Originally Posted by d'@ve:
“No lying snow this afternoon in Buxton, not even up at the Cat I see... and +3.5 C at Harpur Hill. Meanwhile down here S Hants I missed my first air frost of the Autumn by 0.2 deg C, though the grass was way below that and out in the countryside, there would no doubt have been an air frost.
Looks like today's max here will be 7.9 deg C... brrrr.”
7.9 degrees?? That's balmy weather up here compared to what we're getting here at the moment! You should have been in Buxton yesterday. It felt like a February day. Absolutely freezing, temp 4/5C, damp, miserable and raining. I was all wrapped up as well, winter coat, hood up, gloves, and guess what... I was still cold.

Felt colder than most of last winter. Practically everyone I saw was wearing a coat or some sort of jacket as well.
In fact as I was going over Snake Pass, and climbed higher and higher, the rain turned to sleet, then snow.

I even took a video of it, the coach driver had to turn back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se2KT0gSV6M
It's so cold and miserable when it's damp and cold, I'm fine when it's cold and crisp or mild and rainy, but when it's the two together, it's just horrible.

Choose one or the other please!
Sure, we've had some nice cool but sunny weather this week, and that had felt fine, but when it's cold and wet, just no..
It doesn't look too good this week either, -3 forecast for tonight and possibility of snow tommorow! It looks to be cold and rainy all through this week, before finally getting a bit milder by the weekend. Temperatures are not forecast to get above single figures though.
Say all you want about it just being "Normal November weather". I've never known it so cold and miserable so early on in the month. It was 15 degrees on bonfire night last year, now we're getting snow and frosts...