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MAY 2025
May
2025 was exceptionally warm with 2nd
highest mean temperature
in 70 years here, and dry with 10th
lowest rainfall.
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
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MAY 2025

May
2025 was exceptionally warm with 2nd
highest mean temperature in
70 years here, and dry with 10th
lowest rainfall.
May 2024 was also exceptionally warm recording a new record highest
mean temperature,
while having the 19th highest rainfall for the
month.
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SPRING 2025
--------------------------------
A
new record mean temperature of 11.3C, an anomaly of +1.8 degrees, pushing
last year's 10.8C into 3rd place!
But rainfall is a different story altogether, this year's Spring total was
67.4mm, only 38.9% of the 30 year average, the 2nd lowest in 70
years.
Last year's Spring rainfall was 249.8mm, 144.0% of the 30 year average,
the 6th highest on record here, which was 3.7 times as much as
this year's.
So overall an exceptionally warm and dry Spring
|
TEMPERATURES
20.4
mean max (C) 2nd
highest on record in 70 year
8.2
mean min (C)
9th = highest
14.3 mean (C) +1.9 diff from av (C)
2nd
= highest
29.3 high max (C) on 1
12.7 low max (C) on
8
12.4 high min (C) on 30,31
0.3
low min (C) on 6
|
RAINFALL
27.6
rain total (mm)
10th
lowest rainfall on record,
45.7% of av
10 raindays (days with >=0.2mm)
7
wetdays (days with >=1mm)
3
very wet days (days with >=5mm) |
OTHER
3 days with Ground frost on 5,6 and9
No
Air frost
Mean pressure 1018.9 mb , 10th highest
49% cloud cover percent
74% mean relative humidity
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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
|
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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
|
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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