It's chilly down here in the 'sunny south', but we're yet to see some of the weather I keep hearing about on the news. Anyone got it bad?

PS David Richardson reckons it is going to be a long winter.

In county durham it was snowing hard when i turned out to milk at 5. It is still snowing now.We have about 6-8 inches and there are cars abandoned on minor roads.

The sun has just come out here.... Sorry to gloat.

I've just spoken to a livestock farmer who lives outside Ripon, Yorks and he says he's can't make any deliveries today because the snow's so thick - it's hard to imagine when it's so sunny here (sorry, Isabel and I will stop gloating now... )

 Its been snowing all morning here in North Yorkshire, but it is now just turning wet, however there is around 4-6 inches on the ground with considerably more on the hills. The roads have been terrible and many major roads into the local towns blocked with accidents.Cannot wait for it to brighten up a bit so that I can get out with my camera.

With the wind last night it sounded like it was really lashing it down. It was wet but not hugely so. Turned to snow at about 6am but only just settled. Then rained steadily until just now. Little boy and I got thoroughly wet going to baby singing group - to fid it was cancelled, so we went to Costa Coffee instead. I had a panini, he had carrot cake.

TeslaCoils:

we went to Costa Coffee instead. I had a panini, he had carrot cake.

Yum - carrot cake Now who's gloating?!

You should do a video of you at baby singing group. I'd pay to see it....

Hehe. No videos - child protection issues. Baby singing is naught compared to our Friday group called baby PEEP. It is all about encouraging us to help our children develop. Singing, reading, and messy play. Babies get to paint and play with mess. Really good it is too - and nice to see all our tax going to good use. Tis the Christmas party next week - no children, just us adults. We are having adult messy play. Should be a sight as I am the only man who goes, so I dont expect the mummies will be stripping down to their pants to get in the paddling pool. Although I have no objections to them doing so.

There is a video of my little lads first walking on facebook though.

Oh, and the carrot cake was good stuff. But £1.90 a slice - good thing interest rates have gone down ;) 

Where did my post go? I just replied to that!

No more snow her in Edinburgh, I was quite disapointed to look out & see it was just ice this morning.

We had snow on tuesday and wednesday so it's still here. The poor sheep are not loving it, the little remaining grass is well hidden!

Looks like it might snow again any time soon!

Beautiful at last....nights around -20 and -10 day temps,A light cover of snow but thankfully nothing to warrant clearing yet...Gotta get busy now....After christmas winter starts..lol.?

Had 2 inches of rain here in the last 48 hours, still mild with 7-10c daytime temps. Sheep are getting hacked off with all the rain, come to think of it, so am I!

25°C not a cloud in the sky, just off to the beach for a swim and to cool off

still no snow in the south east, although hard hard frosts over the weekend.

Lovely sunny day today. Might put my shorts on. Or maybe not - my legs would only scare the horses!

Rain. Wet and miserable. Will be glad to see the back of this crappy year. 4 days of sunshine forecast but no wind or heat to dry it up. Mental note to self - move to Barbados.

We had about 8 - 9 inches of snow in the North of Northumberland, further south in the county we had about 3 ish. Plenty of snow, LOTS of ice (as i found out when i went flat out on the ground...4 times!) and then that was most of last week. Cold nights, hard frosts and then today its wet miserable and cold!! Its also very dark, get up its dark, get back into the house, its dark!

And Tesla if your moving, not fancy employing me? We could grow pineapples or something?

Finally it is dry here.  We have gone about 3 weeks with no appreciable rain, perhaps the longest dry period in one year.  Yesterday was nice, about 60F, today a top forecast of freezing with a hard northwest wind gusting to 35mph.  Missed thunderstorms last night that slid just east of us, nice to see that can happen when we don't need rain just as it does when we do.

12F this morning and snow..what is it like in Canada Ron and Bluepaint?

It is 54F at a quarter of 8 this morning, it got to 60F yesterday, with a strong south wind(25mph with gusts to 40) that wind has blown all day, all night and will blow today until a Canadian front comes through sometime this afternoon, then the wind is to switch to the north, blow 30-35, and our temp is to fall to 9F by midnight, and we are to get freezing rain followed by an inch of snow, then  get a high tomorrow of 17F.

Wet and miserable but at least it was warmer than yesterday. The nearest we have had to any snow has been hard frosts. Although we did have a few flakes a couple of weeks ago here.

12F this morning and snow..what is it like in Canada Ron and Bluepaint?

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAMB0032

 Morning KF. Pretty breezy, but the blizzard ended up tracking south into N Dakota then heading for Ontario.

Looks like being a cold week. Still better than freezing rain which crippled much of the states south of us.

Meant to say, I always enjoy your blog, keep it coming!

Moist.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAMB0032

Ron on your weather map I could not determine wind direction,If it was a north wind, the snow and cold winds would hit Brian in Kansas. (I see from the maps you are due north of Brian by some thousand miles) 

There seemed to be a funnel of blue cold area tracking down from Manitoba into the centre of USA with the extreme east and west still relatively free from snow.

Our weather maps show wind direction and often dictates our weather.  A north wind while cold will tip snow over the north of Britain, (at this time of the year) and in our Midlands area of GB only get a hint of sleet, or often its said it could be too cold for snow. A westerly wind is very often mild and wet of occasional soft snow. An easterly wind can , or used to bring dry drifting snow that actually filled the country roads and lanes level full with an actual fall of only a few inches, and of coarse a south wild mild and often dry.

And is the currant cold weather you are having coinciding with a full moon.