2013 summaries

[David]

Post your thoughts, summaries, statistics, or anything about the weather in 2013.

In Howick we managed to reach 1174 mm rain for the year... pretty near the average I would guess. Somewhat surprising given the drought in the first 3 months, during which I recorded only 53 mm of rain. Rainfall was fairly erratic through the year:

2013_monthly_rainfall.png

Highest temp was 29.6C, lowest was 0.3C.

[Skywatcher]

My station recorded 762mm for the year which is about 120% of its average.

Highest temp was 33C and low was -3.2C. With an average of 8.3C it was a mild winter and only 17 air frosts were recorded during the year which is about half of the average.

A new gust record of 98km/h was set on the 10th Sept.

[spaceman8815]

Below is a Monthly 2013 Summery from my Darfield PWS. I have also included some Graphs.
For more graphs please see: www.darfield-weather.co.nz/wxhistoricgraphs.php.
For Daily weather extremes for 2013 please see: www.darfield-weather.co.nz/wxnoaaclimat ... hp?yr=2013.

Overall, we got a yearly rain total of 868.4 mm which is 70.6 mm above average despite the drought at the beginning of the year. June had the most rain at a total of 192.2 mm while December had a total of 126.8 mm.

The average temperature for the year was 11.5°C which is around the average yearly temperature for Darfield with a high of 32°C and a low of -3.9°C. The strongest wind gust we got in the September 9th storm broke a station record at 91.7 km/h with a 10-min average wind speed of 78.5 km/h.

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                   Annual Climatological Summary for 2013

Name: Darfield Weather Station   City: Darfield   State: New Zealand
Elevation: 210 m  Lat: S 43° 28' 58"   Lon: E 172° 04' 07"

                  Temperature (°C), Heat Base: 18.3  Cool Base: 18.3
                          Dep.  Heat  Cool                       Max  Max  Min  Min
        Mean  Mean        From  Deg   Deg                        >=   <=   <=   <=
 YR MO  Max   Min   Mean  Norm  Days  Days  Hi  Date  Low  Date 27.0  0.0  0.0  -5.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 13  1  23.7   9.6  16.6  -0.7   107    54  32.0  31   3.1   18    9    0    0    0
 13  2  22.9   8.3  15.3  -1.8   114    31  30.1   1   2.5   14    5    0    0    0
 13  3  20.9  10.4  15.1  -0.1   121    21  28.9   8   5.1   21    3    0    0    0
 13  4  16.5   6.7  11.7  -0.6   204     6  25.8   2   1.9   11    0    0    0    0
 13  5  13.4   4.6   8.8  -0.4   294     0  22.8  12  -0.3   28    0    0    1    0
 13  6   9.8   2.3   5.8  -0.5   374     0  20.3   2  -1.3    5    0    0   11    0
 13  7  12.8   3.9   8.1   2.3   315     0  18.8  21  -3.9   12    0    0    7    0
 13  8  12.7   4.5   8.6   1.4   301     0  17.8  16  -1.3    1    0    0    2    0
 13  9  14.0   4.1   8.7  -0.8   274     0  19.6  10  -1.1    3    0    0    4    0
 13 10  17.3   5.9  11.7   0.0   207     5  25.5  24   0.0   16    0    0    1    0
 13 11  18.2   7.8  12.8  -0.6   175    10  26.3  24   1.6    2    0    0    0    0
 13 12  21.0  10.0  15.0  -0.7   122    20  28.0   6   3.2    1    1    0    0    0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        16.9   6.5  11.5  -0.2  2613   151  32.0 Jan  -3.9  Jul   18    0   26    0

                                Precipitation (mm)

              Dep.   Max        Days of Rain
              From   Obs.           >=
 YR MO Total  Norm   Day Date  0.2  2.0 20.0
---------------------------------------------
 13  1  53.2  -4.1  18.8  17    10    5    0
 13  2  25.6 -29.2  20.4   4     7    2    1
 13  3  45.4 -26.0  28.6  18    10    2    1
 13  4  90.6  28.9  28.8  20    18    9    1
 13  5  69.0   3.4  19.2   6    17    7    0
 13  6 192.2 120.9  40.8  17    18    9    3
 13  7  35.8 -40.1  13.4  14    10    5    0
 13  8  50.8 -34.4  17.0  17    11    5    0
 13  9  42.2 -17.7  12.2   4    15    7    0
 13 10  95.4  26.3  34.4   8    20    7    1
 13 11  41.4 -17.9  13.2   1    14    7    0
 13 12 126.8  60.5  36.0   8    17   11    2
---------------------------------------------
       868.4  70.6  40.8  Jun  167   76    9

                                Wind Speed (km/h)
                          Dom
 YR MO   Avg.  Hi   Date  Dir
------------------------------
 13  1  10.0  72.4   10   NNW
 13  2   7.4  41.8    5   ENE
 13  3   8.3  43.5   25     N
 13  4   6.9  45.1   29   NNW
 13  5   7.6  57.9   26   WNW
 13  6   6.8  53.1   20     W
 13  7   8.5  72.4    5    NW
 13  8   8.4  40.2   28     N
 13  9   9.2  91.7   10    NW
 13 10  11.2  80.5   14    NW
 13 11   8.4  51.5   10   NNE
 13 12   8.3  49.9   21   NNE
------------------------------
         8.4  91.7  Sep   NNW

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

966.3mm of rain here in West Melton, which makes it the wettest year since we moved here.
More details in the West Melton Blog.

[David]

NIWA summary for 2013 https://www.niwa.co.nz/sites/default/fi ... ummary.pdf

3rd warmest year on record for NZ.

[Chris Raine]

Oamaru had a wetter year than previous four years

Yearly rain
2010 2011 2012 2013

Total 685.6 699.7 696.6 815.2

June rainfall brought totals up . Pastures are very green currently with surface water still lying in puddles here and there .Is this the new norm?