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It depends. Northerlies in March and April can bring crystal clear visibility and sparkling sunshine - intercepted by heavy showers of rain, hail and snow.

Exceeded 17C here in the first week of November 2010.. Today was humid, but not muggy to me - otherwise most days in winter would be muggy since 90-100% humidity is quite a regular occurrence.

Wow.. can you even imagine? I like variety in weather but from 20C to 3C in24 hours or less.. with snow to boot. That's too much. It's Calgary btw.

We're getting to that time of year again where self-appointed 'backseat' moderators start bossing everyone around.. it's going to be a long, long winter if this continues. I'll stop talking about winters in the past if admin have a problem with it but I'm not taking any notice of John Holmes or yourself. Cheers.

Yeah. Not a single day of lying snow at all. The first time ever. Truly shocking.

Thunderstorms tomorrow and Tuesday?

Snowed in Kiruna.. http://www.webbkameror.se/webbkameror/kirunakommun/kirunakommun_1.php

Expect increases in Scandi - big time if this verifies.

Okay - but I feel that if you enjoyed 2009-2010 but didn't enjoy March 2013, then you simply prefer cold, snowy weather in winter but don't want it to continue in spring - which is fair enough. Well, actually, any preference is fair enough!

Apparently he was nearly involved in an accident because of snow. That being said, I got stuck on a flooded bus when I was 11 and I don't hate rain. I also had to walk home without a coat, in shorts, during a thunderstorm, when I was about 8, along with my sister and cousin, and I still love storms. Meh. Like you said, each to their own - but going from loving snow to actively despising it because of one little incident seems rather unusual to me. Anyway - last winter certainly was very sunny here. December 2010 was also very sunny if I recall. Winter 2012/2013 was not - the opposite in fact.

July 2006 wasn't humid at all. I remember the hottest days around 31-32C having dew points around 12-13C, so on the dry side if anything. High humidity is not conductive to hot weather - that's why the hottest weather anywhere in the world occurs when/where it is dry. Heathrow, 18 July 2006: http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=03772〈=en&decoded=yes&ndays=2&ano=2006&mes=07&day=18&hora=23 Notice how low the dew points are? 19 July: http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=03772〈=en&decoded=yes&ndays=2&ano=2006&mes=07&day=19&hora=23 Even drier - dew point of 8C with 35C temps! So no, humidity is rarely a problem in the UK when it's actually properly hot - though there are exceptions.

Now 4.9C but the fog is rolling in, right on cue, so we can kiss goodbye to that idea. Seriously, this area of the country is so prone to fog. It's annoying. Ruins our chances of frost and takes ages to clear.

6C at 1am here, so if things continue as they are we could well have our first ground frost (air frost has happened this early and earlier, but very rare).

Northerlies are great here, like the late November/early December 2010 one.

Dry weather with warm days and cool nights is supposed to be great for foliage colours.

Hope the unsettled wearher is toned down. Looks dreadful.

Our last significant snow was March 2013 - but waiting that long isn't unusual. Most winters in this country aren't going to deliver major snowfalls.

Some of the snow we got in January: Temple Newsam park:

We had snow on Boxing Day too - but not much. About 2cm or so. Was still a nice surprise given how marginal it was. South Yorkshire got lucky last winter.

Last winter was normal for snow here - a few days of lying snow, about 5-7cm deep at most. We're only at 80m ASL but that slight increase in elevation makes all the difference as go down a few metres and there was practically nothing. I remember walking to the doctors one morning in January and it was snowing heavily - a few cm on the ground. Lasted on and off for much of the day. I have pictures somewhere.

First snowfall of the season for Alaska's largest city, Anchorage.

Hmm, unlikely - day length right now is about 12 hours and sun recorders don't pick up all sun from the very moment the sun rises to the very moment it sets. 10 hours is more reasonable. Anyway, I wish the Met Office did fog averages as I think we must be one of the foggiest places in the country. Past three nights have been foggy here, but clears up around 1pm. Feels like living on the Californian coast.

Nah, that's rubbish. I looked at the averages for the past 5 years here and Mar-Jul was warmer than the 30-year averages, while Dec-Feb were cooler*. September-Oct were warmer and August was cooler. So months like August have been disappointing but the rest of it is silly and exaggerated. Only April and October have warmed significantly - the rest are more or less the same as they always have been. *Yes, over the past 5 years winter has actually gotten colder. In December's case, 2010 was a major influence, but for Jan and Feb, there was no very cold month - just lots of cold months.

Lowest this month is 4.9C here. The low temperature recently has been achieved around 3-4am, because it gets foggy around that time so the temperature stops falling.

Yup it has. Lots of fog here here recently that won't clear until 1pmish.