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Post by Babu on Jan 5, 2019 13:56:47 GMT -5
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Post by Donar on Jan 5, 2019 14:06:28 GMT -5
Apparently no colours provided for sums below 450 mm   |
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Post by Crunch41 on Jan 5, 2019 14:10:01 GMT -5
I can't see speagles84's post. December was mild with very little snow. Temperatures were almost the same as November and December felt like an extension of late fall. Madison had 3.9" snow on the 31st but Milwaukee was not so lucky. Most precipitation fell as cold rain this month. The lowest temperature was just 13F/-10.6C in Madison, tied for 2nd mildest on record. A normal December reaches -7F/-22C. Milwaukee has yet to break 14F/-10C this winter and every day has been warmer than normal since the 9th. A very boring winter month. Year in summary: Summer and winter were warm, spring and fall were cool. Both cities had 20 more frosts than normal, even with the yearly average low temp warmer than normal. It was very wet. Milwaukee's slightly milder winters really show up on the 32F day count this year. Lots of highs in the 30s and low 40s with nights just below freezing.
For Milwaukee, 3rd wettest year, 5th coldest April, 3rd warmest May, new record high for May.
For Madison, 2nd wettest year, tied 2nd coldest April, 8th warmest May, 2nd wettest May, 2nd wettest August. Hottest day of the year was May (June was hotter for heat index).  In my opinion: Some exciting months but not a good year in general. April and November were cold but winter was mild so there was a lot of days just above freezing. Summer had too much rain. B rating, normal year is A-.
Month by month: January was seasonal. The coldest weather of the year was early January. February started cold and snowy, the best winter weather this year. Then it turned warm and rainy causing minor flooding. March was boring and forgettable. April was exciting and wintry most of the month. I liked it for the novelty, but wouldn't want it to happen too much. May was stormy, very wet and very warm. Very good and an early start to summer. June was warmer and wetter than normal. Hottest part of the year was the end of June, dew points were above 25C which is rare. July was an average month with some good storms. August was wet in Milwaukee and extremely wet in Madison. The Madison weather station was much drier than the west side of the city that saw 11 inches of rain in a day and had major flooding. Too wet for me. September started wet causing more flooding. Warm and wet overall, basically a summer month. Too wet again. October had summer weather and high rainfall to start, then a long below-normal stretch. Madison saw a brief snowstorm but not at the airport. Too wet again. November was dry, finally. Temperature was below normal but not in an exciting way. December was mild with cold rain and hardly any snow and no cold days. Milwaukee saw 0 days with snow cover. |
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Post by Ariete on Jan 5, 2019 14:18:47 GMT -5
Colours provided from 200 mm to 1000 mm  Anomolies ranged generally from 70% in the west to 90% in the east. 100% in Northern Karelia and Northern Lapland. Biggest anomoly was in Western Uusimaa with 66%.
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Post by Ariete on Jan 5, 2019 16:03:37 GMT -5
Pretty damn cold December in Pötsönvaara with 30 ice days. -7.5C mean when Vaasa on the western coast at the same latitude had a -1.7C mean. This was the station's 14th year in operation and 2nd time when it managed 5 months above 10C.
I won't follow Pötsönvaara in 2019 because it's shite, so @kronan has to take over.
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Post by Ariete on Jan 5, 2019 16:37:55 GMT -5
Kumpula now with sunshine stats. Nothing spectacular except for May.
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Post by Donar on Jan 6, 2019 9:02:02 GMT -5
Two more places from Eastern Germany: Bernburg, with a decent record high.  And very dry Quedlinburg in the rainshadow of the Harz.  |
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Post by Speagles84 on Jan 6, 2019 11:33:29 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 12:58:21 GMT -5
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Post by Hiromant on Jan 6, 2019 13:00:52 GMT -5
A yearly summary for the country:
Average temperature: 7,1°C.
Record high: 34,2°C (also the warmest day ever recorded in Tallinn).
Record low: -26,5°C.
Precipitation: 508 mm.
Sunshine: 2069,8 h.
Warmest month: July, 19,9°C.
Coldest month: February, -6,9°C.
Wettest month: September, 84 mm.
Driest month: May, 17 mm.
Sunniest month: May, 408,4 h.
A sunny, warm and dry year, climatic summer (temps above 13°C) lasted for a record-breaking 137 days from May 9 to September 23.
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Post by Crunch41 on Jan 6, 2019 13:01:32 GMT -5
Speagles84 About time! Wow, that's wet. Way too much cold rain in winter. Your summer was cooler than mine, probably from the elevation difference? I am at about 800'.
@kronan I like the one warm summer month, July looks really out of place there. August was barely over 10C and June was even colder.
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Post by Speagles84 on Jan 6, 2019 13:07:58 GMT -5
About time! Wow, that's wet. Way too much cold rain in winter. Your summer was cooler than mine, probably from the elevation difference? I am at about 800'. Yeah wettest year on record here. Not too much cold rain except in February and December this year. My summers are very temperate for my latitude, due to the lakes and elevation - even Pittsburgh city averages 82/63 in July. My elevation plays a huge factor in my weather, I sit at nearly 1500ft above sea level, and rarely ever hit 90F.
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Post by Nidaros on Jan 6, 2019 14:07:10 GMT -5
2018 a few places in Norway
Looking at what climate zone year 2018 fits according to Köpppen: Stavanger had a Csb year - Mediterranean climate (less than 30 mm driest summer month, all months above 0C etc). 2014 was also Csb -year in Stavanger. Ålesund also had a Csb year, as they did in 2016 and 2008 (disclaimer: 2016 & 2008 data source is infoclimat).
Drammen (and Oslo): Dsa year (!) - Humid continental with hot and dry summer, as warmest summer month just above 22C
Trondheim: At the Dfb and Dsb - border. More than half the annual precip came Aug-Oct. In 2014 we had Dwb-year (Cwb if -3C threshold is used for coldest month).
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Post by Babu on Jan 6, 2019 14:38:00 GMT -5
Stockholm was just 0.2'C from getting Csa.
Annual köppen classifications are pointless. Almost all Swedish climates would get a mediterranean rainfall pattern 9/10 years, but none are on average.
Likewise a it's much more difficult to get the oceanic classification than continental since none of the months are allowed to dip below -3'C
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Post by Ariete on Jan 6, 2019 16:06:06 GMT -5
Don't bother to count, but I think Pötsönvaara was pretty close to a Bsk climate last year.
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Post by Babu on Jan 6, 2019 17:39:01 GMT -5
Here's a fun one; the driest station this year in Sweden (and in Northern Europe?) Bsk year. Apart from the arctic circle climates, only two recorded years have been drier in Sweden since 1901, one in Holmön with 196mm in 1901 and in Örskär 219mm in 1933. Interesting how Holmön right outside of Umeå has managed a Bsk year. Highly suspicious record though because Umeå's record is 401 no other stations in that section of Sweden has had less than 300mm ever (except for one 275mm in 1975).  Ariete, Pötsönvaara would've needed either 313mm or 173mm for Bsk depending on whether 70% of the precipitation fell in the summer months or not. |
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Post by Babu on Jan 6, 2019 18:07:25 GMT -5
Actually, now that I think about it, there's a small chance Såtenäs was the driest place in Europe this year. Doesn't happen very often outside of the Med I'd think
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Post by Ariete on Jan 6, 2019 18:51:02 GMT -5
Actually, now that I think about it, there's a small chance Såtenäs was the driest place in Europe this year. Doesn't happen very often outside of the Med I'd think
Bold statement. And false.
I looked up one place, and one place only: Astrakhan. 115 mm of precipitation in 2018.
Then I compared it with the typical winner, Almería, and it had a normal amount of precipitation in 2018: 191 mm.
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Post by bizzy on Jan 6, 2019 18:52:30 GMT -5
Long Island, New York (east of NYC)  The main takeaways for 2018 (no order): 1. Super wet outside of summer 2. 3x normal snowfall 3. Super cold early January 4. Consistent + high Florida-level humidity of July, August, and September. |
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Post by Babu on Jan 7, 2019 1:34:50 GMT -5
Actually, now that I think about it, there's a small chance Såtenäs was the driest place in Europe this year. Doesn't happen very often outside of the Med I'd think
Bold statement. And false.
I looked up one place, and one place only: Astrakhan. 115 mm of precipitation in 2018.
Then I compared it with the typical winner, Almería, and it had a normal amount of precipitation in 2018: 191 mm.
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