Summary for May and Spring 2013

May
May was a very cold month being 1.4C below the long-term average and the coldest since 1996. There were three notably poor days for a spring month. On the 14th the thermometer struggled to reach a maximum of 9.6C (average is 17C) also it was the wettest day with 15.7mm of rainfall. On the 24th a maximum of 10.1C was reached but this was accompanied by gale force winds gusting to 36mph making it feel very cold. Finally in the 28th there was continuous rain throughout the daytime. The total rainfall was 62.7mmm being 108% of the long-term average. The total hours of sunshine was 96% compared to the average of recent years.
Spring
The mean temperature was 2.1C below the long-term average making it the second coldest spring that I have recorded as 1984 was marginally colder. Rainfall for the three months totalled 191mm which is 109% of the long-term average.