FEBRUARY 2010
Not a very pleasant month.
It didn’t seem to be that wet to start with but we finished up with 27
days of precipitation (13 of which had snow or sleet) and an above average
rainfall for the month. Well over half the rain came in the last 10 days,
hence the rather soggy look to the gardens and fields. I suppose that the
wet followed by successive frosts was at least partly responsible for the
re-emergence of the infamous potholes; nothing to do with the very poor
way in which they were first “mended” of course. The temperature didn’t go
that low; only -1.5ºC but it didn’t get that high either and this combined
with the dull wet weather left us all with a not very good feeling.
| February Statistics |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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| Max Temp ºC |
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10.6 |
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13.0 |
| Mean max temp ºC |
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6.17 |
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7.38 |
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| Min Temp ºC |
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-1.5 |
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-3.7 |
| Mean min temp ºC |
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1.53 |
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2.14 |
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| Days of frost |
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9 |
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11 |
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| Rainfall mm |
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81.1 |
|
74.8 |
| Snow or sleet |
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13 days |
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9 days |
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| Precipitation |
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27 days |
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15 days |
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| Average rainfall over 29 years |
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55.26mm |
Gary Beynon
March 6th 2010
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JANUARY 2010 WEATHER
How will January go into
our memory banks? Snow, ice, terrible travelling conditions and an
aftermath of infamous potholes may well be in your list. A small amount of
snow does seem to cause inordinate chaos now and yet we used to cope. As I
write this, the reports from the States are of 3 foot of snow; even they
have ground to a standstill. It is very difficult to measure the
equivalent rainfall when it comes as snow. Snow doesn’t behave like rain;
rain falls neatly into the gauge and is easily measured. Snow however
blows around, cones above the rim of the gauge and, when it melts, may or
may not give the equivalent rain measure. The method that I use is to
measure the depth of new snow in 3 different places, avoiding obvious
drift areas, take an average and use the formula of 1 foot of snow being
equivalent to 1 inch of rain (25.4 mm). This January, the amount of melt
in the gauge was close to the formula figure. My data recorded 16-18 cms
depth of fresh snow ie about 12-14 mm).
