Gaz1985

Nothing more to say on the Manchester ens other than wet and temps around average if slightly above at times.

Bet that's rough if you're at sea overall a rubbish set of models so far this evening if you are looking for dryness - it's the same record played over and over since December.

Tell me about it - Thought I could hear your dog from up here!

Gibraltar is another I like, hot Summers, very mild Winters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar#Climate I would hazard a guess that in Winter it is one of the mildest places in Europe, further east you go in the Med the chance of colder incursions pushing down from Eastern Europe in places like Greece and Turkey. Snow can fall right down to the coast in Crete.

I was thinking the same thing.

Hence why I missed it out, but since the 1800's the coldest temp in Miami has only been -2c on Feb 3rd 1917 and even then it was just for 30 mins I believe then quickly rose above 0c - not really damaging. So a damaging frost in south Florida does not occur from the Everglades south. Orlando's lowest ever temp was -8c and this is mid Florida not south, the Orlando area is where most of Florida's Orange's are grown. Also to note is Orlando is in a county called "Orange county" From what I have read Miami has only seen a handful of temps around 0c since 1800's, so if you lived in Miami all your life the chances of seeing a frost are very slim or maybe only once.

No, damaging frosts do not occur that far south in Florida. It only occurs from Orlando northwards. In fact Key West has never recorded an air frost.

Apologies if this is a subject that has been posted before. My ideal place to live would be the Atacama desert in Chile - the world's driest hot desert. Where it rains maybe 2 days in the year that's it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate Minus the threat from hurricanes and thunderstorms my 2nd/3rd ideal place to live and climate would be somewhere like Miami or Key West in Florida where it's very warm/hot year round with strong sunshine.

Hmmm not too sure I guess if you like "variety" then probably England has the better climate for that - Far enough south to get heat but far enough north and east to get cold and snow (apart from this Winter )

Unfortunately a wet picture overall esp the further west and south west you are, more flooding likely. Accumulated rainfall up to 192hrs

Found this today - well I pinched it lol, looks an interesting place called Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, snowing quite heavily by the looks of it. http://live.saimanet.kg/ru/cams/2#.Uu6zONI0IZx

This January and Winter is reminding me of Autumn 2000, another month of this wet weather and it feel 100% like it!

Long-awaited rain falls in California's capital Sacramento, ending 52-day dry streak http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/29/6111175/sacramento-weather-rain.html

For this locale as we enter the final month of Winter we've had: 3 days of falling snow 0 days of lying snow

Even only up to 72 hours on the WRF-NMM it looks very wet for places especially the west. 80mm+ in places, a bit more than that over county Galway, Kerry, Mayo over in Ireland. Obviously this model counts what we have already seen today which has been very wet in places.

A good chunk of Nevada also in extreme drought and bits elsewhere in other US states. Also worth mentioning it has been an unusual dry Autumn/Winter in the Pacific north west, been very dry in Seattle with just bits of rain, they usually have Winters like what we have experienced this Winter. The chance of proper Pacific pressure systems moving back in from 8th Feb which should bring relief with those rain spikes at the bottom of the graph below. A bit more scatter for San Francisco but non the less the biggest chance I've seen so far this Winter of more appreciable rain. But unfortunately rain not as likely for Los Angeles.

Apart from the rain I've enjoyed this Winter, just need high pressure to anchor itself to the south or over us and it would be a perfect end for me, CFS hinting at high pressure from mid Feb onwards.

Dew point rising now almost to 1c - no chance of any settling snow here tonight unless it drops again.

2006 was another cold March, some places remained below freezing early in the month. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/2006/march.html

Bigger flakes coming down but not heavy enough to stick.

Some flurries starting here, but there's a covering at Flash (highest village in England @1518 feet)

They are where you live, the further north and west you go the Summers are in a league for their own for crapness. Apart from last July. I remember previous Summers many a time the south east with 25-28c yet it has been 17c here dull or even raining, not really warm enough to enjoy.

Well you might not be far wrong - considering on average our climate is dominated by a prevailing W/SW wind. The likelyhood of a long hot Summer is less than a cool wet one.

Wet sums up the Manchester ens but the 850 temperatures looking like going above the seasonal norm starting this time next week.

You are right, when it's been 5-8 degrees it's felt chilly in a strong breeze. As you say It's not been a very mild Winter but not cold - notably so by night.