78 
March 2002 
The last winter month started relatively cold, with night frosts. Initially, Atlantic troughs still led to an 
inflow of moderately warm maritime air from the west, but anticyclones over Scandinavia soon brought 
cold polar air which caused the maximum daily temperatures to drop to 3 - 4 °C on 14 March and 
between 24 and 26 March. In the nights of 2 and 3 March as well as 26 to 30 March, light air frost was 
recorded in Ueckermunde. At the end of each of these high-pressure spells, southerly winds caused 
inflows of very mild air masses from the Mediterranean, with spring-like temperatures ranging from 14 
to 18.6 °C (Ueckermunde). 
While in the inner coastal waters the surface temperature (3.4 - 6.6 °C) was on average more than 
1 °K above normal, the water temperatures in the eastern regions of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were 
mostly normal. 
Table 8.1. Air temperatures in °C at the station Ueckermünde in the winter of 2001102 
Ueckermünde, Kleines Haff 
Monthly mean 
Normal value (and deviation) 
Number of days with frost 
(and sum of coldness in °C) 
November 
4.2 
4.4 (-0.2) 
0(0) 
December 
0.1 
0.9 (-0.8) 
11 (-31.7) 
January 
2.3 
-0.9 (+3.2) 
9 (-24.7) 
February 
4.8 
-0.2 (+5.0) 
2 (-1.1) 
March 
4.9 
2.8 (+2.1) 
0(0) 
Table 8.2. Water temperatures in °C in Koserow (at a depth of3 m) in the winter of 2001102 
(StAUNMIV, 2002) 
Koserow, sea area 
Monthly mean 
Monthly minimum 
Monthly maximum 
November 
7.2 
4.8 
10.4 
December 
2.6 
-0.3 
4.6 
January 
1.5 
-0.1 
3.4 
February 
3.7 
2.5 
5.2 
March 
3.8 
2.5 
4.6