After a lovely frosty start when I could take the dog out without her or me sinking into the mud the sheep have created, the rain has just arrived. Looking forward to later this week, when it's meant to be drier.
I see the 30hPa temps are still extremely low. Any lower, and the graph will need a new Y-axis!
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/STRAT/html_e/pole30_n.html
CFSv2 thinks it will be wetter than average through to April! It was certainly right about December's rain.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFSv2/htmls/euPrece1Mon.html
All ferries cancelled between Ireland and the UK tomorrow. Trying to rearrange my trip home, along with 1200 other passengers, so it's a long wait on the phone. Pity these companies haven't cottoned on to changing booking on the web!
I see the CFS2 model is predicting an extremely wet January and a wetter than average February and March. The very wet January has been shown for some time now. I'm guessing it will be rain, not snow.
I see that there's a hint of winteriness midweek for the west mids. There is a lonesome snowflake on the 5-day forecast from the met for Ludlow. From little acorns big oaks grow, so here's hoping!
Looking at the dire outlook until the year end (GFS-style wet and windy), I am wondering if the frost last night and this morning will be the last of 2012.