"Mike Tullett" wrote :
I've yet to see any official sunshine totals for January in the UK, but
Met
Éireann has already published some in its summary of January.

http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly_summarys/jan10.pdf

One interesting snippet was the sunshine total for Cork airport. It was
an
amazing 117 hours. I've known quite a few summer months up here with less
than that.

Already noted in my Synoptic Overview, Mike :-)
Highest in the UK was Culdrose (Cornwall) with 106.5h which is a
new station record (opened in 1961).

Philip