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Wow, look at how ridiculous February-June looks sun-wise! The average March high being 4.4C higher than the average April high looks really odd too - bet that doesn't happen too often! (How do you work out the mean? Using (high+low/2) would give an April mean of 5.9, not 6.5.)
Mean temperature: 5.6C (+0.1C)
Mean maximum: 8.0C (+0.2C)
Mean minimum: 3.1C (-0.1C)
Absolute high: 12.9C
Absolute low: -4.7C
Air frosts: 8
Highest minimum: 9.6C
Lowest maximum: 0.6C
Total rain: 100.4mm (+52%) on 19 days
Total snow: trace
A cold, dry, sunny first half followed by a mild and very wet second half. A 10-day period around Christmas alone had more than the entire month's average rainfall.
National figures:
CET: 4.7C (0.0C)
England and Wales Rainfall: 170.4mm (+75%)
England and Wales Sunshine: 60.4 hours (+15%)
Same as locally: a cold and sunny first half and a mild, dull and very wet second half. It was the tenth wettest December since records began 247 years ago.
Wow, look at how ridiculous February-June looks sun-wise!
Yes, it makes the chart look messy, and as an OCD sufferer, that isn't a good thing.
Amazing how much wetter it has been nationally than here. All these talks of records, not a single record has been broken here in terms of rainfall (with the possible exception of April).
Rain: 93.9 mm / 3.6" on 22 days.
Most in 24 hours: 11mm / 0.43"
Sun: 48.3 hours, 1.6 hours per day.
Avg max wind gust: 14.6 km/h
Overall a very weird month. A very cool first half and increasingly bizarre and mild second half. Below average sunshine. Rating: 5 / 10 for those nice christmas days but it could have been sunnier overall.
Monthly breakdown of 2012 in Freiburg.
January
Avg: 4.0°C, 65.4mm, 54.1 hours
February
Avg: -1.6°C, 18.6mm, 130.2 hours
March
Avg: 8.7°C, 23.6mm, 224.0 hours.
April
Avg: 10.2°C, 67.5mm, 121.8 hours.
February was sunnier.
May
Avg: 15.4°C, 87.5mm, 237.6 hours.
June
Avg: 18.3°C, 135.4mm, 207.2 hours.
July
Avg: 19.2°C, 98.8mm, 216.6 hours.
August
Avg: 20.5°C, 83.0mm, 255.0 hours.
September
Avg: 15.2°C, 94.0mm, 173.5 hours.
October
Avg: 10.5°C, 111.2mm, 115.2 hours.
November
Avg: 7.0°C, 129.2mm, 36.9 hours.
December
Avg: 3.8°C, 93.9mm, 48.3 hours.
Totals:
Avg high: 15.7°C
Mean Temp: 10.9 °C
Total Rain: 1008.1 mm on 177 days.
Sunshine: 1820.4 hours.
Last edited by alphatier; 01-01-2013 at 01:03 PM..
Warm and dry for the most part. The much needed rain came in two brief downpours.
2012
Jan 11-23.3C / 52-74F
Feb 11.8 23C / 54-74F
Mar 8.6C-21.8C /48-72F
Apr 5.6-20.8C /43-71F
May 2.1-16.8C /36-63F
Jun 1.4-14.7C /35-59F
Jul 0.5-14.2C /33-58F
Aug 4.4-16C /41-60F
Sep 4.0-16.9C /40-62F
Oct 5.3-19.3 /43-67F
Nov 5.2- 19.6C /43-68F
Dec 10.3-24.2C /51-76F
Average min 5.75 C/ 44F
Average max 19.2C/67F
2583 Hours (+100 Hours) approx
Rain 1183 mm (-235 MM)
A bit of everything sort of year. Some very dull periods and some very sunny periods. Wet and dry spells. Seemed a bit more thunder than typical. Overall a good year.
Warm and dry for the most part. The much needed rain came in two brief downpours.
2012
Jan 11-23.3C / 52-74F
Feb 11.8 23C / 54-74F
Mar 8.6C-21.8C /48-72F
Apr 5.6-20.8C /43-71F
May 2.1-16.8C /36-63F
Jun 1.4-14.7C /35-59F
Jul 0.5-14.2C /33-58F
Aug 4.4-16C /41-60F
Sep 4.0-16.9C /40-62F
Oct 5.3-19.3 /43-67F
Nov 5.2- 19.6C /43-68F
Dec 10.3-24.2C /51-76F
Average min 5.75 C/ 44F
Average max 19.2C/67F
2571 Hours (+100 Hours) approx
Rain 1183 mm (-235 MM)
A bit of everything sort of year. Some very dull periods and some very sunny periods. Wet and dry spells. Seemed a bit more thunder than typical. Overall a good year.
In the NZ context, "Dull" doesn't work with your climate. Compared to Perth, yes.
One could call the 35.4 hours Invercargill had in the 30 days 19/5/1954-17/6/1954 dull, or Waimate's infamous 60.4 hours for December 1959, as two very bad NZ examples.
I have some preliminary sunshine numbers for 2012 for a few stations of interest but am waiting for some of the manual ones' data to get to NIWA's CliFlo. However it is already clear that "Fakertane" - despite a relatively modest total for December of 218 (I'd like to think someone had calibrated its instrument back to more sane levels, but that won't be the case, just a cloudy month there) will head off Nelson by about 19 hours (2602 vs about 2583). I'll put up totals for those two plus Tekapo, Appleby and Blenheim in a day or so (those will be the top 5 in that order).
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