Yet more absolutely disgusting weather. This winter is so awful it's beyond classification. It's like living on the west coast of Norway with occasional Scilly Isles days thrown in. Nothing remotely resembling what winter in NE Scotland should be like.
Not a single frosty morning yet and more unspeakably vile rubbish today in the form of 3C cold rain and wind
Fourth consecutive December that couldn't even manage 50 hours below freezing. 2017 the only December out of the past 9 that has managed as many as the 77.7 hours below freezing that last April achieved
I suspect that come the end of February, April will not just be the sunniest month in the past 12 but also the month with the most frosts, the highest frost duration, the lowest mean min and the most snow days. Utterly dire beyond words
Every single December between 2005 and 2012 recorded at least 7 frosts whereas only 2014 and 2017 have done so since then. Every December between 2005 and 2012 recorded a minimum of at least -3.6C whereas only 2014, 2017 and 2018 have done so since then.
These are the lowest temperatures recorded for the past three Decembers:
2019: -2.2C
2020: -2.2C
2021: -2.2C
Exactly the same pitiful value to the same decimal place every single year. Nothing speaks more about the appalling lack of variation in this mind-numbing era of never ending rot than that. It's incredulous. If a weather station was set up in a buoy at the equator in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean equidistant from Brazil and Africa I'd be amazed if even that would record the exact same value for a minimum temperature for the same month three years running
Worse still 2015 recorded -2.0C and 2016 -2.3C so that's 5 out of the last 7 Decembers that have recorded almost the same minimum
November 2019 recorded -3.0C so the only other years, in the past 16, when it has got this far through the Autumn/Winter without dropping below -2.2C were 2015/16 and last year
It just beggars belief when last April recorded -3.4C and 5 out of 7 Decembers can't come within a degree of that. Also -3.5C reached in March 2021 which was a very mild March
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