Costa Del Fal

Thumbs up to the new look. Sleek, clean and sharp. I like it. Keep up the good work.

Very pleasant day here. Good sunny spells and about 13c.

Yep I feel the same too. I don't mind the dull wet weather usually at this time of year but even I have had enough of it. Scotland has a good snowy spell already but we will keep on waiting down here... And waiting. Sadly December looks to offer little already for the most part. Euro high and Greenland low in full charge: more of the same for us. Just wait until May when the pattern reverses!

Not as windy as I was expecting here either tbf. That is not to take away from events up north though i.e Manchester. But for us in the south, quite a few saying not as bad as expected.

All of winter left in fact. Lol. Still, not looking great is it but with El Nino I am not surprised.

Sadly for us lot in the south, it looks like little will change with any snow reserved for scotland and/or 'northern hills' at best. Oh how I hate those words.

Awful weather this afternoon. Wet and windy.

I am going to revise my estimation to 6.7c. Thanks.

Certainly looking windy tomorrow! 50mph quite widely possible. Not sure about 60mph though. 50mph is enough to tear down plenty of branches and the odd tree though!

Usual winter situation tomorrow really. Snow pretty much just for scotland only whilst the rest of the country basks (or gets blown away!!!) in the mild air.

6c please.

Quite Ian. The gradient of contrast is certainly more of interest. Certainly some exceptionally deep lows on a few model runs of late though thankfully they have not really ventured out of FI with fairly standard autumnal fayre prevailing. In terms of SST's, it is also important to note the waters surrounding our very shores are slightly above average. Nothing significant but enough to balance out much of any cooling of air that has occurred further west in the Atlantic. Putting the two together, the resultant upper air temperature is unlikely to finish off far from normal in my view. Maybe it will strengthen again in to the winter, who knows. However if the cold pool strengthens again next summer, may the point about the importance of freshwater melt from glaciers and ice in the arctic, namely Greenland be further emphasised? Anyway, not wishing to derail the topic here but perhaps important to highlight this to provide context and understanding.

Well, that any winds coming from the W/NW may not be much colder than normal as some are perhaps expecting. Consequently, the amount of wintriness may not differ too much from normal either.

Do you think so? The Atlantic cold pool now is starting to look quite patchy in nature. There is quite a noticeable amount of positive anomalies surrounding our shores and throughout the Atlantic. Still some localised very cold spots but is the cold pool further disintegrating I wonder now? http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2015/anomnight.11.26.2015.gif

Certainly some interesting evolutions re the high pressure which looks like possibly moving in circa end of week 1 of December. Far far far from any certainty on his though never mind beyond that. Some really interesting charts for the UK especially from the GFS but at the same time the PV looks very organised too (hence the very low heights seen) which could easily shift more to our locale and keep things unsettled and probably more zonal. But organised or not, if the main core of the PV wants to shift to the eastern hemisphere so to speak, that is a start in terms of allowing heights to rise in the places we want should cold be your thing.

Certainly no snow down here. Only a few wintry showers on northern hills it seems. Not as good as last week IMO even for those oop north.

18th December 2010 is my most memorable Christmas period weather event. About 25cm snow dumped in about 6 hours.

Midlands today never leaves any time for the weather bulletin. It's always rushed 1 minute or so at the end. We don't have the quality seen in Spotlight and the brilliant David Braine for example. Spotlights weather forecast is about 4 minutes or so although there is the surf forecast, tides and Isles of Scilly weather to cover.

Good to hear our Worcestershire asparagus is doingas well as the Cornish daffs. We certainly benefit most from the milder glances of air off the Atlantic this time of year in the SW quarter of the country before the cold fronts catch up or warm sectors often sink south again.

Welcome to the normal uk winter: what on earth do some expect every year here?

We just plainly are not used to this. Feels arctic still out there! Lol

I went for daytime probably because of how it turns everything very quiet (when the snow is heavy) as people are either at home or stuck in traffic. That not a positive aspect I know but if your at home the peace and quiet is great for someone like me who lives on a busier road.

Pretty pleased with my 8.8c estimate so far. Hopefully it doesnt go wrong from here but have been pretty close for the last few months now. Just need a bit of a downward correction to get even closer!

Around 0c currently. Very cold compared to recently. Meto has light snow for us at 2am now.

It did here! A noticeable amount of new branches broken on the floor in the local woodland today. More than the other day in fact!