Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
This one may be a tricky one without having access to daily data (or extensive tables), but does anyone else have data relating to the average maximum monthly standard deviation for their site?
Essentially an overall measure (for each month in isolation) of the spread of their maximums. It shows months which are more stable than others (in terms of daily maximums) and those that are less stable (i.e. can get a good share of low maxes and high maxes).
Based on my data series for Brisbane reaching back to 1-Jan-1955, the monthly std deviations are:
Obviously my unit of measurement is Celcius - if I used Farenheit the numbers would be larger in size, although the relativity between them would be the same.
The above numbers confirm what I've always known about eastern Australia in that the average maximums jump around more in spring time. Autumn (Mar - May) is generally the most settled time of year, even though rainfall is somewhat higher.
I just repeated the same exercise for Sydney (where I lived for 3 1/2 years up until a few months ago). The data range for this city also extends back to 1-Jan-1955:
Highest SD is in January with 4.79F/2.66C and the lowest is in July with 2.64F/1.47C. I definitely wish these were flipped!
Interesting. From what I've been gathering, most Australian main centres get highest variability late spring/summertime. Wintertime has the least amount of variation with greater predictability of daily maximums.
This is in contrast to the US which largely has the most variability in winter.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
