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Saturday 25 December 2010

Coldest December For A Century

According to the BBC.

Last night was the coldest I can remember. It was -11°C at 9 am today, and it had dipped to -12°C in the night. That's following three consecutive nights at -9°C. This is Pembrokeshire, for God's sake - Gulf Stream, stuck out in the Atlantic, maritime climate and all that. It's unheard-of. The bedroom was 8°C.

The BBC Weather page predicted a -3°C minimum at 10 pm last night. Good to see they can get it almost right six hours in advance. That will make their predictions for 2100 pretty reliable, then.

Right - off to Newgale with the dogs. Have a good day.

6 comments:

  1. We have the 'pleasure' of also being in one of what sems to be the coldest areas of England. Today it's still -10 outside at 11am, this is confirmed by Google weather who show a 'line' of cold temps running due south from Cumbria through the west midlands/welsh borders. It's been around or below -10 many times over the past weeks. Midnight last night I was reading -14. Meanwhile the met office claim it's about -5 minimum, that's been our maximum some days!
    Last time I was in Newgale it was so hot we nearly melted, such is life.

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  2. Just, if not more-telling, is not that it's been so 'cold', but the fact that the 'cold' weather has stayed cold for so long.

    As an old geezer with a long memory, I cannot remember a period when the snow has lain unmelted for so long. A sign surely, that we desperately need to add more CO2 to the atmosphere.

    Prof Phil Jones will gain membership of the Magic Circle if he can 'Hide' this decline.

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  3. Our front garden still has the snowman I built 6 weeks ago which must be a record. It has never thawed in 6 weeks. Weird.
    But that Monbiot bloke in The Guardian said it was a sure sign of 'global warming'.

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  4. Woodsy - I too have been a bit baffled by the Met Office predictions of temperature, which have been as wildly out of kilter with actual measurements here as yours have. Gives you confidence in their long-term predictions, doesn't it?

    Joe/Don - agreed. In my own memory, I have to go back to 63 for snow being around as long as this, and that was in January/February, as I recall, not November/December.

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  5. Forget the Gulfstream - it goes somewhere else these days!

    Happy Christmas

    N

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  6. It's come back! Pembrokeshire is now - well, warm. Last night it went from freezing at dusk to +5° by dawn, and it's stayed between 5° and 10° all day. All snow gone, chiz chiz ect.

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