Weather summary for January

The very mild winter continued with a mean temperature in January of 6.3° which is 1.5° higher than average.  The highest temperature was 12.7° on the 31st and the lowest  -3.1° on the 21st.  Rainfall was also higher than average with a total of 59.8mm and there were only four days without rain.  The warm weather saw significant grass growth (for January) and we've been doing a lot more grass cutting than is normal at this time of year.  Of course it's beginning to look like there's no normal when it comes to weather nowadays!