Driest month on record for England and Wales: February 1891

KevBrads1
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22 February 2014 07:33:21

Here's a couple of tables of rainfall totals recorded for the driest month on record for England and Wales namely February 1891 which a rainfall total of just 3.6mm

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Stormchaser
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22 February 2014 10:25:06

#2

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910201.gif

Started with the only really notable rain of the month for some... showery I suppose.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910205.gif

Strong high pressure builds up from the S and SW.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910210.gif

Drifts into Europe but further ridging from the SW keeps the UK dry but with a chilly continental feed at the surface.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910212.gif

A northerly!

...but pressure rises rapidly from the west and kills off the precipitation.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910214.gif

High and dry again two days after that northerly toppler.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910218.gif

Reminds me of April 2011.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910222.gif

Another continental feed with a fetch from a long way south.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910226.gif

Very persistent this time!

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910302.gif

Two days into March, a change finally gets underway.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910308.gif

It takes a whole week to make much progress though!

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1891/Rrea00118910310.gif

The first notable storm in many weeks finally arrives.

It must have been an extraordinarily useable period of later winter weather. If TWO had been around, that northerly toppler in February would have been the only real topic of discussion that month

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UncleAlbert
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22 February 2014 11:26:24

#3

And books have been written about the blizzards that followed this.

Hungry Tiger
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22 February 2014 15:51:26

#4

Here's a couple of tables of rainfall totals recorded for the driest month on record for England and Wales namely February 1891 which a rainfall total of just 3.6mm

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Originally Posted by: KevBrads1

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Hungry Tiger
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22 February 2014 15:52:20

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