Lettucing Gutted

El Nino is gonna screw us over December 2015 style from now on after El Nino has finally comeback without a proper La Nina... 22C Last sub 14C July in 1922. Last sub 15C July in 1988. Last sub 15.5C July in 2011.

Its strange you compare this month to June 1995. That month finished very close to average with the cold first half and warm second largely cancelling each other out. This month however looks odds on to be a very warm June and at least the warmest since 1976 if not 1846.

I might be the only one to have guessed too high!

As the months go by in 2017, the odds are increasing on 2017 being the first calender year not to record any cool months. Already we have had non-calender periods of more than 12 months spanning 2 years without any cool months. The most notable examples are in 1959/1960 and 2002/2003 and 2004/2005 and 2006/2007 and 2007/2008.

Me too. Sadly it will probably take some freak event for that to happen anytime soon again such as a highly explosive volcanic eruption, North Atlantic Drift shutdown or the Eurotrash High and Polar Vortex trading places.

Bear in mind that 2014 had a cold sub 15C August and a near average sub 6C December, it won't take much for 2017 to catch up and beat 2014 if the warmth continues to the end of the year.

For the first time ever in the records of CET competitions there is not a single guess below the 1961-1990 or 1971-2000 averages.

I think the main reason for the lack of drizzle is the lack of moist but cool and stable easterly and northerly synoptics. Another drizzle and mist maker for southwest facing coasts in the UK is the Maritime Tropical southwesterly but event this setup doesn't deliver drizzle like it use to due to warm SSTs combined with increased cyclonicity which increase vertical mixing and reduces low stratus formations necessary for drizzle.

20.5C Last sub 12C June in 1972. Last sub 13C and last sub 13.5C June in 1991.

Drizzle is my fave precip after snow! Sadly though at least in my location in Lancashire, drizzle has become much rarer since 2012.

Since I can't edit my original post, I'll post some extra stuff here. From past CET months in my lifetime this is the worst summer for me:- June 2003 16.1C July 2006 19.7C August 1995 19.2C From past CET months before my lifetime this is the worst summer for me:- June 1846 18.2C July 1983 19.5C August 1975 18.7C

Anything with summer nights much above 10C and days above 20C is way too hot but I suppose my worst possible summer is one like Rajasthan's in the build up to the "summer" monsoon were nights are always near 35C and days on their way to 60C.

Alberta must be the most poleward location to see 20C+ temperatures in the main winter months. Its at least the most continental location to see those ridiculous summer like temperatures in the 3 main winter months! Chinooks do seem very variable in their temperatures, at least in winter. This suggests that the exact source and track of the Pacific air is important. Those ridiculous winter 20C+ temperatures would require Maritime Tropical on a "Pineapple Express" track far from the southwest. Maritime Polar westerlies or northwesterlies should only give Chinooks with temperatures slightly above 10C in winter whereas Maritime Arctic northwesterlies would give Chinooks with temperatures slightly below 10C in winter.

Rest in pieces 'spring' 2017!... 17.5C Last sub 9C May in 1902. Last sub 10C May in 1996. Last sub 11C May in 2015.

14C Last sub 5C April in 1837. Last sub 6C April in 1986. Last sub 7C April in 1989. Last sub 7.5C April in 2012.

12C Last sub 2C March in 1883. Last sub 3C, last sub 4C, last sub 5C and last sub 5.5C March in 2013.

Southeasterlies are a surprisingly common wind direction for winter cold spells involving both Continental Polar air and snow events. With easterly setups involving snow events, the deep southerly tracking troughs/lows attacking from the southwest often have a negative (Northwest-Southeast) tilt and/or the ridges from the Scandi High start to sink further south into Eastern Europe which causes the Continental Polar to return from further south in Europe. This effect was very common even in the classic winters of the 20th Century and probably the Little Iceage judging by the 19th Century.

Rest in pieces 'winter' 2016/2017! 10C Last sub -1C, last sub 0C and last sub 1C February in 1986. Last sub 2C February in 1991. Last sub 3C February in 2010. Last sub 3.5C February in 2013.

Too little too late by Johnny Mathis.

It might be called off if it gets that hot! I beg your pardon. I am Craig Evans, not Nathan!

I hated this year! January through March and December were all god awfully mild and wet, just like the monsoonal December 2015! Yes, December this year was cooler and drier but that wasn't hard to achieve and so it was yet again another very mild and unsettled one! The summer (including May and September) was just too bloody muggy and humid with no respite unlike many other recent summers. October was just boring with dry and consistently slightly mild weather. Only April and November were seasonably cool and enjoyable for me. These 2 are also the only months to break another otherwise endless mild train post September 2015. This sequence of months was very similar to 1989 albeit with July and November 2016 being somewhat cooler and March, April, June, August and September 2016 somewhat milder than their 1989 counterparts. 2/10 I now await the lynch mob...

The biggest crumb of comfort for cold/winter fans is that despite the recent rapid deterioration and warming of December post 2010, December shows both the least warming and least loss of degree of cold compared to all of the other month in the christmas pudding.

9.5C Last sub -3.0C January in 1795. Last sub -2.0C and sub -1.0C January in 1963. Last sub 0C January in 1979. Last sub 1C January in 1987. Last sub 2C, last sub 3C and last sub 3.5C January in 2010.

The Fohn Effect combined with long draw Maritime Tropical southwesterlies and southerlies has been known to bring temperatures in the lee of High Ground as high as 18C even in December and January with 19C recorded in February 1998!

I find it remarkable that in the early years of this century we have already broken the spring and autumn warm seasonal CET records, yet summer and winter have not yet done the same.