Winter 2024/25 - Cold or Mild? Rain or Snow?

Tombstone said:
Thats the primary reason why 15 years ago we decided to spend every December/Christmas/New Year in Canada, we simply got fed up of throwing back the curtains on Christmas morning and it basically looking like a rainy October day outside. We decided right then, from now on, every year will be Canada so that we can have a Christmas that actually looks like the Christmasses that tv adverts and movies are always thrusting at us :)
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Would love to do this but bet it's a few bob. We went to Lapland a few Christmases ago. The first time going on a "cold" holiday and I loved every minute of it. Broke the bank a bit though.
 
Did anyone watch the first ever Top Gear shown the other day?

Broadcast in April 1977 and one segment showed them driving through a blizzard.

Those were the winters we used to get, just a distant memory now.
 
sprite1275 said:
Would love to do this but bet it's a few bob. We went to Lapland a few Christmases ago. The first time going on a "cold" holiday and I loved every minute of it. Broke the bank a bit though.
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Yeah its a several thousand in total each December but its worth it. Not missed a year for 15 years now (except the Covid years when travel wasnt possible, and that was hell, being consigned to a UK Christmas , gah ! )
 
Supposedly a crazy 17/18C out there in Hampshire, trying to coax myself out for my first outdoor ride in weeks.
 
It might be quite mild again in Southampton , but the wind is a bit gusty and it's damp out there.
 
Waiting for Storm Ashley to hit the Highlands which is due to get to me at around midnight tonight.

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The west coast will get the brunt of it though.
 
I read that this storm absolutely battered Ireland and Scotland as it came across but you wouldn't have a clue if you looked at the BBC website. If this was hitting the south it would be wall to wall coverage.
 
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Still thinking this is going to be a cold winter, or atleast we are going to have one hell of a cold snap at some point compare to last year.

Far more rain ( Slower moving ), low pressures a lot further north, not your usual low after low going from south west to north east.
 
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MR_Punk said:
I read that this storm absolutely battered Ireland and Scotland as it came across but you wouldn't have a clue if you looked at the BBC website. If this was hitting the south it would be wall to wall coverage.
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There are articles on the BBC site but because nobody called the storm gay it didn't make the front page, but I digress.

It was quite wild here with the trees taking a battering and now leaves everywhere, lots of leaves...
 
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