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??

On 12 Dec, 08:45, "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??

The first week was only the coldest here in Coventry since 2002, Rob.

The average temperature in Coventry is 3.5C below average in the first
11 days, but still not as cold as 1995.

And it is going to get milder!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

On Dec 12, 9:01*am, Steve J wrote:

The first week was only the coldest here in Coventry since 2002, Rob.

The average temperature in Coventry is 3.5C below average in the first
11 days, but still not as cold as 1995.

And it is going to get milder!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UKwww.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve,

I'm surprised that the first week of Dec was only the coldest in
Coventry since 2002. Here the 1st-11th is the coldest since my records
began in 1990, and just slightly colder than the start of Dec 1995.
For comparison the mean temperatures a

2008 2.0C
1995 2.2C
2002 4.5C

Dick Lovett

Charlbury (Oxfordshire Cotswolds) 121m

bso

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:45:17 +0000, 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??

The Met Office have a press release:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20081212.html

The first para says that the first third of December had an "average
temperature" (I assume they mean CET, but it doesn't actually say so) of
1.7 °C, and that this is the lowest such since 1976 (0.8 °C).

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

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.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:45:17 -0000, 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??

Up to now the average temperature in December is 1.9C which is 2.6C below
average.


Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL
12/12/2008 19:20:21

On 2008-12-12 19:20:58 +0000, Alan Gardiner said:
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,

I've just checked mine, and it's 0.7C. A more meaningful measure for me
is that my pond has been frozen all month (indeed since 29 November).

Trevor
Lundie, near Dundee
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/

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??



I wish people wouldn't say coldest, or whatever this century. As it's
only 8 years old. A better measure would be in the last 25 or 50 years.