SNIP
V. cold Yr Normal Yr.
Penzance 2010 2016
MIN MAX MIN MAX
24/11 2.2 9.1 5.4 12.7
25/11 0.5 6.3 7.6 10.3
26/11 2.1 7.4 7.2 10.1
27/11 0.6 4.2 3.7 9.8
28/11 -4.3! 4.6 5.7 9.7
29/11 -3.8 3.3 3.4 8.0
30/11 -2.0 3.2 0.1 10.7
01/12 -0.6 3.1 1.3 11.5
02/12 -1.5 2.3 2.5 10.4
03/12 -3.0 6.1 7.3 9.7
04/12 -0.7 8.7 8.0 11.4 (at 09:00 today)
05/12 2.8 5.8 9.3 (13.0C looks likely)

Where are people like Lamb & Philip Eden to add a bit of historically
perspective when you need them?

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Well it was a cold month up here on Dartmoor (also in the SW). Hard frozen
ground on quite a few days.

Nothing like a real cold month though, bore no relation to 2010 say.

And there has been a distinct lack of real rain,
just one wet day in November (with over 60mm).

But that's significantly more than your wettest day in Philip Hammond's stormy Nov 2015, when your wettest day was 40.8mm according to my COL database.. The railway line was washed away this year, no such issues in Nov. 2015.

My last really wet November was 2009 with 270mm. 2015 just 142.8mm

Philip Eden was not respected in the MetO due to his constant sniping
from the sidelines.

Will
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I've a lot more respect for Philip Eden than the MetO (as an organisation with their "Who needs people or actual observations when you have so much computing power" attitude.) It was such a different and much more approachable organisation back in the 20th century, often helpful even. I even had people pop around to drop in satellite imagery in those pre broadband days. That's not to say there aren't good people still working in the MetO, but they are disappearing by the day.

Philip supplied me with so much historical data, as well as equipment & friendship.

Graham
Penzance