Phil Blake yes getting really annoying now. We haven't had one nice settled spring day here and its mid April! Absolutely hacked off seeing southerners out and about in their locale with no coats!

Anyone else sick of rain? Surely there will be no sign of hosepipe bans this summer. Been dry today like but still lack of sun is depressing.

Iceni II Welcome to the forum. We look forward to your reports of 10 ft drifts in the winter's to come.

Dusting of snow this morning and more expected this evening according to weather app. All gone now. As usual at least 3 types of weather in one day.

I hope we are going to see some brightness soon. These endless days of dark damp cold dullness is getting rather depressing

Cloud 10 No it was just heavy rain.

Anyone get some snow around Newcastle this morning?, was a nice looking clump passed over first thing this morning.

Just heavy rain in Durham yesterday. But when I got back to my car at 11.30 last night it was covered in thick ice. Couldn't open doors. Luckily enough I managed to open my boot where the de-icer was.

Really is kick in the teeth after such a long drawn out Winter but not complaining. D11 of falling about half of seasonal average for me, so March has some catching up

Seem to have lost the strong easterly breeze now which is helping with the snowiness.(technical term)

Nice huge flakes now & settling quite easily

Turned to snow here at the moment and starting to settle on grass,cars etc.

Bit of a sleety mix just starting

Id rate it rather poor aswell. Although we did get 4 or 5cm early December which was nice. It's been a rather stormy winter and often mild/very mild. Very little frost although managed 4 days on the bounce last weekend beginning of this week but overall very poor. Probably a 3/10 from me

So my winter score this year is a 3/10. Here in darlo we had about 5-6 days of laying snow early December with 4 days of falling snow during that period. We always do a little better in darlo than teesside for snow. The chase in mid January was horrendous it seemed to go on for ever and delivered next to nowt. February was beyond bad it's been horrendous Feb has barely delivered a frost. Feb was a 0/10 for me. So another poor winter is almost over and it must be said that we are increasingly struggling to get anything out of our warming climate. I really think we are going to be looking at more and more snowless winters as the years go by. Anyway guys see you all next November for more fruitless painful chases .

Thought I'd give my rating for winter, I know March can deliver but I can't see it this year. It's a shocking 2 out of 10 I would even go as far as saying we have not even had a winter, every year it just feels like a extended autumn and then into spring.

Felt much cooler today. Was nice to step outside earlier and actually need my thicker coat on. Hopefully some drier weather over next couple of days with some chilly nights

Classic rain shadow today. I don't think any of that cold front made it over the Pennines

It was a lovely 12c with sunny skies walking round gibside today and nee breeze either. It felt rather pleasant. The rest of this week looking quite unsettled but hopefully won't be constant rain.

Does feel really nice out there today,and we missed the worst of the rain for a change.

Anyone else starting to enjoy the mildness now? It has felt rather spring like in-between any rain and the heating has barely been on.

Just driven to Sunderland and back. There's a lot of water about out there.

Or look it’s raining again. I’m sure this was forecast to stay out in the North Sea

Heavy rain warning issued from 7pm tonight to 12:00 tomorrow https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2024-02-10&id=f7186f4a-a228-4608-8d1d-6fa5d5075864

geordiekev very poor snow effort this winter. Especially up your way. Infact even for frosts it's been very poor. Still though, the good amount we had back in early December means we've still had more snow here than last winter which only produced a few dustings.