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August 2020: warm nights and cool days

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Weather log for August 2020

Weather log August 2020 Manilla

In August 2020, both the second and third weeks had warm nights that raised the weekly temperatures. The night of the 15th was especially warm, above normal by 8.5°. With the warm nights most days were cloudy, and five days had more than 0.2 mm of rain. The highest reading, 17.6 mm, was on the 8th.
There were 11 frosts (normally 15).

Comparing August months

Climate August 2020 Manilla NSW

The last three August months have all had very low moisture values, with August 2019 being also very warm. This month was much more humid: a higher dew point (2.0°), cloudy skies (42%) and an extremely narrow daily temperature range (12.3°) that was 4° narrower than normal.
Rainfall, however, was only at the 38th percentile (27.8 mm). That is still far below the August average (40 mm) and has added little to depleted water storages.

Drought

I will report separately on the on-going drought. Extreme rainfall shortages persist.

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. Recording resumed on 20 July 2019. The gauge failed again during February (25/02/2020 ), but was repaired on 11/3/20.
My estimates of early morning dew point have drifted anomalously low. From August 2019, I use data from the Tamworth Airport published graphs.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.

July 2020: warm and humid

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Weather log for July 2020

Repeating the pattern of June, the second week of July was 3° above normal. Again, one night (11th) was remarkably high above normal (9.8°). The final week was also warm.
There were 14 frosts (normally 17), but the number of cloudless days (5) was equal lowest for July.
Seven days registered rain above 0.2 mm, the highest being 10.4 mm on the 27th.

Manilla weather log July 2020

Comparing July months

The mean monthly temperature of 11.1° was the same as last year: only 0.3° lower than the warmest July (11.4° in 2013). However, days were rather cool (18.0°), while nights (4.3°) were the 2nd warmest for July. The resulting daily temperature range of 13.7° was narrower than normal. That suggests humidity, agreeing with a high dew point (3.2°) and cloudiness (39%).
The rainfall total of 31.3 mm, being at the 44th percentile, is still well below the July average (41 mm). However, no July rainfall has been much higher at Manilla in eight years (91.4 mm in 2012).

Manilla climate July 2020

Drought

I will report separately on the on-going drought, that still breaks low-rainfall records.

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. Recording resumed on 20 July 2019. The gauge failed again during February (25/02/2020 ), but was repaired on 11/3/20.
My estimates of early morning dew point have drifted anomalously low. From August 2019, I use data from the Tamworth Airport published graphs.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.

June 2020: warm and dry again

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Weather log for June 2020

[Note.
Due to illness, the first seven days of this month were missed for some Manilla values. No actual values were noted for cloud or soil temperature. Daily maximum and minimum air temperatures were estimated by regression on values from Tamworth Airport Automatic Weather Service. Further illness has delayed publication.]

The second week was nearly 3° above normal. One day (13th) was 5.9° above normal. and one night (14th) a remarkable 9.6° above normal. That night also recorded the highest rainfall: 15.2 mm). Later, a cold day, 5.5° below normal, occurred on the 23rd.

Weather log June 2020 Manilla

Comparing June months

All three mean monthly temperatures were one degree above normal, a little warmer than in June last year. The Subsoil temperature was 2 deg above normal.
Moisture indicators were near normal, except for rainfall.
The rainfall total of 20.8 mm was at the 28th percentile for June, which was less than half the long-term average.

Climate Manilla June 2020

Drought

I will report separately on the on-going drought.

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. Recording resumed on 20 July 2019. The gauge failed again during February (25/02/2020 ), but was repaired on 11/3/20.
My estimates of early morning dew point have drifted anomalously low. From August 2019, I use data from the Tamworth Airport published graphs.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.

A cool moist autumn in 2020

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The daily weather log

[Note.
Due to illness, 45 days of this season, from 23rd March to 7th May, were missed for some Manilla values. No values were noted for cloud or soil temperature; mean values shown for the season are estimates only. Missed values of daily maximum and minimum air temperatures were estimated by regression on values from Tamworth Airport Automatic Weather Service.]

Instead of warm spells as in autumn 2019, this season had several cool spells. Three or four had cool days, but one in mid-march had cooler nights. Cool days in late May came with a very narrow daily temperature range, high humidity and cloud.
There were 18 rain days (normally 14) spread through the season, with the highest reading (20.0 mm) on the 1st of May.

Weather log autumn 2020

Comparing autumn seasons

In contrast to the previous two autumn seasons, autumn 2020 was cool and moist. Days (24.4 deg) were 2nd coolest for autumn in the new century (after 2003). Night temperatures were normal, and the mean one degree low.
The rainfall total, 124 mm, was at the 55th percentile, not far below the mean of 134 mm. Other moisture measures were higher: early morning dew point was 9.0 deg, cloudiness 41%, and daily temperature range 13.8 deg.

Climate for autumn 2020

Data. The Bureau of Meteorology automatic rain gauge, Manilla Museum, Station 55312, recorded no readings from 24th February 2020 until 11th March 2020. I used my own readings for that period. Readings later in autumn are from the Manilla (Museum) gauge.

My estimates of early morning dew point have become anomalously low. From 1 August 2019, I use values taken from Tamworth Airport graphs at the time of minimum temperature.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.

May 2020: still cool and moist

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Weather log for May 2020

[Note.
Due to illness, the first seven days of this month were missed for some Manilla values. No actual values were noted for cloud or soil temperature. Daily maximum and minimum air temperatures were estimated by regression on values from Tamworth Airport Automatic Weather Service.]

May weekly mean temperatures were slightly below normal, except in the final days.
The weather varied with three rainy periods about the 1st (20.0 mm), 10th, and 21st. At these times, skies were cloudy, dew points were high, nights were warm and days cold. The daily maximum temperature on the 23rd (10.7°) was the lowest for May in the new century. The first frost came on the 11th May, near the median date for it.

Comparing May months

The climate this May marked a return to the cool and moist conditions of May 2015. It was quite different from May 2018, which was warm and dry, and from May 2019, which was warm and wet.

While the mean monthly temperature (13.0°) was rather low, the mean daily maximum (19.9°) was the lowest on record for May. The mean daily minimum (6.0°) was normal.
The rainfall total of 38.4 mm was at the 59th percentile for May, which was near the average (41 mm). Early morning dew point (4.8°) was also near normal, while moister climate was shown by high cloudiness (42%) and narrow daily temperature range (13.9°).

Drought

I will report separately on the on-going drought.

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. Recording resumed on 20 July 2019. The gauge failed again during February (25/02/2020 ), but was repaired on 11/3/20.
My estimates of early morning dew point have drifted anomalously low. From August 2019, I use data from the Tamworth Airport published graphs.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.