Tideswell, Derbyshire - February 2015
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Note: Anomalies refer to the 2009-2015 averages.


Mean max: 4.9 (-0.2)
Mean min: 0.4 (-0.1)
Mean temp: 2.7 (-0.1)

Highest max: 9.6 (-0.5) (28th)
Lowest max: -0.5 (-0.9) (2nd)

Lowest min: -6.9 (-2.0) (2nd)
Highest min: 4.3 (-1.0) (26th)

Lowest grass: -9.3 (-0.9) (2nd)

Air frosts: 10 (-2)
Ground frosts: 16 (0)

Days with max 10.0-14.9: 0 (-1)
Days with max 5.0-9.9: 12 (-1)
Days with max 0.0-4.9: 15 (+2)
Days with max -5.0 to -0.1: 1 (0)

Frost duration: 80.0 hours (-60.6)

Total rainfall: 64.5mm (71%)
Wettest rainfall day (09-09z) 15.5mm (-6.1) (22nd)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 18 (-2)
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 15 (+2)

Days with snow/sleet falling: 6 (-5)
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z: 10 (+1)
Deepest at 0900z 20 cm (+9) (1st)
Eden Snow Index: 134 cm/days (+75)

Total sunshine: 47.1 hours (100%)
Sunniest day: 7.5 hours (+0.4) (6th)
Days with no sun: 10 (-1)

Days with thunder heard: 0 (0)
Days with hail: 4 (+2)
Days with fog at 0900z: 3 (-1)

Mean wind speed: 5.6 knots (-0.4)
Highest 10-min mean wind: 21 knots from W (-4) (28th)
Max gust: 35 knots (-3) (14th)
Days with gale: 0 (0)

Wind direction at 0900z
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N:4 NNE:0 NE:0 ENE:2 E:0 ESE:0 SE:0 SSE:1
S:1 SSW:4 SW:2 WSW:0 W:6 WNW:5 NW:2 NNW:0
CALM:1

Remarks
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A dry month and just a tad colder than the average. Despite a 7-day sunless
spell from 10th till 16th the sunshine total ended up bang on the average. The
snow statistics were interesting. In terms of days falling it was a lot less
snowy than average. In terms of the number of days with 50% or more snow cover
it was just about average while the amount of snow lying, as measured by the
Eden Snow Index, made it a much more snowy month than the average for February.
You pays your money and you takes your choice. Almost all of the snow lying in
February actually fell at the end of January.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org