Wouldn’t be surprised now if there wasn’t even another frost this month. Yesterday had a maximum only slightly above average, at 6.8C, yet despite clear skies and calm winds overnight the temperature dropped no lower than +1.4C.
Now, as it's dark the temperature is soaring. Well past the daytime max of 7.9C to 8.6C now and god knows how high it will get. Probably yet December night in double figures for the umpteenth time since 2015
This week will turn out close to the mildest pre-Christmas week on record. Will get very near to the 8.1C mean recorded for 18th -24th December 2015 – just two years ago - with the next two days likely to record double digit means. There are just no words to describe how awful this is. Even 1988 didn’t plumb these sort of depths. Four days reached double digits but minima dropped to between 2-5C as opposed to the nonsense we’ve seen this week and in the past two Decembers.
As bad as this has been, it looks set to plunge further into the abyss in time for the holidays with a truly toxic outlook for Christmas yet again. The gloom looks like setting in over the weekend, with impeccable timing, to be followed by the vilest Christmas day for decades with weather warnings out for flooding for the 4th Christmas period out of six
2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20827290
2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25512391
2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35193682
2017 https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/met-office-issue-heavy-rain-warning-for-christmas-day
and the effects of the mild crap earlier this month are still being felt:
https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/christmas-festivities-cancelled-for-village-battered-by-storm-caroline/
Anyone who thinks this is preferable to a bit of snow and frost has a screw loose
Originally Posted by: richardabdn