Yet another absolutely horrific month of unadulterated 21st Century weather hell. Once again a complete lack of variety and changeability.
Five completely sunless days already meaning that this year’s total has set a new record of 62 with 53 days of potential garbage still to go. Can see it reaching 75 or even 80 no bother at this rate.
Yesterday was as grim as it gets. Gloomy, murky, damp, drizzly, unusable, unhealthy and depressing beyond words with an utterly foul double digit min of 10.8C followed by disgusting day temperatures that were even lower, before rising after dark.
Today more of the same crud with non-existent diurnal ranges and feeling downright cold and nasty with the lack of sun and wind out of the vile SE quadrant.
Meanwhile it reaches 18C on the Moray Firth. Would have had that here in the past as well because mild weather always came on a SW flow not this excrement. Little wonder we haven't set any max temperature records since 2012. A truly dire time to be alive for anyone with an interest in meteorology.
Almost every single night has been disgustingly mild apart from one which dropped to a near average 3.7C. Nothing close to the long overdue first frost and hasn't been one since 4th March which is the longest frost-free period I have ever witnessed by a country mile. However, unbelievably, 1959 appears to have recorded no air frost at Craibstone between 16th February and 11th November, inclusive, meaning another three weeks of this crud would need to be endured before that record is beaten.Truly awful autumn. 1974 on steroids. Cold grot that switched to mild grot as soon as it would be cold enough for a frost. Also the trees were almost completely bare by the start of November which is the earliest I can ever remember, resulting in an extension to the utterly grim and depressing dead season.
Aberdeen: The only place that misses out on everything
2023 - The Year that's Constantly Worse than a Bad November
2024 - 2023 without the Good Bits