Summer of 95

Still raining! And even milder than yesterday. Where's this cold air gone now then? Back to Iceland?

Thats the problem with Britain, it is supposed to snow reliably at latitudes where days get this short. Nowhere else on earth is so snowless at such a high latitude, especially northern Britain. 60 degrees is subarctic.

Just been over to Barmouth (as you do on a wet December evening) and there is no snow whatsoever in Wales, even at 350m on the road between Mallwyd and Dolgellau. Just driving rain and wind. The temp up there was 5C, exactly the same as in Shrewsbury. Obviously no cold upper air at all then.

Just had a shower with a few blobs of sleet in it, nothing to rave about but its a start......

Yes that's the curse of the so called "polar maritime" air- the temp won't drop unless the wind goes away, but if it does no showers will reach us.

It's probably a Geminid. They are noticeably slow moving and peak in December- I remember seeing loads last year. Best time should be next weekend when the moon won't be there till the early hours.

January 1984 which keeps getting mentioned, here are the number of snow lying days and the mad depth in cm, from the Metoffice snowsurvey: Aviemore 29/33 Edinburgh 17/13 Eskdalemuir 23/66 Gosforth 15/15 Boulmer 7/4 Leeming 10/17 Bacup 18/61 Ringway 7/11 Blackpool 1/2 Shawbury 5/4 Lake Vyrnwy 18/25 Swansea 2/1 Brize Norton 1/1 Teddington 0/0 It was rubbish south of the Midlands, and even north of that ridiculously dependent on altitude and distance from the coast

Been pretty cloudy since about 10pm but surprisingly the temperature is holding below freezing. Went down to -1C at 7pm and has stuck there since.

Got down to -3 around dawn, a good result considering how reluctant it seemed to be to drop in the evening. Unbroken sun since, if we keep it till 3pm it will be the sunniest day since the first half of September.

Was down to 2C by 7pm, skies totally clear, just been out and it hasnt dropped any further! Lost count of the number of clear nights this year that inexplicably failed to freeze. Its the curse of 2014.

Certainly the most boring season of the last 10 years, possibly a lot longer. Only 4 air frosts and no snow or thunder. All three months somewhat duller than average, but none record breakingly so. The most damning statistic was that no day had 7 hours or more of sun after September 11. All three months warmer than average, but the highest maxima of 23, 18 and 15C all well short of the records, October's by 10C. September dry but often disappointingly cloudy, October wet but no big daily total, November a bit drier than normal but a higher than normal number of rain days, showing how much drizzly muck it had. Good riddance!

1988/9 had already had a decent snowfall by this stage, shame there was nothing else Please not 2009/10! In many ways that one was just as maddening as 13/14; snowing everywhere except here time and again. Thank whatever for December 2010. A moderately snowy one like 1993-4 would do, even one with one snowy spell like 2006/7 or a couple of days in each month like 2003/4 would be an improvement on last year. But the worst one of all was surely 1991/2, the one where I don't recall a single flake falling.

Yes it was completely gunked over by 11am yesterday, despite dawning clear, then it cleared an hour before sunset (ie 3pm). Looked and behaved just like that annoying infill cloud I thought we only get in summer. Featureless murk again today, must have been for about 17 of the last 20 days. Never know if it's day or night at the moment

Nice to see an hour of clear skies but more the muck is somehow back, although not drizzly. Where's it come from now, surely not the dreaded infill this late in the year? Not had 7 hours in a day since the first half of September.

It's cleared here now, just managed about 15 minutes of a very low sun. You haven't had any of the drizzle then? The weather always changes halfway down the A49, usually somewhere around Ludlow. Sudden jumps in temperature in summer (compare Ross on Wye with Shawbury, there's about 2C difference in summer maxims), or suddenly hitting rain in a southwesterly when it is dry here.

This weather is vile. Now been raining or drizzling pretty much nonstop for 48 hours, with temperatures constantly 6-8C and very little wind. But the main thing is the light levels, midday is like twilight at the moment. Yesterday it was practically dark by 4pm. Apart from Monday, which had about 4 or 5 hours, there has been hardly any sun for the last 2 weeks.

Yes it might have been interesting on the coast, but here it was just 3 months of nearly non stop rain (but no big daily totals) combined with a constant wind (but only one big gale, on 13-14 Feb) and temperatures nearly always between 5 and 8C. Very tedious. For wind late Decmber 1997 and late Jan/early Feb 2002 were both more notable round here, as was the windiest day I can ever remember namely 20 March 2004.

-2C out there and been constantly below freezing for around 8 hours. Easily the longest freeze this year, and if today's forecast highs come off has a chance of being 2014s coldest day by average temperature.

-1C here now, but a lot more of that annoying high cloud than there was earlier. Just dipped below this morning too. One all night frost for 2014 might happen... "Polar maritime"- junk in winter unless you are above 300m. Even with uppers of -5 or lower all it gives is temperatures of 3 or 4C day and night with cold rain showers, that might turn sleety just to tease us. The temperature for some reason just never drops with that stuff, even on clear nights with deep cold air in place. Arctic Maritime is the real McCoy.

November 2014 going in at the moment too, what a boring autumn this has been

Been raining for close to 12 hours non stop. Hardly seen the sun all week and its been around 6-9C day and night all the time. A grim week, will it clear when this rain eventually stops?

The best streamer events here in recent years were: 17 Dec 2010 Cheshire Gap setup established during the early hours, and persisted with showers on and off till the evening. Was quite localised though, 8cm had accumulated in Shrewsbury by the evening but there was barely 1cm just 5 miles to the west. The following day had more general snow where the areas that missed out got in on the act 1-2 Dec 2010. A rare case of a Wash streamer reaching all the way here, giving 2 days of snow showers that accumulated to 7cm. 25 Dec 2004 a brief one but good while it lasted, Cheshire gap again. 3cm fell in less than an hour during the evening to give a white Christmas. Only lasted till the 27th.

1220mm I make that total for last winter- that's almost twice the annual average here! Absolutely insane.

Big halo round the moon, a nice sight but hope it doesn't mean cloudy gunk is on the way. A half decent frost out there now.

Virtually cloudless, first time for at least 2 months.