Well here are my unofficial numbers for December from three miles outside Bude on the north Cornwall coast.

Rain, 82mm, well below the average of 102mm.

Average max, just shy of 11C (52F), around a degree above average. Just one night of frost, when the temperature went down to -1.5C just briefly. My geraniums are still flowering in places. The average is five nights of frost.

I don't have a sunshine recorder, but my subjective record indicates a dull month. There was one severe Atlantic storm at the start of the month, which was devastating up north but which didn't do much damage in Cornwall.

Typical of recent winters and nothing like the ones of my yoof...