Winter ends at the spring equinox @ 21 March in Northern Hemisphere

I was in Tesco, Prestatyn, yesterday afternoon [what an exciting life] and the sound of hailstones on the metal roof was awesome.

MichaelG.

Hi, there isn't an exact time in each year when the four seasons start or finish (I'm not talking about Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons) but this npl.uk.co.uk/resources may help you.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 17/01/2023 10:30:31

What's the problem? On the radio someone wrote in to say that in Alberta children are only stopped from going outside to play when it gets below -18. Didn't say if that is C or F.

Lee i like the shot of your round workshop. Is that so you can have a Bridgeport in the centre and rotate the head right round

Or the weather presenters' "meterological spring". Conveniently aligned with month endings rather than the degree of tilt of the Earth in relation to the sun – which gives us the seasons.

Bill

-18 is cold in Celsius and Fahrenheit! -18F is nearly -27C!

-27C is coincidently the lowest temperature ever recorded in the UK; happened twice, both in Northern Scotland. Anyone else remember 1982?

Although we've had a couple of cold snaps due to continental cold air moving in from the Arctic and Siberia, this winter is one of the warmest ever recorded in the UK. UK weather is normally mild and wet due to the Gulf Stream, and extremes are unusual, though much worsened due to global warming. Thus the country is reduced to chaos by a centimetre of snow because we don't have garages full of snowploughs (only used once per decade), or winter tyres on our cars. Snow-chains are useless unless the snow is packed hard and deep. British snow is usually nasty wet stuff too. It approximates the ideal standard of slipperiness, which is wet-ice on wet-ice! Drivers don't get much practice with it, and our busy roads become full of cars gently sliding into each other. By the time winter tyres have been fitted, the snow has usually melted…

I remember great excitement in Malta during the 1962 winter, when they had a snow-shower. Much more serious in the UK, where two continental cold weather systems stalled over the UK for 3 months whilst cold wet air from the Atlantic moved into the mix. The weather stayed unusually cold in exactly the right conditions for persistent heavy snow for months on end. Bad enough in a country equipped and ready for harsh winters, but the UK had to extemporise and learn on the job. Nasty, especially as the winter had started with a severe London smog. The rest of the world called Bronchitis 'The English Disease'.

Dave

Why the surprise at a some snow? We are in Winter!

January – February has always normally been the coldest part of the year and part of Winter, but we have had a run of rather mild Winters..

Lee, it is good to have friends like that. Cherish them.

We’re wimps! There’s been 32cm in parts of Scotland (according to the lunchtime forecast) apparently with more to come.

Edited By V8Eng on 17/01/2023 13:40:34

There's been a 6 inch disc of ice hanging from the bird feeder bush since yesterday am when I took it out of their water

It's pretty crispy just now, hopefully warms up by saturday

2nd June 1975 cricket match in Buxton abandoned due to snow. We don't have a climate, we have weather, and yes it's getting warmer on average.

Winter hasn't really started yet up here in the Highlands. Had about four inches of snow and the coldest it's got so far is -19 at Ballater!