BABLAKE WEATHER STATION
COVENTRY
COVENTRY
BABLAKE WEATHER STATION COVENTRY
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The local forecast up until 1800hr on Wednesday 17th March 2010.Although it has turned milder over the last few days, it will become much more unsettled with more of a westerly airflow from the Atlantic in the run up to the weekend with more rain in this period than we had for a while. As we approach the end of the month however, it may well turn colder again if the GFS model is to be believed, so perhaps winter is not finished with us yet. In the meantime, Tuesday promises to be a splendid mild spring day with prolonged spells of sunshine, though there may well be some cloud developing into the afternoon. It may feel pleasantly warm today in the sunshine, and in a moderate south to southth-westerly breeze, with maximum temperatures around 13°C, a few degrees above average for the 16th of March in Coventry (10.7°C). A cool clear evening will follow with a slight ground frost as minimum temperatures fall to around 3°C; skies will cloud over in the early hours of Wednesday however with a damp, milder dawn. Wednesday looks like being cloudy but mild again, with maximum temperatures around 14°C despite a brisk south-westerly breeze, though it may brighten by afternnon.
Outlook - rain at times. Did you know..........? Last week was the coldest second week of March in our region since 1988. Although a little milder over the weekend, temperatures over the first fortnight of March were still 2.9C below average for Coventry. Although cold, it was also dry and sunny; we only recorded 6% of the normal early March rainfall in this dry spell, and 90% more sunshine than is normal in this two week period. **If this page does not update, and you need a local forecast, try telephoning our answerphone on 02476 223141** |
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| Just for the record, looking back through the archives, we find that...........
.............................it was very warm with a maximum temperature of 19.1°C on this day in 1998, while it was even warmer on the 16th March 1990 with a high of 20.4°C, the earliest date on which we have recorded a maximum over 20°C. ............................it was very sunny on the 16th March 1958 with 9.5 hours of Spring sunshine in the city. ............................Coventry was battered by gales on this day in 1995, while snow fell heavily in the city on the 16th in 1979. | Extracts from a "typical year" in CoventryMarch - A "month of many weathers"March is traditionally a month of active weather; after 6 months of continuous winter darkness,the North Pole is at its coldest, while the Equator is at its hottest, with the sun at its strongest. Squeezed in the centre, the mid-latitudes suffer from potential extremes of weather. Storms are frequent early month, while mid-month may be calm and dry. Night time minima are often as cold as winter, while at the equinox, days can be warm for the first time in the year. Extreme diurnal temperature ranges are therefore quite common. Winter however, can frequently last well into March; witness years like 1947, 1963 and 1979. As the days lenghthen, so the temperatures rise accordingly. The warmest day averages 15°C, though 22°C was recorded in 1922. By contrast, the coldest night will usually register -4°C; in 1947 however, the minimum reached as low as -15.6°C! Only 7 days are usually classified as wet, though rainfall intensities are greater now. The city regularly totals over 100 hours of March sunshine, with the sunniest day likely to record 9.5 hours. March 2003 was the sunniest March on record with 174.1 hours of sunshine, a total more typical of a summer month! By comparison there was just 41.6 hours of sunshine during March 1984 - quite a difference! Looking at long term trends, March does not conform terribly well to global warming theory! One of the warmest decades of the last century was the 1920's (6.4°C), though the 1990s did average 7.5°C. The first nine years of this century have seen March average just 6.7°C, so has local warming peaked? The wettest decade during March in the last century was the 1980s (62.1mm); since 1990, March however has become a drier month so far this century with an average of 41.7mm per year. So what of Spring in Coventry?Changes in temperature in spring are slow, as the UK is surrounded by sea; in the Baltic to our east and in the seas south of Greenland, melting sea ice further slows the warming process. Even as the days lengthen and the sun strengthens the still cool sea holds back the rise in temperatures. It is therefore, a long season. Spring is the driest of our seasons and only summer records more seasonal sunshine. During the 20th century, springs were getting colder up until the 1980s, but over the past thirty years or so, there has been a two degree rise in average spring temperatures. 1992 and 2007 were the warmest springs on record in Coventry.
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