February 2014 Summary (snowfall, hottest, warm, recorded)
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Precipitation: 62.6 mm / 2.46" (Avg: 41.2 mm / 1.62")
Precipitation > 0.1 mm: 19 days
Precipitation > 1 mm: 16 days
Highest Precipitation in a day: 16.6 mm / 0.65" (27th)
Sunshine: 77.9 hours
Days with little sunshine (less than 2 hours): 14
Sunless days: 1
Days with thunderstorms: 2
Max dew point: 10°C/50°F
Avg dew point: 4°C/39°F
Min dew point: -1°C/30°F
Written at the end of January:
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Originally Posted by Rozenn
An utter borefest, a joke of a winter month. Gets a 0.00014/10. Glad it's over, though looking at the forecast, February could end up worse and get the ultimate 0/10 grade.
Hell yeah, February 2014 gets a big fat zero from me. A disgrace of a month. Barely touched the freezing mark, the lowest high matching the normal high, no temperature variation whatsoever.
So this ends winter 2013-2014, the third warmest on record since 1873 in Paris-Montsouris, behind 2006-2007 and 1974-1975. No ice day, the coolest high of the cool season so far was 39°F back in mid-November, which is the highest in recorded history. The chilliest low was 22°F in early December.
Weather Summary February 2014 for Bremerhaven-Twischkamp
Average monthly mean: 5.5°C/ 41.9°F (warmest February since i started recording in 2006)
Average Max: 8.7°C/ 47.7°F
Average Min: 2.6°C/ 36.7°F
Absolute Max: 14.6°C/ 58.3°F (on the 25th) <- New record!
Absolute Min: -1.0°C/30.2 °F (on the 3rd)
Highest Min: 5.5°C/41.9°F (26th)
Lowest Max: 5.2°C/41.4°F (1st)
Precipitation this month: 49.2 mm/ 1.94 inches
Wettest Day: 16.2 mm/ 0.64 inch (7th)
Rainy Days: 20
Maximum Windgust: 51.8 km/h/ 32.2 mph (7th)
Highest Windspeed: 29.6 km/h 18.4 mph (7th.)
Dominating Wind direction: WNW
Average Pressure: 1004.0 hPa
Maximum Pressure: 1019.4 hPa (23th)
Minimum Pressure: 983.3 hPa (7th)
Max above 10°C/50°F: 8
Max above: 5°C/41°F: 0
Frostdays: 2
Min below: -5°C/23°F: 0
Min below: -10°C/14°F: 0
Ice Days: 0
Days with Thunder: 0
Days with Snow: 0
Days with Snowcover: (at least 1 cm) 0 (only old snow patches up to 1 cm on the 1st)
Max cover: -
Days with hail/graupel: 1 (12th)
Sunshine hours (from our official DWD weather station): 84.5 hours
February was unexceptionally mild and very sunny. Rainfall was a little about average with 49.2 mm (longterm mean is 36.1 mm). Temperatures were way above average with a departure of 3.9 K (longterm mean is 1.6°C). No Snowfall and Ice days were recorded and only two frost days with the lowest temperature of -1.0°C on the 3rd. In return, the temperature climbed above 10°C/50°F eight times- with the highest temperature for the month being 14.6°C (on the 25th).
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Trondheim Airport Værnes (12m)
Monthly mean (24-hr): 4.3C (6.8C above 1961-90 normal!)
Avg daily high: 6.5C
Avg daily low: 1.4C
Absolute high (highest high): 12.2C
Absolute min (lowest low): -6.4C
Precipitation: 7.7 mm -very dry month again
Trondheim - Voll (127m asl)
Mean: 3.7C (Warmest February since recordings began in 1762 according to local newspaper! However, I would not trust the first 100 years or so of recordings due to method, instruments etc)
Avg high: 6.1C
Avg low: 1.1C
Absolute high (highest high): 12.6C - new all time high for February!
Absolute low (lowest low): -6.3C
Precipitation: 7.6 mm - very little precipitation again
Larger area (Trøndelag):
Hitra, island at the mouth of the fjord (Norway's largest "southern" island/south of the Arctic Circle)
Mean: 5.3C this is 63 N!
Avg high: 7.7C
Avg low: 2.4C
Absolute high (highest high): 11C
Absolute low (lowest low): -4.3C
Precipitation: 16.9 mm
Røros airport (625m above sea level and inland)
Mean: -2C (7.8C above the 1961-90 normal!)
Avg high: 0.8C
Avg low: -6.2C
Absolute high: 7C
Absolute low: -16.9C
Precipitation: 8.5 mm
Longyearbyen has averaged -1.2C for the month up to 10.40 am on the 27th (what an odd time to quote figures from?!), which is 15 degrees above normal and 4.4 C above their record-warmest February set in 2012!
It seems to have snowed there recently, but a lot of the times when I've checked the webcam it has been slushy with lots of bare ground visible, and this is less than 1000 km from the North Pole we are talking about in a place which averages -16C for February.
Ah, it turns out it got colder at the end of the month and came out at -1.7C, so 'only' 14.5C above normal. It must be the only time ever that an October can be slightly milder than average yet still colder than either January or February the following year.
Average Max: 47.8 (8.8), 3.3 (about 1.7) degrees below long term average
Average Min: 35.0 (1.7), essentially normal.
Rainfall: 7.94 (202mm). We beat average by 2.7 inches (68mm); in this case this is a good thing. February is only the second month in the last 14 that we have had above average rainfall and while the drought isn't broken, it hasn't gotten worse in our area.
The signature feature of this month was the snowstorm that descended on us from early morning the 6th 'till mid day the 8th. Hyslop Field piled up 14.5 inches of the stuff (37 cm) and that was one of the lowest accumulations in the central and southern Willamette Valley. We got 19 inches (48.3) on our back porch and some areas south and west of town saw nearly two feet. For those of us from the coast to the Cascade Crest and from About 50 miles north of the Columbia River to about Roseburg, 120 miles south of us, this was the worst blizzard since 1937. It was the finest northern Rockies powder you could wish for but there was so much of it, shoveling it all out took the better part of a week. We simply are not used to the kind of snowfalls that would have raised eyebrows in New England or Michigan's upper peninsula.
Looking forward, I believe we here in Oregon will continue to see average or wetter than average months. Our drought will slowly erode and by this time next year will be nothing more than an unpleasant memory. California, south of about Redding will not. As of now, they are in the second of a series of three storms that are dropping prodigious amounts of rain, but when that all blows over early next week they will return to dry weather and will probably not see anything significant for the rest of the year.
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February Trondheim region
However, I would not trust the first 100 years or so of recordings due to method, instruments etc)
