February

Abstract This chapter examines the long-term records (including both averages and extremes) of temperature, precipitation, sunshine, barometric pressure, wind direction and speed, snowfall, and fog at Durham during the month of February. The chapter includes descriptive accounts and local photographs of notable weather events during the month of February. It covers how it is during the month of February that mean temperatures begin their seasonal rise, but also how February holds the record for both the coldest month and the coldest night in Durham’s record-keeping history. It also provides tables showing maximum, minimum, and mean temperatures recorded at the Durham Observatory.