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

Bloomin' raining again I'm getting tired of it now
DXP55 said:
Gorden Bennet !!!!

We had to walk or take bus to school snow or not.
The first thing we did in playground was all walk in a line to pack the snow down as it was sure to freeze overnight so we had a slide across the playground next morning..
There was a few broken bones and cuts and grazes but it was never banned. We were harder then.:)
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We used to to listen to traffic reports on radio to hear if school was closed or not invariably it was open then you listened for bus cancellations to see if you had to trudge through the snow or not once I set out after hearing it had been cancelled only for the bus to arrive it wasn't even at a stop the driver knew me so well he stopped the bus for me to get on regardless haha
 
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DXP55 said:
Gorden Bennet !!!!

We had to walk or take bus to school snow or not.
The first thing we did in playground was all walk in a line to pack the snow down as it was sure to freeze overnight so we had a slide across the playground next morning..
There was a few broken bones and cuts and grazes but it was never banned. We were harder then.:)
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You sound like my nan.
 
I'm still aggrieved I never had a "snow day" in my entire school career. The only unscheduled day off I can remember for the entire school was one day when a boiler broke.
 
Stu999 said:
I'm still aggrieved I never had a "snow day" in my entire school career. The only unscheduled day off I can remember for the entire school was one day when a boiler broke.
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Had several, mostly in the late 80s, for some reason I still remember the one I actually made it in for where almost no one else did (probably the 90/91 winter) - I only lived ~150m from the school, aside from myself and 5-6 pupils who got a bus, pretty much no one else turned up and only like 3 teachers, so we started the day drinking hot chocolate (which was a proper novelty at that age so probably why I remember it) as the kids on the bus had got very cold.
 
Rroff said:
Had several, mostly in the late 80s, for some reason I still remember the one I actually made it in for where almost no one else did (probably the 90/91 winter) - I only lived ~150m from the school, aside from myself and 5-6 pupils who got a bus, pretty much no one else turned up and only like 3 teachers, so we started the day drinking hot chocolate (which was a proper novelty at that age so probably why I remember it) as the kids on the bus had got very cold.
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I'll always remember the day I was walking to school then all of a sudden kids started running the other way saying the schools had a fire!!! Got there and all of the reception area was black. Think we got about a week off. Best time ever.

Anyway are we going to be getting more of this weather this winter?
 
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Saturday/Sunday looking pretty grim here with sustained rain, heavy at times, and unusually sustained strong though not overly stormy winds.

Some hints right at the end of existing models of a possible more significant cold patch in the longer run.

EDIT: Now forecasting light snow here for tomorrow morning, looks like higher ground over the South West might see transient snow early Thursday though doesn't look like it will come to much - followed quite quickly by milder, wetter, weather.
 
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Defo one of the perks of our office, majority women so the heating is cranked up. Managed to get away with a hoodie and shorts it was that warm, not looking forward to wfh if this continues.

Feels like temp barely got above 1c here, 16c forecast for sunday is going to feel tropical!
 
explicit4u said:
Defo one of the perks of our office, majority women so the heating is cranked up. Managed to get away with a hoodie and shorts it was that warm, not looking forward to wfh if this continues.

Feels like temp barely got above 1c here, 16c forecast for sunday is going to feel tropical!
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At least if there’s lots of women and it gets too cold you’ll have an abundance of chapel hat pegs
 
arknor said:
It's going to be a bitter cold Winter, like only your old nan would be able to remember
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It would be quite ironic for Labour given their winter fuel payment cuts which probably needed to happen but obviously opponents will delight in glee if pensioners suffer a harsh winter as it gives them their own fuel for their own political fires
 
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