DATE

MAX TEMP

MIN TEMP

MEAN TEMP

RAINFALL 24 HOURS TO 9AM

HUMIDITY

9AM

PRESSURE

9AM

SNOW COVER 9AM

CONDITIONS

1/1/2005

9.6c

3.1c

6.3c

0

76%

1014hpa

No

Afternoon rain

2/1/2005

8.2c

1.5c

4.8c

2mm

74%

1015hpa

No

Sunny intervals

3/1/2005

10.3c

2.6c

6.4c

0

76%

1026hpa

No

Cloudy, windy evening

4/1/2005

10.7c

8.0c

9.3c

1mm

79%

1010hpa

No

Cloudy

5/1/2005

8.8c

3.6c

6.2c

0

78%

1016hpa

No

Cloudy

6/1/2005

12.7c

3.6c

8.1c

0

75%

1021hpa

No

Cloudy

7/1/2005

12.7c

7.1c

9.9c

0

84%

1005hpa

No

Rain, windy

8/1/2005

8.9c

5.2c

7.0c

8mm

80%

987hpa

No

Sunny intervals, showers

9/1/2005

13.4c

3.1c

8.2c

2mm

76%

1012hpa

No

Cloudy, windy

10/1/2005

10.5c

8.7c

9.6c

0

73%

1002hpa

No

Sunny intervals

11/1/2005

10.7c

6.2c

8.4c

0

n/a

n/a

No

Showers

12/1/2005

6.6c

4.2c

5.4c

1mm

81%

1006hpa

No

Showers, breezy

13/1/2005

6.5c

2.9c

4.2c

1mm

78%

1024hpa

No

Sunny intervals

14/1/2005

4.8c

-1.2c

1.8c

0

100%

1027hpa

No

Misty

15/1/2005

8.9c

0.4c

4.6c

0

100%

1020hpa

No

Cloudy

16/1/2005

10.3c

4.3c

7.3c

0

100%

1016hpa

No

Sunny intervals

17/1/2005

8.8c

5.0c

6.9c

0

71%

1004hpa

No

Wintry showers

18/1/2005

5.1c

0.7c

2.9c

1mm

73%

991hpa

Yes/0.5cm

Wintry showers

19/1/2005

11.7c

1.0c

6.3c

0

83%

1008hpa

No

Sunny intervals

20/1/2005

9.6c

3.7c

6.6c

0

78%

1002hpa

No

Sunny intervals, windy

21/1/2005

5.1c

4.1c

4.6c

0

70%

1012hpa

No

Sunny intervals

22/1/2005

3.7c

-1.4c

1.1c

0

73%

1021hpa

No

Sunny, evening snow

23/1/2005

4.8c

-0.6c

2.1c

0

74%

1031hpa

Yes/0.5cm

Sunny intervals

24/1/2005

3.5c

0.1c

1.8c

1mm

91%

1035hpa

Yes/dusting

Snow showers

25/1/2005

5.3c

1.5c

3.4c

2mm

90%

1034hpa

No

Rain

26/1/2005

6.8c

2.5c

4.6c

5mm

100%

1037hpa

No

Drizzle

27/1/2005

7.0c

3.0c

5.0c

2mm

100%

1031hpa

No

Cloudy

28/1/2005

6.5c

5.1c

5.8c

0

78%

1024hpa

No

Cloudy, drizzle

29/1/2005

9.8c

5.3c

7.5c

1mm

97%

1029hpa

No

Sunny intervals

30/1/2005

9.1c

0.2c

4.6c

0

100%

1032hpa

No

Sunny intervals

31/1/2005

11.6c

1.2c

6.4c

0

81%

1030hpa

No

Sunny intervals

 

 

 

AVERAGE

MAX

AVERAGE

MIN

MEAN

TEMP

HIGHEST

MAX

LOWEST

MIN

MONTHLY

RAINFALL

RAIN

DAYS

>1mm

SNOW COVER

DAYS

DAYS BELOW 0ºC

DAYS ABOVE 20ºC

AVERAGE PRESSURE 9AM

AVERAGE HUMIDITY 9AM

8.4ºC

(47.1ºF)

3.0ºC

(37.4ºF)

5.7ºC

(42.3F)

13.4ºC

(56.1ºF)

9th

-1.4ºC

(29.5ºF)

27mm

12

3

3

0

1017.7hpa

83.0%

 

Review of January 2005

 

Sometimes stormy in the first two weeks with damaging gales on the 8th, but overall quite settled with low rainfall. There was only 3 days below 0ºC in the entire month, with only 3 days of lying snow. Very poor for winter lovers.

 

The mean temperature of 5.7ºC was 2.3ºC warmer than the Durham 1971-2000 average. This is very substantial and follows the recent trend of very mild winter months in the past decade. It was 1.2ºC warmer than January 2004, itself a mild month. The top temperature reached 13.4ºC, warmer than any January day in 2004, whilst the lowest temperature was –1.4ºC, not very cold at all for January.

 

There was 12 rain days >1mm, about the average, but the total rainfall of 27mm, was only 50% of the Durham 1971-2000 average. This is the 3rd month in a row with less than 50% average rainfall.

 

To summarise, a rather exceptional month, very mild, with hardly any frost or snow, and low rainfall.