New record high October min. temperature

[Len W]

Min. today 19th of 15.7°C.

Beating previous high min of 15.6°C on 3rd Oct 2013.

Len

Wembury, SW Devon

83 m asl

[Graham Easterling]

Minimum was also 15.7C in Penzance!

Warmest October night here 16.5 on 9/10/2010.

Graham

Penzance

[Len W]

That's interesting.

It was just 15.1°C min on 9/10/2010 here.

Len

in a lovely sunny Wembury

[Graham Easterling]

Checking back, the wind was an onshore ESE here, so that might be the reason why it stayed warmer overnight. It had reached 19.4C the previous day, despite the onshore wind!

Graham

[Nick Gardner]

I've just checked and the minimum on the 19th was 15.6°C. Then I checked as to whether this was a record and, err, surprisingly no. It was nothing that out the ordinary for October.

It was the warmest October since 17.1°C on the 13th in 2018. Last year there was 15.2°C on the 8th October an 15.8°C on the 14th in 2017.

Minimums of 15.0°C is exceeded in most Octobers and occasionaly 16.0°C is as well. I'm surprised by this as my location is not reknowned for its warm nights being a river valley location and inversion boundaries aplenty etc.

1st - 20th

Mean minimum = 9.0°C

Mean maximum = 18.5°C

Mean = 13.8°C

Rain = 42.8 mm

Sunshine = 105.7 hours.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

[Graham Easterling]

For Penzance:-

1st - 20th

Mean minimum = 10.5°C

Mean maximum = 17.1°C

Mean = 13.8°C 

Rain = 35.8mm

So no repeat of the decidedly wet September - yet.

September was the 1st wetter than average month since October 2021!

Graham

Penzance