david16

How depressing would it be if we were just to have 2 seasons every year in the UK. Spring and autumn. But no winter or summer.

It's not about being a romatic coldie. Seeing a seemingly everlasting conveyer belt of low pressure systems sweeping in from the atlantic lasting virtually the entire winter with only 2 or 3 brief 1 or 2 day northerlies is a very poor weather pattern indeed. Southwest wind followed by west wind followed by south wind followed by southwest wind, all exceptionally moist maritime tropical airstreams lasting for days and weeks on end is nasty stuff all very poor for your health.

Seems a bit silly that the temperaturee drop by about 20F from 73F to 51F switching from a dry summer to mild winter. Yet switching from this summer to this winter the Farenheiht temperatures won't even drop by half and winds predominately coming from the southwest instead of the current easterly. It would be nice for a change from the norm to see this winter mainly in the low to mid 30's F dropping sometimes to the 20's F during the day and only the odd brief spell in the high 40's F to low to mid 50's F. Yes of course we got mild weather in the not too distant past when winters were a lot better. But not for almost the enitre virtually every winter as it is nowadays with seemingly no end to the rain, rain and more rain that's accompanied by ridiculously high warm west or southwest winds and temps the likes of 51F, 53F, 55F during the day and falling no lower than 42F at night.

Whatever happens this winter, hopefully we won't see the dreaded old conveyer belt of low pressure system after low pressure system after low pressure system sweeping in from the southwest seemingly forever and a day. Seeing the greenland high and scandinavian high saying a nice friendly hello to each other continually to the North of us and both persisting for long spells would make a nice pleasant change from the dismal norm. Can't bear the thought of us suffering from yet another dismal winter of the constant +10C to +13C daytime max variety again being the standard norm this winter. It can't surely get even milder this upcoming winter.

I also notice that in the winter months the BBC weather/Met office fidget about whenever there's a few cold synoptics appears on their computers. Yet as soon as the 1st mild synoptic appears on their computers it's flashed up to us almost immediately with no hesitation by the same people and they can't wait tell you how mild it's going to be any quicker. 1 mild synoptic out of 15 yet that 1 automatically overides all the other 14 like the bible despite that 1 being usually so unreliable. Wierd logic that.

Constant mild to exceptionally mild, and wet and windy weather would be yet another disappointing winter. It has been generally +15C to +16C daytime maximum here in Scotland for most of June and July so far, yet come winter time it will probably once again be generally rubbish of daytime maximums being only 3C lower than it's been this summer, and nightime temperatures in the range of +5 to +7C, with us being sandwiched between the semi permanent azores high and icelandic low meaning we'll mainly get days and weeks on end of constant heavy rain accompanied by high west or southwest winds with only the occasional brief 1 or 2 day northerly respite pulling daytime maximum temperatures temporarily down to +ve single figures. How much more depressing can things get in winter time here in the UK?

But a -ve NAO would be good news in avoiding the constant yucky cyclonic southerly/southwesterly/westerly stuff with temperatures such as +10C to +13C (+5C to +8C usually at night) for days and weeks on end most of the winter we normally suffer from these days because we are stuck between the dreaded semi-permanent azores high/icelandic low combination, with only the brief 2 day northerly (if that) as respite. A strong -ve NAO doesn't automaticaly mean a 1962 winter or a 1979 in this day and age, but I wonder if we can still even now receive some prolonged wintry spells in winter of widesperead heavy snow. It would be nice to see weather systems moving westward from the continent in January like of old.

How depressing that winds are almost exclusively from the west or southwest for far too big a proportion of the winter. Yet for most of the rest of the year, the winds come from any direction. If only a mid June deep depression with northeasterly winds 2 years ago had happened 6 months earlier it would have been a blizzard, but that type of weather with a NE wind never sadly seems to happen these days in winter. It's extremely hellish that a low pressure system looks as though a northwesterly in the mid-Atlantic is heading towards us, yet the moment it reaches the UK shore the wind suddenly switches southwesterly again. Why does that keep happening?