Your January Statistics

[Evening thunder]

For the small village of Harpford, East Devon

A very cold month overall compared to what we have been used to. Cold and quite sully first third with snowfall totalling about 6cm overnight 5th-6th and on the 6th. This lasted until the night of the 11th into the 12th, with two very cold nights on the 7th and 8th, with mins of -11.7°C and -12.2°C! probably the coldest here over 20 years. after this it generally turned milder with a few maximums above 10°C and quite unsettled with a few pretty wet days, giving a bit of flooding in places and leading to very high rivers a couple times (esp the 16th). It was generally quite cool or cold in the second third of the month with a dusting of snow on the 30th.

Mean max: 5.4°C

Mean min: -1.7°C

Mean: 1.8°C (about -2.9°C below average)

Highest max: 11.6°C (17th Jan)

Lowest max: -0.2°C (9th Jan)

Highest min: 5.9°C (16th Jan)

Lowest min: -12.2°C (8th Jan)

Wettest day: 32.8mm (16th Jan)

Monthly total: 101.2mm (about average - excluding most of the snow)

Average Wind speed: 3.2mph

Max gust: 40mph (12th Jan)

Maxes below 0°C: 2

Mins below 0°C: 19

Mins below -5°C: 7

Mins below -10°C: 2

Days of falling snow: 8 (5th,6th,8th,10th,11th,30th,31st Jan) - mainly very light.

Days with >50% snow cover at 09:00: 7 (6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 30th)

Graph of temperature and rainfall for Jan 2010: