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Your wettest month was in September?! How unusual is that? Looks like it tied for the number of wet days, too. Did the plants look different than usual for the season?
Looks like you go the same horrible winter cloudy streak (valley fog?) as last winter. Where'd you get sunshine data?
The official figure will be slightly different because of the different recording period, but this is more or less it. Rain every day for the first time ever is the biggest story of this month, with a total of 172 mm, also we had the fewest sub-zeroes ever recorded for a January at just the one. Another record was the 68 cm of snow recorded on the 12th, which beats the 48 cm we recorded in 1991 and is extra impressive considering the complete lack of recorded snowfall around that date. Bingley doesn't record sunshine and the Bradford figure won't be available for another couple of weeks, but I would estimate around 30 hours. If any day had more than about 50% sun then I sure as hell don't remember it!
I'm too lazy to tot up all those numbers, but judging by other sites in the region we'll be about 1C above average. The lack of proper cold is a continuing theme this winter everywhere in the country. Only once has nowhere in the UK gone below -10C in a winter, and that was in 1989-1990 when the lowest temperature anywhere got was -8.4C. The lowest temperature this season as far as I am aware is the -8.1C at Braemar back in November.
Odd weather pattern. Most days are all similar to each other temperature-wise.
Your wettest month was in September?! How unusual is that? Looks like it tied for the number of wet days, too. Did the plants look different than usual for the season?
Looks like you go the same horrible winter cloudy streak (valley fog?) as last winter. Where'd you get sunshine data?
2013 was a very odd year for EUG and other PNW locations.
Eugene was one of the driest (if not the driest) "major" cities along the I5 corridor.
September is usually very dry here (less than one inch is common). It's also unusual to have such a high average low for that month. It's usually around 45F/7C. The plants look normal and the grass is green, although the turn of fall foliage was pretty early and long last year (August-November). I'm not sure if that was due to a longer than normal dry spell or if it was due to other factors, since the northeast also saw early fall foliage.
The low sunshine hours are primarily due to fog. It's pretty depressing after 14 consecutive days or so. Luckily, January 2014 was an improvement over January 2013 which was almost entirely foggy day after day...lol.
I estimate the sunshine hours.
Anyway, I'm still waiting for a really wet month since I moved to Eugene (July 2012). February doesn't look promising yet but March might deliver.
Colder than normal month, the coldest month since January 2009. The low of 6F/−14C on the 7th is the coldest since February 1996, and together with the 9F/−13C low on the 22nd, marks the first winter at DCA with two or more single-digit lows (F) since 1995/96.
Normal HI/LO/MEAN (F): 43.4/28.6/36.0
Actual (F): 40.8/23.7/32.2
Departure (F): −2.6/−4.9/−3.8
Normal temp (C): 6.3/−1.9/2.2
Temperature (C): 4.9/−4.6/0.13
Departure (C): −1.4/−2.7/−2.1
Range in highs: 19F to 61F (−7C to 16C), on 22nd and 13th, respectively.
Range in lows: 6F to 41F (−14C to 5C), on 7th and 14th, respectively.
HDD (65F base): 1008, 109 more than normal
Days with low <= 0C: 24 (normal 20.3)
Days with high <= 0C: 7 (normal 4.8)
Days with high >= 10C: 9 (normal 8.6)
Normal precip (in/mm): 2.81/71.4
Actual (in/mm): 2.58/65.5
%Normal anomaly: −8.2
Days with measurable (>=0.01 in/0.25 mm) precip: 8
Most in 24 hr: 1.02 in/25.9 mm on 10th/11th
Normal snowfall (in/cm): 5.6/14.2
Actual (in/cm): 6.6/16.8
%Normal anomaly: 17.9
Season-to-date snowfall (in/cm): 8.1"/20.6 cm, or 3.6% less than normal
Days with trace or more of snow: 11
Days with measurable (>=0.1 in/0.25 cm) snow: 4
Most in 24 hr: 3.8 in/9.7 cm on 21
There were 4 "clear", 17 partly cloudy, and 10 cloudy days.
Trondheim Airport Værnes (12m)
Monthly average temp (24-hr): -1.6C Departure: 1.8C above the old 1961-90 average
Average daily max temp: 0.6C
Average daily min temp: -3.9C
Absolute max temp: 9.4C on 7. January
Absolute min temp: -16.9C on 13. January
Precipitation: 3.9 mm. 6% of average!
Trondheim - Voll (127m)
Monthly average: -2.3C Departure 0.7C above the old 1961-90 average
Average daily max temp: -0.3C
Average daily min temp: -4.7C
Absolute max temp: 8.9C on the 7. January
Absolute min temp: -16.4C on 13. January
Precipitation: 11 mm.
Hitra - Sandstad (13m, island near the mouth of the fjord)
Monthly average: 1.2C
Average daily max temp: 3.2CC
Average daily min temp: -1.1C
Absolute max temp: 10.6C on the 7. January
Absolute min temp: -9.9C on 13. January
Precipitation: 6.3 mm.
Røros Airport (625m, inland and up in the mountains)
Monthly average: -9.6C
Average daily max temp: -6.3CC
Average daily min temp: -13.4C
Absolute max temp: 4.6C on the 7. January
Absolute min temp: -34.8C on 13. January
Precipitation: 18.2 mm.
The real story here in January has been the lack of precipitation and forest and brush fires, one of these, in Flatanger200 km north of Trondheim, destroyed more then 60 buildings.
A lot of weather stations, especially in Nordland procince, have set new precipitation records for January - lowest recording.
Some examples:
Sulitjelma: 0.0 mm Recordings since 1895, previous record 3.4 mm from 1943, normal 99 mm.
Gausvik in Harstad: 0.0 mm. Recordings sine 1911, previous record 13 mm from 1922, normal 138mm.
Bodø Airport: 0.0 mm. Recordings since 1953, previous record 16.3 mm, normal 86 mm.
Here in Trondheim, a new weather station at Lade only recorded 0.2 mm in January.
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. Bingley doesn't record sunshine and the Bradford figure won't be available for another couple of weeks, but I would estimate around 30 hours. If any day had more than about 50% sun then I sure as hell don't remember it!
And that in the middle of summer.
