Halesowen Weather

[ Home ] Weather Station Details ] Recent Years ] 30 Year Summaries 1971-2000 ] 30 Year Summaries 1981-2010 ] 30 Year Summaries 1991-2020 ] Trends ] 50 Years of Records ] CET Long Term Records ] Satellite Imaging ] Photo Album ] Projects ] Calculation Tools ] Requests for Information ] Glossary of Terms ] Useful Links ]

 

 

 

 


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

 

 
Halesowen, West Midlands

lies 13km to the west of Birmingham 
in central England. 

Find out about the weather 
here for the last 69 years


2024 Weather
2023 Weather
 2022 Weather
 
 2021 Weather 

 
2020 Weather 

2019 Weather
Other Recent Years

Late Frosts?


Long term records
  69 years monthly stats
Details 1956 to present
Extremes  
Central England Records
   Articles from 1947, 1979-2003
 30 year stats 1991-2020


Calculation Tools 
to work out things like dew point and wind chill, and lists of sunrise and sunset times. 

Try my links to some other useful weather websites.

Requests for Information

 

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 


   

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 

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

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 

 


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

 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

 

 

Back to top 

 

Page updated   02/01/2025