Friday, 21 September 2018

Weather statistics for Clew Bay, Ireland vs Galicia, Spain

I found a great Norwegian website YR.no that provides weather forecasting and climate statistics for the world. I wanted to compare the climate of the Albarino wine growing region of Galicia with the new wine growing region of Clew Bay. :-) I couldn't find Combados but Combarro gave me a set of statistics for average temperatures and rainfall over a twelve month period for Pontevedra. Similarly, when searching for Clew Bay, I got Belmullet data which is not really us but it was closer and more relevant than Claremorris. Claremorris does, however, come in a couple of degrees warmer than Belmullet, which is out on the Atlantic seaboard, and temperature wise is probably more like us here in Kilmeena. Our average temperature reaches only 15C while their's gets to 20C.



This year was an anomaly with the very warm weather in June and July in Ireland so our stats will soon change but our warmest on average only hits 18C while theirs hits 26C. I suppose I should have looked at this before planting grapes, but there you go. I'll be interested in seeing the stats for 2018 compared to these, as our summers get warmer and more unpredictable overall.




Clew Bay (Belmullet) vs Galicia (Combarro)










Average days with precipitation per month


Tabular view for temperature and precipitation per month
TemperaturePrecipitation
MonthsNormalWarmestColdestNormal
January6.0°C8.6°C3.5°C20
February6.1°C8.8°C3.5°C16
March7.1°C9.9°C4.3°C18
April8.5°C11.8°C5.2°C13
May10.6°C14.1°C7.2°C13
June12.6°C15.7°C9.6°C12
July14.5°C17.4°C11.7°C13
August14.6°C17.7°C11.5°C15
September13.0°C16.1°C10.0°C15
October10.7°C13.4°C8.0°C19
November8.1°C10.7°C5.4°C19
December6.8°C9.2°C4.4°C19
Tabular view for temperature and precipitation per month
TemperaturePrecipitation
MonthsNormalWarmestColdestNormal
January9.5°C13.1°C6.0°C15
February10.6°C14.3°C6.8°C13
March12.1°C16.6°C7.6°C12
April13.2°C17.9°C8.5°C13
May15.4°C19.9°C10.9°C13
June18.5°C23.5°C13.4°C8
July20.5°C25.6°C15.4°C5
August20.4°C25.6°C15.2°C5
September18.8°C23.6°C13.9°C8
October15.6°C19.7°C11.4°C13
November12.3°C16.0°C8.6°C14
December10.5°C13.8°C7.3°C15

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