The only positive thing about this catastrophic disaster of winter was the number of exceptional sunrises and sunsets during January but we have well and truly left those behind now and descended into yet another spell of extreme purgatory.
Thoroughly unpleasant and miserable for the past 8 days or so with that relentless mind-numbing pointless wind that has become almost entrenched in winter over the past decade and which I despise with every bone in my body.
Winter ended on the 3rd December and since then it has been a virtual carbon copy of the grotesque 2019/20. Can hardly distinguish between the two. It was beyond ridiculous that we got such an awful winter in the first place and here we are enduring a repeat just two years on
At least in 2020 it got down to -3.7C in January and -3.9C in February. This year it hasn't got o even -1C since the 10th January. To put that into perspective May 2018, the warmest on record, managed -1.5C
May 2015 reached -1.9C - just 0.5C warmer than the lowest temperature recorded so far in this extended non-winter. There will have been Mays that got down to -2.4C before I started recording.
The last few weeks have easily been the most dire and desperate at this time of year, for lack of anything remotely cold, since 1989.
The only measurable snow cover was between 26th November and 3rd December, a time of year when we rarely used to get snow. In the subsequent two months, when we used to be pretty much guaranteed snow at some point, and almost always at least a half decent fall of 5cm, this is the utter crap we have been insulted with:
It makes me so mad that this is the pitiful rubbish our winters have been reduced to year after year. Just one fall of 5cm in almost 4 years now
The worst ever era for a weather enthusiast just gets worse and worse with each year that passes
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05 February 2022 09:17:43
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