Anybody else record their warmest autumn on record?

Here in Coventry, we have done just that, and with seasonal averages
dating back to 1895, that's quite some achievement!

I have appended our top 5 warm/cold autumns below for interest:

WARMEST COLDEST

11.7C 2005 7.7C 1952
11.5C 2001 7.9C 1920
11.4C 1959,1995 8.1C 1986
11.2C 1990, 1999 8.4C 1923,1950,1966
11.2C 1898,1913 2004 8.6C 1912

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J, BWS wrote:

Anybody else record their warmest autumn on record?

Here in Coventry, we have done just that, and with seasonal averages
dating back to 1895, that's quite some achievement!

I have appended our top 5 warm/cold autumns below for interest:

WARMEST COLDEST

11.7C 2005 7.7C 1952
11.5C 2001 7.9C 1920
11.4C 1959,1995 8.1C 1986
11.2C 1990, 1999 8.4C 1923,1950,1966
11.2C 1898,1913 2004 8.6C 1912


6 out of 9 warmest were in the last 15 years. The stats must be
telling us something!

Martin



Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J, BWS wrote:
Anybody else record their warmest autumn on record?

In this part of east Scotland I've only recorded three autumns COLDER
in the last ten years. Brrr.

Trevor
Lundie near Dundee
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/

It certainly has not been a record breaker here. My mean has been 9.63.
I have data for stations in the Aberdeen area dating back to the 19th
century which I have attempted to homogenise to account for changes in
site and urbanisation at the present site at Dyce which has caused a
large increase in minimum temps since the early 1970s. This series is
likely to have a mean around 0.25C warmer than mine.

The warmest Autumn was 1945 with a mean of 10.57 while the coldest was
1952 with only 6.97. The warmest 10-year average was 9.54 from 1995 to
2004 which represents about 1C warming in the past 100 years. However
the bulk of the warming occurred by the 1950s. Average for 1953 to 1962
was 9.37.

Richard Slessor,
Hazlehead, Aberdeen.

Steve J, BWS wrote in message
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:Anybody else record their warmest autumn on record?

Dutch Met Office KNMI reports an average temperature for the 3 autumn months
at De Bilt of 12.0°C - long-term norm is 10.2°C. This makes it the warmest
autumn there since formal records started in 1901 and the joint warmest with
1731 in the full temperature record which goes back to 1706. Previously
the warmest autumn was 1969 with an average of 11.7°C.

Autumn 2005 was the second sunniest in De Bilt since records started in
1901 - 444 hours' sunshine compared with a long-term norm of 298 hours.
Only autumn 1959 was sunnier with 449 hours.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Colin Youngs wrote:

Dutch Met Office KNMI reports an average temperature for the 3 autumn months
at De Bilt of 12.0°C - long-term norm is 10.2°C. This makes it the warmest
autumn there since formal records started in 1901 and the joint warmest with
1731 in the full temperature record which goes back to 1706. Previously
the warmest autumn was 1969 with an average of 11.7°C.

Autumn 2005 was the second sunniest in De Bilt since records started in
1901 - 444 hours' sunshine compared with a long-term norm of 298 hours.
Only autumn 1959 was sunnier with 449 hours.

Colin Youngs
Brussels


Interesting Colin how 1969 again rears it's head, it just keeps coming
back to haunt me, expect a winter like 1970, which also fits in with
Paul's thoughts

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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net