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2019 Wanstead annual weather review

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This year finished as the 17th warmest on record – some 0.4C warmer than the 1981-2010 average. Although mild it was the coolest for six years.

After a dry start a wet autumn saw annual rainfall finish above average, the wettest for five years, 105 97 per cent of average.

Sunshine was down on 2018 though the total was just above average.

2019

2019 temp

2019 rain

2019 sun

For a review of each month, click January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

You can read the national review of weather events at the Met Office blog here.

 

Summary for 2019

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute)  11.7
Mean (min+max)   11.7
Mean Minimum     7.3
Mean Maximum     16.1
Minimum          -6.5 day 30/01
Maximum          36.8 day 25/07
Highest Minimum  19.6 day 23/07
Lowest Maximum   1.3 day 23/01
Air frosts       43
Rainfall (mm):
Total for year  667.4
Wettest day      20.6 day 19/07
High rain rate   65.8 day 09/08
Rain days        158
Dry days         207
Wind (mph):
Highest Gust     36.5 day 10/03
Average Speed    2.5
Wind Run         22211.5 miles
Gale days        0
Pressure (mb):
Maximum          1053.4 day 09/08
Minimum          969.8 day 12/12
Days with snow falling         5
Days with snow lying at 0900   2
Total hours of sunshine        1451
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December 2019: wettest for 17 years

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The December monthly mean finished 6.3C, that’s 0.7C above average, making it the ninth month of 2019 where the monthly mean temperature finished above average.

The wet theme of October and November carried on into December; the 111.1mm collected was 209 per cent of the 1981-2010 average, the wettest since 2002.

Some 51hrs of sunshine were recorded, 126 per cent of average, the sunniest for three years.

There were seven air frosts.

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October 2019: wettest since 2004

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The wet theme of the final week of September carried on into October; the 100.3mm collected was 150 per cent of the 1981-2010 average, the wettest 10th month for 15 years.

The monthly mean finished 11C, that’s 0.8C below average, the coldest October since 2012. It is only the second month of 2019 where the monthly mean temperature finishes below average.

Only 72hrs of sunshine were recorded, 68 per cent of average, the dullest October since 2002.

The area’s first frost arrived 10 days before the median date back to 1959. And 3 days earlier than last year. A shower with >5mm hail was observed on the 9th.

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Summary for October 2019

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute)  11.5
Mean (min+max)   11.3
Mean Minimum     7.6
Mean Maximum     15.0
Minimum          -0.8 day 27
Maximum          20.4 day 14
Highest Minimum  11.9 day 05
Lowest Maximum   10.3 day 28
Air frosts       1
Rainfall (mm):
Total for month  100.3
Wettest day      16.6 day 05
High rain rate   20.1 day 01
Rain days        20
Dry days         11
Wind (mph):
Highest Gust     21.3 day 25
Average Speed    2.0
Wind Run         1492.7 miles
Gale days        0
Pressure (mb):
Maximum          1026.6 day 29
Minimum          996.6 day 01
Days with snow falling         0
Days with snow lying at 0900   0
Total hours of sunshine        72
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September 2019: wettest since 2006

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Most of the rain of September 2019 fell in the last week making what was a fairly unremarkable month weatherwise the wettest September for 13 years.

Some 63.9mm of rain fell which is 123 per cent of average.

The monthly mean finished 15.8C, that’s 0.4C above average, the warmest September for 3 years, 0.6C warmer than last year.

Sunshine, at 150.5hrs, 107 per cent of average but over 30 hours fewer than last year.

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Summary for September 2019

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute)  15.5
Mean (min+max)   15.8
Mean Minimum     11.1
Mean Maximum     20.5
Minimum          5.2 day 17
Maximum          26.0 day 15
Highest Minimum  15.7 day 23
Lowest Maximum   16.1 day 09
Air frosts       0
Rainfall (mm):
Total for month  63.9
Wettest day      14.9 day 24
High rain rate   28.2 day 27
Rain days        14
Dry days         16
Wind (mph):
Highest Gust     23.5 day 27
Average Speed    2.5
Wind Run         1809.2 miles
Gale days        0
Pressure (mb):
Maximum          1036.8 day 13
Minimum          992.3 day 29
Days with snow falling         0
Days with snow lying at 0900   0
Total hours of sunshine        0.0
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August 2019: warmest for 4 years

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Apart from the hot four days in the last week August 2019 was fairly unremarkable.

Overall the monthly mean finished 19.9C, that’s 1.4C above average.

Rainfall at 37.7mm, was 75 per cent of average,  the driest for 3 years. Sunshine, at 180hrs, the sunniest for 3 years.

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Summary for August 2019:

Temperature (°C):

Mean (1 minute)  18.9
Mean (min+max)   19.3
Mean Minimum     13.9
Mean Maximum     24.7
Minimum          8.8 day 20
Maximum          32.6 day 27
Highest Minimum  19.5 day 07
Lowest Maximum   17.9 day 14
Air frosts       0
Rainfall (mm):
Total for month  37.7
Wettest day      12.6 day 14
High rain rate   65.8 day 09
Rain days        11
Dry days         20
Wind (mph):
Highest Gust     22.1 day 10
Average Speed    2.6
Wind Run         1941.4 miles
Gale days        0
Pressure (mb):
Maximum
Minimum
Days with snow falling         0
Days with snow lying at 0900   0
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June 2019: record heat spike

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June 2019 saw no high temperature records broken but a jump in anomaly, produced on the 29th by the 3rd hottest June day back to 1959, is higher than any I can find back to that year..

The only phenomena similar that I can find, albeit in the other direction, is the Beast from the East in March 2018 that sent temperatures plummeting.

The month finished a little above average though the final figure, like May and April, masked cool warm spells.

The mean temperature finished 16.9C that’s 0.8C above average, the coolest for 3 years.

Rainfall was 63mm, 123% of average, the wettest for 2 years. Sunshine was 158 hours, 88.7% of average, and dullest for 3 years.

A timelapse of the longest day can be found here.

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‘Feels like’ maxima.
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June 1981-2019 maximum anomalies
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The 12 month rolling rainfall total, thanks to a wetter than average month, has moved above 500mm again.

Summary for June 2019

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute)  16.8
Mean (min+max)   16.9
Mean Minimum     12.1
Mean Maximum     21.7
Minimum          7.1 day 08
Maximum          33.6 day 29
Highest Minimum  18.0 day 24
Lowest Maximum   14.4 day 10
Air frosts       0
Rainfall (mm):
Total for month  63.3
Wettest day      18.7 day 10
High rain rate   20.1 day 09
Rain days        13
Dry days         17
Wind (mph):
Highest Gust     24.4 day 08
Average Speed    2.7
Wind Run         1932.6 miles
Gale days        0
Pressure (mb):
Maximum          1031.5 day 27
Minimum          998.4 day 07
Days with snow falling         0
Days with snow lying at 0900   0
Total hours of sunshine        0.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The coldest and wettest days of June

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Looking out the window on a cold and miserable June afternoon yesterday reminded me of similar such days during the Seventies and Eighties.

But the mind plays tricks and I wondered if these kind of days were that common in the past.

To weed out the also-rans qualifying days had to be sunless with an anomaly that was at least 4C cooler than the daily average and rainfall of at least 12mm.

This gave the following list.

24hrd

So, in the last 60 years there have been only 12 days similar to June 10th 2019. That would give a probability of less than 1% (0.00743)

Looking elsewhere it would appear that there was much more rain to the north, south and west of Wanstead.

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The curse of June 13th

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June can be a strange month weatherwise. Scorching temperatures as well as washout, cold weather, perhaps epitomised by the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pageant on the river Thames in 2012, can feature prominently.

The month can also throw up some striking anomalies, none more so than the fact that the 13th is the only day in the month where the temperature has ever reached or exceeded 30C anywhere in the British Isles.

According to TORRO the highest daily maximum recorded in the UK is 28.3C at Earls Colne, Essex, in 1948; at Brixton, south London, in 1896 and Aboyne in 1994. Yet either side of this date has records comfortably above 31C, as the table below shows.

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The closest we’ve got locally to 30C in the last 60 years was in 1989 when 27C was recorded.

So why is the 13th ‘cursed’ with traditionally being the coolest day of the month? The best explaination perhaps is the fact that the date occurs more or less during the middle of the North-west European monsoon.

According to Philip Eden’s list of singularities the June monsoon can strike any time between the 1st and 21st but normally peaks on the 16th with a 77 per cent frequency.

As well as cool temperatures the phenomenon can also bring copious amounts of rain, as happened in 1903 when large parts of Redbridge were inundated following a 59-hour deluge that started on… the 13th.

Will we see a repeat this Thursday? Unlikely, though the general pattern is not that different to what led to events over a hundred years ago.

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Front loaded rainfall months

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Since February most of this region’s rainfall has been falling during the first half of the month.

feb

February: 86%

march

March: 134%

april

April 28%

may

May (to 26th) 54%

With only one of these months wetter than average the long-term, rolling trend continues to head downwards.

rolling

Considering past rainfall patterns it can only be a matter of time before the graph heads upwards again. Looking further back at rainfall data to 1961 reveals the extremes were higher and that the jump from dry to wet can be sudden.

The wettest 12-month rolling period ended mid way through May 1975 with a total of 873mm. However, just 16 months later, at the end of the hot summer of 1976, the rolling 12-month average was just 302mm, that’s less than half of our average annual rainfall!

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April 2019: average and dry

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April finished average though the final figure masked cool and warm spells.

The mean temperature finished 9.7C that’s 0.1C below average and 2C cooler than last April.

Only 11.9mm of precipitation were recorded,  28 per cent of the 1981-2010 average and almost as dry as April 2017.

Some 170 hours of sunshine were recorded, that’s 106 per cent of average.

Four air frosts were recorded.

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‘Feels like’ maxima.
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April 1981-2019 maximum anomalies
april 1981-2019