Summer of 95

Whats with all there reports of -5s, we only just touched 0 because the stupid cloud refused to do one yet again. No -5 here since March 2013, and no -7 since Dec 2010. Cannot remember such a long spell without a really cold night.

Just nasty cold rain here, way too warm for.snow. Disgusting weather

5.8 for me please No, someones had that, 5.9 then...

Boxing Day and today, two lows taking completely different tracks, and the same places get all the fun? With it all moving SW-NE Id have expected Notts, S Yorks to be under the mild muck hours ago but no, thats reserved for the West Mids and Wales. And the NW, even though thats north of the low. And it all started off so promisingly. Of all the snow setups this winter, the one that delivered best was the one the forecasts had missing us....

Nothing happened here on the 25th but Friday 27th was a really weird day. It started snowing about 11am and gave about 3-4cm in a couple of hours, was looking like a good event, and then it suddenly turned to rain without warning just like that. None of the sleety transition, no wavering between rain and snow (sometimes it goes back to snow after that), it took 2 minutes to turn from all settling snow to all pure rain. All the snow had gone by 6pm and it carried on raining and caused some flooding. That day it was 0C at noon and 10C at midnight, absolutely crazy.

Thank goodness for last Wednesday morning, at least weve had a day of lying snow this month. The best thing about this winter is that it hasnt been quite as bad as last, though I think it has down in the south.

Nottingham is hardly any further north than here, maybe 15 miles or so. No higher either.

Cant believe its exactly the places favoured on Boxing Day getting it again! Whats making it so much colder in Notts/Derbys, thought the warm air would have got there by now

Its balmy out there now.. Feels like about 5 or 6C and all the snow is gone.

For 1990-2014 the average days of snow lying here in December is 1.76 days. But take out 2010 and it falls to 0.96. That year had almost half of the total in that 25-year period. 13 of those 25 years had 0 days.

Maybe I should have said colder air. Where have all the -10 uppers been these last two years, havent seen them near us once. Even -5 has only visited rarely.

Rain being reported all over Wales, where has the cold air gone? The snow settled so well when it fell too....

Nothing fallen for 2 hours now, infuriatingly the temp seems have gone up. Thought it wasnt supposed to do that till later? Snow still on grass and pavement, melted off bins and cars though.

Stopped about 1hr ago, still a light covering but temperature not dropping any more. Need another lot to fill the gaps where cars etc have taken it away.

Went very light about 5 mins ago but seems to have pepped up a bit. Still quite light but maybe 0.5 cm on the ground.

Nice dusting outside now, keep it up!

Wow the pavement is white already, this is the first time snow has stuck instantly since Jan 2013.

Its snowing. Can hardly believe it, smallish flakes but looks like its starting to stick.

Finally clear and frosty here

If uou mean last Tues/Wed, yes we did get a covering out of that when I wasnt expecting anything. So this will still beat last Jan whatever happejs.

Its still +2 here and completely cloudy. No hope if it stays like that....

-4 this morning with the car windows frozen shut, not seen that for a long time (maybe even Dec 2010). A nice frosty sunny start but yet again gone cloudy and risen to 4C, we still cant buy a low maximum which doesnt bode well for any snow.

Not a flake here overnight. At least cleared so we have a frost, was threatening a total damp squib.

Still nothing here, not a flake today, whats gone wrong for Shropshire this time? Seems to have snowed in Birminghan, Notts, Cheshire, Staffs at the same or lower elevations but weve had nothing but rain.

We hadnt had a decent easterly for 4 years before Feb 1991, and the previous summer broke records. So the sea must have been warm then. At the time I blamed the Feb 2005 failures on the lack of frost that Jan, but then I think of events like early March 1995 which followed 2 months of constant mild wet muck, or 4th April 2012 when snow settled a week after it had been 20C.