Does the mild weather this year bother you?

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I was chatting to a friend today about the crapness of the wet weather we were having but how it's eerily mild for January. She said she's quite worried about climate change as a result. What are your thoughts?

I'm in South Yorkshire and this week the morning temperature has been 2 or 3c, and the warmest it got today was 8 or 9c. I have needed a coat every day. Playground duty at school has been really cold and miserable some days this winter. We've certainly had days where it has been below 0 and there's been frost not he cars early morning.

Its been very wet this year but no snow as yet. Mind, we tend to get snow more towards February time than before Christmas in my experience.

We did have snow last winter though, and quite a lot the year before on and off. So for me it seems a bit too early to be overly concerned regards that aspect of the weather patterns here. We've always had the odd year where it hasn't been as cold or had no snow.

In London. I've even got flies in the garden, they'd normally be killed off.

And I have had tomatoes growing the whole time - outside! The plants are unbelievably scraggy but the tomatoes have turned from
green to red in bloody December and January. It's just crazy.

In London we've had one very light frost. No windscreen clearing at all.

Last year we had about 8 frosts (God I appear obsessed )

It's been -30 all this week in my bit of Canada. Arse achingly cold, even for us.

We seem to have a lot of tiny spiders atm - I thought they tended to die in winter.

We'll see what February is like, I'm hoping for snow! Feels odd to go autumn - rain - spring without proper cold winter in the middle of it.

I’m in London.... it’s 12 degrees. It is very very wrong for January and we should all be worried about it.

Also in London. I haven't even unpacked my heavy winter coats from storage bags this year. I walked home from work in the early hours of the morning in the rain in just a cropped cardigan a few days ago, didn't feel cold at all. Could never have contemplated that a few years ago. I haven't seen any frost at all this winter either.

Mild? It is fucking freezing here. You obviously don't live on the coast in Scotland!

Not at the moment. Remember the huge amounts of snow we had in March 2018. It seems to be Feb/March time that the weather is colder.

Where on the coast Apollo It's 9 degrees on the West Coast (Stranraer)

I saw a butterfly today (NE Scotland). Couldn't believe it and it's not even that warm up here.

There have been other winters in the last 10 years like this then the next ones are colder. I'm not concerned although I wish we could have a proper winter in the south. It's very similar to the winter of 2013/14 - very mild and wet.

Very concerned. I've only had to defrost the car once this winter and most mornings have been around 6-8 degrees (according to the car)

Yeah, it's weird. Only had to scrape the car twice this winter so far. Not worn gloves at all.

Saw a couple of people in t shirts in the sun in London last week. Only for half an hour till it started chucking it down again but still!

Fucking freezing here tonight. Quite often does get colder as you go towards march though. I remember the same from 40 years ago - disappointed that it was never a white Xmas because it very rarely snowed in December (and my parents telling me at the time that it had been the same when they were children too) and then if Easter was early enough we'd get snow then. Also the annual tears over the few brave snowdrops popping their heads out only to get frosted over and killed a few weeks later. Twas ever thus.

According to the Holiday Weather webiste:

Throughout the month, the average temperature remains constant at 5-6°C, with little variation. Daily highs are around 8°C over the course of January, rising above 12°C or going under 3°C very rarely.

The highest temperature recorded in London in January is a surprisingly mild 17°C, with the lowest recorded temperature ever being a bracing -5°C.

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Not sure when the 17c was but it seems this year is not the only year to be a bit milder down south. And looking online its not unusually to have it around 10c or so some days in the month.

People round here are mowing their lawns. I have carnations flowering. There is still time for a proper cold snap though. I dont miss de-icing the car though

I'm just glad it hasn't snowed. Bloody hate schlepping to work in it. I remember winters generally being mild when I was a child so I'm not concerned.

I don't mind snow as long as it doesn't hang around for as long as it did ten years ago and nine years ago. That was a major pain in the hole. I really hate ice though because no bastard puts grit down any more.

@HunterHearstHelmsley yes I remember much the same from childhood. We've always had weather that belies the time of year in the UK. Maritime climate innit. I distinctly remember one year easter was really late, the next it was early. First year: sunbathing, second: snow

I just wish it would stop raining 😭 it's rained here pretty much every day since beginning of December and I hate it. I don't drive so I have to walk to do the school run etc and I get soaked every time. Also with it being so wet my son's rugby team hasn't trained or played for over a month and he gets so upset every week about it being cancelled!

I remember quite a few Januarys like this. With proper cold weather (cold for the U.K., anyway) coming later, in Feb and March. And sometimes even later, too.

I remember going to get dds’ summer uniforms at the end of the Easter holidays - and driving through a snowstorm en route. And that was in the SE a good 25 years ago.

I'm daaan saaaaffff. I hate the cold so prefer the milder weather personally (although far too much rain for my liking). It just feels odd and not right.

Nothing to do with climate change. It's just that every year in these green isles is vastly different. We are islands and are susceptible to any number of weather factors.

@willothewispa birds are singing more because of led lights. It fucks them up. The carbon savings are negligible but the effect on wildlife is pronounced.