February 2025 Commentary

After the very wet ending to January, it was a relief that the new month was well into its third week before any heavy rain returned.

A rise in the day and night temperatures on the 20^th was accompanied by some heavy rainfall and the last Sunday in February saw nearly two inches fall in the twenty-four hours. Night-time temperatures plunged at the end of the month though we were compensated with two days of wall-to-wall sunshine. February's average temperature was 6.9C which happens to be the exact average for February over the last ten years while the rainfall total was 140.7mm which is above the average for the last decade.

February 2023 had totalled only 7.6 mm while February 2024 totalled 240.8mm so in some ways it was good to get back to a figure somewhere in between

The figures for winter (the three months December, January and February combined) were near to average for both temperature and rainfall over the past decade.

Around the village snowdrops and primroses were prolific while daffodils have perhaps been more reticent this year.

Philip Spray