The official 2024/2025 snowmageddon disappointment thread

[Puggit]

Well, it's been a poor summer, I'm sure it will now be a poor winter too.

Snow has settled on Cairngorm.

https://x.com/MetwatchUK/status/183356999421228239...

[Portofino]

Excellent. Early start this year is it?

[leglessAlex]

Oh hell yeah. I am here once again hoping for snow, despite often struggling to stand upright on regular, grippy surfaces.

[Tango13]

I currently have no traction control on the car so at least a foot of snow by Sunday lunchtime across the entire UK

[McGee_22]

Is this the earliest compared to the last few years?

[Blib]

Perfect timing for the winter thread as the forecast for the next two weeks is +20 degrees from next Monday here in NE Suffolk.

[RicksAlfas]

Four degrees on the car this morning.
4.

[Scabutz]

Jumper went in yesterday. Temps seem to have dropped massively large couple of days.

[JakeT]

Welcome everyone, I pray we all are looking forward to a good winter of snow rain and misery?

Fleece went on this morning, and it’s works sports day tomorrow. Ideal timing!

[magpie215]

In for the mildly damp and occasionally windy grey winter thread.

[UTH]

Blimey, this does feel early, step one on the path to me starting the 2024 Christmas thread

[Ashfordian]

Puggit said:

Well, it's been a poor summer, I'm sure it will now be a poor winter too.

Snow has settled on Cairngorm.

https://x.com/MetwatchUK/status/183356999421228239...

Does this thread get locked if the snow melts over the weekend?

Or do we think the snow that has now fallen is there until after the winter?

Feels like a bit of an overreaction to open this thread because an unlikely weather pattern for the time of year (see MetOffice Weather Deepdive on Youtube) has taken place this week.

[JakeT]

[Puggit]

Snow!

[zb]

Saw the comments on the "summer" thread earlier on, and went and had a nosey at the Cairngorms webcams....

[Cold]

Just fitted my winter tyres.

[Humpy D]

If the animal kingdom is programmed to know if we are going to have a bad winter, the fact that a couple of squirrels are constantly burying their nuts in my garden suggests a chilly one. Don't get me wrong this happens every year but it seems earlier this year and they seem extra busy this year.

[Faust66]

I'm always a happy chap when this thread is launched....

I'm hoping for a long, dark and bitterly cold winter, with some crisp freezing days thrown in as I love that sort of weather (can't stand temps of more than 20c).











It probably be crap with mild weather and drizzle though.

[Its Just Adz]

First day of the season where I switched on my heated seats.
Be careful out there.

[ChocolateFrog]

Wasn't it over 30 degrees this time last year?

Certainly chilly these last few days but I'll take it if it means we see a bit more of the sun.