Your January 2016 Summary

[koyaanisqatsi1]

Excellent cloudy, very stormy and wet month making it the best January in my 16 years here

Ob Hill 249.8mm highest Jan. total since 1988 (273.2mm)
Dover Heights 236.2mm wettest Jan. on record
Rose Bay 238.4mm highest since 1988 (271.3mm)
Randwick (Randwick Street) 277.9mm since 1972 (389.0mm)
Airport 253.8mm since 1976 (306.0mm)

Airport recorded 198.0 hrs of sun (1 day missing) lowest total since 2006 (190.7)

[koyaanisqatsi1]

Originally Posted by jgtheone

Ok, this is what is being complained about.

Avg high: 27.2°C (-0.1°C)
Avg low: 15.4°C (+1.2°C)

Max high: 43.6°C (13th)
Max low: 20.9°C (28th)
Min high: 18.0°C (14th)
Min low: 8.7°C (16th)

Rainfall: 40.4mm (148.0% of avg. rainfall)
Sunshine hours: 214.3 (79.0% of avg sunshine)

Cloudier and wetter with warmer nights, but average daytime temps. Strong start to the month with a very weak finish.

Re sun - lowest total on record at the current site and, consolidated, since 1992 (206.3 hrs).

[alphatier]

A cloudy and rainy month. Just as dreadful as your typical January here.

[AJ1013]

Jan 2016
Synopsis: Cooler than normal highs and warmer than normal lows lead to an near average month temperature wise. High rainfall and presumably lower than normal sunshine

High: 72.2F (-1.9F)
Mean: 66.4F (-0.5F)
Low: 60.5 (+0.8F)

Lowest low: 45F
Highest low: 76F

Highest high: 82F
Lowest high: 58F

Rainfall: 7.35in (+5.75in)

[BMI]

Originally Posted by Humid Subtropical

Niagara Falls 2016 KIAG

Pretty much similar stats for my location, Burlington,ON
I'm only about 50 kms away.


average high 1C
average low -5C


highest max 10C
lowest max -10C


highest min 3C
lowest min -13C


Slightly above normal, avg high 1C above normal, avg low 3C above normal

[srfoskey]

Slightly cooler and a good bit drier than average. Other than the 2" sleet storm (apparently only 1.2" at RDU), it was a pretty boring month. However, it was 16.8 F colder than December, a record for greatest December-January temperature drop.

[AJ1013]

^My average January high ended up cooler than my average December low!

[Jakobsli]

January 2016

Oslo (94 m, Blindern)
Mean: -5.5°C (-1.2°C compared to 1961-90 normal) Oslo was 1.5°C colder than Trondheim
Avg high: -3.1°C
Avg low: -7.6°C
Abs high: 7.3°C
Abs low: -16.4°C
Precip: 43 mm (88 %)
Precip days: 9
Mean snow depth: 10 cm
Max snow depth: 20 cm
Sunhours: 56.4
Mean cloud cover: 5.8/8 = 27.5 % possible sunshine

Cold month in Oslo but the absolute low was not impressive at all. Oslo-Bygdøy had a abs low of -18.9°C. More sunhours in Oslo than in most of Germany it seems.

Stavanger (Sola AP, 7 m)
Mean: 0.9°C (+0.1°C compared to 1961-90 normal)
Avg high: 3.5°C
Avg low: -2.1°C
Abs high: 11.2°C
Abs low: -12.4°C
Precip: 74.1 mm (81 %)

Svolvær, Lofoten (Airport)
Mean: -1.8°C (-0.7°C compared to 1961-90 normal)
Avg high: 0.1°C
Avg low: -3.7°C
Abs high: 10°C
Abs low: -11.2°C

Karasjok (131 m)
Mean: -19.9°C (-2.8°C compared to 1961-90 normal)
Avg high: -13.8°C
Avg low: -25.2°C
Abs high: 1.9°C
Abs low: -42.4°C
Precip: 28.4 mm (158 %)
Precip days: 10
Mean snow depth: 38 cm
Max snow depth: 46 cm
Sunhours: 0. Tromsø had 1.3 sunhours...and mean snow depth in Tromsø was 48 cm and max 64 cm.
Tromsø was more than 15°C warmer than Karasjok in January, same latitude, even larger difference if Svolvær is used.

[Arktikos]

Recently found a website with Alaska statistics, and they don't have February up yet so I'll post for January.
11 F above average? My goodness. I'd like to take bets on when in the next 50 years we'll see a January with temps 11 F below average. It won't happen!

January 2016 Summaries Available | Alaska Climate Research Center