Alcaston, Shropshire - October 2023

[Freddie]

A warm first ten days with four days exceeding 20 Celsius, thereafter unsettled and wet with temperatures around average.  Short colder snap mid-month with a brief air frost and a handful of ground frosts.  Notably wet 18th-20th with 56.6 mm in this period with some local flooding.  Very little fog this month.

Anomalies (in brackets) refer to the estimated 1991-2020 averages.

Mean max:                              15.3 (+1.4)
Mean min:                               8.0 (+1.7)
Mean temp:                             11.7 (+1.6)
Mean 30cm earth temp:                  13.6

Highest max:                           23.6 ( 9th)
Lowest max:                            10.2 (16th)
Lowest min:                            -0.1 (16th)
Highest min:                           15.4 ( 6th)
Lowest grass min:                      -2.0 (16th)

Air frosts:                               1 (-1)
Air frost hours:                       0.02
Ground frosts:                            4 (-2)

Days with max  20.0 to  24.9:             4
Days with max  15.0 to  19.9:             9
Days with max  10.0 to  14.9:            18

Days with min  15.0 to  19.9:             1
Days with min  10.0 to  14.9:             6
Days with min   5.0 to   9.9:            18
Days with min   0.0 to   4.9:             5
Days with min  -5.0 to  -0.1:             1

Total rainfall:                       129.8 mm (153%)
Wettest day:                           29.2 mm (19th)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more):            24      ( +6)
Wet days  (1.0 mm or more):            15      ( +3)
Days >= 10mm:                           5      ( +2)
Days >= 20mm:                           2

Days with snow/sleet falling:           0
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z:       0      ( 0)
Deepest at 0900z                        0      (n/a)
 
Days with thunder heard:                0
Days with hail:                         0
Days with fog at 0900z:                 0

Highest 10-min mean wind:               20 kn (18th)
Max gust:                               33 kn ( 4th)
Days with gale:                          0
Highest wind run:                    284.2 nm (20th)
Wind direction at 0900z:                 N: 3; NE: 7; E: 0; SE: 0; S: 11; SW: 4; W: 3; NW: 3; Calm: 0

Maximum pressure:                       1028.0 (15th)
Minimum pressure:                        973.6 (20th)

-- 
Freddie
Alcaston
Shropshire
148m AMSL
http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/
Stats for the month so far: https://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/statistics/alcaston/latest.xlsx