Persian silk tree

Each year, the weather warms by about eight degrees during the three months of spring. This time, the warming came all at once. After cold nights at first, by the third week of September both days and nights were five degrees above normal. As extremes, one day reached 34° and one night 22°. After that, the temperature rose no higher through to the end of the season. By then, such temperatures are normal.

For much of the season, the air was dry, but a humid spell in October brought 63 mm of rain within four days. The season’s rainfall of 134 mm was at the 40th percentile, about 30 mm below average. Other measures of moisture were slightly low.

Air temperatures were near normal, with days slightly warm and nights slightly cool. Spring last year had been two degrees cooler, and spring 2014 two degrees warmer. The subsoil temperature was more than a degree below normal, as it often has been in the last two years.

Data. A Bureau of Meteorology automatic rain gauge operates in the museum yard. From 17 March 2017, 9 am daily readings are published as Manilla Museum, Station 55312.  These reports use that rainfall data when it is available. That gauge failed (again) on the 25th of September 2017, and later readings are from my non-standard gauge.

All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.