Had hoped either Saturday or Sunday would be dry enough to go for a walk from our peak district cottages but it was not to be.  So both days were spent doing some work (paperwork, accounts, bookings, and housework) and a bit of leisure, for me another jigsaw which I will have to do without the help of friends (did I mention that we always do a jigsaw when our friends are here at Christmas).  On New Years Eve evening we popped round to my friend in one of the cottages and had a couple of drinks although we were back before midnight.

Decembers weather stats.  We had 7.29″ rain!!!  In Dec 10 we had only .72″ rain.  Just to put this in focus we had 30.75″ rain during 2011 so nearly a quarter of that fell in the last month of the year.  Wettest day was 29th with 1.05″.  Highest temp 11.1 on Boxing Day which was the warmest day of the month with Xmas Day night being the warmest.  16th was the coldest day and the night of the 17th the coldest night with the lowest temperature of -1.8 on the 18th.  Unfortuantely forgot to record the stats for 2011 as all the data started again from 1st January but can tell you this:

hottest day was 27 June with temperature of 25.4 coldest day was 21 January with a temperature of -4.3
wettest day was 29th December!

With regards to rainfall we had 30.75″ in 2011 as opposed to 26.48 in 2010.  If  December had been as dry as other months we may have had a record dry year but December had as much rain as January, February and March put together.  For further comparison we had 37.16″ in 2009 and 44.16″ in 2008.