[What and where is the highest temperature you have experienced in your lifetime?]

46° Bahrain summer 1995. Too hot to go outside.

 It topped 50+ some summers. But we always flew home to avoid the heat

[Model Output Discussion - Spring Has Sprung]

 Ladyofthestorm There was talk of a QTR. So could effects of the SSW be seen a lot sooner? 

[Model banter and emotions]

45 minutes ago, Froze were the Days said:

My gut feeling is in terms of cold we can write this winter off, yes a bit early days but looking at the ECM the Atlantic is more fired up than it has been all winter. Historically of recent winters after a cold/chilly spell in January and the synoptics become more +NAO thereafter there's no way back into February, not counting out cooler spells with Pm incursions but that's nothing out of the ordinary. 

Happy to be proved wrong...but that's where my money would lay.

Hahah! The first "winter is over" post on the 21st of January during the heart of winter, with potentially 9/10 weeks of winter happenings left to go!