6.3C

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

Ally Pally Snowman    +    Marc       Both in the running at the moment.....

MET OFFICE HADLEY           6.3c           Anomaly        2.5c.     Provisional to 27th.

Metcheck                            5.8c.          Anomaly          1.66c.

N-W                                    6.83c         Anomaly          2.64c.

Mount Sorrel                         6.19c.       Anomaly          1.98c.

My Mean                                5.9c.  

CET officially comes out at 6.2;

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat

The midest February since 2002 - January was the "coldest" month this winter at at 5.7.

The CET to two decimals was 6.17C. The 28th was the coldest day of the month at 4.0C

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_mean_2014

Congratulations to Darren S and marting who had the correct prediction this month

The winter CET finished at 6.07C which as expected is the 12th warmest winter in the CET series since 1659

Here are the top 12 winter CET's:

6.77C 1869
6.53C 1834
6.50C 1989
6.43C 2007
6.43C 1975
6.33C 1686
6.23C 1990
6.20C 1796
6.13C 1935
6.10C 1998
6.10C 1734
6.07C 2014

These are the only winters with a CET above 6C

Thanks Simon.

Here are the final charts for February and winter.

The most interesting statistic of the winter is that the minimum CET only fell below zero on three occasions and two of those were -0.1C and -0.2C. All three were in January. There were no negative minimum CETs in either December or February. I am not sure this has ever happened before. A quick flick through the minimum CET series which goes back to 1878 does not reveal any other winters with only 3 negative minimum CET days. 

Frost was definitely notable by its absence this year. Although I did manage to record 12 air frosts over the winter the coldest night was -2.3C and that was the only minimum that went below -1.2C.  

Even in the very mild winter of 1989/90 the minimum CET fell below zero on 7 occasions although 4 of those were in the first half of December. For January and February there were only 3 negative minimum CETs with two of those no lower than -0.4C so very similar to January and February of this year.

1971/2 was also an interesting winter. There were 9 minimum CETs less than zero but only 1 of those was lower than -0.7C (which was 1 Feb with -7.6C).

The other notable feature is how consistent the CET has been all winter with no cold spells or exceptionally mild spells. The mean CET has been close to 6C right the way through with just a bit of a milder spell in mid December.

Here is the February update for the annual CET competition. Still very close at the top of the table but Martyn has moved into the lead on his own.

Thanks GW.

Nice to be moving the "right" way.

Cheers Simon.

I got a few points there - that's good. I was a bit disappointed to miss it though. At one point I thought I was going to hit it bang on.

Its all good fun - Thanks for those stats.

What an amazing winter it was in a lot of ways.

Thanks Simon. Great stuff

Cheers Simon