Wednesday 4 June 2014

Weather summary for May

May was a mild and very wet month.  The average temperature was 12.9 compared with 10.6 in 2013 and a long term average of 11.8.  The highest temperature was 22.3 on the 20th and the lowest 2.3 on the 4th.
It was one of the wettest Mays on record with a total of 86.2mm, the wettest was in the year 2000 when 96.4 mm was recorded.  Of the 86.2mm recorded, 65mm fell between the 21st and 27th and of that 30mm fell in one day on the 27th.  There couldn't be a greater contrast between the springs of 2013 and 2014 in terms of grass growth.  This year we were further advanced in March than we were at the end of May 2013.

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