Winter is coming.

[Toddy]

It has. It has been a pretty dreich Winter really. Had enough of it, and very glad that the days are really starting to stretch out

No daffs up yet, but the snowdrops are popping up next to the Christmas roses and the tulips are just starting to poke through the soil.
The wee birds are really starting to pair off too, lots of synchronised fluttering and swooping.

 

[Billy-o]

Winter has scarcely showed here this year. Cold around Xmas, but up around 10-15C most of the time, otherwise. Very unusual. That's for Calgary. Toronto is another story entirely

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Winter arrived in the second half of december & left by the beginning of january down here. I have only needed scarf & gloves twice so far this winter & today, there was that undescribable feeling of spring in the air. The weather forecast doesn't look too promising though for next week, mild, grey & damp.

 

[HorseGuy]

Feels like it's been a long, wet, slog this winter.

It sure has been a wet an muddy 2026 so far. I slipped gluteus over mammory yesterday and got covered from head to toe in mud. Hope no one in the over-looking houses was watching.

 

[Pattree]

It’s been a warm wet winter in the flatlands of Shropshire.
I haven’t managed to get out to one of my favourite pitches - I was pre-warned that my car wouldn’t make it and I’d sink nearly to my knees. It’s a beautiful grassy gully in the Berwyns. A winter pitch with full permissions. I’m missing it. Well, in fact I’m missing Winter altogether but I’m guessing it’s practically a thing of the past.

If I remember my Geog lessons rightly - warm wet westerly winds in winter produce a Mediterranean climate - but maybe it needs to dry up a bit for summer before I plant olives.

 

[Aristotle]

As I cycle to work, I need to dress for the conditions so I'm quite aware of what the conditions are like.

It has been quite cool, but rarely sub-zero or frosty this winter in the low-lying SW Manchester area. Snow was a short-lived affair. It hasn't felt particularly unusually wet here, though.

I did a longish walk in West Lancs recently. It was very muddy in places, but fairly mild, with showery rain.

I had a very icy day (requiring crampons and ice axe) in the Coniston Fells in November, but I've not been back to The Lakes since. I'm hoping to go to Snowdon with my son in a couple of weeks' time.

 

[Keith_Beef]

There are loads of snowdrops in the woods around where I live, one daffodil in the front garden has a flower, the others front and back don't even have buds yet, and the leaves are still short. Primroses and dead-nettles are just starting to flower and the mimosa has been a riot of yellow for the past four weeks.