88mm of rain for January made it the wettest January since we began keeping our records.

Comparison of Monthly Rainfall

Yearly rainfall as at 31 January 2004

The damp conditions have meant that temperatures have been quite warm with very little frost and as we end the month they have risen to give their highest at 11.9c on the 31st the coldest being –1.9 on the 17th.

DATE	MAX TEMP	MIN TEMP	DATE	MAX TEMP	MIN TEMP
01/01/04	7.2	2.7	17/01/04	6.4	-1.9
02/01/04	4.1	1.1	18/01/04	7.7	1.8
03/01/04	8.7	3.5	19/01/04	9.9	8.5
04/01/04	11.3	5.3	20/01/04	9.3	8.1
05/01/04	11.2	6.1	21/01/04	9.3	6.7
06/01/04	11.4	4.2	22/01/04	9.4	6.7
07/01/04	11.0	7.8	23/01/04	8.8	8.2
08/01/04	8.8	3.6	24/01/04	8.7	2.3
09/01/04	10.8	3.0	25/01/04	8.0	0.7
10/01/04	11.3	5.9	26/01/04	5.7	0.3
11/01/04	9.9	4.4	27/01/04	5.2	0.4
12/01/04	9.3	2.7	28/01/04	5.0	-1.5
13/01/04	8.4	3.8	29/01/04	6.6	-1.6
14/01/04	7.2	1.3	30/01/04	8.1	1.9
15/01/04	7.5	1.8	31/01/04	11.9	7.1
16/01/04	7.3	2.2		T-sum 193.95

Table of January's Max / Min Temperatures
Webby's Note - I think the total for the T-sum should be 186.25.
what do you think?

Daily Maximum and Minimum temperatures for January 2004
in degrees Centigrade (Celsius)

Average Monthly Temperature for 2004

If February continues warm for the first 10 days things will begin to grow.

Last month I explained our “T sum” which should reach 200 by the end of February/early March.

Graph of the T-sum total for January 2004 (target = 200)
Graph produced using Webby's calculations

Apparently the get out is “wait until March 1st if you reach 200 before. 193.95 (186.25) means we had better wait especially since the ground is now sodden.

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