January 2021 Weather Report

 This will be a pretty brief report - at least initially - as I have a few things happening.  In summary the month was quite damp and cool.

Rain

My weather station recorded 77.8 mm for the month and my usual pro-rata estimate for the year (😄😄) is 1124 mm.  The amount was well above both long term median and 2019 (and indeed the long term mean for January).

Temperatures

The temperature anomaly for the month came in at -0.66C so quite cool.  This was primarily due to low daily maxima: 22 of 31 days were below the long term average for that day.  In contrast 16 days had an above average minimum.

The daily extremes from BoM are below. The one very hot day stands out easily.

Humidity

As would be expected with above median rainfall quite a humid month with relatively few 1500 hr readings below 60%.

A significant exception is 25 January where the minimum humidity of my weather station was 22%, due to the blast of Northerly winds.  As the graph shows the aridity didn't last long.

Wind

The average daily run was 113 km, which appears quite moderate for the month.  As usual the pattern is all over the place with several days well over 100 km and a few less than 50 km.