October weather summary

The average figures for the last 30 years show October as the wettest month and this year we had 63mm, by far the wettest of the year so far.  It was the first month this year with higher than average rainfall but well short of our October record of 130mm in 2000.  The total for the year is still only 299mm.  It was also warmer than average at 13 degrees compared with the long term average of 11.9.  October was only slightly cooler than June this year which averaged 13.6.  We recorded a high of 20.9 degrees on the 8th and a low of 4.1 on the 30th.