Our cold spell came to an abrupt end as the temperatures suddenly lifted to spring-like values over the course of a couple of days.
We made the most of the lovely weather on Monday with a visit to Nostell Priory. Despite the warm temperatures, the water in the flooded field was still iced over. You might be able to just make out visitors walking on the ice-covered water in the background. At home, our snowdrops emerged from the snow and ice reminding us that spring is on its way.
Hopefully, we've now seen an end to the worst of our winter weather although we can get some cold days in March. The latest cold spell was rather prolonged but the lowest temperatures weren't low enough to make it into my list of the top twenty coldest days. I've added a table below of our average temperature over the winter months since 2010. The table is rather large and to see it in full size, and in a readable format, you will have to click on the image.
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| Table of average winter temperatures 2010 - 2021 |
The longest spell of weather with average daily temperatures below 0°C (32°F) was in December 2010 when we had 10 consecutive days below freezing. Our latest cold spell had 6 days of below freezing temperatures in a row making it our second longest spell of cold weather. However, from the table it clear we've had much colder temperatures although for much shorter spells.
The forecast is for the remainder of February to remain closer to average temperatures bringing meteorological winter to an end as we move into spring.
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27 sub zero nights and grass frost on 35 so far this year here. lovely just now at 7C!
ReplyDeleteWe're not far behind with 23 sub zero nights so far.
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