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March Weather Summary

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Summary of the March rainfall and temperature readings, as recorded at my weather station in Havelock North.

Total rainfall: 56.1mm (on 10 days)
Maximum 24hr total: 34.3mm (on the 11th)
Total from 1 January: 126.0mm (on 26 days)

Maximum temperature: 26.2ºC (on the 31st)
Minimum temperature: 7.9ºC (on the 14th)
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Havelock North did'nt get 30 Degrees any day in March! Its unusual but I guessed they must have got all the easterlies to keep the temp down.
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Readings from my weather station in Templeton, near ChCh - just 2.2 mm recorded for the first 27 days !

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Total precipitation: 36.4 mm (5 days > 0.2 mm)
Max 24h:             16.6 mm (29th)
From 1st Jan:        89.8 mm

Maximum temperature: 25.0 ºC (3rd) 
Minimum temperature:  4.3 ºC (18th)
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here is my over the top report!
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Averages\Extremes for the month of March 2003
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Average temperature = 17.8 °C; diff from climate av: +0.1 °C
Average humidity = 84 %
Average dewpoint = 14.9 °C
Average barometer = 1016.5 mb
Average windspeed = 5.3 kts; diff from climate av. :-1.9 kts
Average gustspeed = 8.5 kts
Average direction = 305 ° ( NW)
Rainfall for month = 160.0 mm; diff from climate av. :+54mm
Rainfall for year = 359.2 mm; diff from climate av. :+95.2 mm
Maximum rain per minute = 0.6 mm on day 29 at time 21:29
Maximum temperature = 27.9 °C on day 01 at time 15:42
Minimum temperature = 8.2 °C on day 19 at time 03:46
Maximum humidity = 100 % on day 30 at time 09:18
Minimum humidity = 35 % on day 24 at time 17:08
Maximum pressure = 1032.0 mb on day 19 at time 10:12
Minimum pressure = 997.9 mb on day 02 at time 05:30
Maximum windspeed = 24.0 kts from 305 °( NW) on day 31 at time 10:22
Maximum gust speed = 39.0 kts from 143 °( SE) on day 11 at time 15:23
Maximum heat index = 29.5 °C on day 01 at time 15:42
Max soil temperature= 24.8 °C
Min soil temperature= 19.6 °C

Sunshine hours month to date= 3.0 hrs
Sunshine hours year to date= 516.6 hrs
25.0 mm on day 2
0.2 mm on day 3
2.4 mm on day 7
69.8 mm on day 10
34.8 mm on day 11
0.2 mm on day 15
0.6 mm on day 21
1.0 mm on day 24
4.6 mm on day 26
9.4 mm on day 27
10.2 mm on day 28
1.2 mm on day 29






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Averages\Extremes for day :March 2003
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Day Temp Wind Gust Rain Max Temp Min Temp Av Hum Av Baro Av Dir Wind run
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01 21.4°C 02.5kts 13.0kts 00.0mm 27.9°C 17.9°C 86% 1008.3hPa 103 ° (ESE) 60.8kts
02 21.1°C 09.1kts 39.0kts 25.0mm 26.0°C 16.5°C 85% 1001.9hPa 077 ° (ENE) 218.1kts
03 18.5°C 09.8kts 27.0kts 00.2mm 22.1°C 15.9°C 78% 1004.2hPa 257 ° (WSW) 232.7kts
04 16.2°C 06.6kts 24.0kts 00.0mm 20.1°C 12.8°C 73% 1014.7hPa 214 ° ( SW) 154.3kts
05 16.1°C 03.6kts 18.0kts 00.0mm 21.5°C 11.3°C 81% 1019.0hPa 186 ° ( S ) 86.1kts
06 16.2°C 03.3kts 16.0kts 00.0mm 22.7°C 10.6°C 86% 1020.4hPa 183 ° ( S ) 78.3kts
07 18.6°C 05.1kts 18.0kts 02.4mm 25.0°C 14.1°C 85% 1020.7hPa 115 ° (ESE) 118.3kts
08 19.1°C 06.1kts 21.0kts 00.0mm 23.1°C 16.4°C 83% 1019.0hPa 111 ° (ESE) 145.1kts
09 19.1°C 05.6kts 19.0kts 00.0mm 24.0°C 16.1°C 83% 1016.2hPa 113 ° (ESE) 134.1kts
10 16.7°C 08.6kts 31.0kts 69.8mm 19.1°C 14.6°C 96% 1011.3hPa 129 ° ( SE) 205.5kts
11 14.1°C 08.2kts 39.0kts 34.8mm 16.0°C 12.1°C 99% 1009.0hPa 151 ° (SSE) 197.4kts
12 17.9°C 11.8kts 29.0kts 00.0mm 21.3°C 15.1°C 85% 1009.4hPa 199 ° (SSW) 283.4kts
13 17.1°C 10.8kts 29.0kts 00.0mm 19.9°C 15.2°C 83% 1008.1hPa 216 ° ( SW) 258.5kts
14 17.6°C 10.3kts 30.0kts 00.0mm 19.9°C 15.7°C 83% 1005.3hPa 222 ° ( SW) 246.6kts
15 16.9°C 03.4kts 21.0kts 00.2mm 19.8°C 14.8°C 89% 1006.4hPa 198 ° (SSW) 83.8kts
16 15.4°C 01.7kts 16.0kts 00.0mm 23.0°C 08.7°C 86% 1014.8hPa 089 ° ( E ) 41.1kts
17 18.2°C 03.1kts 18.0kts 00.0mm 24.4°C 13.9°C 84% 1023.0hPa 161 ° (SSE) 72.8kts
18 16.7°C 01.8kts 16.0kts 00.0mm 24.0°C 10.0°C 86% 1029.4hPa 086 ° ( E ) 43.3kts
19 14.8°C 01.4kts 12.0kts 00.0mm 22.5°C 08.2°C 87% 1030.6hPa 344 ° (NNW) 33.4kts
20 15.8°C 02.7kts 19.0kts 00.0mm 21.9°C 10.0°C 87% 1029.1hPa 177 ° ( S ) 64.4kts
21 17.7°C 02.2kts 16.0kts 00.6mm 23.0°C 13.8°C 86% 1028.1hPa 086 ° ( E ) 52.2kts
22 18.9°C 02.3kts 16.0kts 00.0mm 24.1°C 16.1°C 84% 1027.0hPa 084 ° ( E ) 54.6kts
23 17.6°C 03.0kts 17.0kts 00.0mm 23.4°C 10.0°C 51% 1026.4hPa 098 ° ( E ) 71.3kts
24 18.9°C 03.1kts 17.0kts 01.0mm 24.3°C 15.0°C 69% 1024.5hPa 094 ° ( E ) 71.8kts
25 18.9°C 04.5kts 21.0kts 00.0mm 24.1°C 15.8°C 81% 1023.6hPa 101 ° ( E ) 102.8kts
26 19.5°C 04.5kts 20.0kts 04.6mm 24.6°C 16.7°C 84% 1021.7hPa 113 ° (ESE) 104.7kts
27 19.2°C 06.4kts 22.0kts 09.4mm 21.2°C 18.0°C 92% 1017.1hPa 117 ° (ESE) 152.2kts
28 18.2°C 05.0kts 31.0kts 10.2mm 20.6°C 16.7°C 98% 1010.6hPa 092 ° ( E ) 118.6kts
29 18.9°C 03.2kts 21.0kts 01.2mm 23.3°C 14.5°C 90% 1011.8hPa 308 ° ( NW) 76.2kts
30 19.2°C 05.0kts 21.0kts 00.0mm 23.3°C 16.3°C 87% 1010.8hPa 298 ° (WNW) 119.1kts
31 18.3°C 08.4kts 34.0kts 00.8mm 21.9°C 16.0°C 91% 1011.2hPa 295 ° (WNW) 199.4kts
Avg daily max temp :22.5 °C
Avg daily min temp :14.2 °C
Growing degrees days :258.4 °C
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over the top allright, Brian

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52.6mm here in Somerfield ChCh for the month, with 47.7mm falling on the last 4 days of the month

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yeah,its what my software spits out with the click of a button....
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