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JANUARY 2025

January was very cold, frosty and started and finished wet. 

See below for Annual Summary of 2024

Halesowen 69 year, 10 year and 30 year Overview
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have all been updated to the end of 2020...
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Halesowen, West Midlands

lies 13km to the west of Birmingham 
in central England. 

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JANUARY 2025

January was very cold, frosty and started and finished wet. 

Mean temperature was 1.6deg below normal,  barely rising above that mean value at any time in the day during the first half of the month. 

Only 4 days escaped having a ground frost, 1,15,24,28.
Rainfall was well above average, mostly falling on the 5th, and during the last week of the month.
Very windy and gusty  from 23rd to 28th.  

Pressure ranged from 15th lowest on the 6h. rising to 20th highest on record here on the 12th, then back down to the low level again 27th and 28th.


 

TEMPERATURES

 5.6 mean max (C)  19th lowest in 70 yrs
 -0.1 mean min (C)   13th lowest
  2.7 mean (C)  -1.6 deg avg (C)  
  14th = lowest
12.1 high max (C) on 15
  0.6 low max (C)  on  8
  6.9 high min (C)  on 1
 -5.6 low min (C)   on  9

RAINFALL

89.6 rain total (mm)  124% of av, 17th highest
Most rain was 37.2mm on 5th 

  22 raindays ( >=0.2mm) 13th = greatest
    7 wetdays (>=1mm),   9th =  fewest
    5 very wet days (days with >=5mm

OTHER  

 27 days with ground frosts
 17 days with airfrosts
1 day with snow falling on 4th.
3 fog days 18, 21, 23
No thunder
65% cloud cover percent
89% mean RH 
Mean pressure was 1012.2 mb

 


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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