January’s mild weather was more like that of a typical April.

Ronaldsway Met Office has published a weather summary for January.

And the statistics show a month that was very mild and much drier than normal.

The mean temperature last month measured 7.7°C, 1.6°C higher than the long term mean and more like the temperature we could expect in an average April.

There were no air frosts and only four nights with ground frosts, the lowest number in January since 2005.

Despite there being just seven completely dry days in the month at Ronaldsway, rainfall only totalled 49.2mm, 41% below normal.

The wettest day was January 9 with 8.9mm.

Mean wind speed measured was 18.1mph, which is average for January. But the highest gust of 66mph, associated with storm Brendan on the 13th, was the strongest at Ronaldsway for almost a year.

Motorists were advised not to travel and the storm brought trees down across the island. In contrast, the third week of the month saw extreme high pressure, peaking in the early hours of the 20th with a sea level pressure at the airport of 1,046.9 millibars (30.92ins mercury), the highest since January 26, 1992.

There were 57.2 hours of bright sunshine, slightly above the long term mean, one day with hail, one with sleet and two days with fog.