I had known for some time that my guess for January was too high but in a way, I am pleased anyway because this means shows that we did at least get some of the cold weather which we were expecting towards the end of the month, albeit not to the extent which a lot of people were hoping for and which the medium term models in particular, kept on pointing towards.

EDIT:

I forgot to add there, well done to col though for getting to within 1°C of the actual recorded value.

I was 2C out - that was bad.

Hope you’ve pulled your socks back up for this month!  

Sorry there will be a delay posting the January results. I intended to do this over the weekend but the heavy snow on Friday caused all sorts of problems for me and extra work in clearing snow on Saturday. As a result I am well behind on my normal jobs at the moment.

No problem GW!  

So January ended up below average CET? That’s very surprising to me. 

Here are the charts for January

Overall a fairly average month, just dipping slightly below towards the end of the month.

The winter as a whole is mild so far after a very warm December. Although February started cold it looks like turning much warmer. So overall this looks like being quite a warm winter.

CET competition - January update

Here is the first table of the year. Congratulations to The Professional and Col who were just 0.04C out. Norseman was close behind.

Full sized table

I have a lot of catching up to do!  Almost as much as HT!  

Thanks for that update.

I'm impressed that the vast majority of us came within 1°C of the actual value with our guesses for January and I'm sure that this played such a big part in that being such a closely fought contest.

However, I would just to take this opportunity to congratulate this month's winners. The standards have clearly been set for the rest of this year and for me, it will just be a case of trying to match up to those standards as well as possible.

As we all know, it is ultimately the weather itself which. will determine who close each guess is to the actual value for any given month but for me, that is part and parcel of the fun which fun which comes with taking part in this competition.

Well done winners! & Thanks GW as always 

Millimetre accuracy? Is that to the top of the carpet pile or the bottom? 

I should imagine it's the top! LOL  I got it from some website or other, for my exact location