TheOgre

Touch and go for the fleeting heavy snow on Thursday here. It’s looking like it could be quite a mild February as well. It would be weird to have a heavy snow event in a mild month.

Exceptional upcoming forecast. It’s going from mild, wet dross to cold, wet dross. How exciting Thursday looks especially great!

Bog standard January by the looks of it by temperature and rainfall. A frosty spell, a mild spell and everything in between. Very similar to last year.

I agree with some others that 2022 was pretty much the best you can probably get for a spring and summer combination in England. March to early September was a mostly sunny, warm and dry affair. May was warm and dull but all the other months were sunny. There are definitely better springs like 2020 but I don’t think we’d have a spring 2020 followed by a summer 2022 or 2018 or if we did it’d be a once in a lifetime event. It’s just not the climate. Actually I think I might be mistaken. 2003 looks very similar to 2022 if not better by stats but I don’t remember it.

@In Absence of True Seasons The UK’s rainfall is bumped up by very wet places like the Scottish Highlands and the Lake District. Most places are nowhere near as wet. Ireland is the only country in Europe which is worse than the U.K. in both summer and winter. Norway and Iceland are worse in summer but much better in winter.

It’s like October out there today being so mild.

First pre 08:00 sunrise today and I’m fairly sure we’re out of the darkest quarter in terms of sunsets; nowhere near for mornings yet though. Darkest quarter overall ends on 3 February so not long now!

Being in the midlands we get a mix of both northern and southern features. Summer 2020 is remembered for having intense heatwaves surrounded by weeks on end of dross. It was a very dull summer but 31 July was phenomenal considering how it sprung up out of anywhere and early August was extremely hot but was very wet, cool and dull afterwards. Summer 2021 was more benign in comparison. There was no notable heat but it had a nice first half of June and a normal heatwave in mid July. Late June/early July was very wet and August was a drab, dry, dull month.

Does anyone else find anticyclonic gloom the most depressing type of weather? Just bleak, still, grey nothingness feels so dystopian and gloomy. At least next week looks a bit sunnier (we’ll see).

God knows! I don’t doubt it’ll downgrade later as we don’t get temps like that round these parts (at least very rarely) but it’s definitely looking promising for a colder spell!

Never seen -10C on a weather app for my location before

The late 00s/early 10s was clearly a notably cold era but does anyone know WHY? All the winters between 2008 and 2013 had notable cold spells but it wasn’t just the winters either. The summers of 2011 and 2012 were notoriously cool and it was near constantly cold between April 2012 and June 2013. Then just like that from July 2013 we never saw anything like it again until Winter 2017-18.

What is the hype about 1976? This one is mentioned by the general public and not just weather enthusiasts but you never hear of 1995 even though I’m fairly sure it was drier and had a hotter July and August, or July 2006 which is the hottest month on record. 1976 was an impressive heatwave but it wasn’t the ONLY impressive heatwave clearly as stated in this thread. It’s really strange.

January has been unusually sunny recently. I can’t recall a sunny January before 2022 and then we had 2 in a row. Hopefully it turns into three!

I’m hoping we get a mostly sunny and frosty January because I’m feeling really sun starved after December and the last few days!

I did not expect 2023 to be as warm as 2022 this time last year! I wonder if it’s just a warm blip or was 2022 the start of a new distinct warming trend? Imagine if 2024 was even warmer!

This! For the first time since I’ve been on this site (since 2020) I’m just not bothered about looking on the MOD thread for this reason. Any sign of cold is a historic deep freeze and it ends up as two frosts and perhaps a fleeting flurry.

How warm does this month need to be for 2023 to be warmer than 2022?

I think Christmas is going to feel more like a Halloween this year

2010, 2014 and 2020 all quite sunny and snowy. Not any others I can think of.

- The snow on 8-9 March - Being caught out in an enormous thunderstorm on 5 May - Hot June - Enormous storm on 12 June - Hot September

It’s weird to think what era you grew up in could influence the way you view seasons. I was born in 2001 so grew up in a period of cold and snowy winters from 2008-13 and was flabbergasted by the snowless 2013-14. I used to think snowy spells happened every winter!

I was right at least for my area

My predictions for 2024: January - a chilly month, quite wet with multiple minor snowfalls. February - a mild and wet month, little of interest. March - very mild first half, cloudy with mild nights, then colder with snow showers after the equinox. April - cold and wet to start, warm and sunny middle, cold and wet end. May - Mostly warm, dry and sunny with a notably hot end. June - very wet and cool, a stinker month. July - poor start then a hot, dry and sunny month with a few thunderstorms later in the month. August - mixed with an intense heatwave in first half, average second half. September - mostly warm and dry with intermittent wet spells. October - average but dry for the first time in years. November - mild and very wet. December - mild and wet in first half, cold and dry in second half, notably so in the last few days.

I did this when we had snow in March this year and was pretending it was 2013