Graham Easterling
May 2, 2022, 5:51:40 AM5/2/22
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Dry with near normal temperatures. The maximum temperature of 17.5C was less than 18.8 reached on 25th March.
Hail fell on the 1st, the coldest day of the month and the only day to fail to reach 10C. On 3rd there was an air frost, only 1 air frost occurred during winter 2021/22.
A thunderstorm drifted up from the south on the 11th, but gave very little rain, just 0.4mm, despite several rumbles over a period of an hour.
Hail fell on the 1st, the coldest day of the month and the only day to fail to reach 10C. On 3rd there was an air frost, only 1 air frost occurred during winter 2021/22.
A thunderstorm drifted up from the south on the 11th, but gave very little rain, just 0.4mm, despite several rumbles over a period of an hour.
86% of the months rainfall fell in the first week.
All variances from the 1991-2020 norm.
TEMPERATURE
Maximum: 17.5C (29th)
Minimum: --0.2C (3rd)
Mean Maximum: 13.9C (+0.3)
Mean Minimum: 7.1C (+0.3)
Number of Air Frosts: 1
Number of Air Frosts: 1
RAINFALL
Total Rainfall: 48.7mm (62%)
Wettest Day: 11.5mm (6th)
Rain Days: 12
Days with
Hail: 2
Thunder: 1
Fog @ 09:00: 0
Gales: 0
The 1st 4 months of 2022 have seen 297.6mm of rain, the driest start to the year since 289.4mm in 2011 and just 71% of the 1991-2020 norm of 417.2mm.
Graham
Penzance
Len W
May 2, 2022, 6:12:59 PM5/2/22
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So 70% of average rain here, but December was very wet so reservoirs are about 90% full in SW.
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