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Good point! I love a cold period (hard frosts and cold days - preferably either snowy or blue skies). It also helps kill the garden/allotment pests...

Looks like we've reached a pause - the cold looks nailed on, but we're still a bit far out for confidence in snowfall, small features tend to pop up at short notice and there is still uncertainty about how far east the front will reach on Tuesday, and how much precipitation it will produce. I won't be getting my sledge out just yet...

I totally understand the caution - I like to warn wife and friends a bit ahead of MET/BBC of possibly snow and cold weather, but I'm always loath to do it too early. We have had some tantalising output this winter, much more so than in recent years, and for most of us in the South it's not really delivered. However I do think that this time it is different. We have reached the much closer timescale for looking at the charts (Tuesday's potential now only 120 hours out, not 168 or more). There is also a high level of cross model agreement, with only minor differences. Of course all the runs are just possibilities, and from a pessimist there is always the fear that the downgrade will come. Time will tell, but I am much more hopeful this time than I have been since probably Jan 2013.

Might not be an official term but I reckon I am becoming an expert this winter... Two Sundays ago springs to mind!

Very amusing, but be careful - he might sue for changing his words...

Do I detect a dry Jan? Will the first drink be 12.01 am on the 1st Feb?

Down at -3.1 for me - lovely start to the day...

Yep - popped across for a coffee and told colleague it was about to chuck it down, and then it came! Like being in a car wash!

As I'm on the SW edge of Salisbury Plain I don't think I'll waste too much time waiting for it to snow tomorrow...

Now snow flakes mixed in!

Whte has arrived...in the form of hail! Gone very dark out there too.

Heavy shower incoming - will we see some white?

What the hell is wrong with people who AREN'T excited about the vague possibility of sleet!

Window facing due west...check. Elevation...check. Radar running...check. Just need an excuse to stay at my desk all day waiting for snow now...

Hail in a heavy shower at the Uni in Bath just now. Am thinking we might yet see some snow (tomorrow poss the sweat spot).

Some very odd noises in the night around 1.00 am - wife investigated, but couldn't find anything. I then had a look and absolved both cats and the dog and then realised it was the old TV arial that I had been meaning to remove for ages was now hanging down the side of the house by the cable and swinging in the wind... Fingers crossed it wouldn't fall off and cause damage before I could remove it. Happily I've taken it down now!

We went on Friday and had fun. The Christmas tree it awesome and if you get a chance go in the house (even if just to warm up!)

Missed that this morning, but I did leave in the dark...

I am a little bit depressed with. Even more so as its been a so near but yet so far, When I hear schools in Swindon being closed and I am 30 miles away with just the patchiest cover imaginable, plus having it snow almost continuously yesterday to no avail, it's not surprising to be a bit down. The butser hill snow is the final straw... Still it's just the weather...

Just turned to snow in Warminster - at 3 deg C! (Falling temp though)

Snowing again at Bath Uni

See above - large flakes falling on the settled hail - looks very Christmassy!

Massive hail storm for 3 mins then snow landing on the 'settled' hail - first time I've seen that. (At Bath Uni, so a bit of elevation)

Beautiful sunrise this morning

Tend to agree - but I'll enjoy the frosts! Nice to have seasonal weather for Christmas activities.