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Well it's that time of year, when we post our countdown to winter, It's 29 days until the meteorological Autumn and 120 days for the meteorological Winter. This is where we can post anything in connection with UK winter, any fake funny post and serious forecast, even stories of how our summer will shape our winter. So anything you find, you are more than welcome to share it with us here...
Ice cover is slightly above the recorded minimum of 2012 for now, but has been prodominantly below since november 2024.
Sea Ice level is at 5.552 km2 as of the 14th august 2025 last year 14th august 2024 was 5.357 km2
I know my winter hideaway, Ruka, Finland had 13 days of consecutive days of 30 + during late July and August and its in the Arctic circle! Cant be a good start. Didnt manage anything near that here!
KTtom wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 6:32 pm
I know my winter hideaway, Ruka, Finland had 13 days of consecutive days of 30 + during late July and August and its in the Arctic circle! Cant be a good start. Didnt manage anything near that here!
Wow, thats crazy, whats their average summer ? about 24C? We will have to see what impact this warm weather has on our winter this year, hoping, but can't see it having a possitive effect
KTtom wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 6:32 pm
I know my winter hideaway, Ruka, Finland had 13 days of consecutive days of 30 + during late July and August and its in the Arctic circle! Cant be a good start. Didnt manage anything near that here!
Wow, thats crazy, whats their average summer ? about 24C? We will have to see what impact this warm weather has on our winter this year, hoping, but can't see it having a possitive effect
Their climate is warm and dry in Summer , 30 c on an odd day isnt rare but 13 consecutive days certainly is...just checking next week and it start 24c and ends 7c! Thats normal
Have we had our last day of sea ice melt for 2025??
Well may be only a few days early this year. we normally get our last day of sea ice melt around the 16th of september last year was much later, but 2023 and 2022 both had theirs on the 16th.
12/09/2025
Sea ice levels were 4.604 km2
13/09/2025
Sea ice levels were 4.634km2
missy wrote: Sun Sep 14, 2025 12:31 pm
Have we had our last day of sea ice melt for 2025??
Well may be only a few days early this year. we normally get our last day of sea ice melt around the 16th of september last year was much later, but 2023 and 2022 both had theirs on the 16th.
Looks likely, the Arctic is cooling rapidly now, even areas like northern parts of Finland and Norway are forecast to drop to near freezing in 10 days or so.
Not a bad Met outlook for the first proper 2 weeks of Winter...
Wednesday 3 Dec - Wednesday 17 Dec
Whilst there is a lot of uncertainty as to the nature of weather affecting the UK into December, it looks likely that it will become more settled for a time with low pressure systems being steered to the south of the UK. There is however the possibility for some periods of rain or wintry precipitation at times. Temperatures are probably near to or a little below normal but there is a chance of winter hazards including snow at times for some.
