snow mad

I've just about had it with this cold shot it is looking feeble and I can see it being a long way back to cold after this high has sunk down onto us!!

Jim Bacon on look east just said he doesn't expect any notable cold until at least the middle of Feb! Gggrrrr

But are we just as likely to get some cold to our shores from SSW precursor high pressure set ups in favourable places as we are likely to get cold from the after affects of an SSW lottery fallout?

this must be all to little to late? If this does happen BA will the continent be cold enough or will it be a repeat of February 2005? Great synoptically but no cold over there? but that was to marginal for down here unfortunately so would settle for an early spring.

great we've just had another crap winter and the perpetual autumn is about to continue! Roll on summer!

yes enjoy it as it seems we maybe going through a cluster of more average winters currently so who knows when we might get something a little more extreme to allow more of us to join the party!

thing is its snow that most people want down south and it's been pants now for ages! Frost is nice but it's hard to sledge on that stuff! Bring back the 80's especially jan 87!!!

This winter so far has been shocking! Even this recent spell has been rubbish. Nothing settles and it all melts within hours so it's just been teasing us. I'm now writing off this winter as a dud because it's been crap here in February since 91 and I think something has changed to stop us having another. People say what about March 13? Well down here that was crap to! Again nothing stuck around and was to soggy to do anything with, so in my eyes it's been to long since a proper easterly has been here so am now looking forward to a nice warm spring but that probably won't happen due to an SSW or something and prolong the slushy stuff until June !! There rant over now back to hoping something crops up but don't fancy waiting another 24 years to walk on top of the six foot drifts we had back then

january 2010 had a Scandinavia high of sorts at the beginning

We had a good shower today about 4 pm which left a covering. One clap of thunder in their to!

think another slider coming up?

the thing is nobody knows so the question is pointless as many have already said! Just calm down I'm sure we will get some snow before the next ten days are out as the low is likely to sink further south and west bringing an easterly of some sort

yep looks like another snowless winter down here! Even in most mild winters past we at least got to see some snow falling at some point.

looks like a horses head! Must be a sign? Hopefully it won't gallop off somewhere else with winter!

i think it's the manner of its failing or bias as it gets a lot of people excited as it tends to be bias towards building heights in the desired places time and again only to jump ship last minute now.

Looking as if the seasonal models pre winter may have been onto something after all?

the Beeb just forecast double figures for next week at times so I would say it's looking pretty ordinary and there is nothing in the models to suggest otherwise. Wish there was but this is not looking good

problem being that PM incursions are pretty rubbish for most! We are just looking for min 3 day proper cold to get some sledging in but at the moment there is nothing on the horizon and anything that looks good just gets blown away very quickly. I agree with Crewe there has been way to much optimism and hope casting sorry but that's the truth

Im starting to think it is as we'll be half way through before we know it and still looking two weeks ahead. Just seems like the more the models get upgraded the less confident I become in there output.

yes Nick this was a great event that wasn't supposed to have been as bad! The Orwell bridge became blocked due to lorries unable to get up it so had to spend many an hour crawling through ipswich to get home. Only to find drifts of snow nearly blocking the road to get home was a classic surprise event

Merry Christmas to everyone. I'm starting to think this winter is going to slip by with no snow events as it is always jam tomorrow. Time is ticking by now and it won't be long before we will be half way through winter and I bet we will still be waiting! Well not me I'm off to enjoy my life instead of being stuck behind this screen because the upgraded gfs and ecm have lead us up the garden path to many times. Enjoy!

only this time last year some places on the east coast actually had higher levels than 1953

is Twitter robbing us of some interesting discussion and learning from threads such as the start thread? It just seems that some of our more knowledgable folk are slipping over to Twitter and leaving us behind.... Or am I just being.......? Meant to say strat thread

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It would be a shame to have a high SAI for it to be ruined by unusual Synoptics maybe Chio can shed a bit more light on this worriying development?