{"id":2566,"date":"2013-08-01T19:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2013-08-01T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:54:31","slug":"weather-review-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Weather review &#8211; July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2013 was the hottest month ever recorded here with an average <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Temperature\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Temperature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">temperature<\/a> of 18.0\u00b0C, and the maximum temperature of 29.0\u00b0C recorded on the 13th at 16:45, was the highest temperature ever recorded at Bracken House. This ended a run of six successive months of below average temperatures. The minimum temperature recorded was 9.0\u00b0C recorded on the 2nd at 03:05. The mean temperature for July is now 16.5\u00b0C. The average daily maximum temperature was 23.4\u00b0C, and the average daily minimum was 13.1\u00b0C. The average dew-point of 13.7\u00b0C was a station record, as was the maximum heat index of 30.3\u00b0C, recorded at 17:38 on the 22nd. Sunshine hours were 135.6, well up on 2012&#8217;s 93.0 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rain\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Rainfall<\/a> in the month totalled 65.8 millimetres, well down on last year&#8217;s total of 91.8, but 7.2 millimetres above the average for July. Almost 50% of the month&#8217;s rainfall (32.4 millimeters) fell on the 23rd, making it the wettest day of the year so far and the fourth wettest day ever at Bracken House. Rain fell on a total of 11 days, with the 22nd&#8217;s total of 12.8 millimetres the second wettest day in the month. 259.0 millimetres have now fallen in 2013, 40.3 millimetres less than what is expected by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Atmospheric pressure\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atmospheric_pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">barometric pressure<\/a> for the month was 1035.4 millibars, recorded on the 8th at 08:29. The minimum barometric pressure was 997.8 millibars, recorded on the 28th at 02:57. The average pressure for the month was 1019.4 millibars.<\/p>\n<p>Winds were very light in July 2013, with the maximum <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wind speed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wind_speed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">wind speed<\/a> being 13.8 mph from 293\u00b0 (WNW) on the 28th at 10:12, and the maximum gust speed being 21.9 mph from 293\u00b0 (WNW) on the 28th at 10:43. The average wind speed for the month was 2.4 mph, and the average gust speed was 4.5 mph. The total windrun was 1587.6 miles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2567\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/07-2013.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2567\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2567\" alt=\"Weather Underground graph for July 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/07-2013.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Weather Underground\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weather_Underground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Weather Underground<\/a> graph for July 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=2391\" target=\"_blank\">Weather review &#8211; June 2013<\/a> (alanrowley.info)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=2463\" target=\"_blank\">New all-time high temperature set<\/a> (alanrowley.info)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=5376cd23-e3b9-420b-9b42-4a18e3b1c1f2\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2013 was the hottest month ever recorded here with an average temperature of 18.0\u00b0C, and the maximum temperature of 29.0\u00b0C recorded on the 13th at 16:45, was the highest temperature ever recorded at Bracken House. This ended a run of six successive months of below average temperatures. The minimum temperature recorded was 9.0\u00b0C recorded <a href='http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=2566' class='excerpt-more'>[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}