Looking forward to some pleasant mild weather this week. With central heating off, reasonably light winds and not much if any rain what's not to like?
As for cold spells, anyone remember this very short lived but dramatic one?
https://www.netweather.tv/forum/topic/52188-the-great-midlands-blizzard-9th-december-1990/
Remember it well Tim I lived in Nottingham. A Saturday morning and a serious wet blizzard deposited 20cm! No electricity or 'telephones' for 24hrs.Wires were sagging towards the ground.
Thousands were marooned including a lot of folk at the Clothes Show, NEC Birmingham
Worst affected area was the Birmingham Nottingham Sheffield triangle
As you say, short-lived in an otherwise mild December
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill