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We have had an unusually dry 1st half. The official NWS site has logged 0.06" or about 1.5mm of precipitation. We usually get about 3.5" by now. My own rain gauge saw a whopping 0.01. We had exactly one rainy day so far but given how dry this month has been up to now it has also been unusually sunless. Today was our first fully sunny day; yielding a little under 9 hours. We didn't have cloud one and that is, by itself, unusual for a winter month in these parts. My "calibrated" eye tells me we have accumulated about 15 hours for the month so far which isn't a whole lot but it is winter and we don't usually get much anyway. Our weather station doesn't track sunshine hours so "15" is only a guesstimate even if it is close.
It's been this way from San Francisco clear past Vancouver B.C. we've been under a dome of high pressure that has set records from one end to the other (Portland hit 30.75" or about 1042 last week). It hasn't moved much and part of the reason the desert Southwest and southern California have had so much wind recently can be tied to a pressure differential that is much higher that standard. During a typical winter we don't see much over 1000 but this year we've been averaging about 1035. Doesn't hurt my feelings a bit but I wish we weren't so subject to air inversions during these rare episodes of extended high pressure.
Can't last you say? You'd be right. All this will move off to the east starting Tuesday night to be replaced by junk spinning off our annoying Aleutian Low that has been such a pain in the a** from March through late August. We'll be seeing rain then and it will persist through the next week to ten days at least according to the most recent forecasts. My guess is we'll see light to moderate rain clear through the New Year; may not rain hard - probably won't - but it will rain pretty much continuously.
This December so far is marching on, pretty mildly. One might be expecting snow on the ground now, but this season, all the snow that has come down (on the days it has fallen, there've been only an inch or so of accumulation at a time) in the city so far has melted away pretty much within the day or night after.
Right now it's about 5C (near 40F) or so and while there are colder, more seasonal lows here and there, most highs so far in this half of December are in the single digits Celsius, including a few days close to 10C/50F.
While places to the west, south and east have gotten a few inches of snow this morning.. I have nothing, since all the snow just avoided here for some reason.. this brings back memories of spring and summer, watching thunderstorms develop, only to fizzle out before reaching here or missing out by a couple of miles.. gonna be a long winter if this keeps occurring.
Mild and calm here.. 4c, 39f.. I think, overall, we're in for a very warm winter, perhaps like 74-75 or 88-89.
That's just my opinion.. something like the winters of 1970-76.
Already colder than average here. I'm not getting my hopes up for a mild winter, though it would be perfect for me and the job I do. Fingers crossed, though (I say, looking at the snow all over the ground through the window.....).
Below average in Edinburgh, too.. But not by much and I expect it to warm up as we go into Christmas and the new year.
We've only had 3 snowfalls and none of them lasting more than a day or 2.
Very few really cold nights, too - quite unlike 2009 and 2010.
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