Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Thursday 3 February 2022

January weather conditions

We had a lot less rain than normal and warmer temperatures than the mean expected, but equivalent to 2020. A lot of plants were confused and we had many things blooming and leafing way ahead of schedule. We've already mowed the lawn and the vineyard once. 

It's raining today, but thankfully we missed the worst of it which tracked south toward Galway. We are expecting a short-lived cold snap after the rain, but then it's promised to return to balmy at the weekend.  

What a long strange January it's been. But there is a grand stretch in the day. And we finished pruning in the vineyard before St Vincent's feast day. We broke out a supposedly very good bottle of wine (not ours) to celebrate but found it unpalatable. What, pray tell, could be the meaning of this?


















MONTHLY VALUES FOR NEWPORT UP TO 02-FEB-2022

Total rainfall in millimetres for NEWPORT

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAnnual
202298.81.5100.3
2021225.6147.6141.145.6113.564.159.7155.6137.0265.7183.3186.61725.4
2020139.5342.8178.225.554.7164.5187.9137.9153.4228.0206.6232.72051.7
2019146.8115.0228.5100.7112.576.682.7228.9175.5160.7148.1220.61796.6
LTA166.7126.5141.296.894.789.7100.9132.5131.5176.0170.4180.21607.1

Mean temperature in degrees Celsius for NEWPORT

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAnnual
20227.210.47.4
20215.06.77.99.010.413.317.516.415.211.99.37.610.9
20207.26.06.611.012.813.814.416.013.810.59.16.110.6
20196.98.47.910.211.713.116.315.513.710.37.17.110.7
LTA6.16.17.39.011.513.815.415.413.510.88.36.510.3

Mean 10cm soil temperature for NEWPORT at 0900 UTC

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAnnual
20226.2n/a6.2
20213.65.06.88.210.914.317.916.315.211.38.66.610.4
20205.74.75.49.713.014.814.916.313.79.58.05.110.1
20196.16.16.88.912.213.816.715.713.59.46.25.610.1
LTAn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a

Thursday 2 December 2021

November Wx stats


The numbers are in for November and, despite the cold snap at the end of the month, the mean temperature for November was still the warmest of the past four years and a full degree above the long-term average (LTA) for the reference period 1981-2010. Rainfall turned out to be slightly higher than the LTA and soil temps quite a bit higher than prior years. 

Basically, it's all a bit unpredictable. No tropical cyclones formed in the Atlantic basin during November. However, Tropical Storm Wanda continued from the end of October through the first seven days of November.  Based on a 30-year climatology (1991-2020), a tropical storm forms in November every one to two years.

Overall, NOAA reports that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season featured above-normal activity. Twenty-one named storms formed, of which seven became hurricanes and four became major hurricanes - category 3 or higher. Even though it seemed quiet in the Atlantic this year, it really wasn't - but it was definitely not as wild as last year. 



MONTHLY VALUES FOR NEWPORT UP TO 01-DEC-2021

Total rainfall in millimetres for NEWPORT

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAnnual
2021225.6147.6141.145.6113.564.159.7155.6137.0265.7183.36.61545.4
2020139.5342.8178.225.554.7164.5187.9137.9153.4228.0206.6232.72051.7
2019146.8115.0228.5100.7112.576.682.7228.9175.5160.7148.1220.61796.6
2018274.6155.686.294.370.465.958.6179.1148.3140.9172.6201.01647.5
LTA166.7126.5141.296.894.789.7100.9132.5131.5176.0170.4180.21607.1

Mean temperature in degrees Celsius for NEWPORT

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAnnual
20215.06.77.99.010.413.317.516.415.211.99.37.011.2
20207.26.06.611.012.813.814.416.013.810.59.16.110.6
20196.98.47.910.211.713.116.315.513.710.37.17.110.7
20185.94.65.59.113.116.116.115.012.410.98.38.110.5
LTA6.16.17.39.011.513.815.415.413.510.88.36.510.3

Mean 10cm soil temperature for NEWPORT at 0900 UTC

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAnnual
20213.65.06.88.210.914.317.916.315.211.38.6n/a10.8
20205.74.75.49.713.014.814.916.313.79.58.05.110.1
20196.16.16.88.912.213.816.715.713.59.46.25.610.1
20184.42.94.08.213.117.418.415.112.19.66.66.69.9
LTAn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a