima were in double figures off this type of set-up. Just 2 minutes of sunshine in the past 4 days and the model output suggests a similar total for the next week or more. It just looks vile as far as the eye can see. Thank goodness I've got 10 days in Tenerife coming up though just like my Summer holiday in Croatia was plagued by abnormally frequent showers and storms it looks like a wet spell is going to affect the Canaries from next Wednesday to Sunday coinciding perfectly with my arrival on Friday eveninghttp://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1684.gif Needless to say I'm not happy about that but anything would be a significant improvement on what I'm enduring at the moment. It's just the most disgusting and depressing weather anywhere on earth and if there's not a pattern change soon then it will be a repeat of December 2002 coming up.

Last year had a variety of weather conditions and reasonable temperature range. A lot of snow, though none of the falls were impressive, and a very good summer. It was generally pleasant with persistently good weather from mid-April to late-September. This, combined with a record sunny November, helped make it the sunniest year since 2003. This year, by contrast, has been utterly vile like nothing ever recorded before. Snowless and frost free beyond the bounds of credulity with almost relentless wind from the SE quarter and on target to have the lowest average pressure in more than 150 years. The dullest year since 1998 and the gloomiest and murkiest I have ever experienced. One of the wettest too with persistent mild nights and low diurnal ranges. Damp even when not wet with a constant nagging wind. A revolting snowless wet winter followed by a dull foggy spring followed by a wet summer and now this disgusting abomination of an autumn that is even worse than 2006/2011. Only one month of 2014 better than it's 2013 equivalent and that was March. 2013 scores vastly superior for warmth, sunshine, snow, frost and general variety. 2014 has just been devoid of anything that could be considered desirable.

This is the most dismal and depressing autumn I can ever recall. It is not remotely summerlike and hasn't been since early August. Just day in day out of vile gloom, unremarkable maxima and disgustingly mild minima combining to give the drabest colours I have ever seen - yes even worse than 2006 and 2011. Can’t even remember the last properly sunny day. Not one day in October managed 7 hours of sunshine - the first time this has happened since 1933. Today was supposed to be sunny but yet again the sky has filled up almost completely with horrid grey cloud. Total of just 183.3 hours sun for September and October makes it the dullest combination since 1992. That was a cold autumn - nowhere near as murky and gloomy as 2014. Also despite October 1992 being one of the coldest on record it still managed a warmer maximum than this pathetically dull and boring October managed. Lots of frost as well - something practically extinguished from October these days. Just 3/10 have had a frost now whereas before it would be more like 3/10 that didn't. At least 2006 and 2011, my previous most detested autumns, managed warm and sunny weather in September. I can't think of any redeeming features for Autumn 2014. It's been unrelentingly nasty and unpleasant pretty much like the year as a whole save for March, the middle third of April and July.

Yet another vile exceptionally dull and wet month dominated by South and South Easterly winds. 7th month out of 11 with below average sunshine and the first October since 1933 when no day managed 7 hours sun. Dullest September/October combination since 1992 and 2nd dullest since 1977. As usual nowadays there was a much reduced diurnal range and a lack of extremes with 24/31 days having a max between 10.5C and 14.5C. No temperatures of note with the maximum lower than what many notably cold Octobers like 1992 managed to achieve. Mean Max: 12.9C (+0.9) Mean Min: 7.7C (+1.7) Highest: 17.3C (18th) Lowest Max: 9.6C (21st) Highest Min: 12.2C (1st, 18th) Lowest Min: 1.8C (29th) Rainfall: 133.8mm (162%) Wettest Day: 37.2mm (7th) Rain Days: 16 Wet Days: 14 Sunshine: 72.6 hours (70%) Sunniest Day: 6.9 hours (29th) Sunless days: 6

Carol Kirkwood is right about 11C being around average here at this time of year. Only difference is 11C is the average maximum. I had a minimum of 11C last night which is just vile. Especially since it was the 4th double digit min in 8 days The average min is 5C at this time of year so to describe the current dross as typical autumn is ridiculous. After that horribly mild night it was cloudy all day but no rain, max of 14C, still 13C now. How could anyone enjoy anything like this? It's as dull as ditchwater. October really has been horrific. Extremely wet and dull with almost relentless southerly winds and mildness concentrated on the overnight periods. Just like 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2013. Yet another autumn with little colour due to endless mild gunk Nothing below 3C this month here and it looks increasingly likely from the mind-numbingly awful model output that we could get to November with the coldest night of "Autumn" having been in August

Just looking at the snowfall stats here for the last 10 years and the extreme lack of snow for 2014 is unreal even compared with the unusually snowless years of 2007 and 2011. Days of snow or sleet falling/days with snow lying: 2005: 41/19 2006: 26/14 2007: 22/8 2008: 32/14 2009: 31/27 2010: 63/62 2011: 24/4 2012: 27/10 2013: 48/28 2014: 4/0 Surely December has to deliver something or this will go down as the most snowless year ever recorded here, not even comparable with the most snowless years of the 1910s, 20s, 30s and 90s.

In the past 10 years these stand out as the worst for extremely monotonous and repetitive conditions: October 2004 March 2005 October 2005 January 2006 February 2006 June 2007 September 2008 December 2008 April 2009 September 2010 February 2011 May 2011 July 2011 August 2011 October 2011 November 2011 June 2012 July 2012 March 2013 October 2013 December 2013 January 2014 February 2014 April 2014 May 2014 June 2014 September 2014 Note that nearly every month in the past year makes it in there with October 2014 also a likely contender at the moment. Mostly easterly or southerly (outside summer) dominated horror shows with an extreme lack of variety. Just grey skies, lots of drizzle/light rain or fog and the most detested combination of mild nights and average days with little extremes. Only exception was May 2011 which had slightly above average sunshine but with an unbelievably low range of temperature - the lowest monthly max since 1983 despite the mean max being 1C above average. Historically the most boring period of weather must surely be September to December 1968. More or less 4 months of constant anticyclonic gloom with horrifically poor levels of sunshine that ensured 1968 went down as the dullest post-war year. Just 185 hours sun for the 4 months combined - less than the sunniest Septembers have managed alone - and below average rainfall. Low diurnal ranges as well with constant mild nights.

Absolutely horrific here. I've had 92.8mm this month already - 112% of the full monthly average despite the 1st, 2nd and 5th all being bone dry. It's my second wettest week on record after 21st-27th October 2009 with 109mm. Only the Isle of Man has also exceeded their full month rainfall average. The stark difference between there and here is that they enjoyed a very sunny September as opposed to the disgusting gloom and fog fest endured here. Temperatures have been the typical post-1998 rubbish of average days combined with very mild nights. Still waiting for a colder temperature than was reached in August. Exactly 20 years ago we were enjoying ideal autumn conditions. Abundant sunshine with maxima of 16-19C and minima barely above freezing. As far removed from the present, and much of the past 15 autumns as it's possible to get. We rarely get any decent autumn conditions these days just endless southerly gloom. I loathed the autumns of 2001, 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011 plus last October. This one is worse than any of those. There is just no colour in the trees and following this weeks foul conditions many are becoming bare with piles of soggy green leaves clogging up the pavements 2014 will go down as my most detested year no matter what happens now. That is a certainty

September was the driest month of the year here despite only having 85% of average sunshine while two of the four months to reach average sunshine (February and August) had over twice the average rainfall. What a grim year it's been. Total to end September: 603.8mm (123% of average). Last year had only 395.8mm up to the end of September. September total was 26.6mm will almost certainly be the lowest monthly total. It's already been beaten in October and unlikely that November or December will be drier. Since my records began in 2005 only 2009, my current wettest year, hasn't managed a drier month. April was the driest month that year with 28.8mm.

This time of year used to be about when you would start looking for the first air frost. Fat chance of that happening nowadays. Despite a max of only 9.8C yesterday and clear skies overnight it got no lower than 4.8C. Pathetic when just a few days ago it reached 3.7C from a max of 16.1C. Autumn yet to beat the low of 3.0C recorded nearly 6 weeks ago on 25th August. It's reminiscent of the situation in the dire spring where the acute lack of warmth meant it took until mid-May before we beat the warmest reading of the year from mid-March.

Exactly the same here. Just horrific. 8 minutes of sunshine in the past 5 days and 1.7 hours in the past week. Only the week ending 31st January has been duller this year. 2007, 2008 and 2011 did not have a single 7-day spell this dull. Worst September weather since the final 9 days of September 1998 but I can't even recall that being as murky and foggy as this week as been. Monday was the worst with 8mm of rain and it was practically dark during the middle of the day as if it were already November. Not reached 20C since 16th August and increasingly unlikely to do so now. Earliest Autumn since 1992 when there was no 20C after 5th August.

What utter nonsense. It's days like today with wall to wall murk, featureless grey skies, poor air quality, stagnant air and no sunshine that are suicide inducing especially when repeated ad nauseum as they have been in this horrifically foul and depressing gloomfest of a year. Hence why Shetland has the highest suicide rates in the country http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2014/05/05/wills-suicide-rate-is-alarming My quality of life would be improved greatly if I could leave this country for good and live somewhere with decent levels of sunshine i.e. at least 2500 hours per year.

Absolutely foul day. Rain and 12C as the worst run of weekends I have ever endured keeps on going. This is the 14th in a row with rain Horrid first week of September as well. Worse than any week of August, beating 2011 as the dullest I have recorded with only 22.9 hours sun and over half of that was recorded on Tuesday. The worst start to September since at least 2001. It has been a nauseating mix of anticyclonic gloom and rain with 12mm over the past few days. Very much on the cool side of average as well. It has not reached 19C since 16th August. Just abysmal and it certainly feels like the earliest Autumn since 1992. Getting this miserable cold wet grey weather in September is worse than any other month as it means the last hope for warm sunshine is written off and more than a 6-month wait before we're likely to see it again.

Return to Summer? What a joke. Gloom filled rubbish today when it was supposed to be warm and sunny with high pressure in what should be a favourable position. It's actually worse than last week, when there was at least lots of sun between Monday and Wednesday. Of greater concern is that yet again the weekend looks awful Rain setting in on Friday, cool with more downpours on Saturday then a cold washout for Sunday due to this low pressure appearing from nowhere http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn961.gif Absolutely ridiculous - now likely to be the umpteenth weekend this year with rain both days and what other year has only had 6 sunnier than average weekends between late March and mid-September? None that I can remember that's for sure. Dire outlook generally with lots of cloud and GFS showing temperatures barely reaching average for the next 10 days, reminiscent of the anticyclonic gloom fest of September 2008. The last few weeks of the year for warm sunny weather being written off completely. Could be the first September since 2001 not to reach 20C and one of the earliest ever dates for the last 20C of the year. I'm just sick to death of this vile rubbish week in week out. What the hell is happening to our weather when you can't even get even get one dry weekend in 3 months and can't get one fully dry week all year? 2014 = hateful year from hell that offers nothing but constant misery. Record breaking amounts of low pressure and even when there's high pressure the weather is still appalling