Huddersfield Weather Watch – June 2015
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:16:00 BST
June ends with a heatwave
TEMPERATURES gradually increased through the month which ended in a heat wave. Temperatures for the month as a whole however, were slightly below average for the time of year. June was much drier than average and there were some particularly high wind speeds recorded during the first week of the month. The average figures are those recorded since 1990 from the School of Applied Sciences weather station.
The monthly mean temperature was 14.8°C slightly lower than the average figure of 15.1°C. The warmest day of the month was Tuesday 30th with an average temperature of 23.9°C (average 21.3°C) making it the third warmest June day since our records began and the warmest since 2005. The highest maximum temperature of 30.2°C (the fifth highest recorded by our weather station) was also recorded on this day. The coldest day of the month was Sunday 14th with an average temperature of 10°C. The lowest minimum of 4.6°C was recorded on Monday 8th.
Just 35.8mm of rainfall fell during the month compared to the average figure for June of 62.72mm. The wettest day of the month was Monday 1st with 20mm of rainfall (55.9% of the month’s total). Nineteen days of the month escaped rainfall with the driest spell falling between Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 11th inclusive.
The mean wind speed for the month was 11.45km/hr. The highest mean wind speed was 29.5km/hr recorded on Tuesday 2nd. The highest gust of wind for the whole month was 108.36km/hr recorded on Friday 5th; this is the highest gust of wind recorded for June since our new weather station was installed in 2005.
The prevailing wind direction for the month was south west.
Julie Walker
Resource Centre and Environmental Technician
School of Applied Sciences
