We haven’t even had a nice spell here just a couple of days of frost after mid-November and again last weekend. These have been the only respite from the ongoing torturously boring and unpleasant vile dross that is putting this on a par with the worst ever late Autumns/early winters. Certainly the worst since 2002 which is really saying something.
It is breathtaking how awful the past month has been. It hasn’t reached 10C for over a month which has never happened this early during the past 60 years at least. The closest was in 1966 when it only just touched 10C in mid-November. Yet we have had absolutely zero in the way of proper cold with no snow and only slight to moderate frosts. Yet again we can’t get the extremes we used to at both ends of the spectrum. The variety of weather we get these days can be compared with what’s on offer at next week’s General Election – various degrees of insufferable crap.
December has got off to an awful start with mild frost-free crud while parts of the country that are climatologically less frosty get night after night of it. That has happened so much this decade, and with snow as well. I’m utterly sick to death of it. Seeing model output with the heaviest snow focussed on the west of Scotland instead of the North East makes me apoplectic with rage. Used to be they got all the rain and we got all the snow now it seems like it’s the other way round. The ongoing near 7-year snow drought is unprecedented and every winter that passes without a decent fall makes it more and more ridiculous and intolerable.
The month of December has been a complete disaster since 2010. Only the first half of 2012 (and that was more than cancelled out by the phenomenally bad second half), 2014 and 2017 have delivered anything vaguely acceptable. What’s more it is frequently the case that the Festive Period is the mildest part of the month instead of the coldest.
Can’t get out with the camera to capture any interesting photogenic weather because there is none. Was hoping to make a trip to Edinburgh to see an outdoor light show at the castle but no chance of that this weekend as yet again the forecast is disgusting with rain yet again on Saturday afternoon/evening. Looking like more of the same on the 14th so probably won’t get at all. Sums up perfectly the shocking quality of life in this filthy rancid country when you are constantly prevented from doing the things you enjoy by its repulsive suicide inducing climate.
This outlook is on another level of depression-inducing hideousness to even 2013, 2015 and 2016:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2657832
Toxic doesn’t even begin to describe it. Right out to the 18th and not a single frost is forecast just endless days of cloud, rain, sleet and below average daytime highs. Revolting GARBAGE. Very unpleasant and very uninteresting. It’s like something you would expect in a horror climate like Prince Rupert or Sitka.
All we get is these near non-existent diurnal ranges no matter what. Absolutely loath the season of winter now. Despise every single day of it
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