coldest winter

Happy New Year to everyone. Clear frosty morning here but no snow on the ground , the hills are snow covered. As usual, this neck of the woods misses out on the sort of heavy precipitation that many other parts of Scotland have recently been experiencing. The only time, in my recollection over the last 17 years living here, this area had severe impacts of heavy rainfall combined with violent winds was on 26 October 2006, just a few months after we moved here! Many sane people would be relieved with that, but as a weather nerd, I feel deprived. Does anybody on the forum recall that event?

Can anybody explain why the local met office forecast for the next 7 days constantly forecast wind direction between WSW and NW when we are supposedly getting winds from the North and trending towards the East? Could this be taking account local geography relating to our position by the Cromarty Firth?

2.4 degrees and 48mm for me please.

17.9 and 44.3 mm rainfall for me please.

14.3 and 94.mm rainfall for me please.

15.8 for me and EWP at 56.2mm

7.8 for me and 82mm precip.

7.6 and 76mm precipitation for me, thanks

Yet another benign, boreing anticyclonic month, particularly for the bulk of England. 6.6 degrees and 35mm precipitation.

5.7 for me and 121.4mm prcip

8.3 and 78mm for me thanks

11.9 and 134.9 for me please

10.2 and 101.3mm precipitation for me please

7.1 for me please and 45.3mm precip.

6.8 and 123.6mm precipitation for me please.