Overall 3.4C
Average maxima 6.2C
Average mimina 0.5C

Highest maximum: 12.1C (1st)
Lowest maximum: 0.3C (23rd)
Highest minimum: 6.3 (1st)
Lowest minimum: -2.7 (24th)

Total rainfall: 49.8 mm
Higest rainfall: 13.2 mm (as snow) 31st
Days snow fell: 8
Days snow 50% snow cover: 8


Another month of two halves - rather mild until the 18th, then much
colder and snowier. Overall the equal coldest February (along with
2001) I've recorded. The average minima are the lowest for any month
since December 2001, yet the lowest temperature of the month was only
-2.7C.

Most notable day: 23 February. Heavy overnight snow keeps us in all day
on the 23rd; maximum depth is about 7 cm, but the car goes nowhere very
safely. We abandon it at the bottom of the hill. I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get
annoyed by such things? Nevertheless the maximum of 0.3C is still a new
record lowest February maximum here since my records began (1996).

Most readings through a Davis Weather Monitor II. Lundie is a rural
location 10 miles NW of Dundee, rather sheltered in the Sidlaw Hills,
elevation 180 m.

Trevor Harley
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/

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I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

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No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

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I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

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No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

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I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

/clip

No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

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I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

/clip

No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
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I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

/clip

No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

and more

temperature falls steadily from sunset and then stops, and stays, just above
freezing overnight
a covering of snow at first light which clears by 0900 observation time
'wintry' setups in Spring when all you can say 'if this had been
January'..although I am less convinced by this one
Summer days which just fail to reach 21° - my criterion for a warm day
Looking at photographs of deep snow when all I can see here is steady rain

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)- where the weather has been teasing
us today. A dusting of snow earlier, then rain, then snow, then rain....
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
clip

I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

/clip

No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

and more

temperature falls steadily from sunset and then stops, and stays, just above
freezing overnight
a covering of snow at first light which clears by 0900 observation time
'wintry' setups in Spring when all you can say 'if this had been
January'..although I am less convinced by this one
Summer days which just fail to reach 21° - my criterion for a warm day
Looking at photographs of deep snow when all I can see here is steady rain

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)- where the weather has been teasing
us today. A dusting of snow earlier, then rain, then snow, then rain....
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
clip

I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

/clip

No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

and more

temperature falls steadily from sunset and then stops, and stays, just above
freezing overnight
a covering of snow at first light which clears by 0900 observation time
'wintry' setups in Spring when all you can say 'if this had been
January'..although I am less convinced by this one
Summer days which just fail to reach 21° - my criterion for a warm day
Looking at photographs of deep snow when all I can see here is steady rain

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)- where the weather has been teasing
us today. A dusting of snow earlier, then rain, then snow, then rain....
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

"Brian Blair" wrote in message
...
clip

I recorded 32 hours of
frost: annoyingly the temperature climbs just above freezing in the
quarter of an hour just before 9 am. Am I the only person to get annoyed
by such things?

/clip

No - that annoys me, as does days when it is around 3 C all day with a 30
minute sunny spell where the temp peaks during the spell at say 7.6 C and
then falls back to 3 C and I have to record a max of 7.6 C and there is
nothing on record to say that really the day temp was 3 C.

brian
aberfeldy

and more

temperature falls steadily from sunset and then stops, and stays, just above
freezing overnight
a covering of snow at first light which clears by 0900 observation time
'wintry' setups in Spring when all you can say 'if this had been
January'..although I am less convinced by this one
Summer days which just fail to reach 21° - my criterion for a warm day
Looking at photographs of deep snow when all I can see here is steady rain

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)- where the weather has been teasing
us today. A dusting of snow earlier, then rain, then snow, then rain....
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk