January
You only have to look at the fields and some of the roads that were flooded to realise that January was a wet month.
There were two very wet days with 23 and 19.8mm but it was the ongoing rainy (and snowy) days that just added to the overall picture. Rainfall was over 50% above the 40 year average; not the wettest January which was in 2014 at 190.1mm and with over half of the 40 years with above average rainfall.
The trend over the 40 years is getting wetter and January rightly has a reputation for being wet!
There was snow as well which caused the usual chaos despite the small depth. We had 8 days when some snow or sleet fell; something we are not especially used to in Hyde Heath. The temperatures were all over the place ranging from a maximum of 12.0° to a minimum of -2.8°.
However, compared with January 2020, this January was actually colder but from the figures the various averages are distorted by the differences in temperatures sometimes on a day to day basis.
Part way through the month my Oregon Weather Station started to play up a bit (many years old) so I bought another; since then it has of course worked fine but I saw this as a warning.
I have compared the readings for 2 weeks and find that the new instrument reads between 0.5 and 0.8° lower than the old one with both the max and min figures; using frosts as a guide the new instrument looks to be more accurate.
As of February I will be only using my new instrument---providing it doesn’t fail on me!!
There were two very wet days with 23 and 19.8mm but it was the ongoing rainy (and snowy) days that just added to the overall picture. Rainfall was over 50% above the 40 year average; not the wettest January which was in 2014 at 190.1mm and with over half of the 40 years with above average rainfall.
The trend over the 40 years is getting wetter and January rightly has a reputation for being wet!
There was snow as well which caused the usual chaos despite the small depth. We had 8 days when some snow or sleet fell; something we are not especially used to in Hyde Heath. The temperatures were all over the place ranging from a maximum of 12.0° to a minimum of -2.8°.
However, compared with January 2020, this January was actually colder but from the figures the various averages are distorted by the differences in temperatures sometimes on a day to day basis.
Part way through the month my Oregon Weather Station started to play up a bit (many years old) so I bought another; since then it has of course worked fine but I saw this as a warning.
I have compared the readings for 2 weeks and find that the new instrument reads between 0.5 and 0.8° lower than the old one with both the max and min figures; using frosts as a guide the new instrument looks to be more accurate.
As of February I will be only using my new instrument---providing it doesn’t fail on me!!
