Graham. I know exactly what you mean.
The UK winter this year has been characterised by boring grey skies in the
south east and something bordering on frightening in the north & west.
As I said in my last post I can only hope this phase ends soon, but the
signs are that it will continue. On the first of November 2015, we flew out
to Malaga and thirty minutes after landing we were greeted with a
thunderstorm of the intensity I have not seen in years. The whole event
lasted close on three hours with dazzling forked lightning, hail and
torrential rain which lasted till around midnight.
It was very much like the storms we used to get that drifted up from France
on a hot summers evening. But No, we do not even get those anymore.
After being interested in the weather since the age of 5 or 6 my interest is
waning purely due to anything of any interest happening here!

Now watch what happens!!!!

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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On Sunday, 31 January 2016 22:34:19 UTC, Graham wrote:
Difficult to keep the winter interest going with the same progged for the
next two weeks.
Dave now you know why I was moaning for weeks on end about the endless
dross!
We've had at least a few half decent snowfalls in November and the middle
of
this month, but most of the time it's been nothing but endless dross.
November saw around 120 mm of rain, December almost a 100 mm of rain and
this month so far 125 mm of rain.
Sunshine totals for the 3 months (Nov to Jan) not even reached 100 hours
(average 155 hours), and still the dross goes on.
Yesterday was one of the better days of this horrible winter. I really
can't
see February getting any better.
The only upside I suppose, if we do get a cold spell we will at least get
some sunny days which would be a welcome relief.

What on earth are you idiots groaning for on Monday there is a linestorm
warning that runs through to Tuesday when it is replaced by a tornado
warning.

Nip down to the pub until Tuesday afternoon then dust yourselves off ready
for the middle of February. You are going to need all your faculties then:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...ime=1454371200