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9.8c and 89mm please

7.1c and 67mm please.

6.7C and 45mm please.

4.9c and 65mm for me please.

3.6c and 72mm for me please.

7.1c and 121mm please.

12.3 and 110mm please.

14.8c and 72mm please

16.4 and 85mm please.

17.9 and 68mm

15.6c and 33mm please.

Sorry, moving on!

12.5c and 48mm for me. Thanks

9.1c and 69mm please.

Just for the record, my reference above to the -20c upper air temp clipping the Kent coast should have read 1st February 1956, not January. Sorry if anyone was confused. I remember it well living in Hampshire at the time. A bone chilling easterly. A grey stratus sheet but no appreciable snow except on the east coast, as in 1987.

The other near miss was 1st January 1956 when meteociel shows -20 clipping the Kent coast.

5.4 and 48mm please.

4.9c and 38mm please.

4.2 C and 92mm please.

2.9c and 49mm for a first timer please.

To be fair Catacol did sign off on this winter with several posts admitting we were in the last chance saloon . We await the post mortem from the strat guys

Four miles from the North Sea in NE Norfolk I recorded three consecutive ice days from 28/2 to 2/3. Lowest minimum was -6c on the 27th and lowest maximum -2.5c on the 28th. Snow was lying in the morning on 7 days. Depth approx 3” level with 2 foot drifts. Now gone. Windchill and freezing of exposed soil in fields which was blown as a brown stain onto the snow after it had eased was notable. Most interesting feature to me, who has only lived here a few years, was the influence of upper air temperatures on convective precipitation. Around here -8c with wind off the sea produces every form of iced precipitation except snow. At -12/13 each shower was preceded by a brief fall of ice pellets before it became all snow. Not before -15/16 was it all powdered snow. Frontal snow I know is possible with much lower uppers, but that has been in short supply these last few years around here. I remember Bill Giles talking often about snow showers pecking away at the east coast. I don’t think he could have lived this way!

I am offering a simple and not very scientific analogy as to the conundrum faced by the models in working out where we go from here. Run a hot bath add cold water and mix. Burnt fingers, hidden hot spots just when you think it safe. How can models address that on a global scale. Give them a chance? Fiw I have a feeling that the high will migrate to Scandinavia SSW or not. ?

What I find interesting about that chart is the spread at +192. The op is one of the mildest. One or two go close to minus 10. Having looked at weather charts since the 60’s, I feel this winter has a few cold surprises in the tank.?