SussexSnowman

Was on a call with colleagues yesterday who reside near Merseyside and they got some snow the lucky buggers! However, they are enjoying it which is what matters. Plus they had sympathy for me in the South who missed out this time round. Feelings of Feb 2021 all over again

Nothing white fall from skies my end. I had to chuckle at that on my app. Gutting how close we were to something exceptional.

Agree with all of that. It's why I find some weather enthusiasts expectations unrealistically high as if snowy/cold winters have been the norm in the UK. 1947, 1962/63 and 2010/11 pure one in a billion kind of events. Our winters seem to have become much more extreme with such variations in temps where we can go from low single digit temps to double digits within a day. Few of my friends and family in the space of a month all went to Finland to get their snow fix. and I am sure I'll be on that bandwagon too.

Aye you get some in there who truly want to experience the extreme side of a snowfall event. Our infrastructure just isn't built to handle such events. As you say there has been snow in places. Might not be the snowmaggedon kind of events, but still we (UK) has experienced some snow events this week and last. On top of that we've had cold dry days. I consider that winter weather. I for one not complaining.

In a warming world, I doubt any cooling or winters becoming colder is ever going to happen. Growing up in the late 80's into the 90's, I recall some (what I consider to be) memorable snow/cold events events (Jan 1987, Feb 1991, Feb 1993, Feb1994 and 1995/96). Being a February child, it is sad to see that month lose it's snow events more and more as years go by. From 1997 to 2001, saw a real famine of snow in my part of the world. I recall between autumn 1999 and winter 2000 the rain seemed never ending and that is the first time I recalled such a mild wet winter (played football locally at the time and we lost 3 months of games because of waterlogged pitches). I recall a snow event March 2001 I think it was and after that it was Winter 2004/5 before we saw anything significant snow wise and again in January 2007. February 2009 was something exceptional, before the absolute classic Winter of 2010/11. Snow events down here in Sussex becoming more and more rarer. Since the god awful winter of 2013/14, we've had 4 (including the BoE) decent snow days. Being someone who lurks in the model thread, what I see year on year is when something sets up to deliver cold, it doesn't come off. That really shows how complex and complicated our winters have become. It doesn't annoy me when poster compare models to those famous events of yesterday, but even when looking at those comparisons, it shows me how much of a big difference the little synoptics are having on our winters and it's edge of a knife edge. so take Friday, MetO had my neck of the woods in the game for a snow event. 36 hours later, poof. Gone. Yesteryear I am sure we'd all have struck white gold. A sad thought for me (being someone who doesn't have kids) is the generations yet to come who may never experience or see snow in this country given how rarer it is becoming in my lifetime. So for me now the tiniest snow flurry or even cold sunny frosty days get me a bit excited as they seem so rare these days bloody climate change!

Another blue sky start to the day. Got down to -4oc here. Currently -2oc. Plenty of ground frost around. Lovely.

I agree. I've enjoyed the dry conditions and more so this week will enjoy the cold sunny days. Some snow would've been most welcome, but I imagine there will be some chances for that again in February.

Just to comment on this piece. What gets lost here is the economic naivety of councils and the government. Case in point, about 7 years ago I worked in local government and one of the projects I was working on was tendering for a contractor to build 300 new homes in a desirable town in West Sussex. I went to a meeting whereby one of the directors for local communities scoffed at the madness because the estimated sale price for each unit was between £450K-£600K, however the average income for said area per household was £28,000. So in a nutshell no-one in the area based on the household income average could not buy any of these new builds. So it raised the question who can afford to buy these new homes? With councils more or less selling off most of their stock (for huge losses back when) there is a massive shortage in 'affordable' housing rather than actual houses. So they can keep on building new houses, but odds are that the majority of buyers aren't first time buyers and may already have second or several properties. But back on topic, given the huge rise in countryside or natural open spaces being subject to being developed into housing and also a huge increase in the driveway brigade and more extreme wet weather events, flooding is so much more widespread these days so I do smirk when I hear the 'Don't mind a mild/warm winter as I'll save money on heating' as it's that exact mindset in global governments which has led to so much inaction in slowing down climate change which we can see over the years is having huge impacts more globally.

Cor August 2022. I got married on the 13th. Weeks leading up to the wedding we were praying for dry weather (as our wedding was outside as my wedding was at a barn) and we got a heatwave! 36oc on the big day and it wasn't the pressure of getting married that caused me to sweat during the reception we all had to change to shorts and shirts because it was so hot. Further up the road a farm caught fire. That was some nasty heat for sure. Agree though that Augusts are more uneventful these days.

Much prefer their beer

Cloudier start to the day, but main thing is dry. I see the despondence in the MOD thread again. Everyday is a school day and as the forecasters keep saying year on year, snow is difficult to forecast so far out. Would never have taken models a week out as gospel in any season. Wouldn't surprise me if they flipped again.

I remember making the journey into London that week (amazingly the trains managed to run some days) I was working at Regents University at the time and the lake was frozen solid! Navigating Baker Street to get to the tube was bloody awful!

Got a nice dusting down here too. The borderlines are so finite. So for context on the 11th me and my wife were in Bognor Regis that morning visiting family for a trek. I'd say about half a mile off the coast. It was raining and was about 6oc at 10am. We start to make our way back from Bognor Regis about 1pm. Got to Steyning a village inland off the coast by about 3-4 miles and the rain turned to snow. We passed Hove on the way back where the snow turned to rain and then when we got home (I am 4 miles inland off the coast) heavy snow started to fall at 2:30pm and it hammered it for about 3 hours which was enough for a dusting. Had lying snow for 6 days. Truly lovely spell. During the week it barely go above 3oc here. As you say will be forgotten, but we loved it

Sunny down here again. Another dry day in store. Currently 2oc. I had a peek in the Mod Thread and quickly exited. Crikey. Enjoying these crisp days and morning frosts. Feels like I took these for granted when they were more prominent when I was younger.

-3 this morning! clear and crisp start to the day. Sunshine aplenty. Lovely stuff.

I find the Model Highlights thread more owing to sanity and reality. I always go there for the reason that the posts are more informative with real context and perspective. Part of me wants to get carried away with the hysteria of an incoming snow event (personal bias of course) but I know I can't take a model a week out as gospel given how extremely changeable our weather is these days. I do admire the posters emotional investment in the models.

Had to report a UFO sighting this morning and then realised it was the sun Cold dry and bright start to the day down here. 0c at the moment. Obviously next week looks interesting, lets see how that pans out.

Been some heavy snow and flurries here. Nothing of noteworthy settling which is a shame. Wife has been working in Kent today and its been a bit of a whiteout apparently. She is braving the conditions on the A23

The sun I am glad to report has reared it's head down here. the cloud and snow has moved onwards. For me the main thing is it's dry!!

Had snow here in Brighton for a couple of hours. Mainly flurries, lightest of dustings. Hopefully a sign of something more to come

A change it is indeed. It's not that dark. Plus it ain't windy or peeing down. That's a positive change for me. Wet and windy doesn't float my boat Each to their own.

Flurries are fizzling out. Had the minor of dustings. Can see some whiter of shade rooftops from my home office. Not too shabby for a Monday

Flurries here at the moment. Something wintry for a change!

Enjoyed a rare frost yesterday. A few cold dry days now. Can't complain. It's much of a relief if anything else.

I am just thankful to be waking up and the picture outside is dry. UK has just been one big wet sponge last month or so. So would be good to dry off before any significant wintry weather emerges.