BABLAKE WEATHER STATION,
seasonal Averages and Totals for Winter 2019 -20
*Anomaly figures compare values to 30 year averages*
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Anomaly |
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Date |
Temperatures |
(ยบ C) |
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Seasonal mean |
6.2 |
+1.7 |
Warmest day |
13.6 |
14/1 |
Coldest day |
4.4 |
17/12 |
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Average maximum |
9.1 |
+1.8 |
Warmest night |
8.4 |
12/1 |
Coldest night |
-2.1 |
6/2 |
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Average minimum |
3.3 |
+1.6 |
Lowest Grass Minimum |
-6.9 |
6/2 |
Rainfall |
(mm) |
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Total |
267.2 |
161% |
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Rain days > 0.2mm |
60 |
Wettest day |
23.8 |
15/2 |
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Wet days>1.0mm |
44 |
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Very wet days >5mm |
17 |
Longest dry spell |
5 days |
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Sunshine |
(hr) |
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Total |
211.5 |
107% |
Sunniest day |
7.2 |
6/2 27/2 |
Days without sunshine |
21 |
Longest period without sun |
4 days |
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Days with: |
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Air frosts |
9 |
Snowfall |
6 |
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Ground frosts |
34 |
Snow lying |
2 |
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Fog |
1 |
Gales |
1 |
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Thunder |
1 |
Hail |
3 |
Winter 2019-20 in Coventry
This has been our mildest winter (6.2C) since 2015/16 (6.7C), with only 5 winters warmer than this year since 1892:
6.7C2015-16
6.6C1973-74
6.5C1989-90, 2006-07
6.4C1988-89
6.2C2019-20
6.0C1997-98
5.9C1898-99, 2013-14, 2018-19
This past decade (2011-20) has seen winter temperatures on average 1.6C warmer than the last decade of the 19th century in Coventry.
Winter 2019-20 will be remembered as a wet season, though only February was very wet; with 267.2mm of rain, 61% above average, this was the wettest winter in Coventry since 2013-14 (310.6mm).
Only six winters have been wetter than this year since 1892, namely 1911-12, 1914-15, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1989-90 and 2013-14.
Thanks to a number of Clean Air Acts, sunshine levels have been on the increase for many decades; winter in Coventry has averaged 221.6hr of sunshine from 2011-2020, double that of a century ago.
However, with 211.5hr of sunshine (7% above average), winter 2019-20 has been the dullest winter in Coventry since 2016/17 (176.8hr), even though only 16 winters have recorded more sunshine since 1892.