The daily weather log

Reading the 7-day mean temperatures, the month started near normal, but cooled to unusually low figures by the end of the first week – five degrees down! For a week from the 19^th it was only two degrees below normal, then back to four degrees down at the end of the month.

Days were particularly cool, running about 29° instead of 33°. The 12^th was the coolest day, reaching only 21.7°, but this is not as cool as 2/2/04, which was 19.4°. The early morning of Sunday the 10^th plunged to 9.0°, but this also does not match the cold mornings of 7.3° and 7.7° on 3/2/05 and 4/2/05.

The warmest day, Friday the 22^nd, reached only . . .

The daily weather log

The month began sunny and dry, but two degrees cooler than usual. Three rainy days beginning on the fifth brought high humidity and one daily maximum temperature as low as 24.4°. This is nearly 10° below normal! Eight fine days followed, with normal January temperatures.

With a second rainy spell from the 17^th to the 21^st, days were again remarkably cool: five days were more than 8° below normal. In the dry fine weather that followed, all temperatures – maximum, minimum, and mean – were even lower than when the month began. They slowly rose to normal by the end of the month.

Humidity was normal for January: the morning Dew Point was 10° to 12° in the dry spells and 18° in wet spells, giving an average of 14.2°.

Rain fell on nine days. The wettest day. . .

The daily weather log

Only two days, early in the month, had daily maximum temperatures warmer than normal. Decembers average five days over 35°, but there were none this month. The 22^nd was nine degrees cooler than normal, at 24.2°. Daily minimum temperatures varied around the normal values (16°). The 7-day daily average temperature stayed below normal most of the time.

The graphs include the humidity of the air, using the Dew Point idea. All air contains moisture. If it cools to its Dew Point temperature, it gets so moist that cloud or fog forms, and dew appears. On humid days when the Dew Point is above . . .

Warm humid weather, including one night 8° above normal, continued into early November. This developed into a cool rainy week. The coldest day (the 7^th), registering 18.6° (10.5° below normal!), followed the wettest day, which had 17.2 mm of rain.

Eight sunny days followed, (Good luck for the NSW Gliding Championships at Lake Keepit!) ending with a storm on the 19^th. Four more cool wet days brought the rain total to 67.8 mm. The last days of the month were overcast with very little rain (0.4 mm).

This was an average November for rainfall and mean temperature. Generally, days were