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DECEMBER 2024
A
quite wet but mild December (7th mildest in 70 years)
See
below for Annual Summary of 2024
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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DECEMBER
2024
December's
mean temperature was the 7th mildest in 70 years records here,
1.8 degress above normal, mildest 1st, 4th to 7th,
15th to 18th, 24th to 26th,
with colder nights on 3rd, 19th to 23rd,
26th to 29th.
Wet 5th to 7th, 18th to 23rd
with rainfal 25% above normal. There were 2 days with a dusting of snow on
21st and 22nd, ranking 33rd in 70 years, and the
smallest depth of snow when there actually was some.
Foggy on 6 days, the 5th = greatest, mainly 26th to
29th.
Two windy spells, 5th
to 8th (storm Darragh) then 21st and 22nd
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TEMPERATURES
8.5
mean max (C) , 10th mildest in 70 years here.
4.2 mean min (C)
, 7th mildest
6.4 mean (C)
+1.8 above normal,7th mildest on record
12.9 high max (C) on 17th
3.3 low max (C) on
27th
10.9 high min (C) on
1st
-0.2 low min (C)
on 28th
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RAINFALL
98.0
rain total (mm) 125% of av ,
19th highest in 70 years
Wettest days were 24.0mm on 18th , 15.4mm on 7th ,11.6mm
on 6th, 10.2mm on 5th
26
raindays 2nd = greatest
14 wetdays 26th = greatest
6 very wet days
25th greatest
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OTHER
Ground
frost on 10 days, 15th fewest.
Air frost on 1 day, the 3rd fewest
Fog on 6 days. 4th 12th and 26th to 29th
76% cloud cover percent
88% mean RH
Mean pressure 1021.7mb, 8th highest
Max pressure 1037.1 mb on 10th
Min pressure 983.7
mb on 7th
Windiest days were 5th - 8th, 21st - 22nd
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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
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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
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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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