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AderynCoch

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  1. Forget the UK, I've practically given up on winters in my corner of Central Europe too. Having no snow since before Christmas, even above 500m, is simply horrendous. After a frustrating snowless "cold spell" in January, which only really brought one notably cold day (nothing special in the context of an entire winter), my patience was "rewarded" with the warmest February ever, a full 7C (seven)  above average. At Slovakia's longest-running station (Hurbanovo, dating back to 1872) February this year actually matched the warmest ever March in terms of average temperature. Just shockingly, shockingly bad and with March looking like offering no wintry compensation. I need to move to the mountains.

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  2. Every day here since 3rd February has reached double figures; the lowest maximum all month has been 8.0C on the 1st. And the ten-dayer is just more of the same. What an unspeakably bad February and yet another complete fail of a winter, a diarrhoeal discharge straight from the devil's behind. How much more of this crap am I expected to take?

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  3. What a terrible winter this has turned into. Early December could have been excellent had it been a touch colder but as it was I mostly ended up with cold rain. Those same synoptics later in winter probably would have delivered but of course they haven't repeated in the slightest.

    I haven't seen snow since before Christmas and there isn't close to any on the horizon - an absolutely appalling situation. It's bad enough for Bratislava but what makes this winter truly abominable is the situation in the nearby Little Carpathians: I can usually rely on them for wintry walks when the city is snow-free but I haven't had a single opportunity since before Christmas. I can't put into words how vile that is.

    I was really hoping for something decent this winter - not necessarily amazing, just decent - after last year's luckless abomination. Sadly however a similar thing has happened this time round.

    Just bugger off.

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  4. On 21/12/2023 at 09:36, AderynCoch said:

    Though January 1838 had a very low CET of -1.5C, the coldest month-long period that winter was below -2C (I don't remember the exact dates). 1855 and 1895 also had month-long CET spells below -2C.

     

    The 30-day mean from 8th January to 6th February 1838 was -2.58C.

    Also:

    25th January - 23rd February 1855 = -2.31C

    22nd January - 20th February 1895 = -2.75C

  5. First day since I came back to Britain on 22nd December that it's actually felt like winter. Sunny for most of the day and I could actually see my breath.

    Heading back to Slovakia tomorrow where it's going to turn very cold on Sunday but Mother Nature is doing everything she can to avoid delivering snow.

  6. At Zwanenburg (near Amsterdam) January 1838 had a mean of -6.6C, the second coldest month ever recorded there (since at least 1736). Only January 1823 was colder (-7.0C).

    19th January 1838 had a daytime high of -16.6C.

    WWW.METEOLINK.NL

    De winter van 1838 was een zeer koude winter met een gemiddelde temperatuur van -1.6 graden. De koudste maand van deze winter...

     

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  7. This winter famously became known as "Murphy's Winter" after Patrick Murphy predicted a cold spell peaking on 20th January - which is exactly what happened. It's one of the coldest spells ever recorded for the CET. I just wonder how the worst periods of cold in 1684 and 1740 compared.

    A low of -26C was reported at Beckenham in Kent on the morning of the 20th. It was -11C in Greenwich at noon.

    PREMIUM.WEATHERWEB.NET

    Though January 1838 had a very low CET of -1.5C, the coldest month-long period that winter was below -2C (I don't remember the exact dates). 1855 and 1895 also had month-long CET spells below -2C.

     

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