West is Best

Cloudy, moisture in air 84% humidity 9.4C 1009.2 mb Overnight min 7.6C

1006.7 Falling 9.9C Cloudy 62% humidity

1016.6 mb falling 8.0C Cloudy (I would put my wind speeds but I'm getting increasingly dubious about my anemometre. Despite it's insertion into what was the washing line it isn't at the official METO height and I suspect swirling winds from neighbouring buildings. I'd do something about this by shinning up the roof and putting it on top of that but I'm scared of heights.)

Temp currently 7.1C Min overnight 4.5C 1030.2 mb rising Hazy sunshine

Temp 4C 1027.1 hPa Overnight min 3.5C Cloudy

Great thread! That article from Birmingham really puts everything into perspective. Blimey! I remember getting up one morning in the winter of 78/79. I thought it was February, but maybe it was the previous month. I was in Uppingham. Opened the door of the house and there was this extraordinary swirling drifting snow. I'd seen many a snowfall in the previous 15 years of my life but this was the first time I'd seen such dry snow and drifting. It was incredible. In places the ground just had an icing sugar effect, and then further away there would be 2 to 3 feet of snow. A few days later I met up with my father who'd been driving back from East Anglia in the blizzards. The snow had been 10 foot deep and more over the hedgerows and he'd been stuck. He had to walk the final miles to our home in Northamptonshire and at one point he lay down in the snow and started falling asleep. That was a remarkable winter. If it's snow, not cold, then I guess that winter does stick out. But it was also so cold in 1984/5 and 1985/6 that those two winters really stick out for me too. There was snow from time to time, but it was the persistent hard frosts and sub-zero temps that was extraordinary. But the winter of 1981/2 also really sticks out for cold. There was 'that' morning. I got up at our house in Northamptonshire and looked at the thermometre. It read -25C. The date was 10th January 1982. And over in Shropshire they had recorded the lowest minimum English temp since records began -26.1C. That was cold, and that was real winter.

Absolutely glorious day here. From 9 am wall to wall sunshine. But ... temp still on the cool side in the shade. We had a max of 9.3C. I'd expect these daytime maxima to push up a little over the next few days, but we're going to have a sharp frost here tonight I think. Temp now 9.2C 1026mb Sunshine

Pressure 1025.8 Min temp 0.2C at 08.08 Temp now: 2.6C Hazy sunshine.

As posted elsewhere, 8.9C here and a lovely afternoon if you like spring, awful if you want snow. The last snow here was on Christmas Day!

Must say that temps are proving to be just a touch higher than even I thought they'd be in my forecast yesterday. Expected some marginality, but not quite such a lack of snow so far. It may be that tonight it will kick in a bit more so people musn't give up hope. But we're starting to see real signs of spring in the west and north, and I expect this trend to continue through to later next week when battle will once more be resumed - though I think mild will win that one fairly conclusively. Temp here at the moment is 8.9C, and we were up to 9.2C earlier. Really does feel like spring here. Am going to re-post my forecast from yesterday. Edit: no I'm not. Just realised not in the right thread for that. Am going to put it in another one! Ho hum.

Lovely day here now. Temp 7.6C 1008.6mb I sometimes feel as if I'm living in a different country to the south-east!!!

Cloudy, damp and 3.6C here.

We've just reached double figures here: 10.1C to be precise. If you like it mild, west is best!

2.9C and rain here. Not that this is anyway affecting my judgement of this cold spell

Stark contrasts today. Was in London and it was blooming freezing: 2C on the Festival Hall display at 2pm. Got back to Devon to find the temp at the same time was 8.3C. Well I suppose with an easterly that's not that surprising but it's almost as if the south-east was in winter, and the south=west in spring!

Min temp here in mid Devon -2.7C reached 20 minutes ago. I suspect not many places will have been colder than that. Edit: -3.1C now

Not mild ramping (perish the thought) but it does feel rather spring-like here today. Temp already up to 5.7C, 1000.8mb, min last night 0.8C. Double figures today here?

It's actually begun snowing here in mid Devon. Temp 3.1C. Will it amount to anything? Doubt it.

It's been glorious here - temp up to 6.1C

I've only just seen it - the penalty for being away most of the week. Great and hilarious post Stratos. And you didn't even mention the North Yorkshire Moors 'thigh deep' measurement of a week ago - how restrained! Great stuff.

Just for a second I misread that and thought you'd put cms! It all counts though - nice for you. Off to London in a mo. Looking forward to seeing this elusive snow ...

A Fleeting Flurry (must remember to use that phrase more often) at 15.09. Lasted about 11 seconds and if I'd stood in the garden I reckon I'd have counted about 100 mini-flakes. Temp now 5.5C. Sadly my 11 second snow'fall' did not settle.

Some oddities out there. DelightUK (think I got that right) just reported rain in Doncaster on the other thread at 1C. And according to 'current weather' on this site it is apparently now raining in Newcastle at 2C. Any Geordies around to confirm that? Ooh. Temp here is 5.8C and, don't believe it, it's snowing. No surely not!

We have a sudden temperature rise here, quite strange. It's 6.5C now.

Hazy sunshine here and temp of 5.6C