See link from Washington post yesterday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/12/06/siberia-russia-extreme-cold-asia/ 

 😮

Its just been non stop for Spain this year think they have broken records every month.

Just seen this one. On that basis 21C is definitely possible here in December and January given the right conditions. Until I saw this I had my doubts.   🙂 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67740978 

600 mm rain recorded in 24 hours with the possibility of another 500 mm still to come

Some places have had over 2000 mm in 5 days. Some truly phenomenonal totals. One place had 800mm in under 24 hours.  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67740978 

600 mm rain recorded in 24 hours with the possibility of another 500 mm still to come[

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Some really and truly impressive totals as I hinted at. I'll put some on here now as I promised.

Provisional data collected by Bureau of Meteorology rain gauges shows that two locations in Qld may have just received the 3rd and 4th highest daily rainfall on record in Australia. There were also four locations that beat the previous national daily record for December.

During the 24 hours to 9am on Monday, December 18, Bairds registered 870 mm and nearby Diwan recorded 829 mm. If these observations are valid, they are the 3rd and 4th heaviest daily rainfall totals on record in Australia. The only wetter days were 878.3 mm at Finch Hatton on February 18, 1958 and 907 mm at Crohamhurst on February 3, 1893.

This is over 30 inches in 24 hours. Incredible. It takes me 18 months to experience that in South Cambridgeshire. This lot have had this in 24 hours or less.

Now for some more even more impressive ones.

As of 9am Monday, a few places had seen more than two metres of rain over the last five days (9am on December 13 to 9am December 18). This included 2166 mm at Black Mountain, 2118 mm at Bairds and 2025mm at Myola. To put this rain into perspective, it exceeds the annual averages of Cairns (2000 mm) and Darwin (1721 mm).

Within these colossal multi-day totals were some shorter periods of very intense rainfall that caused rapid river level rises, flooding and landslips. At least two locations appear to have broken Qld’s 12-hour rainfall record, with Black Mountain receiving 672 mm!!! and Myola registering 665 mm!!! from Saturday evening into Sunday. These were both above the state’s previous 12-hour record of 617 mm from Paluma in January 1972. They are also higher than the annual averages of Melbourne (648 mm) and Adelaide (527 mm).

That is 25 inches or more in 12 hours or less. !!!

This vast amount of rainfall has been caused by the remnants of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper lingering over western parts of the Cape York Peninsula. Over the weekend, monsoonal winds from the Northern Hemisphere wrapped around the northern and eastern sides of Jasper, delivering a concentrated surge of tropical moisture and convection to Far North Queensland.

Normally when this happen UK are under big freeze but this time we joint having mild winter.   Back in 1996/97 Xmas in Toronto was mild often while Uk was big freeze but lack of snow around this time in my area of Epsom.

Beijing shivers through coldest December on record

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67818872 

https://images.meteociel.fr/im/28/12390/temp_eur2eva8.png 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/ru/moscow/294021/weather-forecast/294021 

Temperatures are some 15 to 20c below seasonal January average for them - not a record breaker for cold but it's never been so cold over recent years and the fact that the cold has been on going for weeks or even over a month now is just remarkable...really is!!! When will it head our way?

Also look at Oslo - temperatures not set to rise above -20c by day on 5th:

- Just remarkable and yet the CFS and all long range models never went for such prolonged cold weather For Russia and Scandinavia - including Baltic regions. I remember C FS was for Russian and Scandinavia to be 1-2c above norm for December and near Norm for January but it's been well below norm for almost 1 month! - 

Imagine an easterly now for the UK?? 😋

Temperatures not getting above -25c in Moscow by Day and -20c in most parts of Scandinavia except the far south! wow!

Yet here in UK we have yet to have a proper frost this winter. Let's hope things change and N. Europe can share their winter with the rest of Europe haha.

Max of -20C in Oslo. 

Yes -22c all day today in Oslo 😮

https://www.accuweather.com/en/no/oslo/254946/weather-forecast/254946