February 2016 weather statistics

[johnholmes]

Cantley February 2016 weather summary

 

The joint ‘coldest’ month with January for Mean temperature, rather more ground and air frosts than January. Just below average rainfall. One day when an afternoon snow shower covered the ground, less than half cover by 9am next day.

 

Mean=5.6 (5.5)

Avge Max=9.0 (8.4); highest day time=15.6 on 21st and coldest day=17th with 5.3

Avge Min=2.2 (2.5); coldest night -3.3 on 16th with the warmest night 8.7 on the 5th

 

Rainfall=42.6 which is just above the average; 12 days with 0.2 mm or more and 5 with 1.0 mm or more. The wettest day was 17th with 9.4 mm.

Snow fell 1 day but none lying at 9am; 8 (8) air frosts and 17 (13) ground frosts.

No hail, thunder or fog noted.

[March]

Mild at 1C above average, although colder than January by 0.5C. Higher daily maximum average than January but lower minimums. Drier than average at 82.3% of rainfall and by far the driest month of winter. Most frosts of winter but an average amount. 

 

Max temp: 14C (21st)

Average max: 8.4C

Min temp: -4.7C (16th)

Average min: 1.5C

Average temp: 4.9C

Days of air frost: 11

Total rain: 30.2mm

Days of above 1mm: 5

Days of above 5mm: 3

Days above 10mm: 0

Rainiest day: 9.9mm (17th)

Snow: 0cm

Edited March 2, 2016 by March

[Styx]

February - Hobart, Tasmania

With a mean temperature of 19.1C this was the  equal 3rd warmest February on record, a tie with 1895. Only 1972 ( 19.5C ) and 2001 (19.7C) have been warmer. Since September, every month here has been warmer than average ( 1981-2010 comparison ). Since October, the monthly anomaly has been above 1C.

Average maximum:  23.8 ( +1.7 )

Average minimum:  14.4 ( +1.8 )

Rainfall:  22mm ( average 40mm )

Rain days (+1mm ): 4/from 9

Every month since September has also been drier than average. This months rainfall fell mostly on the 15th-16th ( 11mm ) and 24th ( 6mm ) on fronts moving in from the west-south west. A shower or two in colder air on the night of the 15th fell and settled as snow near 1200m. Otherwise, a persistently mild to warm and mostly dry month with the occasional south coast clipper front bringing only a brief shower.

Extremes in daily temperature for February ( records since 1882 ):

Highest maximum:  32.7....23rd ( record 40.1 in 1899 )

Lowest maximum:  15.8....16th ( record 9.6 in 1964 )

Highest minimum:  19.7....24th ( record 23.9 in 1912 )

Lowest minimum:  8.2....16th ( record 3.4 in 1980 )

Summer summary - exceptionally warm

This was Hobart's equal warmest summer in 135 years of records, a tie with 2001. The mean maximum was 22.9C and the mean minimum was 13.7C ( a new record, 0.3C above the 2001 record ). Rainfall of 97mm was 68% of the long term average.

Hobart's summer temperature extremes were 5.0C and 36.0C.

Tasmania's summer extremes were -3C ( at 1200m ) and 40C ( east coast ).

 

[Stargazer]

My statistics for central Reading in February 2016:

Average maximum: 9.2
Average minimum: 2.5
Average for month: 5.9

Highest maximum: 15.1 (February 21)
Lowest maximum: 4.4 (13)
Highest minimum: 11.0 (1)
Lowest minimum: -3.5 (24 & 25)

Air frosts: 7
Days with thunder heard: none
Days with fog at 9am: none
No wintry precipitation observed.

Rainfall: Reading University recorded 41mm for the month, which is exactly average for February.
Sunshine: Reading University shows 85 hours for the month, 116% of average.

Overall a close to average month with slightly milder than average day and night time temperatures.  A stormy and very mild start followed by a more settled spell with frequent frosts, The second half of the month saw quiet days and seasonal temperatures, with the exception of the cloudy and mild spell of 20-22 February that gave the month's highest temperature.

Edited March 5, 2016 by Stargazer