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DECEMBER 2021

A mild December, breaking temperature records in the final three days.
Slightly above normal rainfall, with nearly
one third of it falling on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

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Halesowen 65 year, 10 year and 30 year Overview
Basic statistics about temperature and rainfall, and more,
have all been updated to the end of 2020...
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DECEMBER 2021 The very mild periods from 11^th to 18^th and 23^rd to 31^st elevated the December mean temperature +1.5 degrees above normal, the final days being around 8 degrees above normal. Consequently only two days (2^nd and 22^nd) saw a slight airfrost, the 4^th = fewest on record in 67 years here. The final three days of December recorded new max temps, 13.8C on 31^st, 13.3C on 30^th and 13.2C on 29^th, each of these the highest for that December day in any of the 67 years here. It was a wet month with 23 raindays, ranking 9^th = most raindays, especially 1^st to 14^th and 22^nd to 31^st, making December the 15^th wettest in 68 years. The Christmas rainfall for 24^th and 25^th December totalled 40mm. Most sunshine occurred between 1^st and 10^th, but it was dull and mostly cloudy from 11^th to 31^st. The first half of the month was windy, quietening down from 16^th to 22^nd before turning windy again from 28^th to 31^st.	TEMPERATURES 8.1 mean max (C) 4.1 mean min (C) 6.1 mean (C) , +1.5 diff from av (C), the 6^th mildest 13.8 high max (C) on 31 4.3 low max (C) on 2 11.8 high min (C) on 31, a new record high min -0.6 low min (C) on 2, 3^rd highest low min
	RAINFALL 99.0 rain total (mm) 127% of av , 15^th wettest in 68 years Wettest days were 25.2 mm on 24^ththen 14.8mm on 25^th. 23 raindays (days with >=0.2mm), 9^th equal highest raindays 15 wetdays (days with >=1mm) 6 very wet days (days with >=5mm)
	OTHER Ground frost on 14 days Air frost on 2 days 5 days with fog 83% cloud cover percent 93% mean RH Mean pressure was 1011.7 mb Max pressure 1042.2 mb recorded 17^th.

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

Halesowen Annual Summary for 2021

The mean temperature was +0.2 degrees above the 30 year normal. It was warm in June and July, mild in September, October and December finished with record high temperatures. It was cooler than usual in January, April and May.
Rainfall was 111% of normal, with very wet months in May, October, January and July. It was drier than usual in April, September, November and March.

MONTHLY RAIN AND MEAN TEMPS

month

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

rain mm

123.8

62.0

30.2

19.8

131.8

50.8

86.0

65.6

29.0

162.2

39.0

99.0

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 %

172%

113%

56%

33%

218%

70%

136%

94%

44%

193%

48%

127%

Rain rank

3rd highest

4th lowest

lowest

highest

4th highest

2nd lowest

2nd highest

3rd lowest

temp C

2.6

4.9

7.2

7.5

10.5

16.6

18.9

16.4

16.5

11.9

6.8

6.1

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

-1.7

+0.2

+0.4

-1.8

-1.9

+1.3

+1.7

-0.4

+2.1

+1.3

-0.2

+1.5

65yr temp avg

3.8

4.0

6.1

8.5

11.7

14.7

16.6

16.1

13.8

10.4

6.5

4.5

TEMPERATURES

14.5 mean max (C) , +0.2 diff from av (C)
6.6 mean min (C) ,   +0.2 diff from av (C)
10.5 mean (C),     +0.2 diff from av (C)

HiMax 33.4 C on 22/7/21
LoMax   0.1C on 7/1/21
HiMin   16.7C on 19/7/21
LoMin   -6.4C on 25/1/21

Highest Mean 25.0C on 22/7/21
Lowest Mean   -2.2C on 7/1/21 and 11/2/21

RAINFALL

899.2 rain total (mm), 111% of av

202 raindays (with 0.2mm or more)
133 wetdays (with 1mm or more)
64 verywetdays (with 5mm or more)

35.0 most rainfall in a day (mm) on 4/10/21

Rainfall duration 707.5 hours

SNOWFALL

14 days with snow falling, totalling 22.4cm
Most snowfall in a day 4.5cm on 24/1/21
11 days with lying snow

PRESSURE

1016.0 mean pressure (mb) , +1.5 pressure anomaly (mb)
1042.9 max pressure at any time of day, on 27/2/21
971.0 min pressure at any time of day, on 20/1/21

FOG

24 days with fog

FROSTS
50 air frosts, the last was 2/5/21 , first was 5/11/21
110 ground frosts, last was 7/5/21 , first was 2/11/21
so 179 days with no air or ground frost.
Frost duration 436hours.

THUNDER 6 days with thunder heard,

HAIL 10 days with hail

HUMIDITY 88% at 0900

CLOUD COVER 70% at 0900

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