Weather Statistics – Tideswell – March 2015
Temperature
Mean daily maximum: 8.3 (0.6 below average)
Mean daily minimum: 1.5 (0.2 above average)
Mean temperature: 4.9 (0.2 below average)
Highest daily maximum: 14.7 (7th)
Lowest daily maximum: 4.3 (2nd)
Lowest daily minimum: -3.5 (9th)
Highest daily minimum: 6.1 (8th)
Lowest daily grass minimum: -5.3 (25th)
Number of air frosts: 7
Number of ground frosts: 17
Days with max 10.0-14.9: 5
Days with max 5.0-9.9: 24
Days with max 0.0-4.9: 2
Frost duration: 41.4 hours
Rainfall
Total fall: 111.0 mm (163% of average)
Wettest day (0900-0900) 33.5 mm (30th)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 19
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 15
Snow
Days with snow or sleet falling: 8
Days more than 50% cover at 0900: 1
Deepest at 0900: 2 cm (26th)
Sunshine
Total sunshine: 70.2 hours (73% of average)
Sunniest day: 8.5 hours (10th )
Days with no sun: 4
Other phenomena
Days with thunder heard: 0
Days with hail: 6
Days with fog at 0900: 0
Wind
Mean wind speed: 7.8 mph
Maximum gust: 60 mph (31st)
Days with gale: 0
Remarks
A very dull and wet month with the bulk of the rain coming in the last week. By a considerable margin it was the wettest March in the 7 years that we have been here. The closest was 89.1 mm in March 2010. It was a little colder than average. Overall, it felt very much a winter month with not much of a hint of spring.
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