February 1914 was a very mild month with a CET of 6.8C 
The first half of the month was exceptionally mild with a CET of 8.3C up to the 15th. Tropical maritime SWly winds were frequent and these gave high maxima and minima for February. On the 2nd, 15.6C was recorded at Hawarden, 14.4C at Gordon Castle , 13.9C at Nairn. On the 3rd, 16.1C was recorded at Shrewsbury  and 15.0C at Rhyl




Heavy rain with thunder and lightning was reported quite widely mid-month, 164mm was recorded at Llyn Fawr from the 12th to the 14th. London recorded a maximum of 15.0C on the 14th.




On the 22nd a deep low gave gales in places, Dublin recorded its lowest pressure reading since 6th December 1886 with 949mb




The mean temperature at Camden Square was 6.9C (+2.6C)
The Channel Islands did not record a temperature below 40F

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That is absolutely staggering that is.

A CET of 8.3C up to the 15th.

Amazing.

I really wonder what the mildest possibly CET is for some of these winter months.

Seems there is scope for some records to be broken given the right synoptics.

 

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I almost read it as "Very mild February 2014" and thought "blimey, that's being confident!". 

But wasn't there similar synoptics in the opening days of February 1985 when temperatures easily reached 14 C to 17 C quite widely over Southern England?  But then the cold and snow "returned with a vengeance" (as written down in a weather log book) later on in the month. That came about after a cold and snowy in January.
   Now that was a remarkable winter - but I can also remember how it lead to a not quite so remarkable summer.

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Summer 1985 was dreadful - that was the summer I left uni - I was hoping to have some nice weather to spend outdoors with my mates from uni and we spent most of the time running undercover to escape showers of rain and it was often chilly as well.

 

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February 1998 will always live long in my memory. What was it 14th Feb 1998? What a truely remarkable day that was. At the other end of the sacle to an ice day but just as impressive in it's own right.

I remember walking around with a tshirt on and being over warm still! That Feb day would take some beating for warmth.