IN keeping with the wild weather of last year, January was a topsy-turvy month which offered up torrential rain, gales, exceptionally mild and unusually cold days, frosts and a dumping of snow.
Figures released by Jersey Met show that the month was wetter and sunnier than average, and lurched from unseasonably mild at the start, to freezing cold and then mild again as February neared.
The average temperature during January was 6.6°C – slightly below the monthly average of 7°C. The highest temperature was 13.4 °C, recorded on the second day of the month, and the coldest was minus 1.4°C on the night of the tenth.
Almost 111mm of rain was recorded – with 22.2mm falling on a very soggy New Year’s Day. The average for the month is 95.2mm.
A total of 102.4 hours of sunshine was registered – well above the long-term monthly average of 74 hours. And children – and some adults – had the rare opportunity to hone their snowman-building skills when up to 5cm of snow fell on the 8th and 9th.
