Airedalejoe

Incedible weather. -3c on an evening in the second half of March with gale force winds and heavy snow showers. Never seen that before.

Said the same thing almost 2 weeks ago in the build up to this now exceptional spell. Without records but in my opinion this winter has seen the highest amount of frosts/ice in my memory, say 70's onwards. The winters with a severe 1 or 2 week spell such as 81/87/91/09/10 from memory, were just that with no great amount of frosty nights outside of the severe spells. I've never needed to de ice the car as much! Me and the lads have never had a winter with as many icy bike rides! Day's with double figure temps have been very few and far between, I've known winters with barely any frost and weeks and weeks of double digit day's. Unless my thermometer is wrong the general theme of below average temps has been going on since last June. Surprised you only saw 4", luckily we saw around double that with canny drifting too!

Ouch, that's a bit harsh and to be fair he's not the only one to have a mild winter bias. There's another who now seems to spend most of his time in the Short range model discussion thread which means he seems to have disappeared from the MOD. Good news!

Lol, I hope that you're right, it would be an indication that our climate is changing! The chances of seeing what we've just seen in the next 3-5 years are almost nil. So soon after '09 and '10 is a surprise. What you've just seen is exceptional, 2 day's of max temps of -3 and -4 with almost gale force winds and heavy snow showers? That's not normal UK climate.

Hopefully you're right but there's nothing showing on the radar, not much anyway, and hasn't been for the last 5 hrs or so.

Probably just covering themselves. Light snow here from time to time but it's definitely died away.

A morning of some intense mini blizzards earlier, just the odd flake now. Without doubt a historic event here, it is so rare to get temps several degrees below freezing, strong winds off the sea and heavy snow all at once! 2010 had more snow but this beats it for the blizzards over several day's. 2013 pales in comparison. Coupled with the amount of ice and frost from October onwards and the 7/8 light snowfalls we've already had, winter 17/18 is right up there. After last summers crap temperatures too, it will be interesting to see whether summer 18 is as cool!

Not here, think had 18" of snow but easy to measure as wasn't windy plus temp would sink just under 0c then just over depending on wind direction. Think it will be a long time till this is repeated.

We normally get one from the three but rarely all together (wind/snow/cold)!

Did well this morning from about 6am, pretty much a full on blizzard. Can anyone remember the temperature so low (-4) in a strong wind off the sea? At 60asl!

Just been for a walk. Rare conditions for my neck of the woods, blizzard conditions in strong winds heavy snow and -3.5c!! Awesome.

Sorry, wasn't referring to yourself!

Yes been watching and they're definitely pepping up, also activity just off sw coast of Norway, can't workout what it's doing though I presume that's the really cold air starting to move towards us.

I'd be surprised if the majority don't exceed that. If these charts and possibilities don't get you excited you need a different hobby. The potential is huge and this coming week may not be repeated for a very long time. If you aren't quite sure what the north sea snow machine can produce you are either new to this or haven't been paying attention. Maybe!

I'd prefer we don't get affected by the low moving up from the south west as we may then get the milder air come next weekend. Keep it to the south of us and we'll continue with heavy snow blizzards off the north sea, they will compare with whatever comes from the low pressure. Less risk for still a big reward!

Everyone talks about March 13 but I cant remember anything about it being unusual, not sure if that's my age or the fact it missed my area! The worst conditions I have ever seen here is a couple of weeks later than now in I think March 1979, huge drifts and many places cut off. I think that this is heading for a once in a lifetime event, eclipsing the ones you quote as well as '09 and '10!

If it happens as per this mornings charts I’d say a foot of snow is conservative!

Sorry 4wd but you're on your own! If the charts currently forecast are correct, I think we will get intense heavy snow showers and snow depths would be impressive! The only thing missing from this winter is a severe spell, we've had more ice/frost than most winters I remember and 6+ light snow 'covers'. Because of what may be coming combined with how consistently on the cold side it's been so far could make this a stand out winter for me. Fingers crossed!

It's easy to understand, just read up on winter climate of northern United states and Canada compared to the U.K. Vastly different, always has been.

Chilly, -8.6c. Sprinkling of snow.

A voice of sanity! Currently watching large wet snowflakes falling, It's the UK, end of November, it's cold for the time of year, it's how our winters are! I'd love another this day in 2010 repeat but we'll have to be lucky as severe spells like that don't roll round every 7 or so years. For me it appears that recently weather patterns seem to become stuck in ruts for our part of the world and the one we're in is high pressure to the west. The current one may not give up quite as easily as advertised this morning and we may get lucky but don't necessarily expect to be skating on frozen rivers))

Think it reached 20c which makes October 13th warmer than the vast majority of summer days here.

Another dire day, cold with heavy showers, more like a mild December day.

Showers, breezy and 9.9C, horrible.

Sunny early on but almost totally cloudy as per usual. Temps struggling to average values. At odds with the Netweather headline.