Normal 31 day month and it might have gone up a little....

Met Office Hadley    4.1c.      Anomaly      0.3c      Provisional  to  27th.

Metcheck                3.88c.    Anomaly     -0.32c.

N-W                        4.13c.    Anomaly     -0.08c.     

Metcheck                2.9c.       Anomaly     -1.3c.

My Mean                 3.6c.      Anomaly      -2.1c.

Final figure for February was 4.03C

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_mean_2015

So Feb was in the end the first negative month since Aug....
At least I spotted a negative month, though I was about 2C too low!!

-0.19C vs the 1971- 2000 and -0.35C vs the 1981 - 2010.

Not far off a neutral 3 months of winter.
I am sure GW will correct me shortly!!.

Edit - Caz absolutely brilliant guess...... (what a shame)  

Never mind... The good news is you are still miles better than my guess.

Thanks Grandad!  I'm not celebrating yet until GW gives us the final figure and then works out my penalties for being late. 

Actually, if I'd seen the output and known how cold it had been here while I was on holiday, I might have guessed lower.  But when I saw I was late, I panicked and hastily plucked a figure out of thin air. 

Over on t' other side  N-W  have it 4.03c.  with an adjustment of  0.1c.    

Congratulations to Caz, GezM and speckedjim who all predicted 4.0C.

Here are the detailed stats for February

Interestingly Rothamsted was much cooler than Stonyhurst.

Here are the charts for February. Both the maximum and minimum CET were 0.2C below average

CET for 1-11 Feb 2.2C (-2.3C)

CET for 12-28 Feb 5.2C (+1.1C)

So a cold start to the month but then rather mild for the final couple of weeks.

The final winter CET came in at 4.54C which is almost exactly in line with both the 1971-2000 and 1981-2010 mean.

A very similar temperature profile to the 1983/4 winter. Much cooler than last year of course.

CET 1-25 Dec 5.8C (+0.6C)

CET 26-31 Dec 2.4C (-2.2C)

CET 1-16 Jan 6.0C (+1.7C)

CET 17-24 Jan 1.2C (-3.1C)

CET 25-28 Jan 5.7C (+1.8C)

CET 29 Jan to 11 Feb 2.3C (-2.0C)

CET 12-28 Feb 5.2C (+1.1C)

We had three distinct spells of cold weather during the winter, the first lasting 6 days, the second 8 days and the last 14 days. There was only limited snowfall away from the hills but nevertheless plenty of interest for cold weather fans this winter.

CET annual prediction competition - February update

Here are the latest tables to the end of February. Unfortunately Caz is no longer at the top of the table despite her excellent prediction in February. As the prediction was very late it incurred a hefty penalty.

Our new leader is John S2 followed closely by Dingle Rob.

  Oh dear, my late penalty has lost me 19 places.    

Never mind, at least I've seen the view from the top and thankfully my February guess was accepted, which means I won't have missed a month in the competition and it's the taking part that counts! 

Thank you GW!  Keep up the good work! 

Cheers and thanks for that. I lost a bit as I was 0.5C out - A bit more than I thought. February ended up a fraction milder than I thought.

Anyway - its all good fun.

Thanks GW, I think that's the highest I've ever been.