snow freak

I wouldn't get our hopes up too much this weekend to be honest. I fear the set up will be too marginal and we are more likely to end up with icy cold rain rather than snow. Why are there so many marginal events in the British winters these days. It seems every time we have some sort of a chance for snow, it turns out too marginal for most of us and we just end up with rain rather than snow. Even a few cms of snow would be nice. That's hardly asking a lot.

oh well it now seems the upcoming cold snap isn't going to quite as exciting as the charts promised a few days ago. Too much of a marginal set up for many of us. Marginality seems to be the common theme in British winters these days and even when we do have a cold spell we now end up with cold rain rather than snow. Utterly depressing.

well that was another non eventful winter. Glad to see the back of it to be honest and can't say I'm enthusiastic about the winter 2017/18 either going by the UK's recent track records. I just want some summer warmth now....although even that might be asking too much too.

the thought of a cold spell in March not to mention March fills me with horror. it would be just typical of our climate to start producing the winter goods come the Spring, when it is rather pointless in having them by then. I just want Spring warmth now. Winter's had its chance and failed miserably.

well I for one am done with this winter now. okay so we did have some cold but as regards snow it was a dismal affair so all I want now is for warmth to start to show rather than this non starter of a winter. it had its chance and blown it as far as im concerned.

marginal yet again. if only we had some big mountains in this country. Even Ben Nevis is peanuts. we need a 6000 ft plus mountain....but we can't even have that

I sincerely hope so. The easterlies we have got, albeit rare, these past few years have been awful with hardly any snow attached to them. Wish we could see another February 1991. now that was an easterly blizzard to remember. We get absolute dross these days.

what a waste of an easterly. we wait all winter to finally get one and when we do, it gives us nothing but cold and grey. I'm sure easterlies always used to be a certain guarantee of intense cold and snowy weather or it seemed to be. Our weather is falling apart these days. We can't even get decent summers either, just constant Autumn.

I hope you're right but I don't believe anything they say anymore. they are just guessing at what the future will bring really.

why is it, even when we get snow, it is always light and basically not worth having?

I agree, this winter has had some many failed opportunities and I was hoping this easterly would finally bring the goods, but it is materialising into nothing but grey and cold, hardly the snow laden easterlies in past decades. I think our winters now are more or less non starters when it comes to snow. Give it a few more years and snow will be such a rarity in the British Isles....even more so than now. Very sad.

yes I'm sure you are right. come March or April we will finally get the cold ....just when its too late and we want the weather to warm up. This country always has its weather patterns topsy turvy. I hate late winter cold in the Spring because even if it snows it hardly lasts until mid morning, so what is the point. Also after several months of dull, cold (but not cold enough for snow) weather all I want by late March and April is some spring warmth at last. I used to love the winter but these days they have become so unexciting and tedious I cannot wait for spring and summer.

problem is our heating bills are usually the same whether it is 5c or -5c, we still have to have the heating on regardless. that's what annoys me. at least if we had cold weather we could at least enjoy it and have to pay the heating bills too but if it is just dull, drizzly but still chilly, say under 10c we still use the same amount of heating basically but don't actually enjoy the borefest weather. we can't seem to win either way in this country.

yet another dire winter after so much promise in the late Autumn. we have seen models predicting real cold and snow only for them to backtrack at the last moment or even if they do materialise, the cold and snow have been far less than anticipated. we have had 1 morning of snow this winter so far and I see no reason for that total to go up before the winter is finally over. at least it beats last winter when we didn't even get 1 day of snow. We used to be more or less guaranteed at least a few days of snow cover each winter, even during the milder winters but even a day or so of snow now seems to be a rarity. I used to look forward to winter but these days I just want to see it over and done with. At least with the summer you don't have to waste money on heating costs (although even that can't be guaranteed with a british summer). All we seem to have these days is cool summers and mild winters, basically one long Autumn. So boring.

I tend to disagree really. apart from 1981/82 the 1980's were not particularly cold or snowy most winters from what I can recall. in fact 1989 was snowless and practically frost free and exceptionally mild.

Yes I kind of agree that at least we have had some frosts this winter, unlike 2015/16, however I can understand what the other poster is saying too. It's simply the lack of snow that is making everyone so fed up. We had no snow at all last winter and this winter we have seen just 1 day of snow falling which didn't even last on the ground for more than a few hours. I hardly call that a decent winter....or a winter at all really. In our location you could more or less expect at least 5 days of snow either falling or lying in the past few decades but it really seems as though those winters are gone and we are lucky if we get 1 or 2 days of the white stuff now. We do seem to have more of a continuous Autumn and that even goes for our summers too, which have not been great either in terms of heat and sunshine, just mediocre temperatures and hazy sunshine or cloud.

anyone know if northampton might get a shower overnight as we had sod all today only cold rain. i have given up getting excited about these non events in this country. its pathetic when we can't even get a few cms once a bleedin year.

at least you got half a milimetre of slush...we didnt even get that. what a waste of time.

yes we got absolutely nothing in northants apart from cold rain. im not holding any hold for tomorrow either after today's dismal events

we have had nothing but cold rain. how come the south has had snow? this country really is tits up weatherwise.

any crap winters day in the UK. i really do despair now of seeing any even decent snow events as they seem to always be marginal and non events compared to years ago. at least we used to have a few days of snow each winter and now we're lucky if we get even one. i hate this counties climate. wish i could emigrate.

i am not even getting excited by the prospect of an easterly next week now. been let down too many times to get excited about anything this countries weather does. it is just so unexciting.

i agree, what with Greece and its islands getting snow and us further north nearer the arctic getting sod all, there is something very wrong going on. this country is rubbish.

Another absolute disappointment and anti climax here in east midlands. just cold rain. is it really so much to ask for even one decent snow day in this lousy country? obviously yes is the answer. i give up.