Snow Forecast Shortly

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/met-office-snow-predicted-hit-000000483.html

Cue for all the Global Warming naysayers to blossom forth with their usual unfunny remarks.

[goodgoalie]

Still haven't turned my heating on :)

[ToraToraTora]

They'll be having snore up north!

[youngmafbog]

What rubbish you speak Canary

[ichkeria]

You know it’s still too early for Christmas trees in the shops when the first annual
warning of snow in autumn arrives ;-)

[ichkeria]

The last time I read about this I looked a bit more closely and discovered they were talking about the Cairngorms

[Hopkirk]

Snow in winter? How unusual.

[steg]

November and no frost yet… can’t remember last time that happened round here..

[Ken4155]

TTT; "They'll be having snore up north!"

You need to be a tad more specific, TTT. I'm from "up north" and snow is snow. Snore is something i do if i sleep on my back - or have a skinful.

[perseverer]

Always thought of the intrusive R and linking R(lawr, lawr and order) as being an English thing, so it depends how far north TTT is going - beyond the Watford gap, or north of his Cockney rhyming slang area, say.

[maggiebee]

Son has just warned me to batten down the hatches tonight. Forecast is storms with thunder and lightning.

[tiggerblue10]

We've had a few storms in the South East in the past couple of days including hail 'bauble' storm ;o)

[Arksided]

Tigger 'bauble' storm sounds more fun.
West Yorkshire we’ve had some not pleasant weather recently, we just get on with it, it’s usually those darn sarf that like to whinge and moan about a little bit of rain

[Buenchico]

The Met Office's UK Weather forecast for the next 5 days makes no mention of snow. Neither do their long range forecasts through to the end of the month:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

[Old_Geezer]

Winter starts on the 21st of December. This is a UK autumn.

[perseverer]

The trouble with starting winter on the 21st of December is that summer starts on the 21st of June which is just about midsummer's day.

[Hopkirk]

How much snow do you need for a white Christmas?

[Arksided]

One flake on the met office.

[Ken4155]

The Met Office has 270 'observation stations' dotted around the UK and all it takes for a white Christmas to be declared is for one single snowflake to be observed at any one of those stations.

[Buenchico]

There have been lots of threads on AB about the exact dates when each season starts and finishes in the past. There's no one answer but, as this thread is about weather, I'm happy to go with the definitions that are used by the Met Office. i.e. Spring is comprised of March, April and May, Summer is made up of June, July and August, Autumn is September, October and November and Winter is December, January and February. That's good enough for me!

[Arksided]

I'm in the fuddy duddy club as well :-) that's enough for me I even look out of the window to see if its raining... well works for me.