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OCTOBER 2025

Temperature slightly above normal, 
rainfall slightly below normal

See below for Annual Summary of 2024

Halesowen 70 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

 

 
 Halesowen, West Midlands
 lies 13km to the west of Birmingham 
in central England. 

Find out about the weather 
here for the last 69 years


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Late Frosts?


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 Details 1956 to present
 Extremes  
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 30 year stats 1991-2020


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OCTOBER 2025

Temperatures were slightly above normal, and fell steadily through the month.

Quite windy at times, especially 2nd to 5th  as storm Amy passed, and 23rd onwards, as storm Benjamin passed. Around normal rainfall overall for the month, one third of it falling on 3rd ,19th and 22nd  the rest mostly from 20th onwards. Fair amount of sunshine but dullest on 3rd, 14th-15th, 19th.

Statistically a normal month but changing through the month. Only 1 ground frost on 26th, only 9 years from the past 70 years have had no ground frosts in October, so ranking at the mild end for night temperatures.

Interestingly, the highest pressure ranks 13th highest in 70years, and the lowest pressure 13th lowest.



TEMPERATURES

 13.9 mean max (C) 
  8.1 mean min (C) 
11.0 mean (C)   +0.4C above normal
 21.3 high max (C) on 6
 10.3 low max (C)  on 29
 12.0 high min (C) on  8
   1.9 low min (C)  on  26

RAINFALL

80.2 rain total (mm)  95% of av 
 Most rain was 30.0 mm on 19th 
  17 raindays (days with >=0.2mm)
  10 wetdays (days with >=1mm)
    4 very wet days (days with >=5mm)

OTHER  


 No days with air frost
1 day with ground frost on 26th 
5 fog days, 2, 3, 12, 13,14
77% cloud cover percent
87% mean RH 
Mean pressure was 1014.3mb


COMPARISON OF SPRING 2024 with SPRING 2025

 

      2025

Mar

Apr

May

SPRING (M,A,M)

MMax temp
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

13.4C 
10.6C
+2.8deg
new record hi

18.1C  
14.1C
+4.0deg
3rd highest

20.4C  
17.4C
+3.0deg
2nd highest

17.3C  
14.0C +3.3deg
new record hi

MEAN TEMP
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

  8.2C 
  6.8C
+1.4deg
6th highest

 11.6C 
  9.3C
+2.3deg
3rd highest

14.3C
12.4C  +1.9deg
2nd highest

11.3C
  9.5C   +1.8deg
new record

MMin temp
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

  3.0C 
  2.9C
+0.1deg
26th = highest

  5.1C
  4.6C
+0.5deg
14th highest

  8.2C  
  7.4C
+0.8deg
9th highest

  5.4C 
  5.0C +0.4deg
10th highest

RAINFALL mm
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

10.6mm
 54.4mm
19.5%
2nd lowest

29.2mm
60.0mm
48.0%
17th lowest

27.6mm
60.4mm
45.7%
10th lowest

  67.4mm
 173.5mm    38.9%
2nd lowest

 

2024

Mar

Apr

May

SPRING (M,A,M)

MMax temp
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

11.3C 
10.6C
+0.7deg
16th highest

13.9C  
14.1C
-0.2deg
21st highest

19.6C  
17.4C
+2.2deg
4th highest

15.0C  
14.0C +1.0deg
8th = highest

MEAN TEMP
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

  8.0C 
  6.8C
+1.2deg
8th highest

  9.7C 
  9.3C
+0.4deg
14th highest

14.7C
12.4C  +2.3deg
new record hi

10.8C
  9.5C   +1.3deg
3rd = highest

MMin temp
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

  4.7C 
  2.9C
+1.8deg
3rd = highest

  5.5C
  4.6C
+0.9deg
9th highest

  9.8C  
  7.4C
+2.4deg
new record hi

  6.7C 
  5.0C +1.7deg
new record hi

RAINFALL mm
30yr average
anomaly
70year ranking

103.0mm
 54.4mm
189.3%
6th highest

73.8mm
60.0mm
123.0%
16th highest

73.0mm
60.4mm
120.9%
19th highest

 249.8mm
 173.5mm    144.0%
6th highest

 

 


Halesowen Annual Summary for 2024

2024 was a very mild and wet year.

The year enjoyed the 6th highest annual mean temperature of 11.0C in 70 years records here.
Four months Feb, Mar, May and Dec had mean anomalies over 1 degree, while the lowest anomaly in Sept was only –0.4 degrees..
Annual rainfall ranked 11th highest, 935.2mm. The 237 raindays (with 0.2mm or more) was highest on record, and equals the 2023 record. Wet days ranked 9th = highest and Very Wet days ranked 12th highest.
A new record of fog days was set.

 

MONTHLY RAIN AND MEAN TEMPS

month

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

 SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

rain mm

55.6

125.4

103.0

73.8

73.0

36.2

57.0

33.0

122.4

69.6

88.2

98.0

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

rain %

77%

228%

189%

123%

121%

50%

90%

47%

188%

83%

108%

125%

Rain rank

 

highest

3rd highest

 

 

2nd lowest

 

lowest

2nd highest 

 

 

 

temp C

4.3

7.4

8.0

9.7

14.7

15.1

17.1

17.4

13.8

11.0

6.7

6.4

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

anomaly

0.0

+2.7

+1.2

+0.4

+2.3

-0.2

-0.1

+0.6

-0.4

+0.4

-0.3

+1.8

65yr temp avg

3.8

4.1

6.2

8.5

11.8

14.7

16.6

16.2

13.8

10.5

6.6

4.5

 TEMPERATURES

14.8 mean max (C) ,   +0.6 diff from av (C)                         
  7.2 mean min (C) ,    +0.9 diff from av (C)                          
 11.0 mean (C),           +0.7  diff from av (C)   6th highest in 70 years           

HiMax 31.7 C on  25/6/24      LoMax   1.2C  on  19/11/24
HiMin   17.5C on 12/8/24       LoMin   -7.1C on  18./1/24
Highest Mean  23.2C on 19/7/24     Lowest Mean   -2.4C on 18/1/24
 

RAINFALL
 935.2 rain total (mm), 114% of av              ranks 11th  highest in 70 years
 237 raindays (with 0.2mm or more)            ranks highest – new record shared with 2023
 148 wetdays (with 1mm or more)               ranks 9th = highest
   63 verywetdays (with 5mm or more)        ranks 12th highest

25.4mm most rainfall in a day on 23/11/24      Rainfall duration 836.5 hours

SNOWFALL
5 days with snow falling, totalling 4.8 cm.  
Most snowfall in a day 3.5cm on 19/11/24
3 days with lying snow on 20/11/24, 21/11/24, 22/11/24

PRESSURE
 1013.8 mean pressure (mb) ,  -1.1 pressure anomaly (mb), normal is 1014.9 mb
 1040.9 max pressure at any time of day, on 11/1/24  
   970.2 min pressure at any time of day, on 28/3/24

FOG
42 days with fog – a new record high   
6 in Feb,7 in Mar, 1 in Apr, 6 in May. 5 in Sep, 9 in Oct, 2 in Nov and 6 in Dec

FROSTS   
23 air frosts,    the last was 20/4/24 , first was 11/10/24
68 ground frosts, the last was 26/4/24 , first was 13/9/24
so 140 days with no air or ground frost.   Frost duration  168 hours.

THUNDER     6 days with thunder heard
HAIL                 4 days with hail
HUMIDITY            86% at 0900
CLOUD COVER    66% at 0900  

 

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

2011 - 2020

6.7

14.6

10.6

913.6

 

 

 

 

 

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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