Skies 2016.

Wishing you a very happy new year!

February 14th.

October 27th

 October 27th

December 16th

December skies

Record breaking December weather!

 Rain 317mm so far, that is 3 TIMES the average rainfall for December.
 It has been the wettest month in our records. The previous record was 226mm during Nov 2002.

There were 30 rain days this December! That is the most in our records, February will never have a chance now! (A rain day at least 0.2mm rainfall)

Mean temperature 8.9 deg C, average temperature for December is 6.6 deg C.
That is 2.3 deg C above average, The highest deviation above average for any month.

Dullest month in our records! Just over 35 hours (recording sunshine here since 2004).

It has been windy too, a gust of 65mph on the 30th.

Summary.... Wettest, dullest, warmest and very windy!

Angus says "It certainly wasn't summery!"

He also says "Surely you have a rain photo?" my answer... "It's been too wet!"

It wasn't dull wet and windy ALL the time!

Angus say's "only during daylight hours".

Peace, Love and Happiness to all.

November Skies.

 November was a windy month with a gust of 66mph on the 17th.

 It was the dullest November we have recorded here (sunshine records began in 2004). We had 52 hours of sunshine, average being 78 hours for November.

 It was the warmest November on our records. The 30 year mean temperature for here in November is 8.2 deg C This November we recorded a mean of 9.9 deg C.

A feast of skies in November.

 

There was rain too!

September weather.

The average temperature here for September over the last 15 years has been 13.7 deg C.
This Septembers average was a fair bit cooler at 12.4 deg. C.

 Despite one wet day with 36mm the overall rainfall for the month of 56mm was below normal. Sunshine has been average.

September skies have been wonderful.

Zoe and Tivon running through the early evening mist settling in the field.

May sky.

May has been cold! The first half very wet, the latter half quite dry.

 

Tivon's photo of clouds over the weather station.

Lovely billowy clouds over the woods at the pond.

April Sky

April has been dry, sunny and cool. There has been 23 nights of frost including an air frost of -1.6 deg C and ground frost of -8.6 deg C on the 26th.

March Sky

Average temperature for March was 1 deg C below normal. There were a couple of windy days at the end of the month including a gust of 59 mph.

The Solar eclipse on March 20th was just visible through the clouds.

December weather.

Overall a mild month with a couple of days of very cold weather at the end of December.

The small pond with the big pond in the background on the morning of December 29th.

November sky.

The first 3 weeks of November was rain, rain, rain, interspersed with sunny spells. We had 209mm altogether (twice the average for the month), while the last 9 days have been dry, with a mix of mild overcast days and clear sunny days. We had 23 nights of grass frost, which makes it our frostiest November so far. Temperatures were average for the month.

October sky.

October has been mild and wet.

The pole, in the middle of the field, supports the anemometer (for recording wind speed).

September sky.

A warm, sunny, calm and dry month. 

September has been the driest month here since Angus started recording in 1999,  it was also the calmest. The month started off cooler than average but the latter half of the month was mild.

Today my thoughts are with my sister Lesley, she is having a big operation right now. 

Share a vision with me for a successful surgery and her complete recovery.

 

August sky.

Wet and cool this August.
Wettest and 2nd coldest August here since we started recording in 2000. Duller than average, overall a huge contrast to July. A very autumnal feel to the month.

Just visible in the lower half of this photo, there is a faint horizontal band of green and pink running through the clouds.
This is called Cloud iridescence.
This is looking towards the north west, towards the south east at the same time there was a rainbow.

Also looking north west, on the same evening.

July sky

 July was wetter than average, we had one thunder storm that dropped 38mm in less than an hour. However June was a dry month and the heavy showers in July only wet the top couple of centimetres of the soil.

This July was one of our warmest with similar average temperatures to last July.
Sunshine figures for this July were about average. 

Hay making weather.

 This has been the sunniest and driest June here since 2006, with rainfall half the average for June. Warmer than average and calm.

 Great weather for making hay.

 Zoe forking hay into the trailer.

May sky

Several days this month had the feeling of summer but there was just enough cloud to keep frosts away. This has been the warmest May that Angus has recorded (recording since 2000). However recorded hours of Sunshine were way below nomal at 125 hours. The previous lowest sunshine for May was 170 hours (in our 10 year records) Last May had 232 hours.
Also, this has been the wettest May for 9 years

April sky

A sunny month with lots of blue sky.

These clouds rolled in like waves on April 19th.

April 11th

March sky

Wonderful lenticular clouds on March 15th.

 

February sky

 February had over 200mm (almost 8") of rain. While December had 142mm (5.5") and January 180mm (over 7"). That is more than 500mm (more than 20inches) this winter!
It was also a very windy month with a gust of 63 miles an hour and on 20 days there was at least 1 gale gust (39 mph). Temperatures were average.

February 25th

Good weather for ducks!

 

The ponds are full to the brim.
 Although the bees found many sunny intervals, a lot of February looked like this!  

January sky

Only one word to describe January..... Wet!

Although, as the photos show, It didn't rain ALL the time.

January 11th

January 11th

December sky

On December 27th Angus recorded a gust of 59mph, strongest since January 2009. It has been the wettest December here since 2002. On December 23rd and 27th the barometric pressure fell to 963.

Overall a mild, wet, windy month.

 

Sunset December 17th

Sunrise on December 3rd.