Epping Weather Station

Monthly Summary: October 2011 (Daily Readings)

Temperature °C
   Date or compared to 1981-2010 average
Mean Maximum 16.4 +2.5
Mean Minimum 9.7 +1.9
Monthly Mean 13.1 +2.2
Highest Maximum 27.6 2nd
Lowest Maximum 11.7 27th
Highest Minimum 16.2 3rd
Lowest Minimum 1.7 20th
Lowest Grass Min 0.6 20th
Wind mph
Mean wind speed
5.0
Strongest Gust
37
Date
10th
Dominant Direction
SSW
Direction at 0900
N
NE
E
SE
S
SW
W
NW
CALM
No of mornings 1 1 6 1 7 1 14 0
0
Precipitation mm
 Date or compared to 1981-2010 average
Monthly Total 16.5 23.4%
Wettest Day 4.8 8th
Rain Days (>0.2mm) 9
Wet Days (>1mm) 6
Sunshine hours
Monthly Total
143.99
% Average
135.2
Days with no sun
3
Sunniest day
11.04
Date
1st
Number of days with
Air Frost
0
Ground Frost
0
Snow/sleet falling (0000-2400GMT)
0
>50% snow cover at 0900
0
Fog at 0900 (vis <1000m)
0
Thunder heard
0
Hail <5mm diameter
0
Hail > 5mm diameter
0

 
Miscellaneous Data
Mean Relative Humidity at 0900 (%) 86.5%
Mean Air Pressure at 0900 (mb) 1017.1
Lowest Pressure 992.8
Date
 24th,25th
Highest Pressure 1031.5
Date
 14th
Hours of air frost
0
Mean soil temp °C (20cm depth)
12.0
Greatest snow depth (0900)
n/a
Date
-
Particular days/events

1st Maximum temperature 27.4º
2nd Maximum temperature 27.6º - the highest October maximum since records began in 1979
3rd Maximum temperature 26.4º
1st - 3rd Almost 30 hours of sunshine
25th Light brown dust of cars following overnight showers

Total rainfall YTD 433mm (75%)

 

Month as a whole

Warm, dry and sunny
Warmest October since 2006 and fifth warmest on record. (Since 1979)
Driest October since 1995 and second driest on record. (Since 1979)
Sunniest October on record (sunshine recording began in 2002)

 

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