Weston Coyney - Winter 2010/2011
(North Staffs 228 metres asl)


Mean max: 5.0 (-0.8)
Mean min: 0.0 (-0.9)
Mean temp: 2.4 (-0.9)
Mean grass min: -2.1

Highest max: 11.8 (24th Feb)
Lowest max: -2.8 (20th Dec)

Lowest min: -11.3 (20th Dec)
Highest min: 10.0 (5th Feb)

Lowest grass: -15.8 (20th Dec)

Air frosts: 41
Ground frosts: 57

Ice Days, max below 0.0: 15 (all December)

Total rainfall: 161.1mm (80%)
Wettest rainfall day (09-09z) 14.9mm (25th Feb)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 54
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 34

Days with snow/sleet falling: 19
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z: 24 (22 in Dec)
Highest snow depth at 0900z: 16 cm (1st Dec)

Total sunshine: 162 hrs (117%)
Sunniest day: 9.0 hrs (8th Feb)
Days with no sun: 41

Days with thunder heard: 0
Days with hail: 4
Days with fog at 0900z: 7

Wind Speed:
Mean Speed (24 hr) 3.9 mph
Mean Speed (09.00) 4.0 mph
Highest Gust 55 mph ((7th Feb)


Remarks: Very cold, quite snowy December. Boringly average January. Dull,
wet & mild February.

Graham wrote:
Weston Coyney - Winter 2010/2011
(North Staffs 228 metres asl)


Mean max: 5.0 (-0.8)
Mean min: 0.0 (-0.9)
Mean temp: 2.4 (-0.9)
Mean grass min: -2.1

Highest max: 11.8 (24th Feb)
Lowest max: -2.8 (20th Dec)

Lowest min: -11.3 (20th Dec)
Highest min: 10.0 (5th Feb)

Lowest grass: -15.8 (20th Dec)

Air frosts: 41
Ground frosts: 57

Ice Days, max below 0.0: 15 (all December)

Total rainfall: 161.1mm (80%)
Wettest rainfall day (09-09z) 14.9mm (25th Feb)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 54
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 34

Days with snow/sleet falling: 19
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z: 24 (22 in Dec)
Highest snow depth at 0900z: 16 cm (1st Dec)

Total sunshine: 162 hrs (117%)
Sunniest day: 9.0 hrs (8th Feb)
Days with no sun: 41

Days with thunder heard: 0
Days with hail: 4
Days with fog at 0900z: 7

Wind Speed:
Mean Speed (24 hr) 3.9 mph
Mean Speed (09.00) 4.0 mph
Highest Gust 55 mph ((7th Feb)


Remarks: Very cold, quite snowy December. Boringly average January.
Dull, wet & mild February.


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Not really a winter for us to remember fondly was it really, Graham. My
summary would be very similar,but milder. Mean max was 6.6C, mean min
1.7C, milder than 2009 and similar to 2008. In fact we have had more
depth of snow on the odd occasion since the eighties severe spells and
even December certainly didn't match those in terms of cold or snow.
Dave

Remarks: Very cold, quite snowy December. Boringly average January. Dull,
wet & mild February.


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Not really a winter for us to remember fondly was it really, Graham. My
summary would be very similar,but milder. Mean max was 6.6C, mean min 1.7C,
milder than 2009 and similar to 2008. In fact we have had more depth of
snow on the odd occasion since the eighties severe spells and even December
certainly didn't match those in terms of cold or snow.

I have to agree Dave, December though very cold wasn't that snowy!
December 81 had a lot more depth of snow, even milder Decembers have had a
lot more snow.
It's a Winter that started well and looked as though it could give the
really cold & snowy winters of the last 50 years a run, but it faded fast
after Christmas.
I said a while ago, easily forgettable for me, and it wouldn't get near my
top 10 Winters since 1960!

Graham

On 07/03/11 22:21, Graham wrote:
Remarks: Very cold, quite snowy December. Boringly average January.
Dull, wet & mild February.


---------------
Not really a winter for us to remember fondly was it really, Graham.
My summary would be very similar,but milder. Mean max was 6.6C, mean
min 1.7C, milder than 2009 and similar to 2008. In fact we have had
more depth of snow on the odd occasion since the eighties severe
spells and even December certainly didn't match those in terms of cold
or snow.

I have to agree Dave, December though very cold wasn't that snowy!
December 81 had a lot more depth of snow, even milder Decembers have had
a lot more snow.
It's a Winter that started well and looked as though it could give the
really cold & snowy winters of the last 50 years a run, but it faded
fast after Christmas.
I said a while ago, easily forgettable for me, and it wouldn't get near
my top 10 Winters since 1960!

Graham

Do you mean snowy as in depth of snow or number of days of snow lying?

In my area apart from one overnight fall that gave six inches (nearer a
foot 10 miles further east from what I heard) the snow depths were
unremarkable but the persistence of the snow once it fell was highly
unusual. For at least half the month there was a covering on the ground.

There still seems to be this phenomena that new snow never seems to fall
and accumulate on top of a previous snowfall. It always seems to be the
case of having one big fall then it either stays cold but bone dry and
the snow gets compressed into ice and gradually dissipates, or there is
a milder interlude and it all rapidly melts.

I did much of my growing up during the snow starved 90's so I don't have
much memory of severe snowy winters. All I remember is snowy weather
coming in short (1-2 week) periods.

Adam Lea wrote:
On 07/03/11 22:21, Graham wrote:
Remarks: Very cold, quite snowy December. Boringly average January.
Dull, wet & mild February.


---------------
Not really a winter for us to remember fondly was it really, Graham.
My summary would be very similar,but milder. Mean max was 6.6C, mean
min 1.7C, milder than 2009 and similar to 2008. In fact we have had
more depth of snow on the odd occasion since the eighties severe
spells and even December certainly didn't match those in terms of cold
or snow.

I have to agree Dave, December though very cold wasn't that snowy!
December 81 had a lot more depth of snow, even milder Decembers have had
a lot more snow.
It's a Winter that started well and looked as though it could give the
really cold & snowy winters of the last 50 years a run, but it faded
fast after Christmas.
I said a while ago, easily forgettable for me, and it wouldn't get near
my top 10 Winters since 1960!

Graham

Do you mean snowy as in depth of snow or number of days of snow lying?

In my area apart from one overnight fall that gave six inches (nearer a
foot 10 miles further east from what I heard) the snow depths were
unremarkable but the persistence of the snow once it fell was highly
unusual. For at least half the month there was a covering on the ground.

There still seems to be this phenomena that new snow never seems to fall
and accumulate on top of a previous snowfall. It always seems to be the
case of having one big fall then it either stays cold but bone dry and
the snow gets compressed into ice and gradually dissipates, or there is
a milder interlude and it all rapidly melts.

I did much of my growing up during the snow starved 90's so I don't have
much memory of severe snowy winters. All I remember is snowy weather
coming in short (1-2 week) periods.
--------------------
I would think December would be one of the snowiest in terms of both
depth and longevity in your lifetime. It was probably in the top three
since the eighties here in what was the warmest part of the country. But
in the context of the sixties to eighties it wasn't that special for Essex.
Dave

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Adam Lea wrote:
On 07/03/11 22:21, Graham wrote:
Remarks: Very cold, quite snowy December. Boringly average January.
Dull, wet & mild February.


---------------
Not really a winter for us to remember fondly was it really, Graham.
My summary would be very similar,but milder. Mean max was 6.6C, mean
min 1.7C, milder than 2009 and similar to 2008. In fact we have had
more depth of snow on the odd occasion since the eighties severe
spells and even December certainly didn't match those in terms of cold
or snow.

I have to agree Dave, December though very cold wasn't that snowy!
December 81 had a lot more depth of snow, even milder Decembers have had
a lot more snow.
It's a Winter that started well and looked as though it could give the
really cold & snowy winters of the last 50 years a run, but it faded
fast after Christmas.
I said a while ago, easily forgettable for me, and it wouldn't get near
my top 10 Winters since 1960!

Graham

Do you mean snowy as in depth of snow or number of days of snow lying?

In my area apart from one overnight fall that gave six inches (nearer a
foot 10 miles further east from what I heard) the snow depths were
unremarkable but the persistence of the snow once it fell was highly
unusual. For at least half the month there was a covering on the ground.

There still seems to be this phenomena that new snow never seems to fall
and accumulate on top of a previous snowfall. It always seems to be the
case of having one big fall then it either stays cold but bone dry and
the snow gets compressed into ice and gradually dissipates, or there is a
milder interlude and it all rapidly melts.

I did much of my growing up during the snow starved 90's so I don't have
much memory of severe snowy winters. All I remember is snowy weather
coming in short (1-2 week) periods.
--------------------
I would think December would be one of the snowiest in terms of both depth
and longevity in your lifetime. It was probably in the top three since the
eighties here in what was the warmest part of the country. But in the
context of the sixties to eighties it wasn't that special for Essex.
Dave

Ok, I'll bite. Rather special in this part of Essex. My December summary
here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gesc_b/...010summary.htm

--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk
COL 36055

In article ,
George Booth writes:

Ok, I'll bite. Rather special in this part of Essex. My December summary
here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gesc_b/...010summary.htm


Not a single day with the wind from the SW at 9:00 must be very rare.
--
John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
George Booth writes:

Ok, I'll bite. Rather special in this part of Essex. My December summary
here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gesc_b/...010summary.htm


Not a single day with the wind from the SW at 9:00 must be very rare.
--
John Hall



One day John when I have all the Epping data since 1978 in spreadsheet form
and I have mastered Pivot Tables a response to your comment should be easy
to produce. In the meantime a glance at spreadsheet data back to 2003 shows
that months without a south-westerly at 0900 are unusual but not unknown.
Both 2004 and 2003 each had 5 such months.
More recently the break in the 0900 'south-westerly' lasted from 13th
November 2010 to 3rd January 2011. November 2010 was another notable month
which was rather overshadowed by the December that followed. Summary here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gesc_b/...010summary.htm

--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk
COL 36055