On 2 Feb, 16:46, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
"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

Many, including most contributers to USW, equate winter sunshine with
cold weather, and winter mild conditions with cloud. It's certainly
been a very sunny January in west Cornwall, the snniest days, and the
maximum temperatures (in Penzance) being.

DATE MAX TEMP
1st 5.7
2nd 7.4
4th 5.1
9th 3.5
13th 11.1
14th 10.8
16th 12.2
20th 11.7
22nd 11.5
23rd 9.1
24th 10.3

The 1971-2000 average max is 9.2C so the majority of the sunny days
saw a maximum temperature above the norm, in a month which was overall
the coldest for 20 years (just beating 1997). The sunniest weather
in the spell of mild air which arrived on 13th, and continued until
22nd.

The amount of sunshine we have had going some way to explaining why
the average max in Penzance was only 1.0C below the norm, whilst the
min was 3.6C below the norm.

Graham
Penzance (could be a good place for a winter break?)