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Weather
Autumn officially ended on Thursday the 22nd of December, with the winter solstice, and figures published last week showed it had been the second hottest on record during the last 58 years, with an average temperature of 20.9 degrees. This was only beaten by the 21 degrees registered during Autumn 2006.
By month, September was 1.2 degrees warmer, October 1.0 and November 1.4. The major reason for this increase in temperatures, according to experts, was the lack of winds from the north and east and the predominance of breezes from the south, accompanied by lots of sunshine in September and October, and although it did rain in November, it did not do so every day.
As far as rainfall is concerned, it was virtually non-existent in September and October, but that was counterbalanced in November when 28 per cent more rainfall was recorded, with the airport receiving a record 211 litres per square meter during the month, the highest since statistics began back in 1953. Meanwhile the part of December which falls in the autumn registered lower temperatures, as polar winds arrived.
The Met Office expert, Agustà Jansá, predicted that vast anomalies were not expected during the winter months; the mean average for January and February is 12 degrees, with March being slightly warmer.