More white poo

Another few centimetres of the white poo has fallen in beautiful downtown Monifieth. Fortunately I was able to keep the driveway clear using only a broom, but it will no doubt mean yet more disruption on the roads, late or missing buses, difficulty walking anywhere due to this country's lack of social responsibility in keeping pavements clear of snow, etc etc.

We've had snow on the ground for around 3 weeks now, which is highly unusual for these parts (although we had snow for that long last year as well). I know it's against the government's directive to link the increasing harshness of British winters with (the absence of) global warming, but after enough colder temperatures, there's no other conclusion that can be drawn. With December about 2/3 over, and no drastic rise in temperatures forecast for the next week or so, it is looking like the month will break the lowest average monthly temperature record by a large margin.

The average temperature for 2010 as a whole is 1.2 degrees below normal for this station, which is a *huge* variation, considering that up to now, all variations have been only small fractions of a degree. Eleven out of the twelve months in 2010 were below normal, some of them significantly so. If that's global warming, I'd hate to see what happens when the climate actually does get colder.