Summer of 95

Trying very nobly to give a cover on the grass (90 m ask), roads still too damp though.

It's coming down quite hard now, will really struggle to give any lasting cover with that ground so wet though.... Yesterday rain at 0C, today snow at 2-3C, bizarre weather.

It's turned to very wet snow now, less favourable conditions than yesterday morning for it, never going to stick as it might as well be falling straight into a lake.

Sleet here again. Only in the heavier bursts mind, it's mostly rain. This winter really is a stinker; every hint of wintriness has been down to evaporative cooling, it can't seem to manage without that even on the very few occasions the temp is low enough (ie yesterday). And it's always been the same few places that hog any settling snow, the same damn places that get it every time ie high ground in the north and Wales (plus Wrexham yesterday for some reason).

Good halo visible round the moon- a sign of something on the way? Seems to have warmed up in last couple of hours, frost that started to form has largely gone.

I've always rated March highly, it's almost never a westerly washout and can provide warm sun, heavy snow, frost, gales, beautiful clear nights that are great for stargazing (both the winter and summer stars are on view then)- it's only downside is the odd cloudy dry easterly spell. I'd like it even more if the clocks went forward a month earlier. April can be good too, usually seeing the first true warmth and is often sunnier than July or August. Does tend to be unsettled and wet more often than March though. May, June, July, September can have their moments; nothing beats a lengthy warm, dry, sunny spell during the time of longest days. Too many Junes and Julys are spoilt by cloudy cold wet rubbish though, so May which is less prone to that is more reliable, even if it's rarely warm throughout. September can usually be relied upon to provide a decent warm dry spell, but the shorter days spoil it somewhat. Dec, Jan, Feb are way too variable: for every Dec 2010, Jan 1987 or Feb 1991 there are a few Dec 1988s, Jan 2014s and Feb 2011s. August- way down the list because it has been so consistently poor in the 21st century, particularly in its lack of sunshine. September has been sunnier over the last 7-8 years. 19 years now since a really good one. Also the nights drawing in marks it down. And last are October and November. The months of 10C and rain. Specifically, I loathe the period from about 15 Oct to 15 Nov which is no man's land weatherwise- too late for 25C heat and too early for ice days. Even frost is rare these days. Early Oct and late Nov can have their moments, but those weeks around the Oct/Nov transition is the pits. Clocks going back and Christmas stuff in the shops 2 months early don't help either. I hate having my birthday then, never had a sunny one and I'm 34.

That's not Sandford Avenue up there, it's the top of the lane that carries on through Caradoc/Hazler Hill and eventually carries on towards Wenlock... About a mile past and 150m higher than the top of Sandford Avenue, close to 300m asl

Was clear but is trying to cloud over, dry since midday. Still puzzled by how it failed to snow across the western Midlands/Cheshire this morning when it was below zero and it managed it in Wrexham, but that's this winter for you. Hopefully another chance tomorrow, just one morning of lying snow would do now...

Wrexham town centre is between 70-100m according to Streetmap, I'm at 90m here.

The temperatures didn't seem marginal to me- was almost exactly freezing when that precipitation started yet there was barely any snow in it, it was 80% rain. Just looked out now and it's completely rain. The snow report in Wrexham is even more strange, there's nothing on the Llangollen webcam and Capel Curig was reporting rain at 0.6 C. Edit: Just checked th Llangollen cam again and it is snowing, but barely sticking. Still better than here though, and it's lower.

We managed an air frost eventually, temp is still near freezing, that precipitation has reached here and is giving... sleet that is turning to light rain! What is the matter with this winter? It's definitely cold enough for snow! Rain also being reported in Wales at 1C or so. Can't be warm uppers that's the problem if it's snowing higher up, must be the winter 13-14 curse.

Since February 1991, how many Scandi easterlies have brought both low temps AND lying snow to the greater part of England? Only Feb 1994 and late Jan 1996. Feb 2009 brought lying snow at some point to most places, but it didn't produce the low temperatures of classics like Jan 87 and Feb 91. The snow kept melting in the daytime and we only got so many days of lying snow because of overnight showers replacing the lost cover. Dec 1996 into New Year 1997 was good here, but too many places missed out on significant snowfall (including, strangely, London which usually does OK in easterlies). Feb 2005 was a joke away from the east coast, it barely settled for more than a few hours, despite -10 uppers and temps below freezing. Dec 2005 was too dry, and Dec 2002- the less said about that the better.

Will be driving down; probably Thursday night. Dip in the sea is out of the question methinks :-) Just hope I don't see too much rain, or miss any snow here.

April? Last morning with lying snow here was March 26th. I suppose we did get a cover of wet slushy snow briefly on the night of 13-14 Jan, but because of the constant refusal of the temp to drop at night this winter, it had gone by the all important 9am. Supposed to be going to Cornwall at the end of the week and all, if I can get there!

None! Nor can the fields which keep overflowing onto roads, or the gardens that have acquired ponds. No. More. Rain. Do you hear, weather??Snow, frost, sun, is fine.

It's August already? Really foul night again, bursts of torrential rain and wind. Bits that started to dry up yesterday are swamps again.

The lack of temperature variation this winter has been astonishing- since Christmas all bar 2 days have had a max between 5 and 10C, and all bar 5 a min between 1 and 6C. There hasn't been the strings of 12C days we got in many of the 90s/00s winters, but the lack of low temperatures- max and min- has certainly been unprecedented in any winter of the last 25 years here. Even the worst of the mild winters managed the odd day that struggled to rise above freezing, but this year there's been no max below 3C and only 1 below 5C. As well as cold uppers, inversion conditions have been notable by their absence- even clear nights have struggled to freeze and it's been over 2 weeks since the last air frost now.

Such a nice day today, first proper sunshine for weeks and actually feels quite pleasant. If only it would carry on!

Lots of sleet around in mid/north Wales above 250m (just got back from there) but nothing lying, even on 500m+ hills. Just grim and wet here-again.

"Oymyakon has never recorded an above freezing temperature between October 25 and March 17" according to Wikipedia... Will that need to be edited

Thought it was supposed to clear tonight... it is STILL raining and has been for nearly 12 hours now.....

Yes- I wonder why 0.2 though? Perhaps because anything less, even one raindrop, was being recorded as 0.1 (or 0.01") in the past?

That I remember, 24 in April 2012. Some data I've seen shows 27 at Shawbury in Nov 2000, but I wasn't living here then and sometimes they miss showers we get in Shrewsbury and vice versa.

And while that spell in autumn (a record I thought would last for years BTW) had quite a few days with just drizzle, this time it's been 32 with real rain.

Not too bad last night but really foul this morning, bins blowing around and yet more torrential rain. Now on 32 consecutive days with rain, could we beat the autumn's 37?