2022 - a real record-breaker!
• Hottest year in Sun Hill records (and ever in met office records)
• Highest ever temperature
• Most hours of sunshine since recorder installed 7 years ago
• Coldest December in last 10 years
• Driest year in last 10 years
On October 20th 2022 Royston had more rain in one morning than virtually all months of the year
Another new record high temperature for Royston.
The July 2019 record of 39.0C beaten at 17:49 on July 18th 2022 the highest temperature measured in Royston was 39.2C.
It was a hot night following the record breaking day with the temperature not dropping below 23.6C - another record.
The temperature reached 32.6C at 16:26 today
The Sun Hill weather site is now over twelve years old and the Development Officer thought it time to update the look of the site, starting with News page.
A wider space is available for the posts along with easier navigation between posts. It is also allegedly much easier to use than the old code-it-in-HTML system and it may well be when I can fathom how to use it.
On May 4th there was 7.8 mm of rain after 25 dry days. This is almost as much as fell in the whole of April - 9.9 mm
By the end of April 2022 Royston was down by 50 mm compared with an average year’s rainfall total for January to April, a whole month’s rain.
A mystery downpour for 21 October 2021 is really delayed rain from 20 October 2021.
Removing rubbish from the rain collector released a rush of rainwater.
So 20th and 21st should read 23.4 and 3.4 mm (not 11.4 and 15.4).
The weather station has been given a good wash and brush-up.
Despite the cold and wet of the last week the month, as a whole June was above
the recent average for temperature at 17.1C and below average rainfall despite
one day of downpour. The rainfall was 32.2 mm, about two-thirds of an average
June.
The latest power outage which brought down the Raspberry Pi on June 18th 2021 has again had the electrician scratching his head - see entry below for November 2015 - so again I have had to move the Pi and weather station console to a bedroom on a different ring main. A shame as the console is a quick source of the current weather status when it is in the study downstairs.
There was virtually no rain in April, the third month in a row of low rain as the graph below shows.
According to the Met Office April 2021 had the lowest average minimum temperatures for April in the UK since 1922. April in Royston was not quite the coldest but getting there and certainly the coldest I have recorded.
