The first half of the month was mainly northwesterly, although two deep depressions tracked SE-wards across the UK on the 4th/5th and 13th/14th. A southwest to westerly type lasted from mid-month to just before Christmas, and then an east to southeasterly flow took over during the final week. It was in the top 25% of anticyclonic Decembers, but mean pressure over the British Isles area was well...

-4.9°C minimum for me at Southend-on-Sea -- Keith (Southend) http://www.southendweather.net e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

University of Birmingham, Winterbourne Summary: 2008 Temperatures (C) monthly means & 1881-2007 mean: 1 6.20 3.70 (8th)

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Now 72 hours with the temperature below zero! It was much higher than yesterday but still only managed -0.4c Still lots of hoar frost, still looks like a light snowfall in the country park behind me. Still can't see us getting much snow after enduring all this cold and the models seem to be in agreement the mild air is on it's way.

Can anyone explain to me how whilst it's -2.5C and vis is not that good here in North Yorks with a light breeze, there's no frost and no standing water is frozen - that includes our little garden pond or any of the puddles on the road side or in the fields...

AIR TEMPERATURE Mean Max... +7.1C (-1.2) Mean Min... +1.0C (-1.8) Highest Max... +12.5C (20th) Lowest Max... 0.0C (31st) Highest Min... +9.7C (22nd) Lowest Min... -3.9C (12th) WIND Strongest Mean Speed... S, force 6 (4th and 13th)

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 1st January http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 1st January http://www.woksat.info/etcra01m/ra01-msg-1200-uk.html NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.24 UTC on Thursday 1st January

Brussels on Thursday 1st January Very cold and mostly overcast. Sky somewhat brighter mid-afternoon with a few breaks in the cloud but no real sunshine. Freezing day – very little wind. Brussels Uccle -1.1°C - overnight minimum -4.8°C. Brussels Airport -1.8°C - overnight minimum -5.4°C. Graph http://193.190.137.7/~celinair/maps/metevol_ok/metr012.gif

Warwick December 2008 Avg temp 3.9C 0.7C below local 71-2000 avg Max temp 12.6C on 20th Min temp -5.0 on 31st Rain 46.2mm 75% of local 71-2000 Max rain 24.5mm on 13th 2008 Avg temp 10.3C 0.7C above local 71-2000 avg Max temp 27.5C on 28th July

Poole and Bournemouth are 4 miles apart. A big difference in the 5 day forecasts for both locations on the BBC website at the moment. I know there are going to be local differences but the forecasts are showing cloud on Saturday Bournemouth and Sun for Poole. Some large temperature differences as well. Bournemouth http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1184 Poole...

Here are the reports for the Year 2008 for the Copley sites. (Averages refer to 1971-2000) Coolest and snowiest year since 2001, wettest and dullest since 2002. Copley Lead Mill 218metres asl Temperature °C Mean maximum 11.7 High 25.5 on 27/07 Low -2.0 on 31/12 Mean minimum 3.9 Low -11.3 on 20/02 High 16.1 on 30/08 Mean screen 7.8

Guildford December 2008 -------------------------------- Mean Temp : 4.3c Max Temp : 12.5c 20th Mean Max : 6.5c Min Temp : -4.5c 30th Mean Min : 2.1c Monthly Rain : 63.5mm Wettest Day : 49.0mm 13th High Press: 1036mb on 26th

Lat N 56° 06' 05" Long W 4° 50' 15" National Grid NS236935 82m ASL TEMPERATURE (°C) Mean Max: 13.5 Mean Temp: 9.7 Mean Min: 5.9

Summary for December 2008 Generally very dry and mainly cold. Temperature (°C): Mean (1 minute) 4.2 Mean (min+max) 4.0 Mean Minimum 1.3 Mean Maximum 6.6 Minimum -6.5 day 30

Penzance December Summary (variances from the 1971-2000 norm) Av Max 10.1 (-0.4) Av Min 4.9 (-1.2) Average 7.5 (-0.8) Coldest December since 7.3C in 2001, but much warmer than the 5.5C mean in 1996 In fact the late December cold spell made little impression here,

http://www.trafficweather.info/Index/example/Index.action an excellent link ! Never got above minus 4 here in Aboyne today. Plenty logs chopped and burning nicely

Summary for 2008 Temperature (°C): Mean (1 minute) 8.7 Mean (min+max) 8.7 Mean Minimum 6.3 Mean Maximum 11.1 Minimum -3.6 day 01/02 Maximum 20.2 day 29/07 Highest Minimum 14.0 day 23/08

Summary for December 2008 Temperature (°C): Mean (1 minute) 5.8 Mean (min+max) 5.3 Mean Minimum 3.2 Mean Maximum 7.4 Minimum -3.6 day 30 Maximum 10.4 day 20 Highest Minimum 7.1 day 25

1 January 2009 Wokingham 0900z 050 03kt 6km HZ 6Sc012 8Sc014 +0.5/-2.2 QFF 1031.1 +0.4 in 3hr RMK Slight hoar. Ground surface partly frozen. Dry and overcast since 15z yesterday. 09-09 Max 0.6 Min -1.7 Grass min -0.6 Rain 0.0 Sun (00-24) 0.0 AWS Max 0.6 Min -1.7 09-21 max 0.2 Min -1.7