Huddersfield Weather Watch - January 2014

Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:33:00 GMT

Making a splash - only one day of January escaped rainfall

It was Huddersfield’s wettest January since 2008, with only one day of the month escaping rainfall.  It was also the mildest since 2008, with temperatures only falling below zero on three days.  The average figures here are those recorded since 1990 from the School of Applied Sciences Weather Station.

The monthly mean temperature was 5.97˚C,  which is 0.82˚C higher than the average figure for January of 5.15˚C.  The warmest day of the month was Monday 6^th with an average temperature of 9.3˚C.  The highest maximum temperature of the month was 12.3˚C,  recorded on Saturday 5^th.  The coldest day of the month was Saturday 11^th, when an average temperature of 2.4˚C was recorded, the lowest minimum temperature of -1.9˚C was also recorded on this day.  The temperatures fell below zero on just three days of the month.

It was the wettest month since December 2012.  Thursday 30^th was the only day of the month when it didn’t rain.  A total of 119.6mm of rainfall was recorded during the month which is 128% of the average rainfall of 93.4mm.  The wettest day of the month was Wednesday 8^th, with 18.8mm of rainfall (15.7% of the month’s total).  Only one day of the month escaped rainfall; this is only the third time this has happened for all months since our records began.

The mean wind speed for the month was 11.77km/hr.  The highest mean wind speed was 25.56km/hr recorded on Tuesday 7^th.  The highest gust of wind for the whole month was 97.2km/hr recorded on Sunday 5^th.

The prevailing wind direction for the month was south west.

The University Weather Watch is compiled by 

Julie Walker

Resource Centre and Environmental Technician

School of Applied Sciences

University of Huddersfield

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