Let's hope I've got it right this time!

Tideswell, Derbyshire - February 2018 (third version)
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Note: Anomalies (in brackets) refer to the 2009-2018 averages.


Mean max: 3.8 (-1.5)
Mean min: -1.1 (-1.6)
Mean temp: 1.3 (-1.6)

Highest max: 8.4 (-2.0) (19th, 20th)
Lowest max: -4.2 (-4.5) (28th)

Lowest min: -8.1 (-2.9) (28th)
Highest min: 3.5 (-1.9) (21st)
Lowest grass: -9.9 (-1.5) (28th)

Air frosts: 18 (+6)
Ground frosts: 23 (+6)

Days with max 10.0-14.9: 0 (-1)
Days with max 5.0-9.9: 10 (-4)
Days with max 0.0-4.9: 17 (+5)
Days with max -5.0 to -0.1: 1 (0)

Frost duration: 226.9 hours (+92.2)

Total rainfall: 88.7 mm (93%)
Wettest rainfall day (09-09z) 15.6 mm (-5.3) (10th)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 19 (-2)
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 13 (-1)

Days with snow/sleet falling: 13 (+1)
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z: 11 (+2)
Deepest at 0900z 11 cm (+2)
Eden Snow Index: 38 cm/days (-8)

Total sunshine: 61.3 hours (123%)
Sunniest day: 7.5 hours (+0.3) (15th)
Days with no sun: 6 (-4)

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

Mean wind speed: 6.6 knots (+0.3)
Highest 10-min mean wind: 28 knots from SSE (+2) (14th)
Max gust: 39 knots (-1) (13th)
Days with gale: 0 (o)

Wind direction at 0900z
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N:1 NNE:1 NE:2 ENE:2 E:4 ESE:0 SE:0 SSE:3
S:3 SSW:2 SW:2 WSW:0 W:2 WNW:6 NW:0 NNW:0
CALM:0

Remarks
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A very cold month, second only to Feb 2010 in my 10-year record.
Despite the cold it was a very sunny month and also rather dry and
with near average snowfall. The maximum temperature of -4.2° on the
28th was, by a considerable margin, the lowest daily max that I have
recorded in February. The previous lowest was -0.7° on 3rd Feb 2009.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr

On 04/03/2018 08:40, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Let's hope I've got it right this time!


That looks an awful lot better!
Monthly summaries usually generate few replies but we do read them

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg
usually

Col wrote:

On 04/03/2018 08:40, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Let's hope I've got it right this time!


That looks an awful lot better!
Monthly summaries usually generate few replies but we do read them

I'll put it down to frozen brain cells :-)

A really foul morning here. My 100m vis point has disappeared into the
fog. I reckon the vis is about 70m at the moment. The temp has crept up
to +0.7° but there's no sign of any thaw beginning yet.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr

In message , Col
writes
On 04/03/2018 08:40, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Let's hope I've got it right this time!


That looks an awful lot better!
Monthly summaries usually generate few replies but we do read them


Indeed.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)