This must be the worst, crappiest Christmas forecast in all of the UK. Can anyone beat this with an even less seasonal forecast?
(Screenshot from the MetO forecast for Leysdown, where I live).

Exceptionally mild, rain all day and windy too, with Christmas Eve seeing temperatures in the teens...
https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/xmas.jpg 

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Looks very wet here too, tomorrow. There haven't been too many wet Christmas Days in recent years. It's quite often a dry day.

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Less than a fortnight ago, there was a good chance of snow falling for many, and below average temps for all 

How wrong that output was. We have the exact opposite.

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Less than a fortnight ago, there was a good chance of snow falling for many, and below average temps for all 

How wrong that output was. We have the exact opposite.

ECM never bought it though, and proved close to the mark. Now looking like record warmth into the new year.  As I have said before, if we cant have snow I'd rather we went the other extreme and just do away with winter altogether. Happening with climate change anyway.

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ECM never bought it though, and proved close to the mark. Now looking like record warmth into the new year.  As I have said before, if we cant have snow I'd rather we went the other extreme and just do away with winter altogether. Happening with climate change anyway.

ECM twice drifted onto the cold NWly flow scenario that the others were more favouring. Don't think ECM showed it for more than one run at a time (maybe two runs), but it was all over the place for a while.

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Auugh... I really hope the rain for tomorrow (27th) holds off, or the Welsh Mountains block it. I've planned to spend the day with a girl I've been talking to lately, and I could really do with it being dry. This rain has properly outstayed its welcome now. 😕

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Looks horrible tomorrow , 50mm of rain could be on the cards.  This system had the potential to be slider and then when that was off the table it was looking like snow to rain. Away from the North of Scotland it is now just going to be vile, as everything has been shifted North by the Euro heights. 

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Looks horrible tomorrow , 50mm of rain could be on the cards.  This system had the potential to be slider and then when that was off the table it was looking like snow to rain. Away from the North of Scotland it is now just going to be vile, as everything has been shifted North by the Euro heights. 

Yes - I think you are going to get wet, Tom. We might miss the worst of it in Lincolnshire, but I reckon it will be about 10mm.

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Auugh... I really hope the rain for tomorrow (27th) holds off, or the Welsh Mountains block it. I've planned to spend the day with a girl I've been talking to lately, and I could really do with it being dry. This rain has properly outstayed its welcome now. 😕

Good luck with whatever you end up doing 

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Good luck with whatever you end up doing 

Cheers mate, was hoping to have a bit of a laugh in Blackpool, but looks like I might need a back-up plan. 😆

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Auugh... I really hope the rain for tomorrow (27th) holds off, or the Welsh Mountains block it. I've planned to spend the day with a girl I've been talking to lately, and I could really do with it being dry. This rain has properly outstayed its welcome now. 😕

Good luck, and hopefully she won't be dry!🤣 (If the Home secretary can say such things, then it should be fine for us all!)

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Good luck, and hopefully she won't be dry!🤣 (If the Home secretary can say such things, then it should be fine for us all!)

Cheers, I won't tell her Beast! 😉

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The living hell intensifies with the most sickeningly vile, disgusting and unpleasant day yet 🤬

Every year you think there can't possibly be another mind-numbingly tedious unseasonable festive period and all that seems to happen is it keeps getting worse and worse.

3.6C, strong SE wind and driving rain that once again looks set for the entire day. How many days like this have there been recently? Lost track whereas it used to be rare enough to be worthy of comment. Yet again trapped indoors like a prisoner. Working is more enjoyable than this.

How the hell can we keep getting this unadulterated 💩 week after week? It was already the wettest December since 1929 before today and the misery continues unabated. 9 dry days in the past 48. 480mm since the start of October, 1060mm for the year 🤢🤢🤢

On track to be only the 2nd year in 160, along with 2002, in which two months exceed 180mm. Even the wettest year on record by some margin, 1872, failed to achieve that unmitigated horror. Really surprised there hasn't been more flooding as the ground is just a repulsive saturated muddy mess.

2024 will likely be even worse. Used to be a bad:good ratio of about 2:1. Now it's more like 10:1 although that's probably over optimistic. It just feels like a relentless train of unspeakably bad and depressing horror at the moment 🤮

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The living hell intensifies with the most sickeningly vile, disgusting and unpleasant day yet 🤬

Every year you think there can't possibly be another mind-numbingly tedious unseasonable festive period and all that seems to happen is it keeps getting worse and worse.

How the hell can we keep getting this unadulterated 💩 week after week?

Just watched the Eastenders Christmas special, the fake snow was worth the licence fee alone! 




 

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Just looked at the GFS forecast; the one I look at is https://www.wetterzentrale.de/de/panels.php?map=1&model=gfs&var=1&lid=OP .

The forecast is wet and windy, wet and windy, wet and windy, wet and windy, wet and windy, nothing but wet and windy, wet and windy, wet and windy, wet and windy, wet and windy.

It is so ******* depressing!!

******* vile climate UK has!! Why the hell did our forefathers come to this absolute cess pit of the Atlantic Ocean?! 😡💩

I'll put my money on summer 2024 to be a wet one too.

Rant over!

A festive period so horrific, vile, grim and depressing beyond comprehension it makes even the worst of all the other dire festive periods since 2011 seem acceptable by comparison.

Since I've been off there's been 82.6mm of rain and 5 of the 8 days have had zero sunshine and today the hell continues with more rain and utterly diabolical grey crud streaming in off the North Sea which has just been the default situation in this catastrophically revolting and unpleasant year 🤮

Do I feel refreshed after my time off? Absolutely not. I feel tired, fed-up, depressed and sick to the stomach. Barely able to function as the woeful quality of life in this cesspit island unfit for human habitation diminishes further and further with each year of putrid garbage that passes.

The worst year  for the weekend curse, the worse festive period, the worst ever winter months in a calendar year, the worst spring I've endured and had it not been for September it would have been the worst autumn as well. That's what 2023 has brought. A year of unrelenting soul- destroying muck which resulted in the 1100mm rainfall barrier being broken for only the third time in recorded history 🤢

A year so grotesque it has managed to keep getting worse and worse against all reasonable expectations culminating in this stupefyingly repulsive December which has brought a ludicrous 230mm of rain meaning that this foul winter is already guaranteed to be the 6th consective wetter than average season.

One solitary frost since the 7th , if it can be called that as it was just a dip below freezing before waking up to more suicide-inducing grey and wet the next day. 12 frosts throughout the three stinking awful winter months is less than there was in April 2021 alone and a third less than in any other year I've recorded.

It will take a miracle for this winter not to be the worst ever recorded. Even horrors like 2013/14 and 2015/16 only brought around 10-14 days of the sustained filth that has been relentless since the 7th. Pretty much any January/February combination in the past decade would ensure it as they have been so poor even the best would barely make any impact at righting the wrongs of this satanic December 🤬🤬🤬

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Raining again now, and looks like it's going to do it for most of tomorrow as well. This weather is the absolute pits at the moment.

Roll on spring.

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Raining again now, and looks like it's going to do it for most of tomorrow as well. This weather is the absolute pits at the moment.

Roll on spring.

Same here. Chucking it down now. Grrrrr!

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New Year same old revolting suicide-inducing easterly 🐕💩

Yet another day of totally unusable dark, wet write-off filth to conclude the worst ever festive period of unadultered garbage within living memory. I don't feel like I've had a break at all. I feel more tired, fed-up and unable to function than I did at the start. 11 days of abject hell as enjoyable has having bacteria infested turkey shoved down your throat day after day. Little wonder this country has the worst record of illness and sickness absence in the developed world.

I now want to spend the Christmas period abroad and literally anywhere would be better than this revolting island unfit for human habitation. Can't get any enjoyment out of life any more. It's just one unrelenting endurance test.

The unseasonable festive garbage was ridculous years ago and still it persists year after year getting worse and worse. The 2010s were the absolute pits when it came to frost and snow but the rain and gloom of the 2020s are just a completely different level of awfulness. Unbearable torture 🤬

The wettest final week of the year by far and all of the last three years make up the top 5 🤢🤢

Rainfall, 25th -31st Dec

2023 68.6
2015 45.6
2022 33.0
2013 32.0
2021 16.8
2017 16.2
2006 15.4
2007 11.6
2009 11.4
2020 11.4
2005 11.2
2011 8.4
2019 6.8
2012 4.0
2016 3.2
2010 2.8
2018 2.8
2008 1.0
2014 0.0

and the sunshine stats are disgusting as well with the past three years all in the top 5 dullest and nothing in the top half for sun since 2018. Even 2013 which seemed absolutely awful at the time was sunnier than any of the past five grotesque years. This year is actualy even worse than it looks due to being recorded on just two days whereas even 2021 had it more spread out.

2006 23.2
2014 22.8
2018 22.6
2009 19.8
2007 18.4
2011 16.6
2012 15.9
2016 15.7
2013 14.5
2020 13.5
2015 11.9
2017 11.2
2010 11.2
2023 10.2
2022 9.7
2019 8.7
2021 5.8
2008 4.6

The worst winter weather to be found anywhere on earth. Can't even say the Pacific North West is any worse any more as this relentless dark and wet is just the same as what they get 🤮🤮🤮

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I'm appreciating this dry spell at the moment. Beats everywhere being sodden through ever 5 minutes.

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Another potential cold spell becomes a dud before it's even happened.

I've not had snow reach even 5cm since March 2013.

Must have had 15-20 snow coverings since, but all to a max of 2cm (perhaps one or two reached a whopping 3cm) and none stayed on the ground for more than a few days.

I think Dec 09/Jan 10/Dec 10 spoiled me (even though we had several good snowfalls in Jan-Mar 2013, three 10cm+, but none stayed on the ground for more than a few days)

 

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