Weather Statistics – Tideswell – January 2017
Temperature
Mean daily maximum: 5.1 (0.3 above average)
Mean daily minimum: 0.7 (0.4 above average)
Mean temperature: 2.9 (0.3 above average)
Highest daily maximum: 9.1 (10th)
Lowest daily maximum: -1.8 (26th)
Lowest daily minimum: -3.6 (5th)
Highest daily minimum: 5.3 (11th)
Lowest daily grass minimum: -6.1 (5th)
Number of air frosts: 15
Number of ground frosts: 16
Days with max 5.0-9.9: 18
Days with max 0.0-4.9: 12
Days with max -5.0 to -0.1: 1
Frost duration: 110.3 hours
Rainfall
Total fall: 104.4 mm (88% of average)
Wettest day (0900-0900) 14.5 mm (14th)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 25
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 18
Snow
Days with snow or sleet falling: 11
Days more than 50% cover at 0900: 3
Deepest at 0900: 13cm
Sunshine
Total sunshine: 42.6 hours (115% of average)
Sunniest day: 6.6 hours (25th)
Days with no sun: 19
Other phenomena
Days with thunder heard: 0
Days with hail: 0
Days with fog at 0900: 5
Wind
Mean wind speed: 5.5 mph
Maximum gust: 56 mph (11th)
Days with gale: 0
Remarks
Overall a fairly average month though the amount of snow and the frost duration
were a fair bit below average. Although the sunshine total was a little above
average the number of sunless day was the highest I have recorded in any
January. The most significant event of the month was the brief but intense
snowstorm between 0600 and 0800 on the 13th. About 13 cm of powder snow fell
with considerable drifting. Although the general snow cover lasted less than 2
days, remnants of drifts from this event survived just outside the village until at least the 30th.
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