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FEBRUARY 2024
A Very
Mild
and Very Wet month
Halesowen
69 year, 10 year and 30 year Overview
Basic statistics about temperature
and rainfall, and more,
have all been updated to the end of 2020...
See 50 Years of Records
and 30 Year Summaries 1991-2020
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FEBRUARY 2024
February
has been the mildest one in 69 years of records here.
Mean and MeanMin were both record highs, MeanMax was 3rd
highest. Most of the first 21 days in the month enjoyed well above the
normal Mean temperatures, but fell to normal levels from 22nd.
A windy month, especially around 5th -6th
and 21st and
very wet too.
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SEASONAL
REPORT FOR WINTER (Dec2023,
Jan2024, Feb2024)
A
mild Winter with mean temperature 1.5 deg above normal, Dec and Feb
contributing most to this. Rainfall was 160% of normal, Dec and Feb being
very wet.. The ground here is very saturated indeed because of the
rainfall, and some plants are bursting into flower prematurely with the
mild February temperatures.
Comparing
Winters over the last 30 year period, and over the last 69 years, the more
recent period shows Mean, MeanMax and MeanMin about 0.4 degrees higher
than the longer period. Comparing Spring in the same way shows an increase
of about 0,7 degrees, Summer about 0.7 degrees and Autumn about 0.3
degrees higher. Rainfall also is greater in the recent
Rainfall was 228% of normal and spread over the month, so already
saturated ground has not recovered yet. The 9 very wet days ranked 4th
greatest on record.
period, 2% more in Winter and Spring, but 5% more in Summer and 8% in the
Autumn.
this year
normal anomaly
ranking
MeanMax
8.7
7.3
+1.4
5th = highest
MEAN
6.1
4.6
+1.5
4th = highest
MeanMin 3.5
1.8
+1.7
highest on record
RAINFALL 333.6
207.8 160%
3rd highest
Raindays 66
52.4
.126%
5th highest
Wet Days 42 37.0
113%
18th highest
V Wet Days 21 15.1
139%.
8th highest
Cloud oktas 5.6 5.3
105%
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ANNUAL SUMMARY FOR 2023
2023 had the 3rd highest mean
temperature in 69 years here,
9 months having at least the normal mean temperature and
only 3 months (April, July and August) had lower than normal.
The mean minimum temperature was the highest on
record.
Rainfall ranked 9th highest in 69
years, with a new record number of 237
raindays, and 161 wetdays (3rd highest on record).
The wettest months were March,October and December,
each having around double the normal rainfall.
February was extremely dry with only 21% of normal rainfall.
So
overall a much milder and wetter year than normal,
with several records broken.
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TEMPERATURES
10.4
mmax (C) (3rd highest in 69 years)
4.5 mmin (C)
(highest on record)
7.4 mean(C)
+2.7 diff from av (C). (highest on record)
16.4 high max (C) on 15th (4th highest)
5.9 low max (C) on 22nd
(2nd highest)
10.7 high min (C) on 15th
(2nd highest)
-1.5 low min (C) on 27th
(5th = highest)
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RAINFALL
125.4
rain total (mm) (4th
wettest on record, beating 2020, 2014,1977)
228.0% of av
23 raindays ( >=0.2mm) (3rd highest)
15 wetdays ( >=1mm)
9 very wet days
(>=5mm) (4th highest)
20.0 mm greatest fall in a day, on 8th |
OTHER
13 days ground frost on
1,2, 7-9, 12-13, 23-28
2 days air frost on
24, 27
6 days with fog on
11,14,15,17,25,26
75% cloud cover percent
92% mean RH
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Halesowen Annual Summary for 2023
MONTHLY
RAIN AND MEAN TEMPS
month
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JAN
|
FEB
|
MAR
|
APR
|
MAY
|
JUN
|
JUL
|
AUG
|
SEP
|
OCT
|
NOV
|
DEC
|
rain
mm
|
62.0
|
11.6
|
122.8
|
65.2
|
36.8
|
45.2
|
100.0
|
54.2
|
50.2
|
201.4
|
74.0
|
152.6
|
30yr
rain avg
|
72.1
|
55.0
|
54.4
|
60.0
|
60.4
|
72.1
|
63.4
|
70.0
|
65.2
|
84.1
|
82.0
|
78.2
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rain
%
|
86%
|
21%
|
225%
|
108%
|
61%
|
62%
|
157%
|
77%
|
77%
|
239%
|
90%
|
195%
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Rain
rank
|
|
lowest
|
3rd highest
|
|
2nd lowest
|
3rd lowest
|
|
|
|
highest
|
|
2nd highest
|
temp C
|
4.9
|
6.5
|
6.8
|
8.9
|
13.4
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18.1
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16.3
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16.6
|
17.2
|
12.2
|
7.0
|
6.6
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30yr
temp avg
|
4.3
|
4.7
|
6.8
|
9.3
|
12.4
|
15.3
|
17.2
|
16.8
|
14.2
|
10.6
|
7.0
|
4.6
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anomaly
|
+0.6
|
+1.8
|
0.0
|
-0.4
|
+1.0
|
+2.8
|
-0.9
|
-0.2
|
+3.0
|
+1.6
|
0.0
|
+2.0
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65yr
temp avg
|
3.8
|
4.0
|
6.1
|
8.5
|
11.7
|
14.7
|
16.6
|
16.2
|
13.8
|
10.4
|
6.5
|
4.4
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TEMPERATURES
15.2
mean max (C) , +1.0
diff from av (C)
ranks 3rd highest in 69 years
7.3 mean min (C) ,
+1.0 diff from av (C) ranks
1st = highest
11.2 mean (C),
+0.9 diff from av (C)
ranks 3rd = highest
HiMax
32.1 C on 8/9/23 LoMax
0.8C on
8/3/23
HiMin 18.6C on 8/7/23
LoMin -5.6C on 17/1/23
and 1/12/23
Highest Mean 24.5C on 9/9/23
Lowest Mean -1.6C
on 2/12/23
RAINFALL
957.8
rain total (mm), 117% of av
ranks 9th highest in 69 years
237 raindays (with 0.2mm or more)
ranks highest – new record
161 wetdays (with 1mm or more)
ranks 3rd highest
68 verywetdays (with
5mm or more)
ranks 5th
highest
36.4mm
most rainfall in a day on 19/10/23
Rainfall duration 833.5 hours
SNOWFALL
3
days with snow falling, totalling 9.6 cm.
Most snowfall in a day 5.5cm on 9/3/23
3 days with lying snow on 18/1/23, 9/3/23 and 10/3/23
PRESSURE
1013.6
mean pressure (mb) , -1.3 pressure anomaly (mb), normal is 1014.9 mb
1047.8 max pressure at any time of day, on 5/2/23
960.7 min pressure at
any time of day, on 2/11/23
FOG
11
days with fog
FROSTS
34 air frosts, the last
was 25/4/23 , first was 25/11/23
71 ground frosts, the last was 25/4/23 , first was 15/10/23
so 173 days with no air or ground frost.
Frost duration 290 hours.
THUNDER
7 days
with thunder heard
HAIL
No days with hail
HUMIDITY
87% at 0900
CLOUD COVER 63% at 0900
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Halesowen
65 year,
10 year and 30 year
Mean
Min, Max and Mean Temperatures
and Mean Total Rainfall
|
Temperature
C
|
Rainfall
mm
|
|
MMin
|
MMax
|
Mean
|
|
65 year
1956 - 2020
|
5.8
|
13.6
|
9.7
|
785.8
|
|
|
|
|
|
10
year
|
|
|
|
|
1956
- 1960
|
5.3
|
13.0
|
9.1
|
794.6
|
1961
- 1970
|
5.1
|
12.6
|
8.9
|
754.1
|
1971
- 1980
|
5.5
|
13.2
|
9.4
|
748.4
|
1981
- 1990
|
5.5
|
13.6
|
9.5
|
756.2
|
1991
- 2000
|
5.9
|
13.8
|
9.9
|
760.1
|
2001
- 2010
|
6.5
|
14.3
|
10.4
|
777.2
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2011
- 2020
|
6.7
|
14.6
|
10.6
|
913.6
|
|
|
|
|
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30
year
|
|
|
|
|
1971
- 2000
|
5.6
|
13.5
|
9.6
|
754.9
|
1981
- 2010
|
6.0
|
13.9
|
9.9
|
764.5
|
1991
- 2020
|
6.4
|
14.3
|
10.3
|
816.9
|
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