Welcome to the 36th quarterly newsletter in the current series.
Weather
JANUARY: It was the 4th sunniest January since 1929. Overall it was quite a mild month with
temperatures reaching 9/10ºC on six occasions. The mean UK temperature was 1.3ºC above
the 1971-2000 average. Locally overnight frosts occurred on six occasions. Sleet was noted
for a few minutes on the 23rd and hail fell in the afternoon of the 27th. Snow fell on the last day
of the month but it did not settle.