The weather we are experiencing currently is unusual by any standards. Snow and cold are not unknown in this country but, in my lifetime, cold of the degree now being visited upon us has not occurred in December, as far as I recall.
That the cold spell has lasted for most of the month, admittedly with a minor respite for a week or so, and is now expected to continue for at least the next week, will quite probably make this one of the coldest Decembers on record. I see that the temperature in Oxford was -17°C at 9:00pm this evening, surely a reading to chill the warmest heart.
Is this simply a meteorological aberration or is it the start of some more long term pattern ? Only time will tell and, in the mean time, we will have to wrap up warm.
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