Weather in Evershot
A small village in Dorset
Monthly commentary
2010
January 2010
We all know January was cold. The average for the whole month is 5.6°C.
This year it was 1.3°C. The coldest January temperature for the last few
years has averaged -2.8°C, with this year coming in at -7.7°C on the 6th.
And there was snow and fog and grey skies for much of the month. I
counted nine days with snow lying in my garden and three days with fog.
The most rain was the 30.9mm on the 21st, with 19.4mm on the 15th and
14.4mm on the 16th. But apart from those three days, the rainfall was
only 31.1mm, so the month's total of 95.8mm was on the dry side. January
usually gives us about 138.6mm.
February has continued the same weather: grey skies, cool or cold,
dryish. But the cold is forecast to go on past the middle of the month,
with (I hope!) a slow thaw until March and Spring arrive. We shall see
if the pundits are right.
February 2010
Winter is determined to have the last word. Grey skies, drizzle, snow, chill winds from the north have all made for a miserable February. Rainfall, including the snow, has been only slightly below average: 95.2mm against the average 101.0mm. But there were only nine days with no rain at all.
Temperatures were not as bad as in January: the coldest daytime figure was 2.3°C on the 11th, while the warmest daytime figure was 8.9°C on the 5th and also the 27th. Meanwhile there were nine nights with a frost, the lowest being the -3.4°C on the 10th. The overall monthly average was 6.1°C, 3.2°C down on the usual figure for February of 9.3°C.
March has continued with the winter cold, but without any rain at all in the first eight days. But the wind is still in the north, and, while the days are lengthening and becoming sunny, nobody is counting on a real spring just yet.
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