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The highest was 17.2c at Achnagart in the NW Highlands. I don't even think that was much of a Fohn.

http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/CURR.html There are places on the south coast of England which are averaging 11c minimums so far this month? That's outrageous. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Derbyshire, granted at a high altitude, and hitting a 10c maximum just once in a winter month would be noteworthy. (The quote system seems to be bugged since the forum upgrade and I can't delete below without deleting my entire cache. Are there plans to change this?)

Another issue is that the extremely dry summer and autumn has left water levels low. Snowmaking, even if it's cold enough, is looking tough.

Transporting snow from the inland BC to Cypress Mountain for a few runs was one thing and very impressive. Moving snow thousands of km to cover huge pistes is pure fantasy. I'm going in a few weeks, I'm just glad I didn't choose to work a season this year like I'd been considering as it's around now that layoffs for the season start to happen.

You seemed initially to be contesting John Curtice's claim that 352mm at Honister is a 24 hour record? This has nothing to do with rain guage measurements at an individual location?

Glasgow Bishopton has had 94mm of rain so far today.

Thanks! I was wondering in particular whether some West Highland glen had managed 500-600m+. It seems as though even parts of Galloway and Ayrshire managed that. This first week of December looks to be even wetter than any November week, if it keeps up like this then December too could break some records.

Seems like an appropriate weekend to return to Scotland, meteorologically speaking. November was Scotland's second wettest on record, only beaten by 2009, with 245mm of precipitation. Does anyone have statistics for individual locations?

1052 mbars over Scandinavia in December. That would be quite something, wouldn't it?

5.4c

I will never forget travelling from Glasgow to Derbyshire 4-5 days after the event. There was barely anything in Manchester and nothing at all in Glasgow and not even that much on high parts of the M74/M6 (I believe the seriously heavy falls were further west in Cumbria and SW Scotland), so I didn't expect the Peak District to be a different world. The wind had died down allowing the A515 (along which the Duke of York in the second image is located) beyond Buxton to be re-opened in the form of a tunnel with several metres of snow banked up on either side. There were at least a dozen stranded lorries that had managed to blend well into the landscape as they were partially buried in snowdrifts - this vehicle graveyard that lined the road was quite spooky!

You might be interested in the film 'How I Ended This Summer'. It's basically an identical setting and an identical function to the gallery (semi-abandoned meteorological station filmed on the north coast of Russia) and plot makes use of it really well. Beautiful landscapes too.

That's still 7c above average. It's similar to having a maximum of 1c today.

I managed to skip the Alpes' horrible December.last year, not wanting this to happen again...

You mean the West Midlands didn't have any covering at all in 2013-2014 while not too far away, in Derbyshire, there were scenes like these? edit: ignore me. This was obviously 2012-2013. 2013-2014 was of course snowless for low altitudes but I didn't spend any of 2014-2015 in England. I'm surprised the past winter was completely snowless.

8.6c

37c in Belgium (2015) and Uzbekistan (2012). -20.5c on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border, December 2010.

http://www.lesoir.be/1016248/article/actualite/belgique/2015-10-14/voici-photos-des-premiers-flocons-neige Snow fell in the Ardennes this morning.

The records go a lot further back than 2008, no? How has this year compared to 1994?

A 14:00 temperature of 4c and extremely dull and foggy.

Belgium is forecast similar night-time temperatures with maximum temperatures in the east and south as low as 3c, which is really cold given the time of year and that nowhere in Belgium is above 700m. In keeping with the title, the closest major French town to me is Charleville and it looks to be getting maxes around 7-9c, so not quite as impressive.

http://www.rtbf.be/services/meteo/belgique-ville_marche-en-famenne?id=1801 Maximum temperatures could be as low as 3c in the south of Belgium this week, with a very early risk of snow even at low altitudes (>300m).

Brussels had a minimum temperature of 26.5c last night.

It just reached 38.6c near Liège, which is a shave off the all-time Belgium record, but thanks to cloud it's fortunately 'only' 30c here.

Just hit 36.5c and yet again I seem to be in the hottest part of Belgium. That's me not going outside for a few hours. http://www.meteo.be/meteo/view/fr/1103100-Canicule.html According to this, 37c isn't reached very often.