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APRIL 2025

Another very mild and dry month.  

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. 

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APRIL 2025

The 3rd highest mean temperature for April in 70 years here, with a very warm ending, so no air frosts but a few ground frosts 7th to 10th. 

Rainfall was low, the only appreciable rain on 22nd, just below half the normal rainfall for the month ranking 17th driest.


Rainfall aggregated for the 4 months Jan to April has been 178mm this year, the 11th lowest in 70 years.

 


 


 


TEMPERATURES

 18.1 mean max (C)  3rd highest in 70 years
   5.1 mean min (C)  14th highest in 70 years
 11.6 mean (C)   +2.3 diff from av (C)  3rd  highest
 27.0 high max (C) on 30
 12.7 low max (C)  on 16
   9.5 high min (C) on  29
   0.9 low min (C) on 10


RAINFALL
29.2 rain total (mm)  17th lowest
48.7% of normal
Most rain was 15.6mm on 22nd
 9 raindays (days with >=0.2mm)  14th lowest
 5 wetdays (days with >=1mm)     11th lowest
 2 very wet days (days with >=5mm)  


OTHER  

Mean pressure was 1018.1 19th highest
Highest pressure was 1033.5mb on 10th,  the 18th highest
Lowest pressure was 992.7mb on 16th.

Ground frost on 6 days on  2,7-10,17
No air frost
No days with hail
No days with snow or sleet
No days with fog  
No days with thunder
40% cloud cover percent
80% mean RH  

 


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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