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  1. I am not surprised at all by the negativity - not everyone has experienced any particularly significant yet. Here we have seen about 4 inches of snow most of which has now melted and no frost for quite a while
  2. It was very heavy hail in Churchdown - gave a good covering and but quickly went slushy
  3. The foundations are definately laid - interpreting what they mean is another matter!
  4. Couldn't agree more - the foundations of our winter are probably already built - sudden major pattern changes do happen but often they remain for months. As far as I am concerned we had the same very general pattern from Jan 2011 right through to April 2012
  5. No, I want more than that ! Trouble is spring seems to have arrived now +8C and sun coming through ! Wind and rain can be quite fun!! We probably still need the rain as well
  6. Well we had about 5 hours of snow and what did we end up with - about 1cm
  7. Quite a nice little covering earlier on but now largely melted - a big surprise !!
  8. Snowing hard and settling everywhere now - 2011/12 won't be my first snowless winter after all !!
  9. If only that had settled we would have been knee deep in it - that was torrential sleet !
  10. Still +5C here and not really expecting a frost tonight. As far as I am concerned it is not unusual to still be frost free by late November, here. I don't think we had had many by this time, even last year. They had one less than half a mile away four weeks ago but it remained +3C here R
  11. Any form of precipitation would be welcome to over come this severe lack of rainfall but we been stuck in a general pattern since last January and unfortunatly with the Atlantic seemingly weak I am not sure whether it will really break through
  12. I get the general feeling that the current weather pattens are very similar to those that have existed since January. i.e high pressure to the east blocking lows coming in from the west and causing things to be very dry and mostly cloudy. Am I correct?
  13. Still hardly any rain here. I don't record rainfall quantities but we haven't had any serious rain yet this year
  14. It was Jan 82 rather than Dec 81 that was the most amazing here. Yes, it was cold with about 4 ins of snow in December but it turned mild before Christmas. Snow returned with avengence in early Jan 82 with 12 ins of it in my garden here and a temp of -16C. The most snow and lowest temp I have ever recorded
  15. Thick rime ice on trees on Gloucester City Centre with blue christmas lights in then - spectacular
  16. 1cm here - some now melted and much turned to ice. Now minus 2.8C
  17. This predicted lack of rain is getting serious - a winter drought looming. We have hardly had any all year
  18. I guess it depends where in the country you are to consider it a remarkable winter. To me the only thing that was remarkable was the absense of really mild weather. To call it severe, I would expect a fall of snow of more than 10 inches that stayed around with very little thaw for at least two weeks. That was the sort of thing we saw in 1962/3 and nearly in 1981/2 which have been the only two (what I would call) severe winters I have experienced. Richard
  19. Interesting data there - it certainly explains why my recollection of winters of my late teens (1977 to 1981) was one of cold weather R
  20. Definately not taken for granted - I knew it returned tomorrow and was puzzled to see it being suggested that the return was delayed
  21. Was this a severe cold spell or not? I remember many years from the 70s when when we regularly had 5 inches of snow as we did this year. We have had 10 days of snow cover which is longer than I'm used to but 7 days isn't that rare (even since 2000). Temps of -9C happen every three or four years whereas this year we had a -12C but that coincided with snow cover. To me in my back yard I would use the term moderately severe. What do others think?
  22. Snowing lightly and settling here +0.6C I heard at work today that the ground is frozen to a least a foot which I find quite a amazing - that will take a long time to thaw out R
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