Summer of 95

Crewgreen? Thats lower than here! Oh yeah, forgot, its just outside Shropshire. Rain here, again...

Well if Arsenal can beat a big team away from home with Mike Dean in charge anything is possible, surely......

Rain in Shropshire, snow everywhere else. Wow, never seen that before..... Still nothing but light cold rain here.

Raining. Rubbish. Not even sleet- just light rain.

I'm pretty sure there was a -30 somewhere in the Welsh borders or Highlands in 1981-2. Shawbury is not the coldest place in north Shropshire, let alone England. One of those deep valleys in the Longmynd/Stiperstones area (not Pennerley which is on a hillside) would be a better bet, and I always find the area south of Ellesmere (Myddle, Burlton) to be colder than Shawbury when driving around there on frosty nights. -27 at Braemar, -30 in the Lairig Ghru?

Maybe its harsh, as it certainly wasnt a terrible year, but I always think 2005 should have been more exciting than it was. It had some brilliant synoptics that for some reason repeatedly failed to deliver: Late Feb/early Mar. Should have been like Feb 1991. Easterly, cold uppers, lots of snow showers around. Yet almost nothing stuck for more than a few hours, if it stuck at all. That one will always be a mystery to me. That ridiculous day in May when London was 20 C warmer than Edinburgh. The first of the modern Spanish plumes that only affect the SE. August should have been a lot better, it wasnt bad, but for such a dry anticyclonic month it was not as warm as it should have been. December's non snowy easterly. Certainly had the right setup for a nationwide snow event, where was the snow?

4.45 and still light, was dark at this time a few weeks ago. Always seems to go from getting dark at 4 to 5 quickly, but then takes forever to get past 6. By which time it's light at 6am. Put them forward in February to give it a kick up the whatsit!

Clear all night and morning here, not a drop or flake of anything. Frosty first thing though

Snow cover lasted till 2PM despite all the sunshine, now pouring down and blowing a hooley. Falling and lying snow, unbroken sun, torrential rain and gales- we have had more weather in the last 24 hours than the previous 4 months.

Still all here, 1cm cover including the road. Froze well after falling and now clear and sunny. 2015 has a tick in the snow lying column....

1 cm snow cover here. Better than I expected just hope it lasts till past 9 am. .. Freezing too, that's a good sign.

Reached 15C here, the first time I can remember doing so in January, and the highest temp was after sunset. Actually, what's the January record for England? All the 17+ records on the Torro site are in Wales or Scotland. Has today done it?

17.2 is the record for Jan 9th, at Aber in 1971- wonder whet those N Wales coast stations are on? Wouldnt be surprised to see an 18 somewhere at this rate, it is just ridiculously mild out there.

15C here after dark, must be close to a record for early January. Higher max today than some days last August....

15C here, ridiculous for early January. Cant remember it so mild at this time of year for a long time. Wind really gusty too.

Not quite as bad as 2011 or 1993 for me, but still a rubbish year. June and July saved it: I reckon they were the best pair of summer months here since July and August 1995. August again was dreadful (sub 15C maxima in midmonth) and September to November had to be the most boring three month period I can ever recall. Absolutely nothing happened except cloudy mild weather, bar a couple of isolated frosts in Nov.

Highest temp: 29C in July Lowest temp: -4C on 29 Dec (highest yearly min for at least 20yr) Overhead thunderstorms: 4 Ice days 0 Days snow falling: 14 Days snow lying: 1 Max snow depth 1cm (27 Dec) June and July were the first time this century two consecutive months recorded more than 200 hours of sun.

-4C out there, ground frozen solid first time this year. Car is caked in ice. Yet Shawbury has been hovering around 0 since midnight, having dipped to -2.6 at 9pm, according to the MO pages???? Certainly colder than that here, it was as cold as now at 1am too.

Good frost forming now, first -5 since March 2013 a definite possibility. How has Stafford managed to keep its snow I wonder, everywhere else outside Derbyshire/Peaks has lost theirs thanks to that horrid damp crud yesterday. (still got a patch at the bottom of the garden, but its tiny).

Frost remained all day in th shade, why oh why couldnt we have had it freeze like that the night before? Clear and sunny all day and ice now forming again.

2012 was complete rubbish here, no snow at all save a brief 1cm early on Sunday 19th. 2009 also disappointing, never got more than 5cm and it kept melting in the day. Last good Feb for snow here was 1994.

Snow showers trying to stick in the heavier bursts, but goes as soon as it eases off. The Roads and paths are like rivers in places. Get down temperature! The lying snow curse is vanquished, but the other 2014 curse isnt- the non dropping temperature one. Cold air, snow, clear skies at night, none of them can produce a decent, lasting frost this year. All that water needs to freeze or itll just be a slushfest.

Very wet snow in this shower, ground is now sodden so will have a hard job sticking

Nearly gone now, but yes there was. Very strange to have the rain turn to snow in the exact spot where the opposite normally happens: that slope on the A5 at Welington. That was the case at 8.30 last night. Showers today nearly all of rain with sleety bits here and there.

Still got more than half cover, though its very wet and wont be around much longer if these rain showers keep piling in. A close call, but 2014 is out of thee no lying snow club.