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I remember as a kid growing up, that the March Winds,April Showers bring forth the may flowers saying was true Granted these days its seems all over the place, but May was always the first month for any decent "Heatwave" In fact i remember hearing people saying how amazing it was to get temps in the 20's in May Then from june till the end of the school holidays or so it was quite often water fights and such in long warm sunny spells Who knows this year hey :D

9am to 12pm tomoz better than a kick in the teeth? but in reality maybe only the Wrekin getting a covering round by me :)

i'm willing that flow from the arctic that's just clipping northern Scotland, southwards https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-356.51,54.23,1886/loc=25.453,57.697 3 hours later and it's moving south fairly quickly https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-351.71,59.92,1886

Rained passed through really quickly here about an hour of lightish rain then an almighty deluge for about 15-20 mins now its all passed through and you wouldn't know we'd had anything lol!.

Grass and roofs, still white with hard frost here in my part of Telford' although signs of melt as the sun slowly moves the shade on I think the weather is is purposely being awkward for us regarding Christmas day lol! Relatively cool up to and after again but a silly 12-13c on the day itself? Sense of of humour our weather has Might be nice to have a good storm go through though

Roll on spring At least for the lighter Days... Although i am a snow lover, Maybe the north atlantic cold pool is not such a good thing, i think it's partly to blame to be honest.

Current Net weather Snow risk Maps Any chance do you reckon? Action seems to be between 18:00 and Midnight?

Heavy period of sleet just now only 145m asl......

30% snow, 70% rain, here in Brookside Telford, just the very very odd big flake to my surprise within rain, but will be rain ultimately soon

Heavy snow and sticking fast Lol! Excellent

Snowing here now sticking to shed roofs only though But at least it's snow :O)

Will the brown area be this years september min i wonder?

Just proves how strange the country we live in is.

Light snow falling here in telford now Amazing how snow seems to of fallen at will this year. Not had to will it our way at all it's just come. It can bog off now though

After spending 2 hours shovelling ice off the alleyway and paths it's snowed on and off since. Just wondering if i'll see anymore of thse blue sky patches today? to keep it from snowing back over.

Going to be controversial here, even though i am a snow enthusiast Were getting the odd clear patch in the sky here in Telford and it's having a good go at thawing the snow. It's gets quite a good pace of melt as soon as the sun pops out from behind the clouds. Never thought i'd say it but i just want it to go now :/ and let spring take over,(for my gas bill anyway)

Just look at the thicker ice heading down fram now Click to animate

Hi I quite like your idea of the blooms acting as a fail-safe when the ice goes. And I can't ignore the bad state of the ice at the moment I:e the massive cracks. Annoyingly at a time when area has done quite well seemingly just now over previous years.Also the arctic above 80 degrees seems to be going through it's coldest period for many a year. So many contradictions at the moment to what we are visually seeing, and i'd like to think the eye doesn't lie. Which makes me wonder about Gray Wolf's theory of a change in direction of the warm currents. We shall soon be able to see what is unfolding with onset of melt. Not looking forward to it. And just a round up of all the factors that make up the arctic Extent on IJIS shooting up again to chaallenge 2012's extent?. Is a little cheer not deserved for the better than recent years area Really close to average as far as area goes now Surface Temps 80n Arctic -50c temps have died back somewhat but still very cold And then the conundrum of that traceable line of warm sst that reach back from svalbard down towards Canada in a line. Confusing to say the least P.s then we have this diagram :/ Brown region this years min?

So are you kind of thinking what i'm thinking GW? The normal N.A.D position isnt amazingly far south of where the line is so could it be that an off shoot is a bit further North? See sawing around at the moment then B.F.T.V where will it land i wonder? Hi Be cause I know the dynamics of missing ice but this line of anomolies just seem different especially if you trace the line backwards Gray .Wolf has mentioned studies in the past, that indicate a possible shift and penetration to more northerly lattitudes, and the sea surface temps have been 8-10.c above average all winter witout hardly budging B.F.T.V and Gray wolf have you any opinions on this?

That line of above average ssts look likely culprits. Could that in fact be an arm of the gulf stream as it seems to look like a current of warmth to me ?

Hi BFTV Couldn't access the thread for seemingly ages But i see it's back So on the face of it things are looking promising? What are your current views on the current situation Nice to see the whole arctic basin very cold now and even some -50c 2m temps developing

Some -50's 2m temps just starting to appear on the coasts of russia note the purple -50 pixels Interesting to see how much healthier kara is this year.And area being closer to averge then past years.The proper litmus test is at the start of the melt season though.

Snowing very gently here in Telford, about 4 or five inches everywhere still, after a slight top up last night. Signs of a slight thaw again though, as the icicles have started dripping rapidly. Snow doesn't seem to being touched yet.

Snowing heavily in Telford now

Nice snow spell for me Cant really judge from the pic but there is at least 3-4 inches of snow on top of the wall Even though the radar shows a clear spot over us it's still very much snowing, all be it very lightly now. Telford