May
Mean maximum 13.1C, mean minimum 5.4C
Overall mean temperature 9.2C

Rainfall 75.6mm, sunshine 200.15 hours

Grass minimum -5.4C on 1st, 3 ground frosts but no air frosts

A cold month with above normal rainfall although the bulk of the rain
fell in the first 11 days.

Spring
Mean maximum 11.5C, mean minimum 4.0C
Overall mean temperature 7.8C

Rainfall 175.2mm, sunshine 569.54 hrs

Snow fell on 10 days, 1 morning of snow lying at 09 (5cm on 3rd March)

29 ground frosts (-6.6C on 25th March) but only 3 air frosts
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George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl
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