March 2025 Weather in Durham – Dry and mild

5 image Time-lapse photographs of the Partial Solar Eclipse March 2025, showing the Moons disk eclipsing the sun

March 2025 was a little above average temperature-wise. The Grassland temperature sum (the sustainable start of vegetation growth in Europe) reached 200 on March 7th 2025. This was 12 days later than the previous year, mainly due to the coldness of January 2025, which was on the colder side of average. The mean temperature was pegged back a bit by …

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March 2022 Weather in Durham – Continuing Mild and Dry

Bright sunshine in Durham Botanical Gardens March 2022

Temperature Once again, the temperature finishes above average. March 2022 came in at 7.3 degC, which is +1.1 degC up on the 1991-2020 average of 6.2 degC. Like February, there was a single air frost, under the influence of high pressure, on March 7th.  The minimum of -2.2 was unremarkable for March in Durham. The 20 degC mark was breached …

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March 2021 Weather in Durham – Dry and Warming

After what has seemed to be a long winter, the weather in March 2021 eventually eased us away from the bleakness of February for Durham. The first week was still cold, as high pressure persisted, but things became more mobile for a short period after the 10th, with more cyclonic conditions bringing a rise in temperature and the month’s only …

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March 2020 Weather in Durham – A strange month indeed!

March 2020 lockdown in Gilesgate

March 2020 came in like a lion, with strong winds continuing to batter the country due to the proximity of low pressure systems. This was pretty much continuing the theme of the winter, but at least the extreme wetness and flooding that we experienced in February 2020 abated. The month actually ended up being very dry when compared to the …

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March 2019 Weather in Durham – Warm and slightly wetter than average

March 2019 was another month of above average temperatures in Durham, with the monthly mean coming in at 7.2 degC, which is about 1.3 degrees above the long term average. The Maximum temperature was 17.1 degC on 29th, with the Minimum at 0.1 degC recorded on the morning of the 8th March. The rainfall total of 51.7mm fell mainly in …

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Heavy snow in Durham – “The Beast from The East” Feb/March 2018

The Beast From The East snowfall 1st March 2018. River Wear and the Cathedral in the distance

An Easterly outbreak, dubbed “The Beast from The East” by the media, dumped a substantial amount of snow on us in Durham at the end of February and early March 2018. When such a weather synoptic occurs, we tend to get plastered in snow here on the North East Coast. Temperatures hover around zero and potent snow showers are readily …

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