Alcaston, Shropshire - May 2024

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Freddie

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Jun 2, 2024, 9:00:04 AMJun 2
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A warm and very wet month.  Despite the rainfall total there was an eight day spell (4-11) with no measurable rainfall.  No ground frost recorded at all, which is unusual for May.

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

Mean max:                              18.3 (+2.1)
Mean min:                               9.1 (+2.9)
Mean temp:                             13.7 (+2.5)
Mean 30cm earth temp:                  14.3

Highest max:                           24.3 (12th)
Lowest max:                            11.5 ( 3rd)
Lowest min:                             4.1 ( 5th)
Highest min:                           12.9 (15th)
Lowest grass min:                       2.4 ( 5th)

Air frosts:                               0 (-1)
Air frost hours:                        0.0
Ground frosts:                            0 (-5)

Days with max  20.0 to  24.9:             9
Days with max  15.0 to  19.9:            17
Days with max  10.0 to  14.9:             5

Days with min  10.0 to  14.9:            12
Days with min   5.0 to   9.9:            18
Days with min   0.0 to   4.9:             1

Total rainfall:                        96.7 mm (176%)
Wettest day:                           31.3 mm (21st)
Rain days (0.2 mm or more):            15      (  0)
Wet days  (1.0 mm or more):            11      ( +1)
Days >= 10mm:                           2      ( +1)
Days >= 20mm:                           2

Days with snow/sleet falling:           0
Days with 50%+ snow cover at 09z:       0      (  0)
Deepest at 0900z                        0 cm   (n/a)
 
Days with thunder heard:                3
Days with hail:                         0
Days with fog at 0900z:                 0

Highest 10-min mean wind:               18 kn (31st)
Max gust:                               31 kn (26th)
Days with gale:                          0
Highest wind run:                    218.0 nm (30th)
Wind direction at 0900z:                 N: 1; NE: 8; E: 3; SE: 1; S: 4; SW: 8; W: 5; NW: 1; Calm: 0

Maximum pressure:                       1028.2 ( 8th)
Minimum pressure:                        997.4 (14th)


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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
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