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January has been mild (with some warm and cold days too), calm, very dry and sunny. It was sunny almost every day.
Rimini-Miramare airport data (comparison with 1971-2000 averages):
Average high: 10.0°C (+2.3°C)
Average mean: 5.9°C (+1.9°C)
Average low: 2.0°C (+1.6°C)
Rainfall: 17 mm (-25 mm)
Rainy days >1 mm: 6 (average)
Precipitation: 93.6 mm (153%)
> 0.1 mm - 22
> 1 mm - 16
A much milder and wetter month than normal. After a mild start, it turned quite cold, but with a rather lame record low temps. For example nearby Kaarina recorded -19.5C. If it wasn't for the cold snap in late December, our USDA hardiness zone would've been 7a last year...
Overall a quite poor month, but not catastrophic. Weather fronts came and went, but we had still a decent amount of snow, too bad it was often quite wet and melted quickly. So far, we got our permanent snow pack on 30 January, a month later than usual.
The long range forecast looks decent, but changeable. No terrifying cold, or endless mildness, but might be quite stormy at times.
Precipitation: 93.6 mm (153%)
> 0.1 mm - 22
> 1 mm - 16
A much milder and wetter month than normal. After a mild start, it turned quite cold, but with a rather lame record low temps. For example nearby Kaarina recorded -19.5C. If it wasn't for the cold snap in late December, our USDA hardiness zone would've been 7a last year...
Overall a quite poor month, but not catastrophic. Weather fronts came and went, but we had still a decent amount of snow, too bad it was often quite wet and melted quickly. So far, we got our permanent snow pack on 30 January, a month later than usual.
The long range forecast looks decent, but changeable. No terrifying cold, or endless mildness, but might be quite stormy at times.
Those are astonishing figures for somewhere that is often though of as having a pretty similar winter climate to this part of the world.
Here are the figures for this January for the milder cities in southern Ontario (granted this January was colder than average):
Toronto
Avg max -2.8C
Avg min -12.3C
Avg temp -7.8
Lowest temp -21.2C
Windsor
Avg max -2.9C
Avg min -10.8C
Avg temp -7.1C
Lowest temp -18.5C
Poor show in Turku, and Scandinavia in general. Hopefully February is a little better.
I think and hope so. There's very little ice yet, but the sea keeps getting colder, and as February is statistically the coldest month, the situation will surely improve. http://www.smhi.se/oceanografi/istja...r/sstcolor.pdf
But depressing would be if March was cold too. Like in 2005, when January had like a mean of 0C, March -5C.
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NOTE that I copied the template from Jesien, and didn't originally change the ice days column. The correct amount is 8, not 1, which was said originally before I corrected it.
Those are astonishing figures for somewhere that is often though of as having a pretty similar winter climate to this part of the world.
Here are the figures for this January for the milder cities in southern Ontario (granted this January was colder than average):
Toronto
Avg max -2.8C
Avg min -12.3C
Avg temp -7.8
Lowest temp -21.2C
Windsor
Avg max -2.9C
Avg min -10.8C
Avg temp -7.1C
Lowest temp -18.5C
Certainly much milder than average (as you see with almost a 4C positive anomaly). But unfortunately, nothing new under the sun. This was the second warmest January since 1998 (don't have older stats), but three additional months have had a mean temp between -1C and -1.5C.
Other locations:
Kaarina (nearby suburb)
Avg max 1.1C
Avg min -3.2C
Avg temp -1.1C
Lowest temp -19.5C
Helsinki Airport
Avg max 0.2C
Avg min -4.6C
Avg temp -2.2C
Lowest temp -16.7C
Tampere
Avg max -1.1C
Avg min -5.7C
Avg temp -3.4C
Lowest temp -20.7C
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Originally Posted by dunno what to put here
Ha, I was going to say 'there's always March', but I know you don't like March to be very cold.
It wouldn't be the end of the world, but yeah, the winter has had its chance since late November, so if it makes a push in March, it's already too late. The most I hate is if that it's colder from April to October.
Snowy days: 20
Snowfall: 47cm (18.5")
Maximum snow depth: Around 29-30cm, last hours of the month.
Warmer than last January by far. Will update the figures when I get SMHI's figures
that'll take 10 days. use ogimet instead.
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