In article
,
Len Wood writes:
Having beaten the all time daily rainfall record in Cumbria this year,
is the cold snap going to bring any record low temperatures for the
UK?

I doubt it. It looks as though the wind is going to be mostly
north-easterly rather than easterly, so that there will be quite a long
sea track across a still pretty warm North Sea. But if the wind should
fall light with clear skies and a snow cover, then who knows?

Surely global warming and El Nino won't allow it?

But an overall warming of a degree or so, though making it less likely,
doesn't rule it out altogether.

And then there
is a lot of hot air in Copenhagen.
Here are the records that need to be broken:
UK
-27.2C Braemar 10 Jan 1992

1982, I think.

and 11 Feb 1895
-27.2C Altnaharra 30 Dec 1995.

England
-25.2C Shawbury, Shrops, 13 Dec 1981
-26.1C Newport, Shrops, 10 Jan 1982

Wembury, SW Devon, -10.1C 13 Jan 1987

Better check your lagging.

As those dates tend to suggest, really extreme cold before Christmas is
rare. December 1981 was of course the big exception, and a truly
remarkable month which many of us still have fond memories of.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"