of today (1.5mb) http://www.layton.me.uk/051230a.gif -- Phil

Today's max +12.5 deg. C Precipitation (so far) 14.2mm Currently.... Temp +9.1 deg. C Dew point +6.5 deg. C RH 84% Wind 220 03KT Pressure 998 hPa rising slowly

Guildford 30/12/05 20:48Z Temperature 7.3°C Dewpoint 6.4°C Barometer 994.8mb Rising Rapidly Today's Rain 10.7mm RMK: SW F3 SCT020

Global warming buffs will be all ears, Tropical Storm Zeta, out of season, about to be announced near to the Azores... Richard

http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rtavn3841.png -- Keith (Southend) http://www.southendweather.net

-7.0C here in Bolton, a record low for me. There is slush in my milk bottles, it's been a while since I've seen that! Col -- Bolton, Lancashire. 160m asl.

A throughly dull and wet day. We had a dry but dull spell between 10am and 2.15pm, otherwise rain. I think it's been about 4 weeks since we had whole rainy day. Joe Wolverhampton 175m asl

Just when you're all agog with snow............... ....Late season tropical storm...the 27th of the year...forms in the eastern Atlantic... At 1 PM AST...1700z...the center of Tropical Storm Zeta was located near latitude 25.0 north... longitude 36.9 west or about 1070 miles...1720 km... southwest of the Azores. http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

Friday, 30 December 2005 BRACKNELL (TAWFIELD) 0900 SSE F4 20km -RA RE-RASN 7/ST 8/SC T017D013 RMK: a short, very wishy-washy 'sleet' phase about 30-40 mins ago, but mostly rain - hard surfaces have some slipperyness to them where snow from last night settled. other data: The PPN recorded from rain (and a little sleet - as above) that has been falling since ~0530Z ]=

Its doing a good impression of a proper snow event up here. In a S wind of about 15-20 knots the snow is drifting and could be a problem up here before the milder air pushes through. It was a bit of a run getting this mornings pic...! http://talkingtoomuchagain.blogspot.com/ Currently M0.4C. -- Rob Overfield

The continuous rainfalls have given more copious amounts of rainfalls in western Greece during the last couple of days -and much more is yet to come there. December will end up with more than 300 mm in low lying areas of NW Greece. River Arachthos pics, today, by Kostas...

I note some papers are claiming that this December is the coldest such month for about 10 years. That may be so for some, but for us, the record is more modest. Current anomaly (24hr data) for temperature this station for this month is -1.2C; this may in fact ease back very slightly by month's end. With this anomaly, this December is only the coldest such-named month since December 2001...

What a contrast to yesterday. After the cold and rain of yesterday, the temperatures have steadily climbed for over 24 hours, peaking today at 12.2C, with some pleasant sunshine this afternoon after a rainy morning. Currently @ 15:45, 10.0C, RH 87%, DP 8.0C, 994 mb (S), Wind W 10.0 mph Gusting 18 mph, Rain Last 24 hrs 16.0 mm. ________________ Nick G Exe Valley, Devon 50 m amsl

Personally i rate 2005 as a 9/10 some great snowfall early in the year, big storms in summer with one that developed in 1hr giving an awsome lightning display. To end it all off an ice day with lots of snow! se england herne

Seems a repeating pattern is that the new year always brings drab weather, and that any "exciting" winter weather will occur in either December or April(!) Interesting that the second week of January has only been anything close to "exciting" since 1987 in 1997 and 2003, and since 1992, mid January has only been anything close to seasonal in 2001 (no snow, but cold). Should we be thinking "oh...

After just about 5 hours of snow it's turned back to drizzle in the past few minutes. All in all not too bad, this frontal snow is far easier to cope with than the heavy showers from a Northerly. Temp now 0.2C. -- David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

30 December 2005 Wokingham 0900z 160 11/24kt 7km -RA 3St007 7St010 8Ns025 +2.3/+1.8 QFF 1000.7 RMK Pressure fall 4.5 mbar in 3 hr. Period of mod rain bordering on heavy at times, 0645-0840. Temperature hovering around 2C, but no sleet observed. Trace of snow yesterday evening produced a light covering, 0.5 cm, that was still in evidence at midnight. (09-09) Max 2.9 Min -1.6 Grass min -3.6

While rebuilding on my programmes onto the SATA disc I then had a problem with quicktime, as use this for the Cheshire College at animations. Firefox directs you to the Apple site and you have to download iTunes as well !!. However, this and a previous copy of the download came up with 'download again as there is a currupt file'. Still no luck so I grabbed an old disc were I had saved...

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5cm of snow lying this morning following an overnight min of -5.2C. 41st day of 2005 with falling snow/sleet and 18th with lying snow. Afternoon max was -0.1C at 1238. Temperature then fell to -3.9C by 1716 but then rose to 1.3C by 2100 (end of period for recording max temp). So, despite being below freezing for more than 28 consecutive hours, no ice day occured and this months coldest day...