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Give me the late Bill Foggitt`s seaweed, I have no clue what the CET will be for December2014, I will make a guess 2.0 seems like a nice rounded figure. location Battersea, London. Gender Male.

I will go with 6.8 as a guess, thank you. Gender male Location Battersea, London.

Not in January 1985, or February 1986 and 1956, or the great winter of1963 , January 1979,December 2009 or 2010, none of these winters lead to flooding after a cold spell and many others. I think we can say as well, we often don't get floods after a cold spell, or due to snow thawing. Gender :Male, Location, Battersea, London.

Yes very interesting and informative video, but just like most people on this forum, they seem to have forgotten(Spanish Plume) that there is a very large Continent thousands of miles long south of Spain.

When the hell is winter going to arrive and kill the bees and wasps that are flying around, stinging people, it`s like we are in an extended autumn that last forever.(location Battersea ,London Gender Male.)

Well there was a frost last night in central London, on the cars at least, I can imagine in the country if there are no ground frosts, it is either the wind speed is to high, or there has been cloud cover, this has not quite yet been the mildest winter so fa,r but strangely enough, in some parts of western Uk, they have had south westerly wind since the begging of October, that is rear, normally there is a break, only in 1982, I can think of that stated with west winds on September 18 that lasted to about the 18th of January 1983, before a change to easterly winds at the end of January, so using that as a basis, the current westerly pattern is unlikely to continue till e the end of January into February. Location Battesea, London gender Male.

Will the ecm chart look like that in 10 days time, most probably not,everyone should chill out and relax, upgrades to come for cold as well as downgrades,, that is model watching 10 days in the future, for you.. (gender male. location Battersea, London)

3.5 for me will do, lets see............

Yes, not nice here at the moment in Cebu City, central Philippines, very stormy, Cocunuts trees swaying like mad and we had power cuts and the Typhoon Haiyin, or Yolanda as it is known here in the Philippines is getting stronger, there is a real fear of extensive loss of life and extensive damage. Coming just after one of the strongest earthquakes in history,it as not been happy times here. Gender Male, Location Battersea, London, on holiday in Cebu City Phillippines.

Ok thanks for that BB, obviously you have looked into the data, it just seams this year more than ever, the highest daytime temperatures in in the South, Seam to be at Heathrow. Is exposure a factor! ( Whatever happened to Cheltenham!)

Does anyone know why the highest temperatures always seam to be registered at Heathrow this Summer,(34.1 today for example) is it the heat of the tarmac of the runway getting to the thermometer lol.

14.7 for me, I am not fooled by the warm start to June, after all, did we not have a warm start to May!

This season is very cold, but last year spring was a very warm, few complaints there, the fact that last spring was very warm and this one was very cold, shows how mother nature balances climate, we should not complain. The last time I remember a spring that was as late as this one was in 1986, and march was normal that year. So despite global warming or climate change as it is now called to make it more palatable to the general pubic, the weather will always, vary from season to season, from year to year. The run off warm months and years, from 1988-2006, we have to forget about this period, its history now, and not let the issue of climate change affect our views that we should not have very cold seasons again, and remember in future we will have warm seasons and cold season, I for one, I am not complaining after such a record breaking warm spring last year, it is all about balance. Gender Male, Location Battersea London.

Moderate snow at Battersa in London, temp 3,0 and falling.

This thread is as dead as a Dodo today, maybe end of winter fatigue, the final CET for February looks like ending between 2.7-,3.2 making my prediction of 2.5, looking quite a respectable guess. Gender male, Location Battersea, South London.

Just before the midnight deadline ends, I will say 2.5c, a good guess of February 2013, 1st,2nd and 3rd weeks dominated by North and East winds, a mild end to the month, that is my guess 2.5.(Location Battersea, London, Gender Male)

Going back 35 years using my memory, I rate this cold spell for snow events inLondon and days of lying snow, for a week now, at some places. We must not forget the period mid Jan to the end, is not well know for very cold spells to develop due to the strength of the jet stream, The best January cold spell for me was Jan 1985, from the 4th to about the 19th of Jan, not a lot of snow but a very cold spell of weather, that reached its peak in the SE, on Jan 14, with temps not getting above -4, average wind speed on this bitter day 15mph. Then it was Jan 1979, a very cold spell of weather in the 1st week and a half with snow and sub zero temps,but it got milder later, followed by Jan 1987, on the 12 of Jan the temperature did not get above -6 at St, James Park central London, or Heathrow Airport, with heavy snow for 3 days, just over a week later this cold spell was coming to an end,Jan 2010 was also impressive because the first few days, produced snow events, coming after a snowy and cold 2 weeks in December, but by mid Jan this cold spell was over, as for January 2013, 2 week cold spell, for snow it was not bad, maximum temperatures also not bad, the temperature did not get above 0 at most locations in central London on the 19th with modrate snowfall, what was lacking was Sunshine, and very cold nightime temperatures, but that as been a feature of recent winters, for a 2 week snowy cold spell from 12-25/26 its quite historic, normally we dont get cold spells this long, at this time of year. So I would say, 7/10 for 2013 Jan, 9/10 for January1985, 8.5/10 for JAN 1979, and 7.5/10 for Jan 1987. 10/10 for January 1963, but I was not born.

Forget about Gatwick at -6, its shannon airport at -2,thats most amazing reading, near to the coast facing the atlantic. (location Battersea,London) Gender Male.

So it will be turning mild and unsettled at the weekend,according to the models, and according to must people on here today, from what they can see, its a done deal, the reality is that the mild spell at the weekend is not a done deal,. well not yet, as the forecaster on BBC as just said, there is just a suggestion, it might turn milder at the weekend, history allways suggest, that very cold air, once in place, is much harder to displace than most of the models suggest. LETS SEE WHAT THE MODELS WILL THROW AT US LATER ...............

No wonder new comers get confused here, from what I can see with the main modules. 1.GFS at 144, shows Atantic influence only in Scotland , the rest of England will be cold if not very cold with anticyclonic influence, there is still alot of Northern , Blocking present, meaning any Atlantic interlude maybe short lived. 2.UKMO shows at144 hours atlantic influence over Scotland and Northern England, but central Eastern and most of Southern England remian clod under anticyclonic influence ,again Northan Blocking is evident, meaning any atlantic influence maybe short lived. 3. ECM Remains cold for the vast majority in the UK, if not very cold, only the NW of Scotland as atlantic influence, there is also northern blocking present, espcially in the Greenland area. So we can conclude, the UKMO and the GFS show atlantic influence only for the North and Northwest UK, to differing degrees, the ECM is not in agreement, and mostly shows anticyclonic influence for majority of the country, its only one run and 6 days away, subject to change(. Location, Battersea, London, Gender Male.)

Its stopped raning/snowing, here in Battersea, sky brightening up, we are near the centre of the depression, temp fallen to 2.1. nice evening, sunset towards the west.

Begging to snow at BATTERSA now ,temps 2.2 celcius and stagnant.

Just enough time to get my Central England Temperature guess,for December 2012 before Midnight, 1.8 CETwas in my head this morning, nice cold, frosty bright morning in London.

Yes, I think it was on the 18th of March 1987, very heavy snowfall in the SouthEast including the London area, it was one of the lagest snow flakes I have ever seen, it settled but did not last long ,as with most March snowfalls, ,also March1979, very heavy snow showers in the morning of 18th, too, but as soon as the sun came out it all melted. I cant really remember any snowfalls in March after that, the truth is the 80s and 90s brought a lot of Westerely domnanted spells and Easterely, and Northerly winds tend to be more common in April, The most famous March snowfalls were in 1947, after a record breaking cold February atlantic depressions came in and on the Northan flank, and gave very heavy snowfalls to parts of the Midlands and Northan England and Scotland. (.Battersea., London, Male.)

15.0c thats the maximum here at Battersea,London its now 12.3C, and falling, under clear skies of course, so the minimum should be lower tonight,yes, quite an amazing end to February, its been a long time since we had a February that was quite below average, a regular occurance, before 1987, in the years before that, you could almost guarantee( even in the milder years )an Easterly developing in the second week of February. January as not change much in nature, its as got milder, but by not a great ammount, it was nearly always a mild month in the past. December as actually got colder in general, strangly enough, many Decembers in the 1980s were very mild, 1981 being the main exception to this. One thing is for sure,since September the sequence of mild of month dominated by southerly, westerly, winds is incredible, I can not remember seeing a period like it, since September high pressure as stayed to the South West, South and Southeast with little or no break, I know that many places in the South and South East, and Central England had 2 weeks of Easterly winds end of January, February, but for many in the Southwest, Ireland, and Western Scotland, there as been little or no break from this dominant weather pattern.