Some odds and ends ...

TEMPERATU
May 2005
Mean of 24hr max & min:... 12.5 [+0.1 anomaly on eLTA 1971-2000]

Although the mean temperature for the month is around 'average', this
disguises some notably cool daytime periods: 16 of the days had maxima
= 0.5degC below the LTA, and on five days (4th, 9th-11th & 17th), the
best temperatures were 3 or more degC below the eLTA.
As late as the 17th of the month, the day maximum reached just 13.2°C,
4degC below average: only the late-month 'correction', afforded by the
warm spell 25th-27th, prevented us ending up with a negative anomaly.

Some notes spring 2005:

The temperature anomaly for the three spring months (March, April & May)
was +0.7degC. This is the same as last year (2004), but the pattern was
different. Last year we had a chilly March, followed by a warm April and
May. This year the pattern was inverted: The monthly anomalies for
March, April & May this year a +0.8, +1.1 & +0.1degC respectively.

The running 12 month temperature anomaly is: +0.8degC, slightly down on
last month's rolling 12 month anomaly.


PRECIPITATION:

For May, the total here was 20.4mm [ 35% of eLTA 1971-2000]

In the composite Easthampstead Park / Tawfield record (1971-2005), this
May is the
driest since May 1991 & one of the 'top-5' driest such-named months in
the series which started in 1971.

spring 2005:

The spring rainfall total = 126.7mm, represents 78% of the eLTA
(1971-2000)

The rainfall anomaly for the year so far = 66%

The running 12 month rainfall anomaly: 77% (down from 82% last month)

Martin.


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Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Tawfield), Berkshire
NGR: SU 854 667 Elev: 80m
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"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
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Some odds and ends ...

TEMPERATU
May 2005
Mean of 24hr max & min:... 12.5 [+0.1 anomaly on eLTA 1971-2000]

Although the mean temperature for the month is around 'average', this
disguises some notably cool daytime periods: 16 of the days had maxima
= 0.5degC below the LTA, and on five days (4th, 9th-11th & 17th), the
best temperatures were 3 or more degC below the eLTA.
As late as the 17th of the month, the day maximum reached just 13.2°C,
4degC below average: only the late-month 'correction', afforded by the
warm spell 25th-27th, prevented us ending up with a negative anomaly.

Some notes spring 2005:

The temperature anomaly for the three spring months (March, April & May)
was +0.7degC. This is the same as last year (2004), but the pattern was
different. Last year we had a chilly March, followed by a warm April and
May. This year the pattern was inverted: The monthly anomalies for
March, April & May this year a +0.8, +1.1 & +0.1degC respectively.

The running 12 month temperature anomaly is: +0.8degC, slightly down on
last month's rolling 12 month anomaly.


PRECIPITATION:

For May, the total here was 20.4mm [ 35% of eLTA 1971-2000]

In the composite Easthampstead Park / Tawfield record (1971-2005), this
May is the
driest since May 1991 & one of the 'top-5' driest such-named months in
the series which started in 1971.

spring 2005:

The spring rainfall total = 126.7mm, represents 78% of the eLTA
(1971-2000)

The rainfall anomaly for the year so far = 66%

The running 12 month rainfall anomaly: 77% (down from 82% last month)

Martin.


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Martin Rowley: data via -
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/metindex.htm
Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Tawfield), Berkshire
NGR: SU 854 667 Elev: 80m
Lat: 51DEG23MIN30SEC(N): Long: 00DEG46MIN28SEC(W)

Just seen your figures, Martin which were posted 1 minute before mine! My
Spring rainfall came to112.7 mm ( 79% of the 1971 - 2000 mean) and the 12
month running total is 569mm ( 90% of the mean).
Peter Clarke
Ewell
Epsom 55m

"Peter Clarke" wrote in message
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Just seen your figures, Martin which were posted 1 minute before mine!
My Spring rainfall came to112.7 mm ( 79% of the 1971 - 2000 mean) and
the 12 month running total is 569mm ( 90% of the mean).

.... Indeed Peter - a dry spring just gone, and looking out at our
garden, which despite today's hit-and-miss rainfall is looking quite
parched, I can't help thinking that the English weather is conspiring to
make it difficult for the English batsmen this summer.

Checking the local cricket wicket up at Great Hollands from
time-to-time, I note that the strip is very dry and cracking nicely &
the outfield is dry with stunted grass-growth.

Presumably Lords & the Oval are tended with a little more care, but the
Aussies must be relishing our conditions at the moment - often dry with
periods of strong/drying winds and strong sunshine; the Met Office LR
forecast doesn't support a lot of rain - quite the reverse really in the
SE corner of these islands.

http://www.metoffice.com/research/se...erce_cat2.html

Martin .


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In uk.sci.weather on Wed, 1 Jun 2005 at 15:26:52, Martin Rowley wrote :

... Indeed Peter - a dry spring just gone

Here the spring rainfall overall has been just about spot on the average
- 101% in fact.

, and looking out at our
garden, which despite today's hit-and-miss rainfall is looking quite
parched

Everything still green & healthy here.

, I can't help thinking that the English weather is conspiring to
make it difficult for the English batsmen this summer.

I suspect the Aussie bowlers will do that on their own...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham