BABLAKE WEATHER STATION
COVENTRY
COVENTRY
BABLAKE WEATHER STATION COVENTRY
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The local forecast up until 1800hr on Friday 3rd September 2010.Coventry emjoyed its sunniest day since July on Wednesday, the first day of autumn, with yet more pleasant spells of sunshine to come in this first week of September it seems. By the looks of it,it will remain fine and dry right through the coming weekend, and pleasantly warm too, though increasingly breezy by Sunday and early next week. On Thursday, it will be fine and dry again, and we can look forward to some prolonged spells of hazy sunshine. It will feel warm again in the sun today in a light easterly breeze with maximum temperatures around 22°C, a couple of degrees above average for the 2nd September (20.3°C) in Coventry. A fine dry night will follow with minima falling to around 10°C, so not quite as cool as of late. Friday promises to be pleasantly warm and dry with prolonged sunny spell and highs around 21°C in a light easterly breeze. Outlook - becoming more unsettled perhaps by the middle of next week. Did you know..........? Last month was the coolest August in Coventry since 1993 and the wettest since 2004. Summer 2010 was our warmest summer since 2006!
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| Just for the record, looking back through the archives, we find that...........
...........................we enjoyed a warm autumn day in Coventry on the 2nd September 1984 with a maximum temperature of 25.5°C recorded at Bablake. ...........................we recorded 12.1 hours of early autumn sunshine on this day in 1982. ...........................as a contrast, it was wet on the 2nd September 1939 with 17.3mm of rain in just 15 minutes during an evening thunderstorm. | Extracts from a "typical year" in CoventrySeptember - "autumn's May"September is a transitional month - the early days hang on to summer, so it is not unknown for hot days to occur at this time. Witness 34.2°C in 1906, though 23°C was more usually the hottest day of the month from 1971-2000. 26°C was more typically the warmest September day since the 1980's though - in 2006 the hottest day recorded 28.1°C. September is often drier than any of the summer months; in fact, there is often a period of settled weather as anticyclones keep the unsettled low pressure systems at bay. This does have its drawbacks however, as the nights are getting longer now, so an early autumn ground frost, perhaps accompanied by mist and fog cannot be ruled out. The fine, summer pattern of weather is likely to break down mid - month with a period of cooler, windy weather heralding the arrival of autumn. The 1980's were the warmest decade for September in the 20th century (14.2°C), with only 2 cold months in the last 30 years of the century - 1974 and 1986. Of course September 2006 became the warmest September since before 1659, and the first September month for 50 years to be warmer than the previous August - this had only happened 9 times in over 350 years in Central England! In the first decade of the 21st century, the avearge September temperatures has been 14.9°C. During the 20th century however, September rainfall increased by 34% ; in the same period sunshine levels have also risen - by 20%. So what of Autumn in Coventry?Autumn in Coventry is a surprisingly warm season - warmer than spring by at least 2°C. There has been considerable warming in the autumn season in the past two decades, with 7 of the 10 warmest autumns on record occuring since 1990. In recent years, each of 2005, 2006 and 2009 have been the warmest autumn seasons on record, with autumn 2006 eclipsing the previous record by almost a whole degree! Only spring is drier than autumn, though it does also record more sunshine than autumn. In the past it was renowned as a season of thick fogs, though this is now a thing of the past, thanks to the Clean Air Act. |
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