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It's been a glorious start to March here. Very frosty this morning, but sunshine and blue skies all day, and a balmy 9 degrees!
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Our first frost was on Monday morning. De icing the car at 7.30am
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I had to de ice the car Monday morning at 7.30am. Lovely to have the cold crisp mornings back. It warmed up later to 18 degrees, too hot to be working in!
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I really hope so too Jon. I live on a hill farm in the Borders, and I'm sick of the cold weather now.
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That is just beyond depressing
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15 minutes ago, PolarWarsaw said:
This forum get's stranger and stranger by the year.
Let the seasons be seasons? Variety is indeed the spice of life?
Surely people don't come on a weather forum to actively search for and hope that high pressure and pleasantly mild days take over for 90% of the year? What's wrong with you? These type of posters are more suited to a lifestyle forum, not a weather one - as they clearly aren't fans of the actual weather. Since when was winter over before Mid Feb? We are statistically more likely to see cold weather and snow for the next 7 weeks, than we are at any other time of the year. Not an opinion, that's a fact .
Not sure if it's the internet era, the increase of people able to give an opinion or if it's a true indictment of our evolving 'social media, whiny, moany, weak, snowflake era' - but every single year it seems to get earlier and earlier where people start declaring winter over and waffling about spring time temperatures? When I first joined this forum 10+ years ago, you wouldn't see the first search/request for Spring until the final week of March.
Let's be realistic here, we live in the UK, beggars cannot be choosers - therefore a sloppy marginal snow event that delivers a covering of snow is very much on the table right out until the last couple of days of March. Keeping in mind most people would be content to take this.
As someone mentioned above, it's pleasantly mild enough for the vast majority of the year to allow for fair weather 'mother meetings' in the outdoors. What has happened to wanting seasons in seasons? On a weather forum? I don't want to think about 20c for one single second, right out into the middle of May. Much like by then I don't want to be dealing with frost and gloves until the end of October. We very quickly these days transition for dark chilly days, right into the middle of summer. It happened in 2018 and the BBQ was out within days of lockdown being ordered last March - it's too long, too much, let's keep this thread interesting and active - something that won't happen as soon as it dries out and warms up.
One thing I will say is, I've worked in retail for a while and the weather quite frequently trolls people at this time of year....Temperatures get into the mid teens and people walk about saying 'its very nice today out there, spring is here' - only to find that a week later and sometimes right late into March it's cold and frosty, the woolies are needed again. Probably quite devious of me, but I always end up thinking 'ha suckers'. Not sure there'd be such universal positivity about if roles reversed here and we saw Max temps of 10c forecast for early August?!
Shake your heads folks, there's plenty of time for mild, mundane, summery, boring, sweaty, fair weather - it happens about 7 months of the year. March has twice in the last decade seen notable, memorable - 'best winter months'. Even if it does get mild for a few days, enjoy it - it could be the last 20c until the middle of May (we can live in hope, it shouldn't be that warm until then).
Here is to a year of seasons. Showery spring, stormy and wet summer, wild and windy Autumn - bitter winter!
Quite agree, I love the different seasons. Here's to more of them
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I hope I'm not posting in the wrong thread, but I read somewhere (can't remember where) that due to melting sea ice, the gulf stream would slow down, resulting in our UK winters getting colder. Does anyone know the latest on this theory please?
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Sorry to appear so ignorant, but does an SSW event mean we get very cold weather and snow in the UK?
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My Husband is a game keeper, so he always hopes for a cold Autumn, as the birds will then stay at the feeders! I love the colours of Autumn, so I'm hoping that we don't have too many gale force winds up here that blow the leaves away!
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Autumn definitely. I love the colours, the sweet damp smell walking in the woods, and the excited anticipation of stormy weather, and what the Winter will bring. Hopefully snow!!
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I love Autumn it's my most favourite time of year, I love the smell in the air and the changing colour of the leaves, what I don't like however, is the monster size spiders that keep coming into my house!!
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Summer yesterday, back to Autumn today!
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This is getting too technical for me! But what do people think with regards to the El Nino impacting on our weather in the Autumn?
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I'd be happy with 18 degrees, weather's been dire in Scotland!
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That's magical: rime and snow is a beautiful combination. For me, it's also the sound; there's a certain kind of muffled stillness that you just don't get at any other time. Just a shame it's so damn rare.
Stunning photo Yarmy
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I totally agree with Cheese, that wold be a perfect Spring!
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Does anyone know if any snow is forecast for the Gordon area anytime soon? Only had a couple of centimetres overnight, and a lot of that has melted now.
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Nothing for us here.
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Thank you very much Gibby, a brilliantly well informed forecast.
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Yes indeed it does Nut.
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BBC not buying into any prolonged cold spell. 6-10 day forecast from Darren Bett has just said milder air again on boxing day! I sincerely hope he is completely and utterly wrong!!
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Had quite a few hefty showers on and off all day yesterday, and a few more over night by the look of things. Garden looking beautiful in it's winter coat!
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We moved to the Scottish Borders this year from East Sussex, and now that Winter is upon us, I am amazed at how low in the sky, the sun is up here. It's like 4oclock in the after noon all day!! it creates a beautiful light on a snowy day.
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There's been a fairly decent dusting of snow over night - not that much though, can still see the grass peeping through!
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I really hope you're wrong!