NeilN

I think it's either the models drunk as it's Friday night or the other way of looking at it, our climate is changing and we've got to accept winter will be mild and adapt to it to save us disappointment.

Let's hope these are outliers and it doesn't happen. Failing that, we've got to accept our climate in the UK is changing and learn to adapt to it (or fire a rocket at the warm air)

I don't think it's over yet....me thinks we're gonna see a surprise

If the further outlook is frosty and dry, it's just as good. This is NOTHING like winter 2015-6.

To be fair, I think this cold weather will happen. Perhaps we'll be caught off-guard and come Christmas week we'll have an unexpected snow storm? It will come, and it seems the projections in FI are possibles. My Mum (and a member who posted a status on here) said this is like December 1986 - start off cold, then mild, then cool, then snow in the New Year. I've a feeling this is the format.

Can an Azores high actually cause some cold? We've still a long way to go and December isn't a good performer

Thank you - I'd take that!

What would this mean? I think this winter is akin to 2005/6 or 2008/9 - mild pockets intercepted with cold. January and February are the proper cold months. December is just the last bits of Autumn being gunked out.

A very safe 3.9c

A lot of people forget Christmas and well December 2012 was a mild month.

December 1993 for the White Christmas, granted it was like the 27th August 2003 with the vicious heat August 2004 for the heat and thunderstorms February 2007 for the snowstorm during a mild winter February 2009 for some proper heavy snow / then a mild second half January 2010 for the bitter cold and snow December 2010 for the White Christmas and snow March 2012 for the warmth - I remember visiting Weston for the weekend and coming back to the Midlands with a tan! January 2013 for the snow August / September 2016 for the heat.

I vaguely remember November 1993, it snowed on my ninth birthday! I remember the following day we were told school was shut. I don't know whether it's just me but I remember after Christmas that day (around 27th / 28th) it snowed heavily. My Dad went to a Birmingham City v West Brom game and cleared all the snow off the pitch with other fans. My Mum's cat was murdered by a vicious dog we had and I just remember my Mum being upset and I was just playing with my sister in the garden in the snow. Has there ever been a winter where November to March or even November to February have delivered with cold wall to wall with the odd mild interlude?

I hope not! Can't we just eliminate this front?

5.9c

I know I wasn't born then, but an ideal would be 1978/9 (I see 62/3 as a once in a lifetime thing) scenario.

2014/15 - it was bitter in parts, but we had no snow down here! I don't believe it at all.

EVERY winter has Storms - even the famous 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2012/13 ones did! It's madness. That winter, my Mum did a housemove on the 25th of January - the mildest January she's ever experienced in her 50 years and the only January where she hasn't had to wrap up whilst moving furniture!

Thank you - they were right about the storms, but seasonable.....December in particular was far from it! I'll take this with a pinch of salt. I believe they got summer right for us this year, so that's one season lol

What did Accuweather say for 2015/6 and 2014/5? Plus wouldn't stormy mean anything as opposed to flooding? I do agree this October is following 2009 and 2012 and I reckon it'll go the same way of those winters.

It's OK - Granted it all happened suddenly, and we were not prepared but the last two years have been a rebuilding process, and life will start to pick up again. I live in the centre of Weston, and I agree progress is way behind. Nobody wants to listen, and you tell people and they don't want to know. Where I live, has a crime rate that could make some areas of the Midlands wince! We have a lot of issues on the weekend with the drunks, police called to a block next door almost daily and it's unsafe. A few streets away we've had people beaten and kicked to death! I've noticed that myself - as mentioned in another post, it was snowing on Boxing Day 2014 in Brum, but being in Pill it was sunny all day and just bitterly cold! Not that any of us minded, but we did feel we were missing out. I've noticed it when we've been warm, some parts of the region have had it breezy and wet! My Mum up there had a rain one day a couple of weeks back, it was sunny all day in Weston! Strange how all maps out despite the closeness of an area.

We have a sizeable contingent in Weston, but I think a lot of is the fact it is coastal. I don't want to to steer this topic into another discussion, but the town has gone downhill over the last four years I've been here. I am heading Portishead / Pill way, as my family moved up there and the job prospects are Bristol. Adding to that, I was widowed suddenly two years ago and I just want to move on with my life and look ahead to a better future. Yes, we were sooo unlucky that day. Felt so gutted. I believe even Pill didn't even get any.

I'm actually from the Midlands myself - Birmingham man lived all over the place, but left in 2012 to start a new life with my family who had been down here for about 7/8 years prior. Have lost the accent a bit in four years, but people know I'm a Brummie lol.

I've been in North Somerset four years this November, and have only seen snow during the first winter which lasted a few days in January 2013 and the odd day between February and early April of that year. To call people mild lovers, just because a part of the country won't get snow is idiotic! I knew when we moved down here, we wouldn't see much with snow and I've accepted that. Where I am looking to move, I think it would lovely covered in snow (Mum lives in Pill, and I'm looking at moving close by).

Be nice if it did come off! 2018/9 will be the 40th anniversary of Winter 1978/9 too another severe one. I know 2009/10, and 2010/11 and to a lesser point 2012/13 were very bad, but I would love to experience a severe one like 1978/9 or 1946/7!

I reckon we'll have a 2012/3 repeat. For some reason, the run of mild winters seems to be confined to a history book, and the ridiculous December 2015 record will not be broken for a loooooong time.