March 2011 Weather Summary (snowfall, warm, recorded, temperatures)

[ADGreen]

Sydney, Australia

Lowest Minimum 15.9 C (60.6 F)
Average Minimum 19.2 C (66.5 F)
Highest Minimum 22.7 C (72.9 F)
Lowest Maximum 20.5 C (68.9 F)
Average Maximum 26.0 C (78.8 F)
Highest Maximum 33.6 C (92.5 F)

Total Rainfall 191.6 mm (7.54 inches)

Total Sunshine 162.4 hours
Avg Sunshine / Day 5.2 hrs/day

Total Days 0 Sunshine: 2 days
Total Days <= 3 Hrs Sunshine: 13 days
Total Days >= 8 Hrs Sunshine: 12 days

Overall a much wetter and cloudier month than normal with mean daily sunshine more than 1 hour/day below average. Maximum temperatures were well above normal though.

The dry spell broke mid month and heavy rainfall occurred throughout the second half of the month including 99.4mm on the 20th.

Total sunshine for the first three months of the year stands at 558 hours, significantly lower than the long term mean of 619 hours (and the cloudiest quarter since 1992). Also the cloudiest month since March 2000 which recorded 145 hours.

[FVWinters]

March hasn't yet ended for us (we have a little less than four hours to go) but I think we may have our first dry day since the 27th of February. 32 consecutive days of precipitation and I can tell you, I'm mighty tired of it.

For all of its raininess there have actually been four March's that have been wetter. In 1904 we saw more than 11.5 inches (~290mm) of rain. The official rain gauge in Corvallis (OR) read 7.69 for this one, nearly four inches below the record.

The signature feature of this month, however, wasn't the 30 days of rain but the gawdamighty pitiful amount of sunshine we got for the month. Since Corvallis doesn't track sunshine hours and that's kind of subjective anyway, I can only give estimates. They're reasonably close to reality. We had roughly 9 hours of bright sun on the 25th and another five or six today.....and maybe 10 to 15 more for the remainder of the month for a total of no more than 30 hours.

Buxton can do better than that. So can Campbell Island.

Amazingly enough our official weather station came in with a monthly average temperature of .3 degrees above long term norms. I thought it was much cooler. Our monthly high was 64 (17.5) degrees today and on the 15th. My own thermometer registered a monthly high of 68.5 (20 & a smidge) today but my house generally runs a little warmer anyway.

This month, so ordinary in many respects, will be legendary for its West-Coast-of-Scotland gloominess.

[RWood]

Originally Posted by ADGreen

Sydney, Australia

Lowest Minimum 15.9 C (60.6 F)
Average Minimum 19.2 C (66.5 F)
Highest Minimum 22.7 C (72.9 F)
Lowest Maximum 20.5 C (68.9 F)
Average Maximum 26.0 C (78.8 F)
Highest Maximum 33.6 C (92.5 F)

Total Rainfall 191.6 mm (7.54 inches)

Total Sunshine 162.4 hours
Avg Sunshine / Day 5.2 hrs/day

Total Days 0 Sunshine: 2 days
Total Days <= 3 Hrs Sunshine: 13 days
Total Days >= 8 Hrs Sunshine: 12 days

Overall a much wetter and cloudier month than normal with mean daily sunshine more than 1 hour/day below average. Maximum temperatures were well above normal though.

The dry spell broke mid month and heavy rainfall occurred throughout the second half of the month including 99.4mm on the 20th.

Total sunshine for the first three months of the year stands at 558 hours, significantly lower than the long term mean of 619 hours (and the cloudiest quarter since 1992). Also the cloudiest month since March 2000 which recorded 145 hours.

Commiserations re sunshine. Guess who will be happy.

[ben86]

Hampstead, north London:

Average temperature: 7.4C (+0.4C)
Average high: 11.4C (+1C)
Average low: 3.4C (-0.2C)

Maximum temperature: 17.7C
Minimum temperature: -2.6C

Total rainfall: 11.1mm (~80% below average) falling on 5 days
Total sunshine: 133.5 hours (~25% above average)
Three frosts, and no wintry precipitation of any kind.

A very good month really, a cold, cloudy first week but above average high temperatures and sun for most of the rest of the month. Very dry despite a few showers towards the end of the month. March ended up the same temperature as the mild February despite having three times more sunshine.

As for April, we're overdue a proper cold April, and April can still be cold. April 1986 in this country averaged only 5.8C, which would have made it the coldest month of the winter in some years we've had since. If you go back far enough in the records you can even find an April colder than a February in the same year (and more recently, 1998 came within half a degree of the same). Certainly not going to happen this year though, with the next week not quite summer-like but summer-lite.

[koyaanisqatsi1]

Rose Bay (prelim.): 213.2mm of rain falling over 12 days, especially over the past two weeks.
107mm fell to 9am on the 20th - and what a wonderful day/night that was with much local flooding around - highest daily March fall since 1984 (115mm) and for the month the best since 2000 .
Just 162.4 hours of sun was recorded at the airport site, lowest total since 2000, but nowhere as low as the record of 117.6 hrs - taken at the old city site - in 1956 but nevertheless - a great cloudy total - well deserved too .
Long live the wet and cloudy weather

[ben86]

The national figures have come out pretty quickly this time:

CET (Central England Temperature): 7.0C (+0.6C)
England and Wales Rainfall: 25.2mm (35% of normal)
England and Wales Sunshine: 152 hours (134% of normal)

It felt like a sunny month here but apparently most of the rest of the country was even sunnier.

[ADGreen]

Originally Posted by RWood

Commiserations re sunshine. Guess who will be happy.

Thanks

I'm sure the so called "murderous" sunshine will return soon. Swings and roundabouts

[ADGreen]

Originally Posted by ben86

The national figures have come out pretty quickly this time:

CET (Central England Temperature): 7.0C (+0.6C)
England and Wales Rainfall: 25.2mm (35% of normal)
England and Wales Sunshine: 152 hours (134% of normal)

It felt like a sunny month here but apparently most of the rest of the country was even sunnier.

Excellent sunshine totals there for the UK
I guess you guys deserve some sun and warmth after a cold winter.

[ilovemycomputer90]

NW New Jersey

Average High: 46 F (1 F below average)
Average Low: 27 F (2 F above average)
Average Temperature: 37 F

Maximum High: 74 F (19th)
Minimum High: 31 F (4th)

Minimum Low: 14 F (3rd and 4th)
Maximum Low: 43 F (6th)

Precipitation: 5.84 in.
Snowfall: 5 in.

Precipitation is slightly lower than it should be since yesterday's rainfall hasn't been posted.

[nei]

Originally Posted by ilovemycomputer90

Precipitation: 5.84 in.
Snowfall: 5 in.

Precipitation is slightly lower than it should be since yesterday's rainfall hasn't been posted.

Where do you get your snowfall numbers from? You got rain instead of snow yesterday?