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Be thankful for that 2cm, I'm in the white clear patch down south lol.

Dec 81 was epic down here in the west country, around a foot of level snow at sea level just a few miles inland from the bristol Channel, as you say the charts don't look that special but the setup certainly delivered, wouldn't mind a repeat!

Holy grail setup for down here, meaning there's a 0.01% chance of that happening, nice to look at though!

Absolutely hammered it down in the early hours, no thunder or lightning though, I'm taking biblical downpour! Poor hedgehogs in the garden, camera caught one rocketing through the hedgehog highway & straight into one of the hog houses where he/she just sat looking out of the tunnel entrance of the house, for wild animals they really aren't that fond of getting wet lol

I never let the room temp drop below 20 as I have budgies.

What a gorgeous day so far, cooler, grey skies this morning & some rain, absolute bliss compared to the last 4 days of oppressive heat!

I'll I tell you about someone else who don't like this heat, my resident hedgehogs lol, despite being in full shade one of them leaves his house & goes under a bushy shrub to cool off, can't be nice in a wooden hog house with temps of 33c! Can't wait for temps in the low 20s to arrive from Wednesday onwards.

Don't mind warm weather but not the hot temps for as long as we've had this summer, I hate seeing wildlife suffer & upon walking around the area I appear to be the only one putting shallow bowls of water out in the garden to help them, my visiting hedgehogs are drinking a lot & who can blame them, it's so warm even at night.

Feels hot enough out there today, hate to think how it'll feel over the coming days with temps rising. So important to have shallow bowls of water in the garden for wildlife too in hot dry spells like this, got lots of house sparrows having cool baths & drinking & over night quite a few hedgehogs having a long drink, leaving water out can really be a life saver for them.

What an horrid day out there, feels more like autumn!

Shame your not taking part in 'no mow may', love doing my bit for nature & wildlife so not touching the lawn for the whole month, plenty of wild flowers for the bees. All the heavy precipitation looks like passing to the east, unless what's to the south west develops more as it moves in.

Had a few snow flurries here, possibly more to come looking at the radar.

Never really looked forward to spring arriving, that was until I decided to transform the back garden into a wildlife friendly one, now I can't wait for spring to get going every year. Already had hedgehogs visiting the garden although with our winters getting warmer some don't even hibernate at all! I love cold & snow but do I want the possible cold weather later next week to come off, not really, at this time of year that weather type can have a devastating impact on wildlife, I can't wait for a hp cell to plonk itself just to our south east pumping up southerly winds!

Well said, I'm honestly sick & tired of all the met Office bashing going on in this thread!

I'm in the red warning zone, I hate stormy weather, absolutely dreading what tomorrow may bring.

Loving this weather at the moment, plenty of frosty nights (except tonight!), some fog, this is the next best thing to cold & snow. Can't stand constant wind & rain, really detest stormy weather, long may it continue. While hp is around there's always a chance, no matter how slim that it could end up in a more favourable position to deliver some proper wintry weather instead of this inversion cold,

Absolutely gorgeous day, long may this weather continue. Yes I'd love cold & snow but what we have now is the next best thing in my book.

Well quite frankly the chase for cold charts is all part of the fun so those people posting charts, cherry picked or not are free to do so & to those posters I say keep doing what you're doing, you make this thread a fun place to be.

The bit highlighted in bold, no I don't think it was wishful thinking at all, countless times we've seen low pressure pushed further south than originally forecast but in this instance the high pressure /wedge to our north imploded so nothing was there to force lp further south. I remember a few years back with a 'sliding' low pressure up against a block to our north, at the start of the week the snow line was forecast for northern england, by the end of the week when the event happened it ended up a south west /south of M4 event!

Actually the jma is highly regarded by the met Office, according to a post from fergi a few years back.

You wouldn't have been laughing at the time if you were forecast to be smack in the middle of that snow band, as I was! Similar thing happened again, can't remember the year but the channel islands got buried when the forecast late the night before had the south west /south in for heavy snow. So I do find it amusing how some are saying game over regarding what happens around Xmas when that forecast for heavy snow that changed & pummeled the channel islands was wrong less than 12 hours out.

Yes it can be, Dec '81, we only had uppers of - 2/-3 looking at the archive charts & I'm down the far south at sea level. Was one of the most epic snowfalls I've ever seen. So yes, in certain circumstances, like surface cold being pulled off a cold continent like what happened back then can produce snowfall at those upper air temps.

Click on the three dashes in the top right (go back to the top of the page if not already there) , choose account & then ignored users.

No thanks, need one of those classic battlegrounds where weather fonts hardly make it past the south west, Dec '81 repeat would be greatly associated, hope weather gods are listening

Well one of you is clearly wrong, can't both be right!