Lake District Blizzards

7cm here now so a reasonable effort

im a few miles from Keswick and Cockemouth and have had an inch of snow so far, easing off now but its -0.2c

Where exactly are you i thought it was snowing everywhere

couple more cm of snow fallen in the last 45 mins added to the frozen 2cm snow left over

Absolutely! can't wait for it to be light at 3am then only dark by 10.30pm. oh and that perpetual twilight. . . . .

absolute pasting of snow for an hour or so here int north lakes huge giant fat double 50p sized flakes at a rate of torrential rain stopped now but lets hope there's much more to come and the very healthy cover of snow survives!

quite disastrous here really when there was supposed to be high pressure in charge for a reasonable period heavy rain all day today and surface flooding developing now tomorrow looks a washout too then a brief cold snap and maybe 2 dry days before a return to the onslaught of rain again

@karlos1983 Take a look at the forecast for Poole for Wednesday, brisk sw'ly winds and looking rather mild. 3 day cold spell for the north only id say. couple of sharp frosts if there's some lying snow

I think both the GFS and ECM have picked up the most likely pattern for next week but is the gfs too progressive or the ecm under progressive? This chart here at 144 hrs, the two low pressure systems to the nw and sw you would expect the energy to go over the top of the high with no real block over greenland or svalbard areas. The ecm gets there eventually, but the 168 hrs chart doesnt look right to me at all. if the energy is going over the top then id expect this chart 24 hours later really not 48 The gfs is even more progressive and blasts the high out the way, so i would expect something between the two to occur and for the cold weather to probably be over by monday / early tuesday for the UK as a whole.

pretty much the same thing?

high pressure has sunk from greenland towards azores and by the looks of it the next step in this chart (only goes up to 120) is the huge atlantic low to slip over the high towards the UK?

bbc weather showing sw winds met office westerly winds and then the sinking high and atlantic breakthrough on gfs

bbc weather now showing south westerly winds for wednesday.... their chart has the low pulling in sw winds and then for the high to sink with low pressure coming over the top is this way behind the rest or a distinct possibility?

Exactly, it keeps getting put back and back and then before you know it, it never gets here and its all over before its started

constant downgrades by bbc for sunday / monday gone from snow and a low of -2c to rain and a low of 2c a low of 2c is above average for here. rapidly turning into a none event

good riddance to one of the worst years of weather there has ever been. Appalling May June and July, horrendous November and December and August, March and April were nothing too decent. 2 sunny months April and September, the rest were mind boggingly dull. Everything below average except the months were below average is acceptble Nov and Dec which were both record mild and wet. You couldn't make it up. 2016 cant be any worse than 2015. . . .surely? . . . gulp!

Its not though is it. Its a record breaking wet winter. Wettest month on record has been annihilated up here. Only need average rainfall from now on and it will still become the wettest winter on record. 2013/14 became the wettest winter on record and now just 2 years later its probably going to be beaten. If next year was then the wettest winter on record again, or the year after that, would that not show something is very wrong....

It was just on tv, might have been on countryfile or something similar

Its not just the mildness but the rainfall too. We were told 2009 was a 1 in 1000 year flood. 6 years later and its been beaten. The threat of it being equaled again 20 days later tomorrow is out of this world. November 2015 was the wettest month on record here. December 2015 has already smashed Novembers amount.

Remember a few weeks ago seeing a metoffice graphic of christmas day in 2050 with 17c in the south and 14c north That's pretty much the ways its been all December, and probably much of January too Point is the associated weather is clearly constant flooding, no sunshine, storms and gales with a raging jet stream If this is what winters of the future have in store then i fear many places such as the Lake District will become uninhabitable due to constant record breaking flooding. Wettest on records used to last for decades, now they barely last a season or two, in this case one month after the other. After winter 13/14 i didnt think we would be seeing an even worse repeat in just 2 years. This really is unchartered territory

8 hours here. following the dullest november on record too!

At least here nature is suppressed by constant dark and wet wind chill conditions i fear if there was any sun then it would be really damaging like in places where Daffodils are already flowering etc

judging by the forecast for the next week and the met office extended update This will be the first winter where the term "hottest" on record rather than warmest / mildest is used wouldn't be surprised if some places have 3 months of mean maximums averging 11-12c

Going by bbc sunrises it starts getting lighter in the evenings on the 19th here Cant wait, end of the diminishing light is all but over roll on spring. Snowdrops out soon, then the Daffs winter will be over before we know it, at this rate spring starts in January

To be honest, its already shaping up to be the warmest December on record, certainly around here. It'l take something exceptional to get it down to somewhere near average. Not sure that any winter with a "warmest month on record" is going to go down as a good or even reasonable one