Huddersfield Weather Watch - July 2015
Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:37:00 BST
Warm start, wet finish
AT the start of the month, most of England was extremely hot with thundery outbreaks, many temperature records were broken across the country, including some very high temperatures recorded in Huddersfield. The heat however was short lived and temperatures for the month as a whole were much lower than average. Higher than average rainfall was also recorded for the month. The average figures are those recorded since 1990 from the school of Applied Sciences weather station.
July was the sixth coolest since our records began; the monthly mean temperature was 15.9°C, over a degree cooler than the average figure for July of 17.1°C. The warmest day of the month was Wednesday 1st with an average temperature of 25.1°C; the warmest July day since our records began! Wednesday 1st saw the third highest recorded temperature, for all months, since our records began reaching a figure of 33.4°C. The coldest day of the month was Tuesday 28th with an average figure of 12.5°C; the lowest minimum temperature of 7°C was also recorded on this day.
It was the sixth wettest July since our records began with a total of 84.6mm of rain. The wettest day of the month was Monday 27th with 29.2mm of rainfall (34.5% of the month’s total). Just 11 days of the month had no rain with real dry spells; the driest just 48 hours between Thursday 9th and Friday 10th.
The mean wind speed for the month was 9.29km/hr. The highest mean wind speed was 19.44km/hr recorded on Friday 17th; the maximum gust for the month was 84.96 also recorded on this day.
The prevailing wind direction was south west.
Julie Walker
Resource Centre and Environmental Technician
School of Applied Sciences
