Submitted by Bill Caulfeild-Browne
The mean temperature for the month was essentially normal – just 0.4C of a degree above expected. The low of 5.8C was reached near the beginning of the month, on the 9th. The high of 24.5 was reached on the 21st, the last day of summer. Both of these readings are unusual as one would expect the warmer days to be early in the month and the colder days later. Mother Nature fooled us again.
Rainfall was copious with 117 mm of the wet stuff falling on Big Tub. This is well above the norm of 82 mm. but far short of the record 161 mm. we experienced back in 2011. It rained on nearly half the days of the month – 13 out of 30.
This is reflected in the sunshine. It was the least sunny September in the last five years with less than a dozen dawn-to-dusk sunny days.
The month ended with violent thunderstorms. At around 6pm on the 30th, the wind switched from SE to NW and gusted to 71 kms/hr. This was accompanied by 27 mm. of rain which fell in less than 20 minutes. This was a real gully washer which left mud and gravel sprayed across Highway 6 along with some local flooding.
October has started out with one warm day but has quickly deteriorated to cold and wet. Let’s hope that by the time you read this, better Fall weather will have arrived.
