The most snowless winter in over 150 years of records here with just one dusting on 19th November here in the outskirts. The majority of the city probably had no days with snow lying at 9am
Days with snow lying and max depth:
2004/05: 16 (5cm)
2005/06: 22 (26cm)
2006/07: 8 (2cm)
2007/08: 7 (5cm)
2008/09: 21 (16cm)
2009/10: 43 (19cm)
2010/11: 34 (28cm)
2011/12: 6 (6cm)
2012/13: 33 (15cm)
2013/14: 1 (1cm)
The absence of frost has been just as shocking with an absolute low of -2.5C and a lower frost duration for Autumn/Winter/Spring combined (110.1hrs) than my previous record low for winter alone (141.1hrs for 2007/08).
Total frost duration:
2005/06: 399.7hrs
2006/07: 175.8hrs
2007/08: 222.6hrs
2008/09: 383.1hrs
2009/10: 664.8hrs
2010/11: 612.9hrs
2011/12: 217.5hrs
2012/13: 445.0hrs
2013/14: 110.1hrs
No month had as many frosts as April 2013 with minima consistently 1.5-2C above average since October except in November which had the coldest minima but still over 2C.
Mean Minima:
Oct: 7.6 (+1.6)
Nov: 2.2 (-1.1)
Dec: 3.7 (+2.5)
Jan: 2.6 (+1.4)
Feb: 2.7 (+1.7)
Mar: 3.9 (+1.9)
April: 5.2 (+2.1 to 13th)
Northerlies would have been far better than what we’ve had in spring. A horrible boring season so far with lots of gloom and drizzle, very little nice weather and nothing remotely interesting. Given the similarities with Spring 1997 it wouldn’t surprise me to see snow in May.
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