We had a temporary blip in the mildness with a frost this morning, but we were back to the default damp and grey again by mid morning.   We've also got mist now as if everywhere isn't grey enough.  

Putrick- a mix of pewter, puke and putty.

Bright  but not cheerful. No winds which makes a change .Dry so ok. Not seeing and clear skies so  no meteors for me..

17C!

Retron will be here soon enough to tell me I'm talking rubbish, but isn't there often a mild foehn effect in North Kent from the downs? If so, could we be looking at a date record? if 17 is hit in London, there must be a risk of an 18 or even 19 in favoured sports to the east?

There is, providing the wind is in the right direction (it's what helped propel Brogdale to the record in 2003). It's not normally seen as much in winter but yes, the potential is there for some really high maxima in north Kent if the wind hits the right direction (which is more south than SW).

I don't think I have ever felt so despondent about a winter as early in the season as I do this year. It may well have something to do with the day after day of greyness. Just a glimpse of sunshine - no matter what the temperature - would cheer me up a little.

This is, without doubt, the worst December I can remember since I joined TWO in 2001 - unbelievably mild, damp, grey and little prospect of anything changing anytime soon.

Fackin awful!

As bad as any I can remember - but on the fringes on my memory I can recall others that were similarly garbage.

I love damp & unremittingly grey weather in December - but only if it's also bloody freezing. And preferably with plenty of mist/fog. The dark, murky, dismal, frozen weather coupled with the shortest days, evokes a great sense of wintriness.

We`ve already paid the piper,in advance, with the `summer` this year.

Anyway looks like another month to add to your excellent thread `Some Remarkable Extremes Since 2006`

Let's wind it forward 6 months; then we'll see the return of the forties fabled flaming June, together with a high-to-the-northwest set up in winter following.

Putrick aplenty today, and for the putrifying forseeable

If it is going to be 'putrick', it might as well be record-breakingly so!

I hate the mild weather, as it's humid, always damp, misty, rainy, breezy and rancid, however I'll let it slide only if we break a few significant long-term records 

Two nights out collecting for Lions (charity) in a santa suit, so warm and sweaty on sunday that  I was actually dehydrated! Horrible weather for us in Warminster, it's not even interesting. (For all the problems with the floods, and I have great sympathy to any affected), at least a storm system with some wind peps things up a bit...

Is there any end in sight? Not yet...

My worry is that if and when winter does kick in the early flowering will be destroyed and when spring arrives we will see no daffs, blossoms or anything else associated with spring. This ridiculous spell is playing havoc with nature. Have some nesting birds in the garden which is unheard of.
We are sure as he'll going to pay a heavy price for this at the wrong time.....just like we paid a heavy price for the record warm April of 2007.
Summer is already a write off in my view.

As I wrote in the MO thread - the weather seems to be 6 months out of sync with the calendar.

I haven't got the charts to hand, but was there not a lot of unseasonal northern blocking in May/June this year, when we were moaning that the synoptics would be perfect for Dec/Jan?

The global climate needs a reset to bring our weather into line with the proper seasons.

Yes, a lot of strange things going on in my garden as well. Nature is very confused. Perhaps it will never get cold, so there wont be any consequences though. I wonder what odds I would get for not seeing an air or even ground frost for the whole of December. Its looking likely

Couldn't be better the weather here - 13.5c this morning with drizzle! - Makes a change from 14c with rain. 🙂 Much more too look forward to as well

Wednesday 15c with heavy rain

Thursday 14c with heavy rain and strong southerly wind

Friday 14c with light rain and a southerly wind

Saturday - Overcast with rain spreading in 14c

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I will update you on this every changing and eventful exciting December pre-Christmas like we are getting here in Devon - at least Scotland has had drier frosty or colder and snowy weather even for one day - it's better than days and weeks of 14c and rain. LOL

Well, summer 1998 was pretty crap.. but summer 1990 was fab, so who knows? OTOH, the cold December of 2010 was followed by a crappy cool, cloudy summer.

Obviously far too early to say.