Eucalypt Silhouette

Weekly temperatures were high all month, peaking at 6.4° above normal on the 17th and never less than 3.4° above normal. Seven days had peak temperature over 40° (fewer than the nine in February 2017). Only one day was cooler than normal, while no nights were.
There were four rain days, with 18 mm recorded on the 21st.

Comparing January months

January 2019 was very hot: more than two degrees hotter than any recent month. Mean temperatures were far above the normal January temperatures for this station (means for the decade from March 1999):

Mean Maximum: 38.4°, above normal by 4.6°.
Mean average: 30.8°, above normal by 4.8°.
Mean minimum: 23.2°, above normal by 5.2°.

Manilla was not the only hot place. Australia-wide, this was the warmest January on record.

Apart from high air temperatures, Manilla’s climate was near normal. Even the subsoil temperature was normal. So were the cloudiness, dew point and daily temperature range.
The rainfall of 25.0 mm was at the 15th percentile, far below the average (87 mm). I will report the on-going drought in another post.

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.  Since no 9 am readings have been recorded since August, I have substituted my non-standard gauge readings for all days.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.

Stick Insect

Weekly temperatures, which began normal, then remained high all month, peaking
around four degrees above normal on the 18th and again on the 29th. Only a few days or nights were cooler than normal.
There were six rain days, grouped around the 16th, which had 25 mm. Earlier and later times had sunny skies and low dew points.

Comparing December months

Remarkably, the three mean temperatures this month are practically the same as those of both December 2017 and December 2016. They are higher, but by no more than 0.2°, near the limit that can be read on my thermometers. The mean daily maximum of 33.9° and the mean daily mean of 26.1° are the hottest for December in this record from 1999. (The mean daily minimum of 18.3° was exceeded by 18.6° in December 2009.)
This was one of the most sunny December months. The percentage of cloudy mornings (19.4%) was the same as in December 2006, but higher than in 2002 or 2005 (both 16.1%).
The rainfall of 34.5 mm is at the 22nd percentile, far below the average (74 mm). Lower rainfall totals occurred in December of 2001 (34 mm) and 2006 (19 mm). I have reported the on-going drought in another post.

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.  Since no 9 am readings have been recorded since August, I have substituted my non-standard gauge readings for all days.
All other data, including subsoil at 750 mm, are from 3 Monash Street, Manilla.