Where has winter gone??

My first blog since boxing day, you may well ask why? well it's simple. The weather has been dull, zonal dross, one of the poorest January's I can remember and in stark contrast to the historic, phenomenal late November / December snowfest.
January's mean temperature was a whopping 4.5 degrees warmer than December with 8 days of  + 10 daytime highs.
As I write this on February 7th the current mean temperature for Feb is a tropical 8.1 degrees with sustained high wind speeds of +20mph over the last 4 days, clearly a typical La Nina winter then?

So what are the prospects of a return to cold, snowy winter weather?  well it would be foolish to rule winter being over at this point but with the days lengthening and the sun becoming increasingly stronger the chances must diminish accordingly, but the truth is...who knows?

Daffodils breaking cover, spring around the corner it seems..