Friday 30 July 2010

Mainly cloudy with a few glimpses of the sun. Overcast and drizzly in the evening.
Temps: Min: 14.8; Max: 24.2. Rain: Trace.

Thursday 29 July 2010

Sunny intervals. Mostly cloudy in the evening.
Temps: Min: 14.3; Max: 24.1. Rain: Nil.

Wednesday 28 July 2010

Cloudy to start. Sunny intervals by late morning and during the afternoon.
Overcast with drizzle/rain in the evening but clearer again later.
Temps: Min: 15.7; Max: 22.7. Rain: 0.4 mm.

Tuesday 27 July 2010

Cloudy - often dull but sometimes bright. A little very light drizzle for a time in the afternoon.
Temps: Min: 16.8; Max: 25.0. Rain: Trace.

Monday 26 July 2010

Sunny intervals but quite cloudy at times.
Temps: Min: 17.1; Max: 24.2. Rain: Nil.

Sunday 25 July 2010

Sunny intervals in the morning. Sunny in the afternoon.
Temps: Min: 15.2; Max: 22.4. Rain: Nil.

Saturday 24 July 2010

AM: Mainly cloudy but bright at times.
PM: Overcast with drizzle from mid afternoon and mist in the evening.
Temps: Min: 14.6; Max: 21.9. Rain: 0.1 mm.

Friday 23 July 2010

Sunny intervals. Mostly cloudy in the evening.
Temps: Min: 15.1; Max: 22.0. Rain: Nil.

With 23 days of July gone, today was only the Third completely dry day [24-hour period staring 2200] of the month.
Considering July is one of the main holiday months of the year, how much more rain do we need before forecasters stop calling it 'Welcome'?

Thursday 22 July 2010

Mainly cloudy with showers at first, then sunny intervals and just a few more showers.
Temps: Min: 13.5; Max: 21.4 Rain: 1.2 mm.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Sunny intervals and mainly dry, apart from an odd light shower late afternoon.
Temps: Min: 12.5; Max: 23.1. Rain: Trace.

Tuesday 20 July 2010

Overcast with rain for much of the day, heavy at times in the morning. Drier from mid afternoon.
Sunny intervals in the evening.
Temps: Min: 17.0; Max: 20.4. Rain: 17.5 mm.

The amount of rain that has fallen in the first 3 weeks of this month is almost double that for the whole of June, however it is still only around a third of the total for July 2009!

Monday 19 July 2010

Sunny intervals in the morning, with rather a lot of high cloud - extensive by early afternoon. Thicker and complete cloud cover later with some showers in the evening.
Temps: Min: 15.6; Max: 24.6. Rain: 0.2 mm.

Sunday 18 July 2010

Sunny intervals and the odd light drizzly shower in the morning. More cloudy but dry in the afternoon with some sun now and again.
Temps: Min: 15.6; Max: 23.5. Rain: Trace.

Saturday 17 July 2010

Sunny intervals with a light passing shower or two in the morning. Increasingly sunny in the afternoon.
Temps: Min: 11.7; Max: 21.7. Rain: 0.3 mm.

Friday 16 July 2010

Sunny intervals and showers.
Temps: Min: 12.8; Max: 22.3. Rain: 1.1 mm.

Thursday 15 July 2010

Overnight rain or showers followed by a mainly dry morning with sunny intervals.
Windy with persistent rain in the afternoon. Dry with broken cloud in the evening.
Temps: Min: 14.7; Max: 22.3. Rain: 14.8 mm.

Wednesday 14 July 2010

Sunny intervals and showers. Thunder heard during the morning.
Temps: Min: 15.2; Max: 23.0. Rain: 10.3 mm.

Tuesday 13 July 2010

Cloudy with showers. Mainly dry with increasing sunny intervals from mid-afternoon.
Temps: Min: 15.3; Max: 22.2. Rain: 1.9 mm.

Monday 12 July 2010

A mainly dry but mostly cloudy morning. Rain/drizzle/mist from mid-afternoon.
Temps: Min: 14.3; Max: 20.7. Rain: 1.8 mm.

Sunday 11 July 2010

Overnight rain followed by some sunny intervals in the morning. A mainly cloudy afternoon to follow.
Temps: Min: 14.6; Max: 23.2. Rain: 2.7 mm.

Saturday 10 July 2010

Still a lot of strato-cumulus cloud, specially in the morning, but more broken in the afternoon to allow some sunny intervals.
Cloudy again in the evening with some short light showers.
Temps: Min: 18.0; Max: 24.8. Rain: Trace.

The minimum temperature was the highest since the night of 30 June/1 July 2009.

Friday 9 July 2010

A good deal of stratocumulus cloud with only the odd hole in it to allow a little blue sky. One or two light drizzly showers passing through as well.
Temps: Min: 15.5; Max: 24.2. Rain: Trace.

Thursday 8 July 2010

Sunny intervals. Mainly cloudy in the evening though.
Temps: Min: 14.2; Max: 24.7. Rain: Nil.

Wednesday 7 July 2010

AM: Overcast with some drizzly showers. Some brightness later.
PM: Mainly cloudy but some sun shining through at times.
Evening: Overcast again with some drizzle after dark.
Temps: Min: 16.5; Max: 23.4. Rain: 0.6 mm.

Tuesday 6 July 2010

Sunny intervals.
Temps: Min: 11.5; Max: 23.4. Rain: Nil.

Monday 5 July 2010

Mainly cloudy with a few short light showers to start, then sunny intervals.
Temps: Min: 13.5; Max: 21.3. Rain: Trace.

Sunday 4 July 2010

Sunny intervals to start, then overcast with light drizzly rain from late morning to mid afternoon. Sunny intervals and showers in the evening.
Temps: Min: 12.7; Max: 25.3. Rain: 0.9 mm.

Saturday 3 July 2010

Sunny intervals, but rather a lot of cloud around lunchtime with a short sharp shower.
Temps: Min: 12.7; Max: 24.0. Rain: Trace.

Friday 2 July 2010

Rain previous evening followed by a dry day with intervals of bright or hazy sunshine.
Temps: Min: 13.5; Max: 23.7. Rain: 1.2 mm.

Thursday 1 July 2010

AM: Cloudy but mainly dry with just odd spots of rain then showers later.
PM: Overcast with rain.
Temps: Min: 15.9; Max: 19.8. Rain: 20.1 mm.

It was the wettest day since 16th January.

June 2010 Summary

Temperature [Minimum]:
The lowest temperature recorded in June 2010 was 10.2 degs C on both the nights of 15th/16th and 21st/22nd June, making this June the first since 2003 or before, with an absence of temperatures below 10 degs C.
The highest night-time minimum was 17.8 degs C on the night of 28th/29th, which was the highest ever recorded for a June night, also since 2003 or before.
The average night time minimum for June 2010 was 12.59, the highest for June since 2007.

Temperature [Maximum]:
The lowest daytime temperature for June 2010 was 15.7 degs C on the 7th, making it the third coolest June day since 2003 or before. The two that were cooler were both in 2009.
The highest daytime temperature was 26.9 degs C on the 28th, which conversely was the highest ever recorded for June since 2003 or before.
The average maximum temperature for June 2010 was 21.78, making it the warmest since 2006 and the second warmest since 2003 or before.
Temperatures exceeded 20 degs C on 23 days this June - the most since 2006 and the second highest number since 2003 or before.
They also exceeded 25 degs C on 3 days, which is the most times in any month since July 2006.

Rain:
37.6 mm of rain fell in June 2010, making it the wettest month since March, and the wettest June since 2007 or before.
By far most of the month's rain, however, fell on just two days - the 1st and the 7th - the latter being the wettest day of the month with 18.8 mm. This was also the wettest June day at this location since my rainfall readings began in time for 2008.
Measurable rain fell on only five days this month, and there were 22 completely dry days - the most in a month since June 2009.
Only 0.8 mm of measurable rain fell after the 8th and there was a continuous dry spell of 14 days between the 15th and 28th.

Wednesday 30 June 2010

Mostly cloudy in the morning and evening. Sunny intervals in the afternoon.
Temps: Min: 16.5; Max: 24.8. Rain: Nil.