cheeky_monkey

only 70 days until the start of spring

that really is an incredibly chart for NA ..above freezing right across the continent almost touching the arctic ocean in places

im surprised no one has mentioned the continued strong basin wide El Nino that continues to hold steady ..IMO this doesn't favour much in the way prolonged cold for the UK going forward

no Edmonton

its not even cold..cold by UK measures but it is 10-20c above normal ..combined with lack of precip.

you think you have it bad..looks like a brown Xmas here..the first this century

people seem to forget this is a moans thread so put it here instead of cluttering up threads elsewhere

we didn't get the snow that was forecast last night...happy days

couple of examples

not always the case both continents can be anomalously warm or cold at the same time

almost the same as here in Edmonton..Edmonton is drier and much sunnier

i need to move to Lowestoft i wont see much in the way of a pre 8am sunrise until April

Edmonton gets 321 sunny days per year and is the second sunniest city in Canada just behind Calgary.

i think you mean Mongolia

its been way above average for pretty much all autumn and early winter and will likely remain this way until mid spring..is a typical temp signal for NA for a strong El Nino

summers here are great just too short

growing season here is very short late May to early Sept

I wont need my lawnmower until late May early June thats when the grass start growing again

For me it has to be Feb 1998..granted i wasn't in the UK in 2019 ..but it was exceptionally dry exceptionally mild and pretty sunny

Funnily enough looking at 1962..November and December in my location are almsot identical to the November just gone and the December im having right now and the forecast for the next 14 days

Bring back Craig Rich

says who? again in that respect we have a data set to refer to of exactly zero..its pure supposition..there has been 100+ years of warming without any collapse of ecosystems..which goes against what the doomsayers have been saying for the last 40 years ...i 100% guarantee that in 40 years time you will still be able to honeymoon in the Maldives and wont be wading through the streets of London knee deep in water. i also guarantee in 40 years we will have technologies at hand you cant even think or imagine today.

in mid December 1991 under similar high with similar uppers temps never got above freezing in southern England with night time temps down to -10c

i don't think you can beat 1995 for a year that pretty much had everything from start to finish

look like mid December 1991