Weather summary for February

This winter has been extremely mild and although February was about a degree warmer than average at 5.9° this is much closer to normal than the record breaking extremes we had earlier in the winter.  The highest temperature was 14.9° on the 21st and the lowest  -1.3° on the 16th.  There was 21.2mm of rainfall which is much lower than the 36.6mm average for the month.