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"Are you forgetting Global Warming? Surely, continued Arctic warming will mean less chance of cold air getting far enough south to provide severe cold for UK!" But I thought Global Warming was going to cause Artic ice melt, cooling down the seas so much it stopped the Gulfstream Drift. Causing catastrophic cooling for the UK?

This is why my ice cubes shrivel up in my frost-free freezer. Peer reviewed evidence if ever there was.

Schools already closing in Bucknall. Must have listened to the mass hysteria generated on local radio or is it POETS day?? Looking forward to the kids, who were sent home on health and safety grounds, snow-balling me and other motorists on the roads through Bentilee.

You won't fit in here. Disruptive snow is referred to as "a positive outlook" and "long may it continue". Friday was hell for those of us who have to work for a living and don't get paid for sitting at home and posting about the snow. And that comes from someone who is a snow lover.

Come on METO. National radar stuck at 5.30!

Snow getting a little more intense here with muliple flakes rather than sleet.

Sleet now turned into gently falling snow. Last night's snow still on the trees.

Faint drizzle. BRITAIN BRACED FOR INCH OF SNOW AND FAINT DRIZZLE! Wouldn't make a Daily Express headline writer would I?

inch of snow lying here with 200m visibility in mist and zero wind. Radar says precip about 8.30-9.00 so let's see what happens then.

I predict that it will be a bit colder this Winter than it was this Summer just gone and that it will gradually warm up as we head into next Spring. Do I win the prize? As for the MOD thread, the band of brothers who frequent the discussion remind me that scene in the Deer Hunter where the two guys are playing Russian Roulette and everyone is laying bets. Totally random. I just don't understand how they assign human characteristics to the computer models. "Model A is toying with the idea of tempting us with a cold snap - while Model B is seriously considering coming into line with the rest so as not to lose face." What ARE they smoking?

Your post proves the original point. I've travelled in the opposite direction from N. Staffs, spending a week around the Lea Valley (Essex/Herts) I'm staggered at the parched grass and cracks in the ground. You have no idea how lucky you all are in the south. You'd slash your wrists after a week in Cumbria. SAD syndrome must be rife north of Birmingham.

Right on. What's with this (trendy?) preoccupation with the jet stream? I know it dictates what sort of weather we get AFTER it positions itself - but isn't its final position pretty random? In my relatively uninformed mind I see it originating thousands of miles away and with a tendency to act like a hose pipe snaking around on the yard when you turn it on. Or does it carefully pick its way around high and low pressure areas in a way we can easily forecast.......

Links work for me AND I use Bullguard.

It's all Lucy Kite's fault. Mind you, she looks a real treat in her matching scarf and head band.

Still snowing here - but it's gradually getting lighter and turning to sleet. The roads are wet so it hasn't been a white out by any means. Lichfield folk, drive out to Abbots Bromley. You might get a bit. Or get up the cathedral spire with some binoculars.