Monday, 2 February 2015 - Monthly Climate Summary for Canberra - Product code IDCKGC15L0
Canberra in January 2015: A cool, wet January for the ACT
Canberra Airport recorded 97 mm of rain during January, 66% above the historical average and the wettest January since 1999. The rain fell over 9 days, slightly above the average of 7 days. Most of the rain was associated with a surface trough and storms on the 10th, with 43 mm recorded at Canberra Airport in the 24 hours to 9 am on the 11th.
The mean maximum temperature at Canberra Airport was 27.4 °C, 0.6 °C below the historical average. This is the coolest January for Canberra since 2000. Temperatures were warm at the start of the month but cool later in the month, with 11 days failing to reach 25 °C (average 9 days) including six consecutive days between the 26th and 31st. In contrast, minimum temperatures were 0.7 °C above the historical average, associated with generally cloudy conditions during the month.
- Wettest January since 1999
- Coldest January maximum temperatures since 2000
- Warm minimum temperatures
Extremes Records Summaries Daily observations Important notes the top
Further information
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| Extremes in January 2015 | |
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| Hottest day | 35.2 °C at Canberra Airport on the 2nd |
| Warmest days on average | 27.4 °C at Canberra Airport |
| Coolest days on average | 17.9 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Coldest day | 10.4 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on the 27th |
| Coldest night | 0.8 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on the 29th |
| Coolest nights on average | 8.6 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Warmest nights on average | 14.7 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Warmest night | 18.6 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on the 14th |
| Warmest on average overall | 20.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Coolest on average overall | 13.3 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Wettest overall | 144.6 mm at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Driest overall | 97.0 mm at Canberra Airport |
| Wettest day | 51.0 mm at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on the 11th |
| Strongest wind gust | 76 km/h at Mount Ginini AWS on the 14th |
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| Summary statistics for January 2015 | ||||||||||||
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| Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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| Mean for January 2015 |
Diff from average |
Highest for January 2015 |
Mean for January 2015 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for January 2015 |
Total for January 2015 |
Average for January |
Rank of January 2015 |
Fraction of January average |
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| Canberra Airport | 27.4 | -0.6 | 35.2 | 2nd | 13.9 | +0.7 | 7.5 | 31st | 97.0 | 58.5 | high | 166% |
| Mount Ginini AWS | 17.9 | -3.3 | 25.4 | 2nd | 8.6 | -1.4 | 0.8 | 29th | 100.6 | 68.7 | high | 146% |
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 26.9 | -2.7 | 34.1 | 2nd | 14.7 | +0.5 | 8.7 | 18th | 144.6 | 53.7 | v high | 269% |
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| Daily maximum temperatures for January 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
| Canberra Airport | 32.6 | 35.2 | 34.7 | 32.5 | 29.6 | 28.3 | 31.5 | 34.4 | 32.3 | 27.6 | 22.5 | 23.7 | 24.8 | 25.4 | 27.4 | 25.8 | 26.7 | 27.6 | 22.4 | 24.6 | 28.3 | 29.5 | 31.9 | 31.1 | 28.7 | 21.9 | 18.3 | 23.2 | 21.6 | 20.8 | 24.2 |
| Mount Ginini AWS | 21.9 | 25.4 | 24.0 | 22.4 | 20.7 | 18.8 | 21.7 | 23.5 | 21.7 | 17.4 | 12.5 | 16.5 | 14.9 | 13.3 | 18.2 | 16.2 | 17.5 | 18.5 | 17.2 | 14.5 | 19.5 | 19.9 | 22.5 | 20.8 | 17.7 | 14.2 | 10.4 | 13.4 | 12.5 | 11.7 | 14.3 |
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 32.1 | 34.1 | 33.7 | 32.8 | 28.9 | 27.2 | 30.0 | 33.4 | 31.2 | 26.6 | 22.2 | 22.9 | 23.5 | 25.7 | 27.4 | 25.9 | 26.9 | 28.0 | 23.1 | 24.0 | 26.6 | 28.9 | 32.0 | 30.7 | 28.5 | 22.2 | 17.8 | 23.8 | 21.1 | 20.2 | 23.2 |
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Values are the maximum temperature, usually in the 24 hours from 9 am on the day indicated, and typically occurred in the afternoon of that day. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temperatures coloured according to their difference from the long-term average for the period |
-10.0 | -9.0 | -8.0 | -7.0 | -6.0 | -5.0 | -4.0 | -3.0 | -2.0 | -1.0 | 0.0 | +1.0 | +2.0 | +3.0 | +4.0 | +5.0 | +6.0 | +7.0 | +8.0 | +9.0 | +10.0 | °C | Grey outline marks highest and lowest for the period |
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| Daily minimum temperatures for January 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
| Canberra Airport | 16.2 | 11.4 | 14.3 | 16.9 | 13.5 | 18.1 | 13.7 | 14.4 | 18.2 | 17.7 | 16.5 | 16.2 | 12.7 | 17.9 | 10.4 | 11.9 | 14.3 | 8.7 | 13.3 | 12.5 | 16.4 | 14.8 | 14.9 | 16.7 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 13.8 | 13.0 | 9.9 | 8.1 | 7.5 |
| Mount Ginini AWS | 9.8 | 10.1 | 13.0 | 14.1 | 10.7 | 11.1 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 11.8 | 11.5 | 9.6 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 10.0 | 6.9 | 6.0 | 7.3 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 8.2 | 9.7 | 12.2 | 14.3 | 11.1 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 3.9 |
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 16.6 | 12.7 | 15.3 | 18.3 | 15.4 | 18.1 | 15.0 | 15.1 | 18.5 | 17.7 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.2 | 18.6 | 11.0 | 12.1 | 15.2 | 8.7 | 13.8 | 14.2 | 16.6 | 15.7 | 15.5 | 17.5 | 16.0 | 13.4 | 14.0 | 13.7 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 9.7 |
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Values are the minimum temperature, usually in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated, and typically occurred that morning. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temperatures coloured according to their difference from the long-term average for the period |
-10.0 | -9.0 | -8.0 | -7.0 | -6.0 | -5.0 | -4.0 | -3.0 | -2.0 | -1.0 | 0.0 | +1.0 | +2.0 | +3.0 | +4.0 | +5.0 | +6.0 | +7.0 | +8.0 | +9.0 | +10.0 | °C | Grey outline marks highest and lowest for the period |
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| Daily rainfall for January 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
| Canberra (Australian National Botanic Ga | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.4 | |
| Canberra Airport | - | - | - | - | 5.0 | 2.4 | - | - | 10.4 | 6.2 | 43.0 | 2.2 | - | 15.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.4 | - | - | 2.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Mount Ginini AWS | - | - | 0.6 | - | - | 1.8 | 22.4 | 1.6 | 5.4 | 10.8 | 25.2 | 3.6 | - | 22.4 | 1.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.2 | - | 4.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Nicholls (Gungahlin Lakes) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.0 | - | 25.0 | 7.8 | 43.4 | 5.6 | - | 19.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Tharwa General Store | - | - | - | - | 12.0 | 19.0 | - | - | 2.0 | 23.6 | 37.0 | - | - | 12.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14.0 | |||||||
| Torrens (Darke St) | - | - | - | - | - | 6.6 | 0.2 | - | 4.8 | 13.4 | 45.0 | 1.8 | - | 15.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16.6 | - | - | 2.0 | |||||||
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | - | - | - | - | 26.2 | 4.6 | - | - | 2.6 | 19.0 | 51.0 | 2.6 | - | 17.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11.8 | - | - | 9.0 | - | 0.6 | - | - | - | - | |
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Most values are the precipitation in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated.
Days marked with → are part of a longer accumulation, which is shown on the final day. Values over 100 mm have been rounded to the nearest whole millimetre. Days marked with - have a rainfall report of zero; days left blank have no rainfall report (which often indicates no rain fell). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rainfalls coloured according to the amount |
0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 600 | millimetres | ||||||||||||||||||
Extremes Records Summaries Daily observations 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.
A Monthly Climate Summary is prepared to list the main features of the weather in Canberra 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.
A Climate Summary is generally published on the first working day of each month.
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 8 am on Monday 2 February 2015. Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes available.
Averages for individual sites 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 10 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 used for temperature area averages.
Further information
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