Aaron

Pathetic attitudes, even by more knowledgeable members such as Steve Murr. My advice is to stay on this thread for any model updates, you won't find unbiased posts in the MOD thread, just parochial IMBY tripe.

Met Office explaining the situation for Sunday and Monday, whether or not it will snow (do they read these weather forums?!) Yorksh9re is in a great position, Lincolnshire looking decent.

A shame for me, and anyone else who was looking forward to a historic blizzard, so you can save your lecture about people disliking snowfall/snowfall causing problems for someone who cares.

Yeah, check the averages for Milan, in January, it has averages colder than Braemar, and in December, the average is comparable to somewhere like Altnaharra. It also appears to get frequent heavy snowfalls, a quick skeg on YouTube shows some very impressive results, so I think it's fair to say that it's a lot snowier than Leeds, or Newcastle, or Sheffield, and way snowier than London.

Started as snow in NY but appears to be raining, which is a shame.

Well, northern Italy is a lot snowier than most of Britain.

21.4 hours - a great start.

I think he is experiencing the male version of menstruation.

Absolutely not.

It's getting ready for a once-in-a-life-time holiday to the UK between April and September, meaning we get a warm, sunny summer (not). They're beautiful right now Russ, truly beautiful.

No snow here, but the hills look majestic

Back home, nothing settled, as expected.

Seems to be rain in Leeds centre now.

Horrid in Leeds center, mostly snow with periods of sleet flakes are so big they make thumping sounds. On wway home so will see if any has settled back home

Any particular reason? Traveling there by any chance?

Well, I guess it depends. Most heatwaves in the UK are accompanied by low humidity and low dew points, and cool evenings don't appear to be too much of a problem, but I guess it varies from place to place. I've noticed it can feel a bit cool after sunset even if it's above 20C, but when it gets dark, that isn't a problem at all.

Hail here too.

We have Look North (Yorkshire) and Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire). It can be found here.

Coldest to warmest European capitals in January 2013 (mean °C) Moscow, Russia -8.6 Minsk, Belarus -7.2 Vilnius, Lithuania -7.0 Riga, Latvia -6.4 Helsinki, Finland -5.9 Oslo, Norway -4.9 Kiev, Ukraine -4.3 Stockholm, Sweden -4.2 Warsaw, Poland -3.5 Bucharest, Romania -1.6 Prague, Czech Republic -1.2 Bratislava, Slovakia -0.6 Copenhagen, Denmark -0.6 Bern, Switzerland -0.1 Ljubljana, Slovenia -0.0 Berlin, Germany 0.3 Luxembourg, Luxembourg 0.4 Sofia, Bulgaria 0.4 Vienna, Austria 0.4 Skopje, Macedonia 1.4 Zagreb, Croatia 1.7 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.7 Brussels, Belgium 1.9 Amsterdam, Netherlands 2.1 Belgrade, Serbia 2.4 Reykjavik, Iceland 2.7 Paris, France 3.7 London, United Kingdom 4.5 Dublin, Ireland 5.2 Madrid, Spain 5.3 Podgorica, Montenegro 6.2 Rome, Italy 7.6 Tirana, Albania 8.6 Nicosia, Cyprus 9.9 Athens, Greece 11.2 Lisbon, Portugal 12.2

yes, I'm hoping for a sunny, warm summer too, but I'd like some thunderstorms thrown in for good measure. Contrary to what people may think, I don't enjoy cloudy, wet summers (well, I like rain, just not the cloudiness, and I'd prefer my high rainfall in the form of storms or overnight frontal rain).

Really? We've had some exceptional spring warm spells with very high sunshine levels. Sure, it hasn't occurred in the season we'd want it to, but you cannot ignore May 2012, March 2012, April 2011, May 2010, May 2008, April 2007.. you get the drift.. May 2012 in particular was pretty exceptional late in the month, 10 days of virtually uninterrupted sunshine and warmth is an incredible feat for the UK (but I wouldn't call it exciting, just unusual, or statistically interesting) and cannot be expected to occur every year. Of course it is, I like warm, sunny weather, but I don't want it all the time. In my ideal climate, the days are almost evenly split between sunshine and cloud all year, with no particular type dominating.

I'll be shocked if you don't see something Adam, the forecast looks good.

Guys, amber warning has been released for snow for West, South Yorks, Northern Lincs - very unexpected.

I'm certain there are snow flakes mixed within this torrential shower.

Sunny and warm is anything but rare in the UK. I can't recall a single year when there wasn't an extended period of sunny and warm weather, whether it be in spring, summer or autumn. It's been a good few months since the last sunny, warm period because summer ended a long time ago (and there were decent warm periods in summer, especially August). Seasons change, surprise surprise. Now, if you're talking record-breaking heatwave, such as July 2006 or August 2003, then that's a different story, there's at least some statistical interest. As for what most people want, who cares? This isn't a forum for most people, is it? Do most people in the real world obsess over snow? Do most people even realise that weather models exist? Nah, of course not. I don't come on here because I want warm and sunny weather every day, or to socialise with your 'average' Briton who has no interests other than searching for sun in some tacky Costa resort in the Med, and I doubt many people on here do.