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MARCH 2021

Statistically March was a mild and dry month.
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WINTER (Dec, Jan, Feb)
It has been the 3rd wettest Winter here...

Halesowen 65 year, 10 year and 30 year Overview
Basic statistics about temperature and rainfall, and more,
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Annual Summary for 2020
A mild year overall, the 4^th mildest on record .
Rainfall was the 16^th highest here in 65 years...
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MARCH 2021 Statistically March was a mild and dry month. Mean temp 0.4deg above normal (18^th highest in 66 years records here), with temperature increasing steadily throughout the month, becoming very warm on 30^th and 31^st. There were air frosts on 1^st, 6-7^th , 9^th and 22^nd, and ground frosts from 1^st – 9^th, 17^th – 18^th, 22^nd – 23^rd and 27^th. Rainfall only 30.2mm, the lowest since 2012, and ranking 14^th lowest on record. While numerically 15 raindays were "normal", March had 11^th fewest wet days, and only 2 years have had fewer very wet days. It was very windy 10^th – 13^th, and windy 26^th – 28^th. Fog was recorded on 3 days (1^st, 3^rd and 18^th) and hail on 2 days (11^th and 26^th). Mean pressure was the highest since 2012, and the 8^th highest in 66 years. ========================= SEASONAL REPORT FOR WINTER (Dec2020, Jan2021, Feb2021) this year normal anomaly MeanMax 6.5 6.8 -0.3 MEAN 3.9 4.1 -0.2 MeanMin 1.3 1.3 0.0 RAINFALL 314.2 202.3 115% Raindays 74 (new record) 51.2 Wet Days 54 (2^nd highest) 36.4 V Wet Days25 (=2^nd highest) 14.7 Cloud oktas 4.8 5.7 Although temperatures were slightly below normal, rainfall has been 15% above, with Dec and Jan delivering 128mm and 124mm respectively, adding to that we had in Aug and Oct, so the ground remains saturated. This has been the 3rd wettest winter on record in 66years here, beaten only in 1960, 1990 and 2014. The 74 raindays are a new record, beating 71 in 2014. The 54 wet days are now the 2nd highest, there were 59 in 2014. The 25 very wet days are now joint 2nd equals with 2013 and 2016, beaten by 39 in 2014.	TEMPERATURES 11.1 mmax (C) 3.3 mmin (C) 7.2 mean(C) +0.4 diff from av (C), the 18^th mildest in 66 years. 24.3 high max (C) on 31^st 3.8 low max (C) on 1^st 10.5 high min (C) on 31^st -3.4 low min (C) on 6^th and 7^th
	RAINFALL 30.2 rain total (mm) 55.5% of av 15 raindays (days with >=0.2mm) 7 wetdays (days with >=1mm) 1 very wet days (days with >=5mm
	OTHER 14 days ground frost 5 days air frost 82% cloud cover percent 88% mean RH

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 2020

A mild year overall, the 4^th mildest on record here in 65 years, beaten only by 2006, 2011 and 2014, having 9 months above average, Jan Apr and May exceptionally so. Only Jul and Oct were below normal, and Dec was normal.

New record HiMax was 35.6C on 31/7/20.

New record HiMean was 26.7C on 12/8/20.

New record 220 raindays, also 7^th highest 152 wetdays, and 57 very wet days.

MONTHLY RAIN AND MEAN TEMPS

month

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

rain mm

56.2

147.8

40.8

41.0

5.8

60.2

56.4

138.0

22.0

110.0

45.8

128.4

rain %

85%

316%

75%

66%

10%

99%

96%

208%

35%

134%

62%

178%

Rain rank

New highest

New lowest

3^rd highest

12^th highest

7^th highest

temp C

5.9

5.9

6.6

11.4

13.7

16.2

16.4

18.1

14.7

9.9

7.9

4.3

30yr avg

4.1

4.2

6.5

8.7

11.9

14.8

16.9

16.5

13.9

10.4

6.8

4.3

anomaly

+1.8

+1.7

+0.1

+2.7

+1.8

+1.4

-0.5

+1.6

+0.8

-1.5

+1.1

0.0

65yr avg

3.8

4.0

6.1

8.5

11.7

14.6

16.5

16.1

13.7

10.4

6.5

4.4

TEMPERATURES

15.0 mean max (C) , +1.1 diff from av (C) 4^th = highest
6.8 mean min (C) , +0.9 diff from av (C) 7^th highest
10.9 mean (C), +1.0 diff from av (C) 4^th = highest

HiMax 35.6C on 31/7/20 New highest
LoMax 0.5C on 28/12/20

HiMin   18.9C on 26/6/20 6^th highest
LoMin   -3.7C on 31/12/20

Highest Mean 26.7C on 12/8/20 New highest
Lowest Mean   –0.9C on 31/12/20

RAINFALL

852.4 rain total (mm), 111 % of av 16^th highest

220    raindays (with 0.2mm or more)   New highest
152    wetdays (with 1mm or more)       7^th highest
57    verywetdays (with 5mm or more) 18^th highest

35.2 most rainfall in a day (mm) on 15/2/20

Rainfall duration 792.5 hours

SNOWFALL

2 days with snow falling, totalling 5.5cm;
Most snowfall in a day 3.5 cm on 28/12/20.
4 days with lying snow

PRESSURE

1014.0 mean pressure (mb) , +0.5 pressure anomaly (mb)
1049.3 max pressure at any time of day, on 20/1/20 New record highest
968.5 min pressure at any time of day, on 28/12/20 10^th lowest

FOG

15 days with fog

FROSTS
25 air frosts, 3^rd fewest, the last was 14/5/20, first 4/11/20,
so 174 days airfrost free

81 ground frosts, last 15/5/20, first 28/9/20,
so 136 days with no air or ground frost.
Frost duration 147.5 hours.

It is noteworthy that all 17 years with fewest airfrosts (less than 64), have occurred since 2000, with 2010 ranking 19^th, 2000 was 24^th and 2001 was 46^th.

THUNDER 6 days with thunder heard, 16/6 17/6 10/6 11/6 12/8 17/8 - 9^th fewest

HAIL 5 days with small hail, 1 day with large hail

HUMIDITY 86.1% at 0900

CLOUD COVER 61.9% at 0900

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65 year 1956 - 2020

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