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Dry, cloudy and chilly I would say.

Looks predominately dry for the bulk of the country.

I remain unconvinced until we are at +48hrs, we've been here so many times this winter.

The same that's been happening throughout winter, ECM leads the way but the GFS is having none of it, then the GFS joins the party only for the ECM to start downgrading everything.

Would you consider moving up to the NW Ian, I ask from a purely selfish point of view with regards to our local BBC weather presenters. Without wanting to sound too harsh, what they know about meteorology could be written on the back of gnats testicle.

Depends on the time of the year, even during the 80's not one of those easterly outbreaks during the winter months brought sunshine.

We rarely get sunny days of an easterly.

No, no RP, it is only to be ignored when showing mild.

Indeed, could we be heading up the same garden path yet again. Hopefully we will see the long awaited retrogression towards Greenland before May.

Oh no not another easterly, for these parts they are pants 99% of the time. Fingers crossed we at least see some much needed sunshine, I won't hold my breath though as not many easterlies bring sunny conditions.

The usual nonsense regarding the potential easterly being progged at the end of next week in the MOD, personally I cant abide easterlies but as long as it brings some much needed sunshine I'm happy.

Well there goes another snow to rain slushfest of an event, it really has been a poor winter for these neck of the woods for both cold and snow events. Hopefully we get some much needed sunshine in the coming weeks/months, as I'm fed up of grey laded and damp skies. Here's to Spring/Summer 2013, may you at least bless us with some sun, warmth and thunderstorms.

Indeed RP, how many times has this forum gone into meltdown only to find the actual event is a non event. Back to the models and I'm actually looking forward to some dry and frosty weather which the ECM is suggesting, I 'm not particularly bothered where the high sets up as long as it brings sunshine.

Very light snow now, temp on the up though currently 0.7c. These snow to rain events rarely get me excited anymore, possibly due to the fact that's all we've seen this winter.

Moderate snow here with a light covering, temp 0.6c.

We could talk about that big fat Greenland high that will sit there from May to September.Edit; I meant to quote your other post!

Based on sods law I'm predicting a cold and unsettled spring, one where heights over Greenland finally establish themselves leaving members of Net Weather to curse their luck again.

Looks like I could see the second winter running without a cover of snow that lasted longer than twelve hours, this year just betters last year by one fall of slush more. Also this winter I've only recorded 7 frosts, pathetic really and on par with some terrible winters from the bad old days.

But not widespread cold temps Fred, due to any cold not being able to back far enough West. Yes some have seen some very low minima's and it certainly could have been a lot worse, but with the NH being primed for cold outbursts it was disappointing too say the least that the majority of the UK couldn't tap into any deep cold.

Finally turned to snow here, temp 2.9c with a DP of 2.0c.

So the ECM is leading us up the garden path again this evening, I must admit it looks a far better set up synoptically then anything we've seen this winter thus far.

Temp 3.0c, weather, the usual.

Sleeting here with a temp of 4.2c, will it turn to snow I wonder.

Lol, as strong as Man City's defence. December came in around average for the month and January did deliver snow for quite a few. But we was never able to tap into any deep cold pool throughout due to heights not being able to back West far enough. It's been a relatively poor winter for a lot of areas for cold, around these parts we are running at average to just above in terms of temp and well below average in terms of snowfall and frosts. The synoptic profile in the NH has been fantastic, unfortunately for us we haven't been able to get the best out of this for large parts of this winter.

i admire you optimism Frosty but I'm struggling too see where such a cold spell will come from. We have the same problem as we've had all winter despite favourable Synoptics, maybe towards the end of this month we'll finally get heights in the right place but by then we'll be looking at making a silk purse out of a sows ear.