Summer of 95

That one isn't bad at all. Much drier than I expected, although still a bit too wet in summer. Good sunshine hours for inland eastern Europe though.

We had this a couple of months ago, then most people went for inland west North America. To that I'll add this absolute beauty of a climate, the best of any capital city I've found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan I like the cold, snowy but short winters- January is freezing but March is around 10C warmer so no cold dragging into spring. Lovely hot, dry sunny summers with low humidity, and pleasantly warm springs and autumns with no month averaging more than 50mm. An absolute gem.

798mm just for Dec and Jan is incredible. The average rainfall at Delhi in Jul, Aug and Sep (the monsoon) is about 600-650mm. Even Shawbury has topped the 100, which is very unusual in a westerly winter month. 30 rain days out of 31 here.

Wind really getting up, been raining since about 11. Absolutely the last thing we needed.

If it's coming from the SE I don't hold out much hope, it's been just rain and 3-5C down there all day. For some reason Notts/Derbyshire area seems to have had the coldest air instead.

Just drizzling here now, at exactly the same temperature it was snowing this morning. Been hovering around 2.5 C all day so coldest day of the winter provided it doesn't go up overnight.

Very very light snow here for last hour. You obviously missed the half an hour on the night of 13-14th :-)

Rain again here, Severn is up on the fields now. Just checked xcweather and it's 4-5C with 3C dewpoints in East Anglia and the SE, not very cold this easterly.

Rain early on and been drizzling and murky ever since. Horrid again. 25 wet days on the trot now, thought the 37 in Oct/Nov would be a record that stood for years not months......

Can't see beyond a 90 style shocker to be honest. 6.2C

At what altitude are these colossal snow depths? I'm guessing at least 1000m, driving through North Wales yesterday there was nothing at all lying at 800m there. Since the temperatures this month have shown such little variation, and the rain has been so constant, it's entirely believable that there has been a "sweet spot" elevation wise where the temperature has been just right for loads of heavy, wet, accumulating snow for weeks on end. As the low-level maxima haven't been very mild- almost entirely between 5-10C- that level has probably been about 1000-1200m. By contrast in winters like 06/7 and 89/90 the maxima here were 12-13C for long stretches, which would push the freezing level above the highest British mountains. So even if it was very wet the snow wouldn't be able to accumulate so much. And even a freezing cold winter would be no useful if it was too dry.

Crap winter, crap summer, crap winter, crap summer again- that was the story of 2007 and 2008. It was like the autumn that began at the end of September 2006 lasted two years, broken only in April 2007. Not a single day with lying snow between Feb 2007 and Jan 2009 here. However besides 06/7 and 07/8, the following winters also had not seen lying snow by the end of January: 2011/12 (first day 19 Feb) 2002/3 (4th Feb) 1999/00 (none) 1998/99 (9th Feb) 1991/2 and 1992/3 (two consecutive winters without lying snow)

30 minutes of wet snow which lay for about an hour, overnight 13-14 Jan (from 2340 to 0010, so technically 2 days!) and a bit of sleet on Dec 20. Nothing lying at 9am.

Might have been late April, about the 17-18th there was snow showers during the day despite temps reaching around 8C (which felt warmer) in the sunshine. It had been in the high teens the week before, went up to the high 20s at the start of May, then we had frost and even snow in mid-May. Crazy spring.

I was thinking strangely enough, how damp winter 94-95 was; there was barely a dry day from Christmas to late Feb although it had produced some wintry weather by this point. Then it snowed in March and the summer......

Even the ducks are getting fed up now. Been raining most of the day occasionally taunting us with bright spells. The Severn is starting to flood now, wont take much more to get it on the car parks. But the fields are totally saturated and have been for weeks, they are overflowing onto the roads. We desperatel need either a good freeze or a dry 2 weeks.

At least Feb 1998 was pretty dry. If it won't snow that is what we need!

Absolutely belting it down again.With rain of course... if it won't snow are we ever going to get a dry spell? It's getting really tiring now, getting wet and muddy every time I go out and surely the dogs feel the same :lol: The garden will be a protected wetland soon at this rate.

8C with rain showers, no snow even visible on hills. All the snow last night at low levels seemed to be south and east of here, not what you'd expect in a NW flow. Looking round the regional forums, it looks like the city centres of London, Birmingham and Manchester have yet to see a flake between them- wonder when the last time that was the case on Jan 27th?

Something's falling now- oh what a surprise it's rain again. Can't really understand how some are getting snow, it seems far too warm...

Still no sign of any snow, skies are clear but the temperature once more just will not drop. It's still 3C and has been since those light RAIN showers earlier cleared away.

Not clear any more- more boring, pathetic rain. In fact it's more like drizzle, and it doesn't feel anywhere near cold enough for snow. Even if we get a heavy evaporating cooling shower it'll just melt once it's stopped, because the temperature refuses to drop when it clears at night this winter.

Well would you believe Monmouth is where I was yesterday, while it was thundering in Shrewsbury- and now its snowing there while I'm back here seeing nothing........

Nothing at all here- the sky has cleared

Seems to have got warmer in last hour as wind picked up, will be hard pressed to get anything wintry tonight at this rate. Even if uppers play ball nothing is going to lie if temps at ground level refuse to fall below 1-3C....