Cunning plan to stop rain gauge blocking

The previous blog told of a weeks outage of rain data. Once my brain had started functioning after Covid I rang PRODATA Weather Systems in Littleport Cambs who had sold me the Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus I use. See below.

They sold me a replacement collector which has a much more secure filter. It arrived next and it is now in place - a very simple job to switch the two.

Fingers crossed that this has solved the problem

Lost a bit of rain data

The hurricane struck Royston just as Covid struck me. I have only just felt steady enough to go up and clear the rain collector which was full to the brim. Apologies for no rain measures for the most dramatic week of the year

Wet and Warmish

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In February 2024 the rainfall was 72mm, the highest since 2014 which was 76mm

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An average temperature of 8.5 may not seem high but it is the highest I’ve recorded in Sun Hill

Little changes mean a lot

Average annual changes in temperature are not very large but we all now know the impact of these small changes on the world.
At 11.8C the average temperature for 2023 is not the highest seen but the dotted line shows the upward trend in Royston since 2010

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The highest temperature seen in Royston was 40.2C in 2022. The value for 2023 is 33.7C but the trendline is upwards.

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The rainfall of 532.2mm in 2023 was the highest seen since 2015

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

40.2C at 14:41 Tuesday July 19th

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

Go to History for previous hot days

Welcome to the new look News page

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.