5.8C

Overseas at the moment so apologies for being late 4.9 for me please

Trending cooler with a sharp drop later

4.1 please

Well despite us starting at midnight, the jan CET is already 1.35C above average!

5.9 for me pleas.

5.1C please

4.8c

3.2c please

5.0 please!! gl all

Damn! Meant to be on to be on time for the first one and missed it with all the festivities!

5.1C please

Arghhh!  Nearly missed it again!  Sorry!

Could I go for 4.5c please

Well... Time to post the latest from the usual sites..

Met Office Hadley  Last 2 days        7.6c.  Anomaly    4.0c.   Provisional  to 2nd

Metcheck   monitor every 30 mins  7.83c  Anomaly  3.68c.

N-W        Monitor    Every Hour      8.09c.   Anomaly   3.89c

My Mean                  7.9c.

Met Office Hadley     7.3c      Anomaly    3.9c.   Provisional to  3rd.

Metcheck                8.14c.    Anomaly    3.98c.

N-W                       7.68c.    Anomaly    3.48c.

My Mean                 7.4c.

I bet that will be coming down soon.

Met Office Hadley    6.9c.    Anomaly   3.5c.    Provisional to  4th.

Metcheck                7.19c.   Anomaly   3.04c

N-W                       6.9c      Anomaly    2.7c.

My   Mean               6.8c.

A warm start to the month although today's CET will be closer to average. It should stay quite warm until the 9th after which temperatures look like returning to average or a little below. Even so the very warm start means that even by the 19th the mean could still be about 1C above the 1971-2000 average.

Here is the full list of predictons for January. There are 68 in total. A couple of the entries came in via PM which is absolutely fine.

As usual there is a very wide spread for the first month of the year although most people have gone for an above average month. Certainly a very warm start but will we still be above average by the end?

A very warm welcome to two people making their first entries in this competition, Frank H and kendalian. Best of luck.

Is that Tom Presutti's name I see?