Anybody heard any musings on the upcoming winter?

[Justmuddlingalong]

Now the nights are drawing in and the temperature has dropped here today, I am wondering if has anybody heard any predictions of how we'll fare in the the UK this winter?

We’ve had plenty of horrible winters round here. My dd is younger than your ds. Lockdown winter was grim. So was 2009/10. It was -4 on Boxing Day in that year.

In lockdown we went for a walk in the snow. Horrible. Windchill factor of -13

Lockdown year was so shit in general I can't even remember what the winter was like.

I do remember one year it never got above 2 degrees from November through to February.

The spring and early summer was gorgeous. But lots of stories of people afraid to use their garden in case some nutty neighbours called the police. The second lockdown the weather was awful here day after day of cold wet weather

It will be grim. Winter is always grim in the UK. Loathe it. The occasional freezing day with blue sky is only there to remind us how grey and dull it usually is. Time to get the SAD light out.

My daughter was born early in 2011, it had been -8c for days and our water pipes had frozen (rural) and I caught swine flu at 8 months pregnant, which was proper flu. It was utterly awful having frozen water pipes, we had bottled water but not being able to flush a toilet or having water to wipe down surfaces was not fun.

This was mid essex btw.

Yes December 2010 was poignant for me as it’s when my Dad died. I’d just passed my driving test after it was delayed due to heavy snow and then my Dad’s funeral on the 17th had the added worry of would the snow be too heavy? Thankfully it didn’t but it was Baltic.

No it’s because it’s a mast year. Google it, the Woodland Trust have lots of info on it

The long dry spring/summer was a threat to a lot of plants, it doesn't surprise me that it's a mast year in response to that.