Could this be the winter when we finally hit the magical 20c?

 

Beeb already saying 18c could be hit next weekend

...... or 21C even..

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Manchester Winter Index 

Formula:  10 x[(number of days with falling sleet/snow) +(number of days with lying snow at 9am) + (number of days with a minima at or below 0C)]  divided by the mean maximum 

2013-14: 7

1988-89: 20

2006-07: 21

1997-98: 25

1974-75: 26

1989-90: 26

2015-16: 28

1973-74: 30

1987-88: 37

2007-08: 37

2016-17: 37

1991-92: 40

1975-76: 41

1999-00: 42

1992-93: 43

2002-03: 44

1994-95: 45

2018-19: 45 

1998-99: 47

2004-05: 47

2011-12: 47

2001-02: 50

2003-04: 50

2005-06: 59

1979-80: 66

1996-97: 72

2000-01: 77

1993-94: 78

1983-84: 82

2014-15: 82

1982-83: 85

1977-78: 90

1980-81: 90

2017-18: 93

1986-87: 100

2012-13: 102

2008-09: 105

2010-11: 119

1990-91: 126

1995-96: 135

1984-85: 140

1976-77: 141

1981-82: 149

1985-86: 159

2009-10: 197

1978-79: 262

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Record breaking February, mild winter

"No one could have missed that February was record breaking. Daily maximum temperatures have been the highest on record (dating back to 1910), averaging out at 10.0C, ahead of the 9.8C recorded in 1998. In total 21 locations in the Met Office observing network broke previous national (England, Scotland, Wales) records, some of these on multiple days. On 26 February, the previous UK record (19.7 at Greenwich on 13th February 1998) was broken as far north as Rochdale, Greater Manchester (20.4 C) and Myerscough, Lancashire (19.8 C).

Looking at winter (Dec-Jan-Feb) the season was warm and dry for the country as a whole, but not record breaking. There were some regional differences, for example it was the 23rd driest for the UK but the 4th driest for east Scotland and the driest since 1964, while it was the 6th sunniest for the UK but the 2nd sunniest for E. Anglia, and east and north east England."

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2019/february-and-winter-statistics 

Record breaking February, mild winter


Looking at winter (Dec-Jan-Feb) the season was warm and dry for the country as a whole, but not record breaking. There were some regional differences, for example it was the 23rd driest for the UK but the 4th driest for east Scotland and the driest since 1964, while it was the 6th sunniest for the UK but the 2nd sunniest for E. Anglia, and east and north east England."

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2019/february-and-winter-statistics

Interesting to see them describe winter as "warm" rather than "mild".

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