I was spot on when I predicted this winter would be another horror show that wouldn't match last April, in terms of wintriness, but even I could never have imagined what a catastrophic embarrassment it would turn out to be
Half way through and the first half has to be a contender for the worst ever. Pretty much every winter these days is a contender, but this one is shocking even by the rock bottom standards of the past decade.
Just about the normal frequency of mild days but no proper cold whatsoever. Stuck in the mind-numbingly awful 2-6C range, day and night, the majority of the time. Shedloads of cold rain and cold winds, like last winter, but with added misery of several days of North Sea murk like nothing I have ever seen in winter before.
It speaks volumes that most of the best days have been the ones that reached double digits. We had some good sunsets and interesting skies mid-week but now back to the soul destroying murky grey grot yet again today just in time for the weekend
No measurable snow cover since 3rd December and a total of 10 nights below freezing - four less than April managed. I would not use the term 'frost' because only one of them actually produced a frosty morning
December was absolutely terrible but January looks like proving even worse with just 16.7 hours below freezing so far. A total of 61.8 hours for the first half of winter compared to 77.7 hours in April. A joke just like everything we get nowadays
The lowest temperature so far is -2.4C, joint second worse with 2015/16 after 2013/14 at the mid point. It makes me apoplectic with rage when even Europe's biggest heat island hellhole - Heathrow with it's joke readings has got down to -3.5C. Even Aviemore and Altnaharra haven't got as low as that this month
The run of winters from 2013 to 2018 was so bad it was beyond credulity but what we have now is a new level of awful even compared to that. I can see this now turning out to be the third winter out of four that doesn't even manage 5cm of snow and it's just ever more unpleasant with cold rain, murk and gloom
It just month after month of complete and utter garbage in the worst era ever for a weather enthusiast
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