Friday, 1 February 2013 - Monthly Summary for Canberra - Product code IDCKGC25R0
Canberra in January 2013: Record hot start to the year
- Hottest month on record
- Hottest January day on record
- Slightly above average rainfall
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Canberra Airport recorded 67.4 mm of rain during January which is above the historical average of 58.5 mm. There were six days of rain (average seven days), with most of the rain associated with thunderstorm activity on the evening of the 26th. Canberra Airport recorded 40.8 mm to 9am on the 27th, the wettest day since 4 March 2012, with the highest total of 65.2 mm recorded at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) on the same day.
*Note: Some rainfall data missing at Canberra Airport.
Temperature
Canberra Airport recorded its hottest month on record, averaging a maximum temperature of 32.3 °C during January (4.3 °C above the historical average), surpassing the previous record, 32.0 °C, set in February 1968. Canberra Airport also recorded its hottest January day on record (42.0 °C on the 18th), surpassing the previous record of 41.4 °C set on 31 January 1968. Ten days reached 35 °C or higher during the month, well above the historical average of 3 days, while only one day was cooler than 25 °C (average nine days), with the coolest day dropping to 22.8 °C on the 14th.
The average minimum temperature was 13.9 °C, 0.7 °C above the historical average. Eight nights dropped below 10 °C, close to normal for December, with seven nights reaching at least 15 °C, the most since 2009. The coldest night was the 15th, when temperatures fell to 5.6 °C. The resulting mean temperature was 23.1 °C, 2.5 °C above the historical average.
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| Extremes in January 2013 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day | 42.0 °C at Canberra Airport on the 18th |
| Warmest days on average | 32.3 °C at Canberra Airport |
| Coolest days on average |
23.3 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Coldest day |
13.4 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on the 14th |
| Coldest night |
0.7 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on the 14th |
| Coolest nights on average |
10.6 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Warmest nights on average |
14.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Warmest night |
20.5 °C at Canberra Airport on the 26th |
| Warmest on average overall |
23.4 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Coolest on average overall |
17.0 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Wettest overall |
88.0 mm at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Wettest day |
65.2 mm at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on the 27th |
| Highest wind gust |
87 km/h at Mount Ginini AWS on the 8th |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Summary statistics for January 2013 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum temperatures for January (°C) |
Minimum temperatures for January (°C) |
Rainfall for January (millimetres) |
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| Mean for January 2013 |
Diff from average |
Highest for January 2013 |
Mean for January 2013 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for January 2013 |
Total for January 2013 |
Average for January |
Rank of January 2013 |
Fraction of January average |
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| Canberra Airport | 32.3 | +4.3 | 42.0 | 18th | 13.9 | +0.7 | 5.6 | 15th | 67.4 | 58.5 | Average | 115% |
| Mount Ginini AWS | 23.3 | 30.5 | 6th | 10.6 | 0.7 | 14th | 43.6 | |||||
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 32.0 | 40.1 | 18th | 14.8 | 7.9 | 15th | 88.0 | |||||
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
As of March 2010, the official station for Canberra is 70351 'Canberra Airport'. Averages from the previous site, 70014 Canberra Airport Comparison, are used for comparisons (all years of record).
A Monthly Climate Summary is prepared to list the main features of the weather in ACT Monthly Summary using the most timely and accurate information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated. Later information, including data that has had greater opportunity for quality control, will be presented in the Monthly Weather Review, usually published in the fourth week of the month.
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 8 am on Friday 1 February 2013. Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes available.
Averages are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less than 20 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.
The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.
The ACORN-SAT dataset is being used for temperature area averages from December 2012 onwards. The major change from earlier datasets is that the ACORN-SAT dataset commences in 1910, rather than 1950, and hence rankings are calculated using a larger set of years.
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