How above average can this December get? (record, temperatures, rainfall)

[Enlightened one]

Its like we've gone back to October...

[divisionbyzero0]

I think early june 2015 was the same/even colder! than early december 2015 in parts of Uk, if i'm not mistaken
Might as well be in the Southern Hemisphere

[irlinit]

Originally Posted by naif12

I think early june 2015 was the same/even colder! than early december 2015 in parts of Uk, if i'm not mistaken
Might as well be in the Southern Hemisphere

We are currently getting what Owen gets in July.

That's the scary thing

[Crunch41]

it was 57F/14C when I woke up today...the average high/low for today is 32/17 (0/-8) and it hasn't been below freezing all since the 7th, the coldest all month is just 25F/-4C.

Edit: The dew point was also 57 as it was 99% humidity. 57 is a summer dew point sometimes.
There was a nice cold spell with several inches of snow and one low near zero back in mid-late november but the rest of the fall has been well above normal.

[Rediculousaffairs]

It's an interesting prospect. I do think we'll hit a point where there will be no way to go but cold.

It really can't get any warmer. I suspect January will be alot colder. We are seeing subtle hints of this already with the snow we're getting.

[Rediculousaffairs]

Do you think we'll get an early summer in April?

[divisionbyzero0]

Originally Posted by irlinit

We are currently getting what Owen gets in July.

That's the scary thing

The only differences are daylength and sun angle

[Dean York]

Originally Posted by Rediculousaffairs

Do you think we'll get an early summer in April?

Bloody hope so!

When it gets towards the end of February is when I really start looking forward to spring. The Sun has some decent strength so you know spring is just around the corner.
Until then though I don't really mind what's going to happen. I'd like to see some decent cold though, preferably a December 2010 kind of month would do seeing as I missed it at the time. Can't see it though.

[Walshie79]

Average high for December so far is 12C, and there hasn't been a single air frost (only one so far this autumn/winter, on 23 Nov). It's absolutely mad. I thought November was ridiculously mild (and dull); December is even warmer so far.

There's also a big difference between the south and north of the UK for some reason: northern Scotland is running only 1C above average, the far south of England around 6C. Generally 4-5C over the CET zone which is what matters for the "warmest on record".

Here are the highest maxima here for each month of 2015:

Jan 15C
Feb 13C
March 17C
April 19C
May 19C
June 28.5C
July 29C
Aug 24.5C
Sep 21C
Oct 18C
Nov 17C
Dec (so far) 15C

Bear in mind that June's hottest day was the 30th and July's the 1st, and most of the summer had maxes in the teens, you can see what a monotonous year it has been. 11 months reached 15C, only 4 reached 20C (and only 3 days over 25C). Spring hardly seemed to get warmer, autumn hardly seemed to get cooler. It really seems to have been 10-18C in the daytime for 80% of this year.

[Ethereal]

The UK and the US (also experiencing unseasonable warmth) might have a "winter lag", where temps would reach their lowest by February or even March.

14C-16C in December in London is extraordinary though. Its weekly forecast looks like something that Melbourne would get (at 37') rather than a place at a latitude of 51'.