On Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:38:41 UTC, Colin Youngs wrote:
Belgian Royal Meteorological Service site at Uccle, Brussels, has recorded just 1 hour 57 minutes sunshine so far in December (up to and including 13th).

The first 7 days were completely sunless, there was 1 hr 33 min sunshine on 8th, and from 9th to 13th the respective daily totals have been: 6 min, 4 min, 0 min, 14 min, 0 min.

http://www.meteo.be/meteo/view/nl/12...ige+maand.html (last column: cumulative total).

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Woke up to brilliant sunshine over new snow cover in Roeselare on Tuesday. We wanted to go to Train World in Brussels but decided against it so went to tourist-infested Brugge instead. Met some heavy sleet showers on the way.

I'm guessing the Brussels sunshine was on Tuesday?

MartinR

Only delayed by an hour at Calais later than evening for the crossing