{"id":5722,"date":"2015-05-11T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:35:09","slug":"weather-review-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=5722","title":{"rendered":"Weather review – April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 2014 was much sunnier than average – the second sunniest month ever recorded here. Temperatures were slightly above average and rainfall<\/a> was lower than normal.<\/p>\n

The average temperature<\/a> for the month was 8.8\u00b0C, 0.1\u00b0C above the mean. The highest temperature was 18.4\u00b0C recorded at 16:54 on the 10th, with the lowest temperature being 0.2\u00b0C at 05:56 on the 27th. The average daily high temperature was 13.7\u00b0C, 0.5\u00b0C above the norm and the average low temperature was 4.4\u00b0C, 0.4\u00b0C below the norm. Sunshine hours were 149.3, well above the April average of 99.2, and second only to July 2014, when 159.5 hours were recorded. The UV index<\/a> reached a maximum of 4.3 on the 25th.<\/p>\n

Rainfall for the month was only 14.6 millimetres, well below the average of 39.4 millimetres. Surprisingly, in the last five years, there have been two drier April’s, 11.6 millimetres in 2013 and 6.8 millimetres in 2011. The rainfall for the year now stands at 122.6 millimetres.<\/p>\n

Wind speeds were normal, the highest wind speed<\/a> being 25.3 mph from 248\u00b0 (WSW) on the 12th at 13:25, equalling the April record set in 2013. The highest gust speed was 35.7 mph from 248\u00b0 (WSW) also on the 12th at 14:03. The average wind speed was 4.1 mph, and the average gust speed was 6.5 mph. The average gust speed equalled the lowest ever for April. The total wind run was 2789.3 miles.<\/p>\n

The average barometric pressure for the month was 1020.4 millibars<\/a>, the highest ever in April. The highest pressure was 1036.4 millibars recorded at 09:41 on the 7th, also an April record. The lowest pressure was 1001.2 millibars at 13:19 on the 25th. The average humidity<\/a> was 77%. On the 27th, the humidity dropped to 27%, the lowest ever in April. This was only 1% above the record low humidity set on May 1st 2011.<\/p>\n

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Weather Underground<\/a> graph for April 2015<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 2014 was much sunnier than average – the second sunniest month ever recorded here. Temperatures were slightly above average and rainfall was lower than normal. The average temperature for the month was 8.8\u00b0C, 0.1\u00b0C above the mean. The highest temperature was 18.4\u00b0C recorded at 16:54 on the 10th, with the lowest temperature being 0.2\u00b0C [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":[16,35,215,33,14,13,232,165],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-bracken-house","tag-nottinghamshire","tag-rain","tag-selston","tag-temperature","tag-weather-2","tag-wind","tag-wind-speed","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}