February 2017 Weather In UK
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By Paul Homewood
A quick look at UK weather last month.
While the month was on the whole mild, mean temperatures were unexceptional.
The warmest February since 1910 came along in 1998, and the months in 1914, 1918, 1926, 1945, and 1961 were all milder.
What is particularly apparent is the absence of really cold Februarys in the last couple of decades. It is this which is pushing up the average, rather than temperatures becoming higher.
This becomes particularly apparent when we look at CET daily mean temperatures.
Apart from a couple of record mild days in 2004, we are not seeing any weather in February that we have not had before.
Indeed since 2004, there have only been 5 days in the top 50, which would be pretty much average.
If we contrast this with the lowest daily temperatures, we get a completely different picture.
No day since 1991 has made it into the 50.
And you have to go back to before 1960 to find the really cold days.
As far as temperatures go, it is clear that February weather in the UK has become much less extreme than in the past.
Precipitation
If we look at precipitation, we see something similar.
Apart from February 2014, precipitation in the last decade or so has fallen within a fairly tight band, neither unusually wet or dry.
Interestingly, if we just look at England, we find large variability on a regular basis throughout the record.
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March 6, 2017 at 05:26AM
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