Brilliant sunrise from this day in 2013:
So even the worst winter in recorded history offered something. This horror show continues to offer nothing but day after day of thoroughly unpleasant and horrific garbage. There has been nothing photogenic at all over the past 10 days
Not had a minimum below 1C since the 1st whereas at this stage of December 2015 there had been three, as well as snow lying on the 1st. Not seen even a flake so far this year. Then there was a frost on the 13th and a max of 1.6C which doesn’t look like being repeated any time soon.
Yet again that vile wind is blasting away outside and yet again as a result the temperature is not dropping, stuck on 3.8C. With easterlies and southerlies it's the cloud which gives zero diurnal range and with westerlies and northerlies it's the wind. Absolutely nothing results in normal temperature variation any more
I’ve recorded 28 air frosts for the year which is a shockingly bad total. Just beats my worst ever total of 27 in 2007 but still need another two to equal the next worst total of 30 in 2011 and 2014. Hard to see that coming with this relentless abhorrent windy filth. More chance of it turning out milder than 2015 and challenging 1988. It’s just breathtakingly bad that something as simple and mundane as a frost – which used to be a regular occurrence in winter- has now become a challenge to achieve.
Another nightmare year from hell. The lack of daytime warmth since April combined with ridiculously mild nights has been horrific and unprecedented. With the relentless dull and wet Saturdays, adding to the misery, it has just been an experience of sheer torture that no-one should have to endure
I don't always agree with everything that Richard says on this forum, but I can confirm from his latest post that Edinburgh is in a very similar position as regards to how this month has panned out so far, to what he has reported for his own neck of the woods in Aberdeen. Here in Edinburgh, the temperature is similar to what it is in Aberdeen just now and as is the case up there, the temperatures are also refusing to drop here yet again as a result of there still being too much wind around (even though it's not quite as windy as it was last night) and at times, too much cloud.
Furthermore, we have had exactly the same number of official air frosts here in Edinburgh as what has occurred so far in Aberdeen. As we all know, both Aberdeen and Edinburgh are Scottish cities and given that Scotland is itself, the most northerly part of the UK, you would expect both of those cities to be amongst the UK's coldest cities on average as a result. Yet, there are parts of England which wouldn't normally be renowned for getting much in the way of cold weather, but which have had more air frosts during this month than we have had due to those areas getting frost after frost for a number of days with that period lasting further into this month than it did here.
That to me, makes our situation even worse in comparison with the rest of the UK than what it actually looks on paper. Unlike Richard, I don't think that this month will be even milder than December 2015 since that month itself, was our mildest December on record and it will take some doing to even match that, let alone actually beat that.
However, I can see this month still being a really mild one anyway and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if we didn't get any more frosts during this month, year and decade as a result. I agree with others on this forum that we can never accurately predict what will actually happen, especially the further in the future that we go but at the moment, I just don't see there being much hope for any significant periods of cold weather during the rest of this so-called "winter", especially with the manner in which the current SSTs are set up in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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11 December 2019 23:18:33
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.