Weather rather warmer - much like last Saturday.

1000 6 wispy edged Sc plates.
Much the same all day

Woke up to find it snowing heavily. Had a very pleasant morning with the Osskil bit of A Wizard of Earthsea, watching the snow fall.Fr a change it was perfectly quiet here. I could hear the snow sifting onto the windowsill.

Turned to rain quite suddenly about eleven. I'd meant to go into town first thing: as soon as I saw the buses were running I had an early lunch and went out into a chaos of slush, with heavy rain on a cold southerly wind.

0800. 8 S. Snowing heavily. 1" overnight. Perhaps 1" more until
1100. Turns to rain suddenly.
Wind S.
Cold rain all rest of day.

0800. 8 S. Cold. No thaw.
Same all day
Mist.

More snow overnight, about 1½" in total lying in the morning. Car took 4 tries to start. Drove extra far through the snowy countryside to warm it up, before going to the Co-op. 0800. Mostly clear. More snow overnight to 1½".
Very cold.
Wind N.
Very little cloud all day.

Very pleasant morning watching the snow and reading Towards the End of the Morning.

0900. 8 S. Snowing. ½" lying
1200. 2 wispy Sc, bright sun.
Wind N.
c1900 More snow

1000. Bright sun with some Ci
Wind NE. Cold.
1500 6 NS, Ci, far Cu.
Rain at times.
2000 Sleet.
2100. Snow.

0800. 2 Ci
Wind NE
Much the same all day.

CHRISTMAS EVE. Was at the Co-op by 9.30, just before the queuing started. Walking back the low hazy sun was very warm. Had there been leaves on the trees it could have been an early morning in summer.

0800 Hazy high cloud and sun.
1600 8 Sc Wind NW
2000 Clear.
2130 Fog

Almost mild weather today. 0700 8 S/Sc
Much the same all day. Again warmer

0700 8 S/Sc
Much the same all day.
Warmer

Quite grey today, like you'd expect Dec. 20th to be.

0700 8 S/Sc
Wind SW
Warmer

Tried valiantly to spot Venus, this time at lunchtime without binoculars, but despite clear sky and unobstructed southern horizon, couldn't do it. Think I was looking too low.

0700 0 Still.
Not so cold
Gradual Ci and flat As bits towards evening, then 0.

Bright and sunny till about four, but very cold. Finally managed to see Venus in daylight (and through double glazing) 17º altitude at 2.40pm, 37º left of the Sun, mag -3.9 against limiting magnitude -3.2, so quite a feat. It took binoculars to locate it, but it was easily visible with the naked eye thereafter.

0930. 0, still. Frost. Very cold.
1440 Venus observed!
1500 4 Ci increasing to 8 As.

0800. 4 Ci very cold.
NE wind.
Much the same.

Now there's a promising-sounding date.

0700. 8 low Sc with breaks.
1200. 'Clean' dark grey Sc. Wind NW.
1700. High Cs against Moon.
2100. Clear

Beautiful sunset with red-lit cirrocumulus. Have noticed the Moon being very high recently, and checking the ephemeris found it at 27°N declination (4°N lat.), actually 4 degrees higher than the Sun at the solstice. In fact it's predicted at 70° altitude tonight, whereas I wouldn't expect the Sun to beat (90-52=) 38°+23°=61°.

0700. S Ci.
Warmer?
1600. 4 Ci & Cc. .

0700 8 Sc Wind N.
Some Sun breaks later.
1600 6 Ci Cs flat Cu.
Cold.

Moon very high indeed in the sky. Night-time ecliptic is high in winter, of course - will check latitude tomorrow.

0700. 8 low Sc.
Same all day.
Cold. Wind N?

Oil depot still burning, with huge smoke plume trailing away south-westwards, and being noted on the weather forecast maps.

0700. 8 S/Sc Warmer.
Wind E
Clearing
1300. 5 Cu/Ci/S, not so warm
1600 3 dark flat Cu, Ci, quite cold again. Wind E still .

Huge explosion at oil depot in Hertfordshire this morning, visible by satellites, and (due to temperature inversion) audible far off. I did hear something betwen 6am and 6.30 - assumed it was the neighbours.

Said temperature inversion presumably responsible for low mist under clearish sky with bright sun. in the afternoon a 'sparkling mist', which cleared in time for an almost-daylight Venus Observed at 3.36pm.

0830. Low mist, clear with Ci above
1100. Straight halo seen.
Mist returned in afternoon.
1536. Venus observed.

Heavy frost in the morning.

0800. 4 Ci Frost. Cold.
More Sun in day.

0730. 6 Ci Cold.
More Sun in day.

Mostly clear, Ci & Cu at times. Wind very light E.
1700. Clear. Colder

0700. 0. Calm.
1300. 3 Ci

0700. 6 Ci and flat dark Cu.
1630. Light rain.
1900. Clearer

Some Sun.

Quite a lot of sun today. Washed car.

Frost.
0900. 6 Ci Warmer.
1300. 6 flock flat Cu.

0830. 7 light rain. Some Sun later.
1530 More light rain, clearing W.

1000. 7 flat dark grey Cu, Sc, sun breaks. Wind strong SE.
Same rest of day with cloud variations.
2230 Rain

Damp day, slightly warmer.

0900. 8 S. Damp. Wind S. Warmer.