Weather report November 2017

There are a few minor changes to what went in the Gazette,

...  mainly a matter of me solving a computer problem.  The main issue was on the side of the keyboard away from the screen!
I do apologise to all chimpanzees, or indeed any life form more advanced than pond sludge, who wouldn't make a mistake as daft as the one I did!   Whatever, we're back on line!

Mainly a temperate month, with a very welcome serve of rain!

Rainfall

Yes, we got some!  At one stage it looked as though we might get over 100mm for the month but we 'only' got 76.4mm.  This is well above 2016 (and the average for the area since 1983) but slightly below the average of the last 10 years at our place.
 We are now well over 50% of the average rainfall , Year-to-Date.  Although I am very dubious about the statistical validity of projecting a 4th order polynomial with only 11 observations the value of R2 is pretty good.

Temperatures

At an early point in the month I commented that given the cold start, and low forecast temperatures we could be looking at the lowest average minimum ever for this month.  However some warmth arrived later in the month and we didn't achieve that.  Here are the daily extremes which clearly show the warming through the month..
 The next two charts show the average monthly value for maximum and minimum,  The maximum was still a little down ...
 ..  but the minimum, possibly due to the number of wet (or at least cloudy) days, was well up.
Obviously frosts were not an issue and we only had 2 days above 30oC compared to an average of 5 such days.

Humidity

The chart below shows relative humidity for 3pm in % and rain in mm.  They both (sort of) fit on the same axis.
 As would be expected, in most cases the higher humidity occurs on days on which it rained.  I was a tad surprised at the number of days (11) with rH below 40%.  To my surprise the average rH for the month at almost exactly 50% was greatly above both 2016 and the average of the previous 4 years.

Wind

A rather windy month overall (although calmer than August-September this year).
Most of the windy days were early in the month, and there is very little (r2 = 0.35) correlation between wind and rain!

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