Winter 2025/2026

[GloriaSmud]

We’re a few weeks from the start of meteorological winter on the 1st December but there are already some musings on websites about what the next season might bring….

So here are the thoughts of:

Netweather ~ (Vegemiteandhoneyontoast posted a link to this one on the Autumn thread).....
https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/news/13184-winter-202526-outlook-what-four-decades-of-weak-la-nina-winters-tell-us

Two from TheWeatherOutlook…..
https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/weather-news/7632/winter-2025-26-weather-outlook
https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/weather-news/7672/uk-snow-or-cold-snap-in-november---here-is-what-the-model-data-says

And SevereWeatherEurope (a new one that I haven’t come across before, has some well put-together explanations)….
https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/winter-2025-2026-outlook-colder-season-forecast-for-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

My thoughts (more gut feeling than anything and based on the weather we’ve been having recently!), is that we’re veering towards a fairly quiet but colder than average winter. I don’t think we’ll have many storms but there’ll be rain at times (which will go some way towards upping the reservoir levels.) I think there’ll be some cold snaps (maybe more at the start of winter), plenty of sunny days and nighttime frosts. Hopefully (for those that like it!), we’ll get some snow and the chances of that will increase if the quiet, settled weather stays and systems from the Atlantic try to move in. Any snow will probably last a day or two rather than the ‘so much snow that the country grinds to a halt,’ sort of thing.

So we’ll see if any of these predictions come true!......

And more rain weather warnings...

Another day another weather warning…
And still the rain goes on. I know this is the SW but it’s getting a bit silly now.

Yesterday I actually felt some warmth when walking with my grandson. Lifted my spirits sooo much!
Today it’s back to pissing down in SE and for foreseeable future.

Yesterday was lovely. There was a bit of warmth to the sun.

Non stop rain now. I guess loads of flooding likely. It’s hard to keep the spirits up.

There's been no warmth here in the NE and we have yet another evil easterly wind. I love to see the sun rise when I'm taking DD to school. I realised this morning that I have not seen a sunrise for weeks. Also, lights on indoors all day every day due to the darkness. My mother is 81 and reckons she has never known a winter like it.

Desperately hoping this will break by the end of the month. We are booked to continue our walking round the Welsh coast and Snowdonia will be lowering over us, catching all the rain..

I wish you luck. Never known such relentless miserable weather.

Our football match was cancelled last Sunday, fingers crossed it dries up a bit for this Sunday.

Agree it just keeps raining though yesterday in London we had sun and blue skies.

Our football match on Saturday has just been cancelled due to waterlogged pitch. Not surprising. Bit of a shame for DS as there’s been lots of cancellations this year due to this.

And the rain just keeps coming... (although towards the end of next week, there are signs of a change and it looks like it gets drier and colder...)

Be good for those with little people if half term is drier. We will be skiing so I'm all up for cold 🥶 ❄️⛷️

I’ve been off grid because this weather has been affecting everything in my life (love a bit of hyperbole)!

Work is harder in the rain, I’m having my garden rectified which essentially means it’s a mud pit and my mood couldn’t be lower. I don’t think I’ve seen the sun in 2 weeks in the NE.

I agree with others in that I cannot remember a wetter, duller winter. There is an ice festival near me that usually happens over half term and most years it’s so warm and sunny the ice sculptures melt. Ha! 5 degrees, windy and grey, no one will be able to see them through the murk.

We better be given an outstanding summer in payment for this!

We've woken up to dry weather with some breaks in the cloud and hints of blue sky this morning it's not going to last!

There is hope ~ looks like a change is coming later this week...

Right now dry is good. Have given up hoping for the sun.

Still raining here. 😭

Absolutely peeing it down here again! That dry spell didn’t last long!

There was a quick glimpse of sun but it sounds quite wet out there again.

I flew home Thursday night to Dublin, where the Captain warned us of a “sporty” arrival after a smooth flight in his pre-flight briefing…the local scout den was sitting in the middle of a lake that doesn’t normally exist, it’s just on the rail line at the seafront and the videos of spring tides and easterly winds (on an easterly shore, so a lee shore for any sailors) and low pressure all combined to mean very interesting waves and very high water levels!

Today there has been some brightness in between the drizzly rain, but just higher, thinner clouds and no breaks for sun to peek through.

I am back in Brussels tomorrow and it looks like quite a wet week there too, and getting very cold next weekend…

We haven’t had rain today (it rained all night though) and it looks like it’s going to be ok at the start of the week.

We just need it to be dry for a bit.

We're getting flood warnings at high tides now.

Our men's football match was cancelled today but since late afternoon it has been a bit drier here. Fingers crossed the pitch inspection goes ok in the morning.
I am just so fed up of the relentless rain, I work in a preschool and even our waterproofs are not having a chance to dry out before we need to put them on again. I think I'm suffering from trench foot by being wet all day 😫
The long range forecast has a few days of snow for half term - I would actually welcome this if it meant we had some cold crisp days.

It's beginning to look more certain that colder weather is coming this way, especially towards the end of the week. Scotland gets the first hints of it from tomorrow onwards and gradually the rest of the country follows as we go through the week. It looks like the same goes for the possibilty of snow ~ Scotland towards the end of the week and then the rest of the country follows over next weekend...

Netweather's thoughts....

Drove across the county yesterday and in my ten years of living here I have never seen so much water.

As we drove by a football pitch there was a man in a tracksuit and wellies, (looked like a groundsman) hands on hips, gazing out at the pitch that was now a lake. Wish I had been able to take a photo; he just looked so despairing and it summed up the state of the weather here.

Raining again this morning though we did see the sun yesterday.

We were supposed to be getting dry today. Turns out it is chucking it down again.