A mild first half and cold snowy end. Overall, with a mean of 3.6C and
60.4 mm of precipitation, December was an average month overall.
Temperatures ranged from 10.6C on the 11th and 15th to -7.6C on the
morning of the 29th. The wettest day was the 30th, with 16.2 mm of snow
and sleet.

On the morning of Thursday I recorded the lowest December reading since
I moved here in 1996: -7.6C (although December 1995 would have seen
lower). The spell 28-30 December set a new record duration for
continuous frost in the last ten years - 43 hours, from about 4 pm on
the 28th to 11 am on the 30th. Not much to write home about perhaps,
but it shows how mild things have been since December 1995.

An aside: in spite of rain last night, we still have a cm of snow
covering 50% of the ground here.

Trevor Harley
Lundie, 10 miles NW of Dundee
Readings from a Davis Weather Monitor II and my little eye
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/