The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal. 2015 was, of course, the warmest on record, but this year is now firmly in 2nd place

Warmest Decembers
2015 - 12.0C
2016 - 10.9C (so far)
2006 & 1994 9.3C

The temperature has only dropped below 10C on 1 day - minimum of 9.7C on 3rd, when the 'cold'? spell was hitting the news.

Looking at variances to date there are many places with anomalies running around +3C, from the midlands to right up in Shetland.

There's also been a fair bit of rain, mainly due to a front stuck over us on the 10th for far too long. More sunshine than last December. http://www.sennen-cove.com/imdec16.htm

A big swell at times, but still a complete lack of gales, something that doesn't look set to change. The recent swell, combined with frequent offshore winds, has been steadily returning sand at Sennen after the very low levels of the summer, the least sand I've ever seen during the summer season, far lower summer 2014, when the levels quickly recovered from the destructive swells of the previous winter. I suspect the huge 2014 destructive swlls with onshore gales dumped a lot of sand way below the low tide mark, where it stayed. The top of the beach recovered during 2014 due to favourable conditions for it to accumulate high up, but the pool of sand just below the low tide mark hadn't really recovered. Gales in March 2016 stripped the beach, with little recovery over the summer. Hopefully the recent large constructive swells are genuinely returning the sand to the main beach.

Anyway, it's looking a lot better now, banks of sand really piling up http://magicseaweed.com/Live-Sennen-Webcam/65/

Graham
Penzance

On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 09:45:11 UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal. 2015 was, of course, the warmest on record, but this year is now firmly in 2nd place

Warmest Decembers
2015 - 12.0C
2016 - 10.9C (so far)
2006 & 1994 9.3C

The temperature has only dropped below 10C on 1 day - minimum of 9.7C on 3rd, when the 'cold'? spell was hitting the news.

Looking at variances to date there are many places with anomalies running around +3C, from the Midlands to right up in Shetland.

Where exactly is Southland?

There's also been a fair bit of rain, mainly due to a front stuck over us on the 10th for far too long. More sunshine than last December. http://www..sennen-cove.com/imdec16.htm

A big swell at times, but still a complete lack of gales, something that doesn't look set to change. The recent swell, combined with frequent offshore winds, has been steadily returning sand at Sennen after the very low levels of the summer, the least sand I've ever seen during the summer season, far lower summer 2014, when the levels quickly recovered from the destructive swells of the previous winter.


Let's hope McAlpine doesn't find out. He'll be down there with his young boys.

I suspect the huge 2014 destructive swells with onshore gales dumped a lot of sand way below the low tide mark, where it stayed. The top of the beach recovered during 2014 due to favourable conditions for it to accumulate high up, but the pool of sand just below the low tide mark hadn't really recovered.

That's nothing, I can remember when I was a lad, back in the last century....

Gales in March 2016 stripped the beach, with little recovery over the summer. Hopefully the recent large constructive swells are genuinely returning the sand to the main beach.

Anyway, it's looking a lot better now, banks of sand really piling up http://magicseaweed.com/Live-Sennen-Webcam/65/

Graham
Penzance

It can not be that you have missed the behaviour of the Icelandic Low lately... (In case you have: http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/char...Refresh+V iew) ... so I am supposing that the Icelandic Low is what you are alluding to.

Thus have to ask you what you make of it?

Graham Easterling wrote:

The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal.
2015 was, of course, the warmest on record, but this year is now firmly in
2nd place

Warmest Decembers
2015 - 12.0C
2016 - 10.9C (so far)
2006 & 1994 9.3C

The temperature has only dropped below 10C on 1 day - minimum of 9.7C on 3rd,
when the 'cold'? spell was hitting the news.

Looking at variances to date there are many places with anomalies running
around +3C, from the midlands to right up in Shetland.

There's also been a fair bit of rain, mainly due to a front stuck over us on
the 10th for far too long. More sunshine than last December.

Very mild in Tideswell. Mean temp for the month so far is 5.7C which is 2.5C
above the average for the whole month. The mean for Dec 2015 was 7.5C so we are
still well below that.

It's been a very dry month so far. The total rain to date is 23mm which is only
15% of the average for the whole month. It's a very dull month. The total of
4.1 hours of sunshine so far is only 11% of the average for the whole month.

Very mild, very dry and very dull sums up the month here so far.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org
@TideswellWeathr

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
...
Graham Easterling wrote:

The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above
normal.
2015 was, of course, the warmest on record, but this year is now firmly
in
2nd place

Warmest Decembers
2015 - 12.0C
2016 - 10.9C (so far)
2006 & 1994 9.3C

The temperature has only dropped below 10C on 1 day - minimum of 9.7C on
3rd,
when the 'cold'? spell was hitting the news.

Looking at variances to date there are many places with anomalies running
around +3C, from the midlands to right up in Shetland.

There's also been a fair bit of rain, mainly due to a front stuck over us
on
the 10th for far too long. More sunshine than last December.

Very mild in Tideswell. Mean temp for the month so far is 5.7C which is
2.5C
above the average for the whole month. The mean for Dec 2015 was 7.5C so
we are
still well below that.

It's been a very dry month so far. The total rain to date is 23mm which is
only
15% of the average for the whole month. It's a very dull month. The total
of
4.1 hours of sunshine so far is only 11% of the average for the whole
month.

Very mild, very dry and very dull sums up the month here so far.


Haytor up to 13th

Mean Max. 9.5 (+1.7)
Mean Min. 5.0 (+2.1)
Mean 7.2 (+1.9)
Air frosts 2
Highest Max. 12.7
Lowest Max. 4.9
Highest Min. 10.8
Lowest Min. -0.8
Rainfall 20.8 (10%)
Fog 3 days
No snow or hail.
Sunny days 2

Will
--
" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:45:11 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling
wrote:

The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal...

Our mean, so far, is 7.5°C which is 2.6C° above our fifteen year average
for December and the highest for any December in that fifteen years.
Last years December mean was 6.7°C, the previous highest.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather

On 13/12/2016 11:07, Alan White wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:45:11 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling
wrote:

The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal...

Our mean, so far, is 7.5°C which is 2.6C° above our fifteen year average
for December and the highest for any December in that fifteen years.
Last years December mean was 6.7°C, the previous highest.



Overall mean 6.7C here, well above the estimated December mean of 3.8C
(I don't have any useful long term temperature data for this location).
Still a very dry month with only 3.5mm rain up to 1126h today

--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk

Haven't done a mean calculation, but over 10c for max and around 0c for min.

An outstanding month so far, a couple of cloudy days, but otherwise virtually unbroken sunshine. The sun is strong as well and the days virtually calm.

No rain so far and none on the horizon.

DM. 740m. La Moratille. Correze. France.

in 445222 20161213 112826 George Booth wrote:
On 13/12/2016 11:07, Alan White wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:45:11 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling
wrote:

The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal...

Our mean, so far, is 7.5�C which is 2.6C� above our fifteen year average
for December and the highest for any December in that fifteen years.
Last years December mean was 6.7�C, the previous highest.



Overall mean 6.7C here, well above the estimated December mean of 3.8C
(I don't have any useful long term temperature data for this location).
Still a very dry month with only 3.5mm rain up to 1126h today

Mean temperature in South Hants for month to date = 6.8C
November average was 6.5C and December 2015 was 11.0C

In message , Bob Martin
writes
Mean temperature in South Hants for month to date = 6.8C November
average was 6.5C and December 2015 was 11.0C

That bears out my subjective impression that here in Surrey - not very
far away - while it's certainly been mild it hasn't been exceptional.
--
John Hall
"One can certainly imagine the myriad of uses
for a hand-held iguana maker"
Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher!)

The mean December temperature in Penzance is now running 3.1C above normal.
2015 was, of course, the warmest on record, but this year is now firmly in
2nd place

Warmest Decembers
2015 - 12.0C
2016 - 10.9C (so far)
2006 & 1994 9.3C

Same he

2016 - 8.1c
1974 - 6.6c
1988 - 6.3c
2016 - 6.0c (so far)

Mean 1981-2010 - 3.5c

Records back to 1960


Graham (Weston Coyney)