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September started with some fine sunny days
It was another month of below average sunshine hours, I suspect worse than August and after such a good start to the month. In August around 30% of actual daylight hours were sunny set against only 26% for September. Don’t hold me to these figures it’s a difficult subject to measure with any degree of accuracy!
Rainfall has been only slightly above the typical average for September. We had 10 days in the month with some rainfall with most of the rainfall early in the month. With the cooler temperature there has been no need to water the plot. Our brassicas planted in late August have grown well.
We also had some very windy weather this month. I recorded 5 days with wind gusts of 15mph or more even in our sheltered garden protected by house and trees. The maximum wind gust speed recorded was 23.0mph on the 24th of the month, which is a yearly high. Fortunately this only resulted in minor damaged on the plot.
The cardoons suffered in the windy weather
On the plot it’s the time of year when clearing the remaining summer crops is the main priority. It’s time to take stock of what grew well and what didn’t and consider how things might be improved upon for next season.
Carrots have done particularly well this year
Temperature Data
Maximum temperature [warmest day?] 23.4°C on 1st September
Lowest maximum temperature [coldest day] 12.1°C on 24th September
Minimum temperature [coldest night] 4.1°C on 25th September
Maximum average temperature 17.0°C on 10th September
Lowest average temperature 8.9°C on 25th September
Smallest temperature variation in 24hrs 2.8°C on 27th September [13.2°C to 10.4°C]
Smallest temperature variation in 24hrs 2.8°C on 28th September [14.7°C to 11.9°C]
Largest temperature variation in 24hrs 17.2°C on 1st September [23.4°C to 6.2°C]
Rainfall Data
Rainfall in month 65.8 mm (long term average 58.3mm)
Wettest day in month 6th September 18.8mm
Highest rain rate 43.4mm/hr at 16:00 on 23rd September
Wind Speed Data
Maximum wind speed 7.0 mph on 24th September
September 2010 Weather Data
September 2010 Weather Summary
September started off really well with some super sunny days and raised hopes were high for a really good September to make up for the poor July and August. Alas this was not to be as the month gradually deteriorated and by the end of the month we were struggling to find any sunny days at all.
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for SEP. 2010
NAME: Ossett Weather Station CITY: Ossett COUNTY: West Yorkshire
ELEV: 65 m LAT: 53° 40' 39" N LONG: 1° 33' 26" W
TEMPERATURE (°C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (mph)
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 15.1 23.4 14:00 6.2 6:30 4.4 1.2 0.0 0.3 7.0 20:30 E
2 15.2 21.9 16:00 10.2 7:00 3.7 0.6 0.0 0.6 8.0 19:00 E
3 15.1 20.6 15:00 9.5 2:30 3.7 0.4 0.0 0.3 6.0 14:00 SE
4 14.2 19.9 14:30 7.7 6:30 4.3 0.2 0.0 0.6 9.0 15:00 SE
5 16.4 21.1 16:00 12.4 7:00 2.3 0.4 0.0 2.0 13.0 15:30 SE
6 15.8 20.5 12:00 12.0 6:00 2.8 0.3 18.8 2.6 20.0 12:30 SE
7 14.9 19.5 15:00 11.3 00:00 3.5 0.1 16.2 0.8 13.0 14:30 SE
8 13.8 19.6 16:00 9.4 3:30 4.6 0.1 0.0 0.1 6.0 11:00 WSW
9 15.1 20.8 14:00 9.6 7:30 3.6 0.3 0.0 0.7 9.0 18:30 WNW
10 17.1 22.8 16:30 12.2 1:30 2.2 1.0 5.4 1.0 13.0 12:00 WSW
11 16.4 19.9 14:00 12.2 22:00 2.0 0.1 5.0 0.6 11.0 13:30 WSW
12 14.2 18.5 12:30 11.6 7:00 4.1 0.0 1.0 1.0 13.0 15:00 WSW
13 15.6 18.4 16:00 11.8 0:30 2.7 0.0 0.2 1.8 15.0 20:30 WSW
14 15.9 18.6 13:30 10.6 23:00 2.4 0.0 1.8 3.2 18.0 14:30 WNW
15 12.0 13.9 13:00 10.1 3:00 6.3 0.0 0.4 2.6 18.0 9:30 WNW
16 12.8 17.0 14:00 9.4 00:00 5.5 0.0 0.0 1.7 12.0 17:30 WNW
17 10.7 15.1 14:00 6.3 7:00 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.7 9.0 10:00 WNW
18 10.9 15.6 12:30 6.7 4:00 7.4 0.0 0.0 0.7 10.0 11:00 WSW
19 13.8 16.0 18:30 10.8 0:30 4.5 0.0 1.0 1.3 11.0 22:30 WSW
20 14.9 17.3 11:00 13.2 23:30 3.4 0.0 2.8 1.1 12.0 11:00 WSW
21 15.1 20.5 15:00 8.7 7:00 3.7 0.4 0.0 0.0 2.0 0:30 WSW
22 16.0 22.5 14:30 10.8 7:30 3.0 0.7 0.8 0.1 7.0 16:00 WSW
23 15.3 19.6 13:00 12.1 00:00 3.1 0.1 6.0 0.3 8.0 12:00 WSW
24 10.3 12.1 0:30 7.5 00:00 8.0 0.0 1.4 2.8 23.0 8:00 ENE
25 9.0 13.3 15:30 4.1 7:30 9.3 0.0 0.0 1.1 12.0 16:00 NW
26 10.7 13.2 14:00 8.5 4:00 7.6 0.0 0.0 1.7 12.0 12:30 WNW
27 12.2 13.2 16:30 10.4 0:30 6.1 0.0 0.4 1.3 10.0 5:30 ENE
28 13.0 14.7 13:00 11.9 22:00 5.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 6.0 11:00 E
29 13.4 15.3 16:00 10.2 00:00 4.9 0.0 4.4 0.9 9.0 8:30 SE
30 11.9 17.8 15:30 6.2 7:00 6.4 0.0 0.2 0.2 6.0 3:00 WSW
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13.9 23.4 1 4.1 25 138.7 6.0 65.8 1.1 23.0 24 WSW
Max >= 32.0: 0
Max <= 0.0: 0
Min <= 0.0: 0
Min <= -
Max Rain: 18.80 ON 06/09/10
Days of Rain: 16 (> .2 mm) 7 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm)
Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration
