winterlover

Mid November is a typical date back home, so early November.

Well, this is why I said 'rare frontal situations'. In most cases we get our snow from North-Westerly airstreams which moderate by the time they reach Southern England, last year was a prime example. According to the Met Office climate maps most areas in Southern England average a mere 5 days of snow in the whole year so I doubt you would see much snow in any case.

Sick of this cloud day after day.

Well i'm in Norwich, so maybe it was different at Stansted. I must admit though, I did laugh when they said 2 years, that's a really long time! I don't think I've went a year without seeing snow. But we did get 10 days of lying snow this year. The hills a lot more days, on some of the hills the snow barely melted between the cold spells so it lasted longer. It will be interesting to see what happens this year with the colder sea temperatures. I only got one ice day but I did have a lot of 1 and 2c maxes.

The south of England doesn't get much snow anyway.

For Northern Ireland, snow in Siberia is meaningless.

Yes, weather in East Anglia is quite a bit milder than back home.

Cold zonality as expected.

Not sure I agree with you there. I've just moved to East Anglia and from what people say it doesn't seem to snow here much at all, infact most people seem to think that they haven't seen any lying snow for two whole years! (crazy!). Back home (i.e further west), we don't do that bad for the British Isles. Cold zonality like last year can mean that we get quite a bit of snow. I don't think that being further west hinders our chances of snow, maybe in frontal situations but let's be honest they're quite rare.

I don't mind if I get a zonal winter again. Last winter while not freezing cold was pretty good for snowfall back home (10 days of lying snow). Personally, I am expecting a winter similar to last year but a lot colder and a lot less marginal due to the cold pool in the Atlantic. I don't see there being too much snow here in East Anglia, i'll probably have to wait to at least December to even see any flakes. It seems to be a lot milder here.

I don't think it's dodgy. Nearby weather station's on wunderground record similar temperatures.

Still waiting on first frost in East Anglia, i'll probably be waiting quite a while to be honest. Back home, according to my personal weather station it would seem that I've recorded my first frost on 13th October. Since then my station has recorded 2 other frosts, the lowest being -1c. My mother said it was actually quite icy this morning, she had to defrost the car. I doubt we'll get any more frosts this week though.