The Atlantic remained quite active until about Feb 19, but
the last segment of the month was very blocked.
Anticyclones somewhere or other controlled the UK's
weather until the 11th and again from the 20th onwards,
so it was another generally dry month with no serious
gales.

More available:
Charts: http://www.climate-uk.com/monpre/0602.htm
The Monthly Review is already up at:
at: http://www.climate-uk.com/monthly/0602.htm
Graphs: http://www.climate-uk.com/graphs/0602.htm and
http://www.climate-uk.com/graphs/200602.htm
Not The Long Range Forecast will be uploaded on Mar 3 to
http://www.climate-uk.com/page4.html

The mean sea-level chart shows that the normal Icelandic Low
is split between centres of 1000 mbar off Labrador and 1003
mbar in the Barents Sea.. There are subsidiary low centres
over Denmark and near Sicily. Highest pressure (around 1020
mar) is found near the Azores, east of Moscow, and over
northern Greenland. Pressure is almost uniform over the British
Isles although there is a suggestion of a N to NWly flow over
England and Wales.

The central feature of the sea-level pressure anomaly pattern
is a huge area of above-average pressure covering much of
the northern Atlantic, Greenland, Scandinavia and the
British Isles. The main anomaly centres a
+8mbar over SE Greenland
-7mbar in the Russian Arctic
-7mbar over northern Quebec
-3.5 mbar over Ukraine
-3mbar over the Mediterranean Basin
Over the British Isles pressure anomaly ranges from zero in
the Channel Islands and Kent to +4.5mbar at Stornoway.
The anomalous flow is NE-ly.
CET (after Manley) 3.9°C (-0.3 degC wrt 1971-2000)
CET (after Hadley) 3.8°C (-0.4 degC)
and by this measure it was the coldest February since
1996, although over a substantial part of the country
February 2003 was colder.
E&W Rain: 55.6mm ( 84% of 1971-2000 mean)
making it the fourth consecutive drier-than-average
February (the total was actually the highest since 2002).
It ranks 45th driest in the last 100 years.
E&W Sunshine: 67.6 hr (88% of 1971-2000 mean)
making it the dullest February by this measure since
1993. In many eastern districts it was the dullest
since 1980.
CScotT: 4.5°C (+0.9 degC)
ScotRain: 53.0mm ( 81%)
ScotSun: 70.7 hr ( 94%)

NIT: 5.3°C (+0.3 degC)
NI Rain: 33.4mm ( 58%)
NI Sun: 89.3 hr (119%)

Rainfall totals ranged from 152.0mm at Capel Curig
(Snowdonia) to 18.0mm at Wick (Caithness). Percentages
ranged from 32 at Wick to 162 at Hastings and
Herstmonceux (both East Sussex).

Sunshine totals ranged from 99.0hr at Malin Head (Donegal)
and 91.0hr at Ronaldsway (IoM) - both CS recorders -
to 41.9hr at Hunstanton (Norfolk) - also believed to be a
CS recorder. Percentages ranged from 140 at Malin Head
to 53 at Manston (Kent) - KZ sensor.

(c) Philip Eden