Looks like the Gravesend site is shut permanently which is a shame as it was a hotspot.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/famous-weather-station-closed-191601/&ved=2ahUKEwinpfvZg9zgAhXAXhUIHSjqA7kQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3bicrn7kAc5ipmmh3utkny

Currently 17.9C at Aboyne so the other days Scottish February record of 18.3C may not last long. The low this morning there was -3C so a good diurnal range too.

Fpr what reason since I notice they shut down interesting weather data like in Redhill that know to reach -10C occasionally during cold frosty spells.

Almost identical to yesterday. Currently 17.7C down from 18.2C having started at -2.4C.

Welcome back Jiries. Haven’t seen you for ages.

I was amazed at the difference in temperature first thing this morning in my locale .
Yes it is normally cooler first thing at the bottom of the hill but the difference this morning was extreme.
6.8c in my garden at 7am but a few hundred meters down the road at 100masl it was just 1.5c and frosty.

Scott- your video rates among the best for me- alongside some of those big snow fill-ups you see in the US- because of the day itself being so extreme and because of the temperature in the bottom right corner: a great addition; did you add this in afterwards manually?

Were you excited when it reached the 20 threshold?

Amazing how it rose a full degree in about 18 minutes at one point, and that it was still 16C on a February evening! Also, how quickly it shot down after sunset.

Glad you brought the exciting thread back on track, Rob- it was diverging increasingly.

I reached 16.7 today- second warmest Feb day on my records.

Hi Bertie, thanks a lot mate!

Yes I add them in afterwards and I round them to the nearest half degree. Techincally I didn't quite reach 20°C yesterday, "only" 19.8°C, but it was close enough for me to round it up! And indeed, it certainly was an incredible spell of weather, I don't think it's going to be beaten any time soon, put it that way.

Both Jersey and the Netherlands broke their all time February records today 18.3c and 20.5c respectively. 

I wonder if any French records have gone today? Looks like parts of south west France got up to 26-27°C this afternoon!

https://twitter.com/UKWX_/status/1100813292107370499

We had the same here this morning when I headed out at 5am. 1.5C in the valley then as high as 8.5C on Woodhead Pass. Temp was up and down between 8C and 2C on the M1 depending on altitude.

 The temperature normally nose dives on frosty nights as you head out onto the Pennines away from built up areas. It's been the complete opposite during this amazing spell.

I wonder if we will need wait as long to see the new records fall?

When my son was 2 ( ish) we went to Chester Zoo for the day . ]

It was 21C and that would be in 2004(?) ,March 18th.

This has been Feb and days of it!

It was very boring winter and there was nothing exciting about it since last September end of the month I lost interest with it.  i don't have interest with Autumn and Winter months only if there something very good like the Beast of the East and today that time last year we were going to get hit by the East.  I rather take this one than the one last year was it was poor show with 2cm snow as a results and band of snowfalls was very poor as well.

To me, the fact that some places have got above 20°C during recent days (which is something which doesn't even happen on the vast majority of days here during the summer) just tells me, how utterly poor, this so-called "winter" has been in terms of it being just one massive non-event for most of the time.

Given how bad it has been in terms of the overall lack of cold and snow, I'm not surprised in any way that this has happened and now, I will just be glad to see the back of it all.

I think most of us are over cold and snow. The recent weather has been much better.

Well, I just hope that this doesn't end up being it for our "summer" for this year.

Well with the return to cloud,wet and wind March may well 'come in like a Lion' which , if we believe the lore, will see it go out 'like a Lamb'.....

So that would be the second half of the month settling back into HP dominance!

After a month like February this maybe March coming in like a lamb! 😳

Interesting that 1891 should hold that record, as just 11 days later on 9th March one of the greatest blizzards to hit southern - and especially SW - England began. I don't suppose there will be a repeat this time!

Mean max: 12.3 (4.7C above normal)

Mean min: 1.1 (only 0.5C above normal)

Sunshine: 182.30 hrs (200% of normal!)

Rain: 15.4mm (29% of normal)

To average 6.5 hours of sun per day in a winter month is ridiculous. More so when 1-3Feb had zero hours of sun, so the rest of the month averaged 7.3 hours per day, out of total available hours of just under 9.

Right, that's it - I'm calling it...

Summer is over