Winter 2025/2026 - Cold or Mild?

Every year, we get the...
- clickbait of blizzards. Not a sniff.
- clickbait of decent inches of snow ("decent" as in over over 6 inches). Still not a sniff.
- clickbait of -10C. Once again, not a sniff.

The average winter these days is an icing sugar dusting of snow on the rooftops 1 day of the year, which is melted by lunchtime.

Yet, if there's an amber or red warning for a 35C summer, then we'll 100% definitely get a 35C summer.

Greta dictates the weather, not the weatherman.
 
Minusorange said:
Cold winters are a thing of the past all we will see is wet and mild with a few storms
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We had a number of cold spells last winter with some areas having a lot of snow!
It also wasn't long ago we had the big freeze :p. It's not going to be cold n snowy every winter :D
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Every year, we get the...
- clickbait of blizzards. Not a sniff.
- clickbait of decent inches of snow ("decent" as in over over 6 inches). Still not a sniff.
- clickbait of -10C. Once again, not a sniff.

The average winter these days is an icing sugar dusting of snow on the rooftops 1 day of the year, which is melted by lunchtime.

Yet, if there's an amber or red warning for a 35C summer, then we'll 100% definitely get a 35C summer.

Greta dictates the weather, not the weatherman.
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Neil79 said:
There's also a ton of berries on the bushes and some say this indicates a cold winter ahead!
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I'm not sure I hold anything to it, but the Horse Chestnut tree in my village has gone nuts (LOL) this year, most years we've been here it has been relatively dormant, apparently it historically has done that before notably cold winters.
 
Despite the dry summer, some fruiting trees have had a bonanza harvest, because there was so little rain in spring that would usually destroy a lot of the pre-fruit flowers.

Does the same maybe apply to some nut producing trees?
 
UTmaniac said:
Despite the dry summer, some fruiting trees have had a bonanza harvest, because there was so little rain in spring that would usually destroy a lot of the pre-fruit flowers.

Does the same maybe apply to some nut producing trees?
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In the case of the Horse Chestnut maybe. I don't really hold much to it myself but the people around here who've been around longer are adamant it has never done that except before notable winters.
 
Rroff said:
In the case of the Horse Chestnut maybe. I don't really hold much to it myself but the people around here who've been around longer are adamant it has never done that except before notable winters.
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Atomic Shrimp youtuber (nature/countryside walks, cooking, gardening, scam busting etc. based in Dorset these days) reckons that some trees do bumper harvests every few years, so squirrels and other wildlife simply have no chance of consuming everything, enabling more seedlings to grow.
 
I don't care about the temperature. I just hope it's sunnier than normal!
 
It's not winter today, but it seems silly posting this in the "it's too hot thread."

What a difference 48 hours makes, it was at least 20C if not a bit higher, after 1700 on Friday.

Today, the high has been 14C and feels a fraction lower due to the northerly windchill factor.

Currently 13C at ~1730... Brrrr!:(
 
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