RAINFALL REPORT 

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Februarys’ total was 136.1mm making it a very, very, very wet one as this is just over 2.5 times the average (50.6mm). The month continued where January left off with rain recorded for the first 21 days with significant amounts of 25mm on the 5th and 16.6mm on the 18th. Daylight hours were dry at times but were largely grey and dull. There were a couple of frosty starts but otherwise it was relatively mild. Finally the rain relented and we had a period of no rain at all for a whole 4 days. This was accompanied by much warmer weather with temperatures up to the mid teens on a couple of occasions Then February left us in no doubt what an awful month of weather it had been with a very wet end with 22mm on the 27th alone. In the 10 years I have been recording this winter has been by far the wettest. Indeed the West Midlands as a whole had its wettest winter on record.  No snow to speak of and little frost either. It was a warm, very wet, very dull and a, seemingly, very long winter (with apologies to those, myself included, who prefer the astronomical seasons).