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Happy New Year to everyone, I setup my Weather station on Saturday 27 December 2008 so I have now got two years full of data.

Here are my records:

Temperature and Humidity
Highest Temperature 30.3 °C at 15:33 on 26 July 2010
Lowest Temperature -7.2 °C at 02:53 on 07 January 2009
Highest Apparent Temperature 16.3 °C at 11:16 on 18 November 2010
Lowest Apparent Temperature -10.0 °C at 06:52 on 26 December 2010
Lowest Wind Chill Temperature -9.8 °C at 08:05 on 08 January 2010
Highest Heat Index 15.5 °C at 13:59 on 11 November 2010
Highest Minimum 18.0 °C on 27 August 2010
Lowest Maximum -0.9 °C on 02 December 2010
Highest Humidity 99 % at 20:08 on 05 October 2010
Lowest Humidity 41 % at 15:07 on 17 October 2010

Rainfall
Highest Rain Rate 3.26 in/hr at 16:22 on 21 October 2009
Highest Hourly Rainfall 0.74 in at 00:13 on 23 August 2010
Highest Daily Rainfall 1.70 in on 19 February 2009
Highest Monthly Rainfall 7.73 in November 2009

Wind
Highest Wind Gust 33 mph at 12:07 on 14 November 2009
Highest Wind Speed Average 32 mph at 15:47 on 08 February 2009

Pressure
Lowest Pressure (sl) 964.5 hPa at 23:35 on 08 November 2010
Highest Pressure (sl) 1040.0 hPa at 20:09 on 26 January 2010

I wonder what records will be broken this year.

Happy New Year everyone, I set mine up two days before you Michael!.
I was comparing with Ray's stats and the total rainfall for the year differs by less than a millimetre!! we are not that far apart but rainfall can be very localised.

Summary for 2010

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 8.6
Mean (min+max) 9.5
Mean Minimum 5.3
Mean Maximum 13.6
Minimum -9.2 day 20/12
Maximum 30.9 day 23/05
Highest Minimum 16.0 day 10/07
Lowest Maximum -4.5 day 07/01
Air frosts 68

Rainfall (mm):
Total for year 700.7
Wettest day 30.0 day 03/10
High rain rate 39.5 day 03/10
Rain days 196

Wind (mph):
Highest Gust 41.2 day 16/12
Average Speed 2.4
Wind Run 19997.2 miles
Gale days 0

Pressure (mb):
Maximum 1038.8 day 15/12
Minimum 966.7 day 08/11

Days with snow falling 21
Days with snow lying at 0900 38

Total hours of sunshine 0.0

robynfali wrote:Nice one, cheers, although mine would be a bit better if it wasnt for my hiccups with stations,


Summary for 2010

Rainfall (mm):
Total for year 1040.1
Wettest day 9.3 day 27/12
High rain rate 14.4 day 03/12
Rain days 29

Pressure (mb):
Maximum 1040.8 day 15/12
Minimum 0.0 day 17/11

Wettest day 9.3? Is this mm? Rain rate 14.4? is this mm/hr? I presume so. I live in the tropics, forgive me, but this is low, but you still managed 1040 over 29 days. That averages 35mm for every rain day. Somethings up. Also, might have to manually change your minimum pressure.
In Darwin (Australia), we average 94 rain days and 1712mm for the year (over 70 yrs averaged).
Temperature
Mean maximum temperature (°C)
32.0
Mean minimum temperature (°C)
23.2
Rainfall
Mean rainfall (mm)
1712.2
Decile 5 (median) rainfall (mm)
1703.5
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 1 mm
94.1
Other daily elements
Mean daily sunshine (hours)
8.5
Mean number of clear days
103.2
Mean number of cloudy days
134.0

I was going to suggest that we have a thread for posting summaries, and it looks like this is it

Summary for 2010

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 7.8
Mean (min+max) 7.9
Mean Minimum 5.5
Mean Maximum 10.3
Minimum -7.6 day 23/02
Maximum 18.9 day 05/08
Highest Minimum 13.0 day 05/09
Lowest Maximum 0.5 day 16/12
Air frosts 44

Rainfall (mm):
Total for year 826.4
Wettest day 24.8 day 13/09
High rain rate 121.2 day 02/11
Rain days 281

Wind (mph):
Highest Gust 67 day 15/01
Average Speed 14
Wind Run 125340.5 miles
Gale days 23

Pressure (mb):
Maximum 1039.46 day 14/12
Minimum 957.57 day 11/11

Days with snow falling 42
Days with snow lying at 0900 42

Total hours of sunshine 204.4 (incomplete year)

Looking at your results Steve wind power has to be a great power source for your island.

Summary for 2010

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 10.2
Mean (min+max) 10.4
Mean Minimum 6.1
Mean Maximum 14.7
Minimum -8.8 day 03/12
Maximum 31.6 day 09/07
Highest Minimum 18.4 day 21/08
Lowest Maximum -1.5 day 02/12
Air frosts 72

Rainfall (mm):
Total for year 781.5
Wettest day 44.7 day 25/08
High rain rate 43.2 day 06/06
Rain days 159

Wind (mph):
Highest Gust 38.0 day 23/08
Average Speed 4.4
Wind Run 37301.4 miles
Gale days 0

Pressure (hPa):
Maximum 1040.9 day 26/01
Minimum 964.3 day 08/11

nking wrote:Looking at your results Steve wind power has to be a great power source for your island.

Yes indeed; there are currently three large turbines here on the national grid, total capacity 8.25 MW, and this is soon to increase to six turbines. The school has its own turbine, as do quite a few houses. I'd quite like one myself, but it's quite an outlay for a decent one.

Happy New Year from Cheshire - ~200 rain days, remind me why I live here again


Summary for 2010 (records began 13th Jan 2010)

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 9.3
Mean (min+max) 9.4
Mean Minimum 4.7
Mean Maximum 14.2
Minimum -12.5 day 20/12
Maximum 29.8 day 22/05
Highest Minimum 17.3 day 10/07
Lowest Maximum -4.3 day 20/12
Air frosts 84

Rainfall (mm):
Total for year 672.7
Wettest day 30.5 day 03/10
High rain rate 114.3 day 23/09
Rain days 198

Wind (mph):
Highest Gust 35.5 day 29/10
Average Speed 1.2
Wind Run 10443.6 miles
Gale days 0

Pressure (hPa):
Maximum 1043.3 day 26/01
Minimum 965.7 day 08/11

steve wrote:I was going to suggest that we have a thread for posting summaries, and it looks like this is it

Summary for 2010

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What a miserable climate, average temp 7.8C, 281 rain days And yearly max 19C

DaveNZ wrote:What a miserable climate, average temp 7.8C, 281 rain days And yearly max 19C

Look at it more positively. The number of sheep that have died of heat exposure on Sanday is ..... 0! Can the same be said of NZ sheep? And Steve's lowest maximum is above freezing which is not something many of us can achieve.

RayProudfoot wrote: Look at it more positively. The number of sheep that have died of heat exposure on Sanday is ..... 0! Can the same be said of NZ sheep?

I'm sure the number wouldn't be much higher in NZ, for a couple of reasons... one of which we had better not discuss!

hills wrote:I'm sure the number wouldn't be much higher in NZ, for a couple of reasons... one of which we had better not discuss!

Why not Phil? I've heard that our neighbors are quite fond of sheep, I'd think they would be well looked after.

Well yes... that's the reason I wasn't going to speak of.

Of course the other reason is - it never gets that hot there.

I have many Kiwi friends mostly here but some across the ditch, and they tell me that they look after their sheep very well.

One of my technicians is a Kiwi and he swears by his container of lanolin grease for all those applications that need it.
And I'm not joking here, I can take a pic of it in his service vehicle to prove it if you wish......

I'm just a bit concerned about his aerosol can of lanolin spray

Look, youse jokers, enough of the ovine jokes, hokay? Time for some facts!

Calculated in 2003, the world largest sheep population was estimated at 1.03 billion head. Based on numbers, the leading sheep countries, in descending order, were

1. China ( 173,899,000)
2. Australia ( 100,100,000)
3. India ( 62,500,000)
4. Iran ( 54,000,000)
5. Sudan ( 48,000,000)
6. New Zealand ( 39,928,000)
7. United Kingdom ( 35,253,000)
8. South Africa ( 25,316,000)
9. Turkey ( 25,201,000)
10. Pakistan ( 24,900,000)
11. United States ( 6,135,000)

I hereby attest that I haven't clapped eyes on a sheep this year.

Plenty of sheep round here