Happy New Year

Another damp miserable but rather mild day brought 2010 to a close. Even if the weather was mild the demand on the power stations of Ferrybridge, Drax and Eggborough looked to be high from this photo taken during the afternoon.

Figures are now showing that December was the second coldest December based on the Central England Temperature Record which dates back to 1772. Provisionally the table of coldest December’s looks like this.

My weather station average for December is 0.3 a placing of equal 7th in the table but as we live in an urban area I would anticipate a slightly higher temperature.

This article in the Daily Telegraph summarizes the month well. Here’s hoping that January and February are more average, temperature wise, and don’t follow December into the record books.

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