Summer of 95

Completely dry and mostly clear since about 2am. That front last night did turn to snow but was very weak and just fizzled out, pressure too high I think. I'd also think it's too high to produce anything connective today, but Staffs and Birmingham snow magnets obviously not

It's pretty much stopped now. Is there any more precip expected?

It's actually all snow now. Quite light and will have a job sticking unless it gets heavier but its snow

I'm clinging on to the memory of April 4th 2012, when we got a quite unexpected cover of snow a week after it had reached 20C and following a winter full of the Shropshire effect (4th Feb was unbelievable, rain below freezing) And stood outside typing there are sleety bits appearing in it....

Still just cold rain here, please not another rain in Shropshire/snow everywhere else event. Dont expect a huge dumping, would be happy with 1-2cm in the morning as it would wipe the floor with anything this winter- just no more rain here/snow everywhere else nonsense please.

More snow showers, last one was quite heavy, still having no chance of sticking as it's been too warm this morning and haven't had a proper frost in weeks. It's like snow in the day in late April.

Very wet snow shower falling, dont see much chance of anything accumulating when it goes up to 5C in between any showers. Last night was all just rain, again failed to turn on the back edge. Just one morning of snow on the ground would make me hate this winter less.

I just remember one hot weekend in late June (which was otherwise mediocre), July was cold, cloudy and rubbish and August was similar to much of summer 2002, often seemed to be trying to get warm but was stubbornly cloudy and never got much above the low 20s, ended up warmer than average due to mild nights. Not as bad as 2007, 2008, 2011 or 2012 but no better than 2009 and 2010.

This has turned to heavy snow, even if not for long, while that rain on 28th Nov refused to even though temps, dps etc were lower at the start and the intensity was the same...

Big flakes of snow! First time I've seen that this winter. Unlikely to last long but it's at least happened

Stats for this location: Winter season 2021-22 so far Snow falling 3, Snow lying 0 April 2021 Snow falling 5, snow lying 1 And that was one of the sunniest and driest Aprils on record.

"England" clearly means places east of the Pennines and M1 looking at that sunshine map. The average was obviously skewed by some exceptional totals on that eastern side whereas elsewhere it was either close to average or a bit above but not exceptionally so. Round here 120% of normal for January and 50% for December; so still definitely below average for Dec and Jan combined- a dull winter.

Worst winter EVER so far (granted there is still Feb, Mar and April but it has been so bad it needs saying now). An inexplicable rain here/snow in surrounding counties event in late Nov (heavy rain at 200m in Shropshire while it was settling snow at 50m or less in Staffs, Cheshire, Manchester, Worcestershire). Even by our standards that event defied all explanation. Not a case of missing the precipitation, or it not being heavy enough, or the wrong side of a warm/cold airmass boundary, it was a Shropshire special fail to rival any of them. 2 weeks solid without sunshine in mid to late December. Another week of next to no sunshine in January. Intrusions of blowtorch SW'lies every so often. Lots of chilly but not cold weather, little frost for such a lot of high pressure (unlike 91/92 for example). Damp and raw a lot of the time but very little actual rain, except when it should have been snowing. Basically everything I detest in a winter combined to perfection. Oh and throw in being stuck indoors with Covid for 10 days during the one notable event (even if it was the wrong kind of notable, the record warm New Year). At least during the likes of 91/2, 13/14, 15/16 and 19/20 practically nowhere had any snow, it wasnt just us in this region. 91/2 was quite frosty and the other three had memorable events like record mild Decembers or wet Jans/Febs. 07/8 was awful but was at least sunny. 88/9, 89/90 and 06/7 had some snow, even if they were much milder than this one. 99/00 and 92/3 are the only two that come close to this one, the former in particular had snow in many other areas but none here and lots of nothing weather, but I think it had more frost and less gloom. It has to improve in the next 2-3 months surely?

I remember that week well: Here we had a 1cm or so dusting on the Monday morning (which was the biggest snowfall for 2 years) and the news was full of reports of the snow in the London area. They also kept saying it would move west, and another snowfall would arrive that night. I heard 50cm in the SE mentioned on the radio at one point. It started snowing here about 4pm, until about 7, left 5cm. Not what they got in London but it did at least snow here. Tuesday morning at 7 I started work (was a taxi driver in Shrewsbury then) and the snow had frozen but all except a few side streets were perfectly driveable. Put the news on the radio for news of massive snowfalls in the east that might be coming. A man in Edinburgh rang them and said it was pouring with rain there. Further south was forecast to be worst hit but I thought anything up there would be snow as well, that anywhere that missed anything would be down to hit and miss showers. It hadn't snowed in London again either, other callers said, though it hadn't rained there. It didnt snow here either, in fact it got warm enough in the day to reduce it to about 2-3cm though we kept full cover till Wed afternoon when it got even warmer in the day. Thurs, Fri and Sat it snowed a couple of cm overnight and thawed in the day, 3 days running. It was snowy that spell but it didnt seem to be properly cold? Not a complete fail like Feb 2005 but not Feb 1991 or Mar 2018 either. London did well at the start of it but that Monday night forecast was awful.

Just totally rain here, not a flake. Turns to snow as soon as it leaves Shropshire again, this winter is the pits so far

Snowing properly at last but still struggling to stick- putting a slushy cover on the bins and cars but just making the paths wet. Although having less trouble round Birmingham again I see. Dare I think the ground is too warm after all those 12C nights and 2 weeks of constant cloud that it will need more heavy stuff than it might otherwise? And still the temp wont drop properly in the showers, though the dewpoint seems ok

More light snow but it's just melting as it hits the ground. Will the temperature actually drop (and stay dropped)? If anything Its warmer than that day in November we had nothing but rain while everywhere else had snow

This shower does have wintriness- very small and wet flakes but it's something. Not a hope of sticking atm but it is getting colder

Dont get excited it's just more rain in this one at least

My goodness I've actually seen the sun today. First time in a fortnight

What record could be broken round here? 12 consecutive days now with zero sunshine, 17 with less than 1 hour. From memory the first 3 weeks of Jan 1996 round here had about 6 or 7 hours in total. There was also about a fortnight with next to no sun in March that year. This century there was Nov 2015 (sun on one of the first 10 days, but about 5 hours so not as bad as now) and Jan 2013 was also very dull (that 10-day snowy spell was almost totally cloudy, and lacked really cold nights as a result, even though the days were around zero). Pretty sure it never managed 12 on the trot though... So I think this the worst spell for sun deprivation in these parts for at least 25 years?

1) 17 Nov 2016. Absolute mayhem for 10 minutes, Shawbury had a gust of 84mph and it might well have been more here as higher and more exposed. Trees down, tiles down, some had windows blown out, and 10 miles north and south hardly anything. 2) 30-31 Jan 2002 (may have been a few days either side). Big trees down, flooding and hardly remembered. 3) Mid-Feb 2014, power cuts and trees down on the roads, the height of that "winter" of endless wind and rain 4) Storm Arwen, it was up there for causing damage and had that evil sting in the tail of producing rain all over Shropshire even 200m high while it gave snow all over W Mids/Staffs/Cheshire etc 5) 20 Mar 2004. Not really forecast but it was a real blaster. All day sustained 40mph wind

Never guess... Bloody rain here again! It was dropping below zero at 5pm. Wonder where else its snowing this time? Trying desperately not to feel fed up of this winter already, its Dec 2nd abc and Shropshire has already pulled off 4 of its special rain-when-it's-snowing-elsewhere fails. It can only get better between now and March surely?

Northwesterlies can be brilliant like Dec 2017, but they have to be just right to hit us with the Cheshire Gap effect. Too much west of north and it all goes to Staffs and the Peak, anything east of north misses us by miles (straight E'lies can work though). Straight westerly and it often dies out over Wales sometimes to pep up again at the M6... But Sunday was unfathomable. We got the precip, right direction, and yet it rained in Shropshire at over 150m while it snowed not only in Staffs/W Mids but also in Crewe (lower than here, I'm a bit north of Shrewsbury town at around 95m). Then there are the storms that skirt Shropshire and the cloud that turns up in summer when all the neighbouring counties have hot sunshine... I know weather is hit and miss but this area misses a disproportionate number of times it seems.

More snow everywhere else I see, even the SE has had some. Bright and sunny here, not a flake in sight and again loads of ice this morning where yesterdays rain froze