Wednesday 27th March was Ruakura's 79th day tmax >=25.0C for the 2018-2019 warm season. Possibly the last but would not rule out squeezing out a handful more before the middle of April.
2017-2018 the tally was 80, the last being 4th April.
In the context of this chart from here:
https://statisticsnz.shinyapps.io/frost_and_warm_days/
well
1998/99 was the only year to just tip over 70.
So to get values of 80 and 79* (still could creep into low 80s) two years running - well will certainly look significant when added to that chart.
Ruakura (Hamilton) "warm days" very high tally 2nd year running
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Re: Ruakura (Hamilton) "warm days" very high tally 2nd year running
Hmm… That annual warm days graph appears to bear little resemblance to either NIWA's Ruakura or Hamilton Aero figures?cbm wrote: ↑Fri 29/03/2019 23:01 Wednesday 27th March was Ruakura's 79th day tmax >=25.0C for the 2018-2019 warm season. Possibly the last but would not rule out squeezing out a handful more before the middle of April.
2017-2018 the tally was 80, the last being 4th April.
In the context of this chart from here:
https://statisticsnz.shinyapps.io/frost_and_warm_days/
well
warm_days.jpg
1998/99 was the only year to just tip over 70.
So to get values of 80 and 79* (still could creep into low 80s) two years running - well will certainly look significant when added to that chart.
Note that NIWA's days with a T-max over 25.0C means it has to be 25.1C or more.
So that would give Ruakura a tally of 76 days for the 2018-19 'warm-season' to date, 79 days for the 2017-18 season and 67 days for the 1998-99 season.
Also note that Ruakura recorded 91 days over 25.0C during the 2012-13 'warm-season', which is probably its highest tally since 1940 (no daily data available before then).
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Re: Ruakura (Hamilton) "warm days" very high tally 2nd year running
I did wonder whether needed 25.0 or 25.1C to qualify. There will be a handful of days right on 25.0C. I didn't make any effort to verify that chart, thought as it was published on a stats NZ site could rely on it
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