Weather summary for March

 The average temperature for the month was 6.64° which is slightly warmer than average but as is often the case the average hides some big fluctuations in temperature.  The first couple of weeks of the month were very cold and this was actually the coldest spell of the winter, the weather then turned much milder.  March was only half a degree warmer than January and just over half a degree warmer than February.  The highest temperature was 13.7° on the 25th and the lowest  -0.6° on the 16th.  There was 43.8mm of rainfall which is about 7mm more than average.