September 2014 was exceptionally dry and warm with 23 days without rain overall. Over 4 mm of rain fell on each of the 18th and 19th, which boosted the total rainfall to 14.6 mm, only 23% of the the Ross-on-Wye* average for September of 63.7 mm.
The month was much warmer than average too, with the average maximum temperature of 19.9 °C being 1.6 °C above the Ross average for September of 18.3 °C. Met Office records suggest that September 2014 was the driest September since records began in 1910 and one of the top five in terms of warmth
* Ross-on-Wye is the nearest Met Office station for which long term averages (1971-2000) are available.
Day by day data for September are given below:-
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for SEP. 2014
NAME: Penallt 210 CITY: STATE:
ELEV: 210 m LAT: 51° 48' 00" N LONG: 2° 42' 00" W
TEMPERATURE (°C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (km/hr)
HEAT COOL AVG
MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM
DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR
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1 16.8 23.7 15:00 11.1 00:00 2.3 0.7 1.2 0.2 9.7 10:30 W
2 14.6 20.3 15:00 8.4 6:30 4.0 0.2 0.0 0.5 8.0 13:00 ENE
3 16.4 20.6 18:00 13.1 7:00 2.2 0.3 0.0 0.5 11.3 18:00 ENE
4 15.7 20.7 16:00 10.7 5:30 2.9 0.3 0.0 0.5 12.9 2:30 ENE
5 16.9 21.6 12:30 11.9 6:30 2.1 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
6 16.2 20.5 14:30 13.6 7:00 2.4 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
7 14.2 19.7 14:00 10.2 00:00 4.3 0.1 0.0 0.5 9.7 11:30 ENE
8 13.6 20.4 16:30 7.1 6:30 5.1 0.3 0.0 0.2 6.4 15:00 ENE
9 14.1 20.9 16:30 8.3 7:00 4.6 0.3 0.0 0.3 8.0 13:30 ENE
10 14.9 20.4 16:00 9.4 7:00 3.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
11 14.0 18.2 15:00 9.6 5:30 4.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
12 14.3 19.5 17:00 9.9 1:00 4.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
13 14.5 18.5 17:00 11.1 7:30 3.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.7 23:30 NE
14 14.6 19.3 15:30 9.9 6:30 3.8 0.1 0.0 1.3 17.7 00:00 NE
15 14.1 19.0 16:00 11.9 7:30 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 12.9 0:30 ENE
16 15.9 20.6 15:00 11.6 2:00 2.8 0.4 0.0 0.5 11.3 15:30 ENE
17 16.8 22.0 15:30 13.9 7:30 2.1 0.5 0.0 1.4 14.5 3:30 NE
18 17.1 21.4 15:30 14.3 8:00 1.8 0.6 4.8 0.3 11.3 15:00 NE
19 15.7 17.2 0:30 14.8 7:30 2.7 0.0 4.0 0.2 9.7 4:00 ENE
20 16.0 19.1 15:30 14.4 00:00 2.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.2 23:30 E
21 13.4 18.0 14:00 9.1 00:00 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.5 12.9 11:00 ENE
22 12.3 19.1 13:00 6.0 6:30 6.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
23 12.7 18.8 13:30 7.2 7:00 5.6 0.0 1.8 0.5 11.3 12:30 W
24 13.1 18.1 15:00 8.4 00:00 5.2 0.0 1.8 0.5 11.3 16:00 SE
25 13.6 19.1 12:00 7.9 3:00 4.8 0.0 0.0 1.1 14.5 15:00 W
26 16.6 21.6 13:30 13.6 22:30 2.2 0.4 0.8 0.3 12.9 1:30 W
27 15.5 19.1 14:00 12.1 4:30 2.9 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.6 0:30 NE
28 16.7 20.9 14:30 12.7 5:30 2.1 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
29 14.9 18.6 14:30 12.1 8:00 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- ---
30 15.7 19.6 14:00 12.3 1:00 2.8 0.1 0.2 0.6 19.3 23:00 ESE
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15.0 23.7 1 6.0 22 105.6 6.2 14.6 0.3 19.3 30 ENE
Max >= 32.0: 0
Max <= 0.0: 0
Min <= 0.0: 0
Min <= -18.0: 0
Max Rain: 4.80 ON 18/09/14
Days of Rain: 7 (> .2 mm) 2 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm)
Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration