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After weeks of heat and drought, we now are getting rain and plenty of it. Yesterday, it poured buckets of rain all day. In fact, the Newport Furnace station, our closest station, reported the highest rainfall total in the country at 26.2 mm. The grapes should start getting plumper now. Hopefully, they won't get too much water. But it's not something we can control.
| Newport Furnace | 26.2 | 18.9 | 14.0 | | 9.5 (18) | | 17.9 | 743 | 13.7 |
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Station Rain MaxT MinT Sun Wind Gust Soil Global Gmin mm oCoChrKts (Km/h)Kts (Km/h)oCJ/cm^2oC
Our rainfall total for August as of the 6th has already surpassed our total for all of July and all of April and is approaching our monthly total for June. And there haven't been any tropical storms coming our way over that period either. What a strange year!
Meanwhile, the entire west coast of North America is on fire from BC to CA and experiencing severe drought and huge water restrictions. Greece and Turkey are experiencing huge wildfires as is Siberia. Russia mobilised the army to combat the fires. South Africa has a serious drought and are predicting day zero soon when the water in Nelson Mandela Bay provinces will dry up. I will write a post on what's happening with the vineyards specifically relative to drought and fires soon.
The Met Eireann stats for Newport are below for reference.
MONTHLY VALUES FOR NEWPORT UP TO 06-AUG-2021
Total rainfall in millimetres for NEWPORT
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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| 2021 | 225.6 | 147.6 | 141.1 | 45.6 | 113.5 | 64.1 | 59.7 | 60.3 | | | | | 857.5 |
| 2020 | 139.5 | 342.8 | 178.2 | 25.5 | 54.7 | 164.5 | 187.9 | 137.9 | 153.4 | 228.0 | 206.6 | 232.7 | 2051.7 |
| 2019 | 146.8 | 115.0 | 228.5 | 100.7 | 112.5 | 76.6 | 82.7 | 228.9 | 175.5 | 160.7 | 148.1 | 220.6 | 1796.6 |
| 2018 | 274.6 | 155.6 | 86.2 | 94.3 | 70.4 | 65.9 | 58.6 | 179.1 | 148.3 | 140.9 | 172.6 | 201.0 | 1647.5 |
| LTA | 166.7 | 126.5 | 141.2 | 96.8 | 94.7 | 89.7 | 100.9 | 132.5 | 131.5 | 176.0 | 170.4 | 180.2 | 1607.1 |
Mean temperature in degrees Celsius for NEWPORT
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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| 2021 | 5.0 | 6.7 | 7.9 | 9.0 | 10.4 | 13.3 | 17.5 | 16.4 | | | | | 10.2 |
| 2020 | 7.2 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 11.0 | 12.8 | 13.8 | 14.4 | 16.0 | 13.8 | 10.5 | 9.1 | 6.1 | 10.6 |
| 2019 | 6.9 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.1 | 16.3 | 15.5 | 13.7 | 10.3 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 9.1 | 13.1 | 16.1 | 16.1 | 15.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 10.5 |
| LTA | 6.1 | 6.1 | 7.3 | 9.0 | 11.5 | 13.8 | 15.4 | 15.4 | 13.5 | 10.8 | 8.3 | 6.5 | 10.3 |
Mean 10cm soil temperature for NEWPORT at 0900 UTC
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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| 2021 | 3.6 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 10.9 | 14.3 | 17.9 | n/a | | | | | 9.6 |
| 2020 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 9.7 | 13.0 | 14.8 | 14.9 | 16.3 | 13.7 | 9.5 | 8.0 | 5.1 | 10.1 |
| 2019 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 8.9 | 12.2 | 13.8 | 16.7 | 15.7 | 13.5 | 9.4 | 6.2 | 5.6 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 8.2 | 13.1 | 17.4 | 18.4 | 15.1 | 12.1 | 9.6 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 9.9 |
| LTA | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Global Solar Radiation in Joules/cm2 for NEWPORT
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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| 2021 | 6620 | 13347 | 20370 | 45694 | 55690 | 45488 | 49455 | 8564 | | | | | 245228 |
| 2020 | 6263 | 10808 | 24545 | 46192 | 58476 | 43537 | 40215 | 40555 | 25558 | 18487 | 6319 | 5209 | 326164 |
| 2019 | 5378 | 10595 | 21306 | 37648 | 49884 | 49607 | 45395 | 37116 | 26460 | 17406 | 8167 | 4766 | 313728 |
| 2018 | 5976 | 13390 | 25269 | 34709 | 58446 | 59849 | 51448 | 34923 | 22619 | 17123 | 7842 | 4068 | 335662 |
| LTA | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Potential Evapotranspiration (mm) for NEWPORT
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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| 2021 | 7.6 | 22.9 | 30.7 | 62.9 | 76.3 | 70.7 | 87.8 | 14.2 | | | | | 373.1 |
| 2020 | 17.6 | 21.9 | 35.0 | 70.2 | 91.6 | 72.9 | 66.2 | 66.4 | 42.7 | 28.1 | 13.6 | 10.4 | 536.6 |
| 2019 | 13.4 | 21.5 | 35.4 | 60.4 | 79.0 | 78.2 | 79.5 | 62.9 | 42.8 | 29.2 | 14.8 | 14.3 | 531.4 |
| 2018 | 16.3 | 21.8 | 35.7 | 52.0 | 88.2 | 102.4 | 87.2 | 58.7 | 37.9 | 30.2 | 18.0 | 11.5 | 559.9 |
| LTA | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Evaporation (mm) for NEWPORT
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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| 2021 | 10.9 | 32.1 | 45.4 | 89.9 | 111.2 | 102.0 | 117.2 | 19.5 | | | | | 528.2 |
| 2020 | 22.4 | 31.9 | 51.8 | 98.9 | 130.8 | 104.8 | 94.3 | 92.7 | 59.1 | 38.8 | 18.1 | 13.6 | 757.2 |
| 2019 | 17.7 | 29.5 | 52.0 | 87.3 | 111.6 | 112.8 | 109.6 | 88.8 | 59.9 | 39.6 | 18.9 | 17.9 | 745.6 |
| 2018 | 21.9 | 30.2 | 51.7 | 76.4 | 127.4 | 140.4 | 120.7 | 82.2 | 53.1 | 40.6 | 22.8 | 14.9 | 782.3 |
| LTA | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
DEGREE DAYS BELOW 15.5 DEGREE CELSIUS FOR NEWPORT
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| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
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| 2021 | 325 | 247 | 236 | 200 | 167 | 79 | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | 257 | 276 | 275 | 143 | 111 | 73 | 55 | 31 | 71 | 156 | 193 | 291 | 1935 |
| 2019 | 266 | 200 | 235 | 165 | 130 | 89 | 27 | 36 | 67 | 164 | 251 | 262 | 1892 |
| 2018 | 298 | 306 | 309 | 194 | 104 | 50 | 31 | 44 | 100 | 147 | 215 | 230 | 2027 |
Notes on the Data
Evaporation and PE data are calculated using Penman/Monteith formulae.
The ‘LTA’ (referred to within a table) is average for the climatological long-term-average (LTA) reference period 1981-2010.
Data updated daily at Mid-day.
