Will this be the coldest week of winter or the most horrible week of another horrendous winter? The evidence from today suggests the latter.
Clear skies and no wind at all yesterday from sunset until midnight saw the temperature plunge to a truly bone-chilling -0.4C. Couldn’t contain my excitement at seeing it get that low. After midnight it shot up as rain and cloud moved in continuing the vile start to February. By dawn it was not in the slightest bit cold, at 2C, to be followed by absolutely useless soul destroying grey rubbish all day long.
There is no sign of any decent snowfall on the horizon. The synoptics for the foreseeable are dire and the situation is beyond desperate when we are rapidly approaching the unprecedented 5th anniversary of the last time there was more than 6cm of snow on the ground
As far as I can see the outlook for here is 3C grey rubbish for the next few days then mild wet crap on Thursday followed by another miserable weekend. If we do get any snow overnight tonight it will likely be horrid wet stuff, aka ‘white rain’ that fails to produce photogenic scenes. The stuff nightmares are made of and reminiscent of the unpleasant and extremely uninteresting pile of dross that was February 2017.
Increasingly likely that the cold spell in the 2nd week of December won’t be beaten and, apart from one night, that wasn’t even particularly cold. It’s telling that the mean minimum for the coldest week, a pathetic -1.8C, is the highest for any winter since 2013/14. A further piece of evidence to support my view that this winter has been poor even by the standards of the past few
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