February & Winter - Penzance.
- From: "Graham Easterling" <Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:02:13 -0000
PENZANCE (Alt 60m) - FEBRUARY
Temperature (Variations are from the 1971-2000 norm)
Av Max 8.6 -0.5
Av Min 3.7 -0.5
Overall 6.2 -0.5
Absolute Max 13.2 13th
Absolute Min 0.2 10th
Total Rainfall 93.6mm (85% of 1971-2000 norm)
Wettest Day 29.0 - 16th. The wettest February day on record (since
1991)
No. of Rain Days (=>0.2mm) 11
Days with Hail - 4
Days Snow Fell - 1
Days Snow Settled - 0
No. of Gales - 0
Strongest Gust 48mph - 15th, 17th
A cold and rather dry month overall, although February 2005 was much drier.
Coldest February since 1996.
The 4 days from 14th until 17th saw 70.1mm, 75% of the months rain. Due
largely to frequent, prolonged showers of rain & hail streaming in off the
sea. There were some particularly violent showers with large hail on 16th.
WINTER 2005/2006
Coldest Winter since 1996/97.
An interesting feature of recent Winters has been the lack of gales.
The least number of gales in a Winter was 4 in 2003/2004
Winter 2005/2006 has had just 1!
No. of Gales in Winter:- 1994/95 - 14, 1997/98 - 13, 1998/99 11, Last 4
Winters - 5 / 4/ 5 / 1
Even more remarkable no morning with fog at 09:00 since October!
What has happened to Cornish mist ! ! !
Graham
Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html
Holiday Cottage www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk
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