Well contrary to popular belief, colder climate regimes are stormier and
have wilder temperature swings, "Little Ice Age" of which 1779 was a
part of. Warmer climates regimes are generally less stormy, mainly because
the temperature differential between the poles and the equator is somewhat
less.

Shaun Pudwell.


"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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In 2 days time I reckon it is worth keeping a check on this February for a
possible new record CET.
For the first 5 days of this month my thermometer has not been below
10C
once even at night. I am sure this has been shared by other correspondents
as I am not in the mildest part of the country.
Fair enough I know we have another 3 weeks to go but with little if
any
sign of any much colder weather and according to Darren's runs the south
westerlies will return again soon, after only a brief interruption, it
seems
like the mechanism is pretty well in place for an attempt at the record.

For the record, 2 exceptionally mild Februaries were

1990 CET 7.3C

1998 CET 7.3C.

According to my table of CET records the all time February record was way
back in 1779 with 7.9C
It is interesting to note that many of the all time records for
mildness
are in fact very long standing records indeed.
I wonder what others have to say on this interesting point.

Regards, Gavin.


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