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Some fascinating figures there. Personally, I would say that peakwinter in Nov 2010/11 and peaksummer in Sept/Oct 2011 were actually both peakautumn.

Alan S | 09.02.21 - 8:32 a.m. | #

For those of us in London, this is the worst kind of peakwinter - no real snow to enjoy, but a week of icy pavements.

Are coin-operated meters still being used? That must be a royal PITA at present, never mind the weather. Last time I used an electricity meter was about 25 years ago and it was a stick we had to 'charge' at the newsagents.

Will | 09.02.21 - 8:46 a.m. | #

According to the U switch site, coin operated meters are still a thing but 'this is becoming more rare'.

You can still buy new coin operated meters, but the change in the design of the £1 coin forced an upgrade, one supplier offered an alternative smart sub-meter that was 'better than free' for landlords.

Still Anon | 09.02.21 - 9:13 a.m. | #

If peakwinter is one of your neologisms DG, it is going to do well in the neologism frequency incidence chart in a few years.

Nameless 14 | 09.02.21 - 9:51 a.m. | #

I was going to write that I was looking forward to Peakspring until I realised that it would be trickier to define.
Maybe it would be the run of seven days that were closest to the average temperature of the season. The dates would move earlier or later according to the weather in any particular year.

Martin | 09.02.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #

Thank you. Your figures confirm why I didn't don gloves at all last winter ...

H SE18 | 09.02.21 - 10:03 a.m. | #

Growing up in the 1970s I always felt that the coldest time, and the chance of getting any snow always fell in the first half of February - often coinciding with half term (1978 particularly stands out in my memory, as we were stranded in Devon) so it would be interesting to see if over the decades it has shifted slightly earlier of if the last week of January has been translated in my memory to being a part of February instead!

Cornish Cockney | 09.02.21 - 10:16 a.m. | #

Love it! At first thought you had said that "ponds and poodles" had frozen over.

cau1khead | 09.02.21 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Looks like I have 0.5m of peakwinter to shovel this morning thanks to the City plows/ploughs

martin in canada | 09.02.21 - 11:02 a.m. | #

The coldest day of the winter might not be in the coldest week, but wouldn't it be peakwinter?

Similarly contrariwise for peak summer.

Joho | Homepage | 09.02.21 - 11:32 a.m. | #

Not as per DG's definition... you will need to come up with a name of your own... something like "coldestday".

Jonalot | 09.02.21 - 12:44 p.m. | #

Readers are free to come up with their own definition for peakwinter, anything from coldest month to coldest minute, and bash the data themselves.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.02.21 - 1:28 p.m. | #

I was just wondering about Peakwinter. Peaksummer relates to the highest temperatures so is indeed a peak. Maybe for the coldest temperatures it should be Troughwinter.

Martin | 09.02.21 - 2:27 p.m. | #

Peakwinter any time we can have an Elfstedentocht.

The Elfstedentocht is a long-distance tour skating event on natural ice, almost 200 kilometres long, which is held both as a speed skating competition and a leisure tour. It is held in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands, leading past all eleven historical cities of the province

Michael | 09.02.21 - 3:47 p.m. | #

I noticed that Candlemas Day Feb 2nd (Groundhog Day) was cloudy and not bright. Ancient folklore says that if it's bright then winter comes back, but cloudy then winter's over. So topsy turvy then and not true; so has blown that old folklore out of the water.

Marmaduke Jinks | 09.02.21 - 6:04 p.m. | #

Really enjoying your lockdown blogs DG.
Favourite word this week: shoutyperson. Thank you.
Glad it’s all quiet here.

Herbof | 09.02.21 - 7:41 p.m. | #

The early hours of tomorrow (Thursday) morning look to be the coldest of the year so far for London and the suburbs.

The BBC site is showing -8C and the Windy weather site (recommended as the cursor can just be dragged over an area for details) is showing -10C.

Whether it actually reaches that is another matter, but a clear night is forecast, so expect a sharp drop in temperature after the sun goes down today.

rogmi | 10.02.21 - 1:36 p.m. | #

As always I’m grateful for you doing the research to provide an interesting post when I am wondering how this week compares with other years but not willing to ‘bash the data’ myself

Brian | 10.02.21 - 6:49 p.m. | #

Did the actual change from your forecast when you updated this week’s temperatures?

Brian | 14.02.21 - 8:00 a.m. | #

Marginally, but not enough to change the weekly average.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.02.21 - 1:21 p.m. | #











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