[Colin Ure]

Very dry month so far here in Bathgate - only 9.6mm (and 3.6mm of that was yesterday)
Average from my records is 80.8mm so only 12% of average to date.

[Lightning Hunter]

We're on 25.5mm up to 1700 on the 19th here, which is 57.8% of average to this date.

[Ian Williams]

34.1 mm here in St Germans thats 52.3% of normal to the 20th. Just 5 days with measurable rain

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[Andy Mayhew]

21.7mm after 20 days - 75% of average to date

[Dave K]

Still running well below average here with only 11.4 mm or 27% of the normal to the 24th.

[00ctober]

45.6mm here so far, 76% of the average to this date. 13/24 rain days, 10/24 wet days. Not much rain forecast so looks almost certain to finish drier than average.

[Lightning Hunter]

Up to 26.9mm here so far, which is 48% of average to the 25th.

[Dave K]

Finished with 11.4 mm, just 22% of the monthly average. Driest in site records was 8.3 mm in 1998.

[00ctober]

Total of 50.7mm here which is 73% of the Feb average. Driest month since last April. Had 16 rain days and 12 wet days, both bang on average. Wettest day was the 20th with 9.5mm.

[Ian Williams]

39.1 mm for here in St Germans SE Cornwall which is just 42.8% of average

[Dave Hancox]

At last manage a months data on my weather station - Dalmellington Ayrshire. 58% of normal average for the month. Comparing with Paisley MET data (Don't know if I can get closer station)

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[BUTTERFLY]

A total of 44.9 mm at my place of work, probably a little below the average, but a good bit lower than February 2011 (107.5 mm). However it was probably as mild or even milder; there were possibly only 3 or 4 air frosts, lowest -4.2 deg. C. about 4th, and perhaps only 2 in December 2011 and 2 in January 2012, with even fewer air frosts in my garden (perhaps 1 in December, 0 in January and 2 in February). The last week of February was exceptionally mild; a digital thermometer with non-standard exposure, which I am sure is reading at least 1 deg. C. too high, gave a reading of 16.4 deg. C. on 29th, although Killowen, Co. Down, recorded 16.3 deg. C. on 28th, and the lowest minimum with the same thermometer since 21st February has been 7.1 deg. C.

The most notable feature of February 2012 has been the lack of sunshine; Philip Eden's website http://www.climate-uk.com/page2.html shows a percentage of I think 52%, while the Republic of Ireland was even lower with 48%, although I think East Anglia was over 120%. Aldergrove in Co. Antrim (see http://www.met.readi...rugge/CURR.html)
seems to have had the lowest value of sunshine of any stations both in absolute and relative terms, with 27.4 hours (less than 1 hour per day) or 41% of average (I think this figure has increased very little, perhaps not all, in the last week, indicating there has been little if any sunshine during the last week, although today (1st March) and 29th February were certainly the brighest for some days here.

This lack of sunshine (December 2011 and January 2012 were both duller than normal in Northern Ireland, though not by a large amount) in February and this winter is in considerable contrast to the long period of predominantly sunny winters, with record sunny months for December and Febuary, and the 2nd sunniest January on record, in about the last dozen years or so.

[Lightning Hunter]

Total here was 27.0mm, or 41.5% of average.

[Andy Mayhew]

A very dry end to the month with a final total of 22.2mm (55% ave) - two thirds of which fell on the 4th feb as (mostly) wet snow.

16th consecutive month with below average rainfall.

[Colin Ure]

My second driest month in 6 years of recording weather here in Bathgate only 18.6mm for February 2012 (average is 80.2mm) - only April 2007 with 8mm was drier.

[Howard Kirby]

22mm = 39.8% average.

[Dave K]

Cluanie Inn 310 mm in Feb, according to Philip Eden's monthly round-up column today.