Aaron

Well, it's managed to leave a dusting on the grass but has died down a bit now. Still snow though.

All snow falling here now. Precipitation intensity is key.

Sleeting here at the moment.

The Met forecast heavy rain here for a good few hours - considering it's 1.3C here now, any intense precipitation must fall as snow, surely? That intense precipitation has definitely started moving westwards.

Yuck, sleeting.

Maximum depth here was 25 cm on the 26nd of January, after a single fall of around 15 cm the following night. We had snow on the ground for 14 consecutive days, more days than that if you include patchy snow cover. February wasn't as good, but we did manage to get an 8 cm fall on one day with drifting, so certainly cannot complain. But I think pictures speak louder than words..

-12 appeared on GFS for parts of North Yorkshire. More like -6 generally.

Heavy snow by Tuesday morning, persisting for most of the day across North, South and West Yorkshire GFS is also indicating highs of freezing, with lows down to -12C.

I said it's possible, not likely. It is entirely possible.

Not to me it isn't. I sympathise wholeheartedly, and I do not look for cold, snowy weather to begrudge you, but you cannot realistically expect people to change their likes and dislikes based on yourself and what is happening to you. Again, nobody on here is wishing you financial hardship, but we all hope for different things - I think it's rather insulting that you would use that to try and persuade people to change their preferences on a weather forum. Again, I refer back to my original point - tell the sons, daughters and grandchildren of the thousands of elderly people in 2003 who died of heat-related issues, similar in 2006, that you absolutely love heat, and cannot wait for a repeat of August 2003 or July 2006 - they may be sickened by it, but you will not change, will you? Of course not, and I wouldn't expect you to. There is a desperate attempt to be objective and rational regarding preferences and opinions, I think you need to cooperate too. Nobody on this thread has objected to your hatred of cold or love of heat, so you should respect others and do the same for their love of cold and snow.

Snow as early as the 18th? Then widespread snow by the 19th? All just for fun of course, but it's nice to know the possibility exists.

Strictly speaking you could have gotten sunburn in February, a combination of snow and sun would increase your chances! Sunbathing in 10 inches, anyone?

My life has been disrupted plenty due to snow, and it's ignorant of you to presume otherwise, but my love of snow is cannot be waned easily. It would take something truly exceptional or unpleasant for my love of snow to suddenly disappear. I have learnt that most types of weather I appreciate cause disruption for someone, somewhere, and I am sure the same holds true for everyone else on this forum. Let's be honest, if we are going to attack everyone for liking disruptive weather, this forum would die a death overnight, and it is no coincidence that people only attack other people for enjoying disruptive weather when that weather directly affects them. If a person with a hatred of heat attacked you or anyone else for enjoying heat because his elderly mother almost died in 2006, would you be okay with that?

Even though I am less enthusiastic about the possibility of very mild weather in January, as I firmly believe winter should be the season of cold and snow, I would still get excited if the temperature here reached 16C in the middle of January, likewise, even though I have a disdain for heat, I would be excited by a potentially record breaking heatwave, it is an interesting and unusual weather phenomenon, at least from a statistical point of view. In general, though, I do not appreciate mild weather between December and February, and I do not appreciate hot weather at all for more than a few days at a time. Thankfully, heat is rare for more than 2 days at a time, the likes of 2006, 2003, and 1995 excluded, but our winters are mild most of the time. I am present all year, though, even though I prefer snow to every other type of weather, nowadays at least. Prior to 2008, I was fixated on thunderstorms, probably because they occurred a lot more, while thunderstorms are becoming rarer with each passing year here, but snow is occurring a lot more.

Those dry flakes accumulated more rapidly however.

The snow managed to settle.

Had a snow shower in the past few minutes, looks like more to come.

Can't get excited over that - not when the south coast has received 6 inches and over 2 feet in drifts. Nothing is going to excite me until next winter, so I think it's time to give up for now - a good winter overall but I've lost interest now.

Quite good today, a lot of heavy showers with near blizzard conditions, sun gets to work quickly though. An ice day.

Looks good in Alderney http://microsites2.segfl.org.uk/view_project.php?id=120#Home

I doubt it myself, most of the activity is to the south and north of here. Need some hefty showers to pep up around Scarborough/Filey and hopefully they can make their way here without weakening too much, but they usually do.

Channel lows don't affect areas this far north, they would cease to be Channel lows!

Indeed..

I wish that annoying and useless front would hurry up and clear off/decay already.

Looks like the North Sea snow machine is gearing up. There are higher areas of CAPE pushing well inland today, so it's a case of wait and see to see how far inland any showers spread - the Met have heavy snow showers for here.