On Dec 12, 8:45*am, "Rob Brooks" wrote:
Here in Leeds the mean temperature for the first 12 days of this winter
month is 2.0 C. *This is the coldest start this Century to any December, but
I was wondering if we had anything on the CET. *Most people on *this NG will
know that December 1981 was ranked one of the coldest December's on record,
but how does December 2008 compare. Is it the coldest since 1981??

CET's are he

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...HadCET_act.txt

To save you looking the Dec 1981 CET was 0.3°C, so we've some
way to go yet. The first few days of Dec 1981 were very mild and it
reached 15°C in Aberdeen on the 3rd, according to Weather Log. The
general circulation was very anomalous and in a very unusual way in
that the Icelandic Low was displaced a long way SE to be over much of
the UK. The temperature anomaly was least in the south, unusual for a
very cold month.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.