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Scott W writes
Shades of February 1986, which was very cold but also very dry with
less than 15mm all month...

I suspect that most very cold months are dry. Looking at the other
months in the 20th and 21st centuries that finished with a sub-zero CET,
their rainfalls as given by the EWR series we

1956 Feb 24.7
1963 Jan 28.1 Feb 32.1
2010 Dec 37.6

And even

1947 Feb 50.2

wasn't wet.

But:

1940 Jan 70.5
1979 Jan 81.2

Though I suppose even those had only around average rainfall for
January. None of the other sub-zero months quite matched February 1986
for dryness, though.
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