First time post from a long-term lurker. I don't pretend to be anything other than an interested amateur but I've been watching this winter unfold with increasing interest. February here on Deeside felt like it was actually colder than January and monthly mean temps from private weather stations on the weather underground website seem to support this. Both Grantown on Spey and Aboyne recorded lower means for February than January. Other stations in northern Scotland seem to show similar temperatures for both months and although southern Scotland was clearly less cold in February, even here the largest increase I could find in mean temperatures between January and February was 0.8C (in Dumfries), with most showing that February and December had similar average temperatures. Now I don't know how the met office works out their monthly averages (their figure of 0.1C for January is lower than any of the January means I could see on weather underground), but if you take these figures at face value there must be a chance that the February mean temperature for Scotland may be sub 1C. If this turns out to be the case then this won't just have been the coldest winter since 1978/79!
