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9.8c

Wee bit late, I'll try 7c.

It could not rain a drop until August and you'd still be at average...

Every winter I've spent in Glasgow and not in Derbyshire. I'm sure this winter in the Peak District hasn't been bad as an average Glaswegian winter...

This week looks milder, but I doubt it'll do much harm in the grand scheme of things and at snow patch level there could still be accumulations of snow rather than rain.

If it was consistently cool then the CET would be below average. I'd say consistently mild more than anything.A 9.3c CET day doesn't seem outrageous, but it still seems very high, but most remarkable is how not a single day has been below 3c. I'm not sure how many winters record a CET day into double figures, but I doubt it's many.There have also been extremely mild temperatures, just not so much in the CET zone. Lerwick broke its December temperature record and there was a three day spell in Scotland where temperatures were constantly above 12c across the entire country, both day and night.

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Was feeling warm in the sunshine when I was out just 40 minutes ago, now there's a covering of snow. Snow rather heavy.

Except if you're high enough, we have several times more snow than in any of those pictures, in our own country! - the top of a platter lift in Glenshee. The tow should be several metres above the ground.

Tiree bottomed out at an impressive 948mB this afternoon. It doesn't even feel that notable anymore...

Facebook suggests snow now seems to be settling in the higher parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire... can anyone confirm?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%C3%A7on#Climat ~800-1800m in the Alps is pretty much ideal. 2,500 hours of sun per year, average humidity in the daytime of less than 40%. The far south of the French Alps has the vast majority of its precipitation falling in the winter, mostly as snow. Nights reliably cool - into single figures. Never above 35c.

http://www.maccinfo.com/cat/ Snow still seems to be falling and laying above 500m in Derbyshire.

Annoying to narrowly miss an ice day - there could well be not a single one this winter!

Glasgow - snow falling thrice, on no occasion lying Derbyshire - snow falling reasonably often, lying above 200m, never lasting more than 24 hours.

5.5c

Greenland, St. Pierre et Miquelon and Heard and MacDonald Islands set all-time heat records, and these aren't part of Denmark, Metropolitan France and Australia respectively. Admittedly the definitions can get a little hazy. Technically, the Isle of Man is simply a dependency, rather than part, of the UK even though it's located between all four UK countries and meteorologically speaking probably quite representative.

September 2011-March 2012 were all, except February, 1.5c or more above the 61-90 average. And I wouldn't mind a repeat of spring 2012 given that I experienced my first blizzard in the UK that April (and 2013 was also great).

More substantial snow on the Cat & Fiddle webcam.

I wouldn't say that there were no extremely mild spells, although it's true that just one day was in the 10 warmest percentile. Lerwick had its highest ever December temperature and in Scotland, temperatures were routinely in the teens. Definitely a notable month for its persistent mildness and it being so cyclonic - do we ever get a month's average of air pressure? I reckon December's would be one of the lowest ever.

December had 300mm of rain at Glasgow Bishopton, 400mm at Loch Glascarnoch. Pretty impressive totals.

4.3c

Provisionally not a single CET day below average for the whole of December, perhaps?

4.0c

I'm in a sheltered valley at 150m right now, but the wind'd have you believe you're on the tops. It's pretty ferocious.