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MARCH 2025

March was very mild and exceptionally dry.

See below for Annual Summary of 2024

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MARCH 2025 March was very mild and exceptionally dry. Mean temperature was 6^th = highest in 70 years, rainfall was the 2^nd lowest, lower only in 1961. Cooler than normal 11^th to 17^th but otherwise above normal. Fewest very wet days, 3^rd fewest wet days. A sunny month, only 3 dull days on 13^th, 17^th and 23^rd, with highest sunshine hours recorded for the month on my weather station. Also 4^th lowest cloud cover at 0900. A very pleasant month overall!	TEMPERATURES 13.4 mmax (C) new record, highest mmax in 70 yrs 3.0 mmin (C) 8.2 mean(C) +1.4 diff from av (C), 6^th highest mean 19.5 high max (C) on 31^st 6.5 low max (C) on 17^th 8.9 high min (C) on 22^nd -2.9 low min (C) on 16^th
	RAINFALL 10.6 rain total (mm), 2^nd lowest rainfall (beaten only by1961) 19.5% of av rainfall 13 raindays (days with >=0.2mm) 21^st lowest 3 wetdays (days with >=1mm) 3^rd = lowest 0 very wet days (days with >=5mm 1^st = lowest
	OTHER 14 days ground frost 9 days air frost 0 day with snow 0 days with snow lying at 0900 0 days with fog 48% cloud cover percent 4^th lowest 83% mean RH Sunniest days 15, 26-28 Highest sunshine hours on record Dullest days 17, 25 Windiest days were 6, 28, 30

Halesowen Annual Summary for 2024

2024 was a very mild and wet year.

The year enjoyed the 6^th 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 11^th highest, 935.2mm. The 237 raindays (with 0.2mm or more) was highest on record, and equals the 2023 record. Wet days ranked 9^th = highest and Very Wet days ranked 12^th 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

3^rd highest

2^nd lowest

lowest

2^nd 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 11^th 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 9^th = highest
   63 verywetdays (with 5mm or more)        ranks 12^th 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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