cheeky_monkey

its just a light dusting in my part of the world..

Looks to me as though there was a distinct drying trend form the early 1970s to the late 1990s and a reversal of that trend since.

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Nope not at all..still i manage to gain an extra 2 months of Autumn i guess

things set to turn very cold here as the Aleutian low gets replaced by the Alaskan High pushing arctic air south into NA

i remember breaking down on the M40 in 2014 and being stood there like that ..what made it worse it was a brand new car that i had picked up the day before with 200 miles on the clock.

Autumn 2000 was horrendously wet ..summer 2007 was poor and often very wet but the summers of the 85-88 were worse imo..other than that nothing else really stands out

here in Edmonton we had 430mm of precip in 2023..350mm of that fell in June July and August ..so only 80mm in the other 9 months of the year.

looks like my run of mild sunshine and no snow which has prevailed right through November and December (green Xmas and New Year) is about to come to an end ..-30c and snow is on the way bugger

today is the day we finally turn the corner..sunrise starts getting earlier from now onwards ..catching up to the latest sunset which happened on Dec 13th..so now gaining light mornings and evenings

I'm just old enough to remember the summer of 1976..if I'm ranking summers in my lifetime that i remember whilst living in the UK it would be this: 1. 1995 2. 1976 3. 1983 4. 1989 5. 2003 1984 would be in the top 10 somewhere but doesn't make the top 5

another +8c day today..feels more like mid Ocotber than Xmas

yes it is lots of people including myself go walking and running early doors..its painful when the mornings are dark until 9am

doesn't get light here before 8am until end of March

winter solstice hits at 8.27pm my time this evening..which is 3.27am your time i think

i would like to go to Scandinavia but only in summer or early Autumn..same with Iceland but only in mid June

it was defiently the 8th that the first snow set it..i too was at school ..the Friday was one of those forecast snow event that didnt happen in my area but other parts of the south got a dumping..sunday i remember the snow started early morning and had blizzards well into the afternoon before it turned back to rain..think the cold returned from Tuesday so the mild spell was short lived.

white xmas days pretty thin on the ground...1981 was white but didn't snow on the day..actual snow on the day would be 1993 (light snow showers) 2000 rain turned to snow in the afternoon ..2004 odd snow shower in the morning and that's it..near misses 1978 snowed quite a bit between 20-22 Dec and again on Dec 31 but rained in between..1995 some snow before Xmas and again after Xmas but not much ..1984 snowed early hours of Boxing day This will be my first Xmas in Canada without snow if the forecast is right..last year it snowed for 2-3 hrs on Xmas morning here with the temp of -20c..this year forecast is for sunny and +1c

Nope

funny i find ..it was a hugely severe spell for the UK but it doesn't tend to linger in the memory like 1978-79 or Feb 1986 because it was short lived.

stats doing always tell the true story of the feel on the ground so to speak..also local areas have their own micro climates that wont show up in those stats either...dont get me wrong 1989 was a great summer but in my world nothing will ever beat the summer of 1995

100% agree Nino shows no sign of weakening much as we head towards the new year ..hence the reason we have such a massive positive anomaly across the whole of the NA continent..i was expecting a milder than average winter in my location but the run of above temperatures has surpassed anything i would imagine..the next 10 days looks even more ridiculous for warmth ..no snow for xmas and the new year with temps close to double digits when it should be -25c

nope 1995 was better IMO by a distance ..1989 was quite oppressive esp late June and July (decent storms in 1989 more thundery than 1995) reason 1995 was better it was a dry heat not too dissimilar to July 1983 which i again rate over July 1989...i would take May-Oct 1995 over the same period in 1989 but the two periods weather wise were very similar in my locations

just stating facts at no point did i say i wish it was spring..in fact 70 days ago was 9th October it just shows how time flies.

only 70 days until the start of spring