Friday, 1 May 2009 - Monthly Climate Summary for Adelaide Metro & Hills - Product code IDCKGC23R0
Adelaide Metro & Hills in April 2009
Welcome Drenching Rain.
Summary
- Near average temperature during the month.
- Heavy rainfall toward end of April
- April rainfall boosts year to date totals to almost average
An archive of previous monthly summaries for Adelaide Metro & Hills is also available, as are summaries for other states and many other climate summaries and diagnostics.
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Rainfall
Some sites had their highest total April rainfall for at least 25 years.
Adelaide's (Kent Town) rainfall for April 2009 was 73.6 mm recorded on 7 days, which is very much above the long term average of 39.6 mm on 8 days. Over the metropolitan and hills areas the rainfall was mostly well above average. The highest rainfall total was 158.3 mm recorded at Piccadilly (Woodhouse) in the Adelaide Hills.
The 66.6 mm of rain recorded between the 24th and the 27th is the highest consecutive 4 day April total since 1948 at the South Australian Regional Office.
In comparison, April 2008 received a similar rainfall pattern very little during the first few weeks followed by substantial rain during the latter part of the month. Statistically the 25th of April, Anzac Day, has the highest probability during April that it will rain, near 50%. Anzac Day this year kept to tradition and rained!
Temperature
Overall the average temperature in the Adelaide metropolitan area was near average but the hills areas was about 1°C above the long term average.
The mean maximum temperature recorded at the South Australian Regional Office (Kent Town) for April 2009 was 22.8°C, which is 0.2°C above the long term April mean maximum temperature. This is comparable to April last year which was 22.7°C, the highest April mean maximum is 26.9°C in 1923. The hottest maximum temperature recorded in the Adelaide metropolitan and hills area was 34.7°C on the 1st at the Parafield Airport.
The mean minimum temperature for April 2009 at the South Australian Regional Office (Kent Town) was 13.0°C, which is 0.6°C above the normal April mean minimum temperature of 12.4°C. April's highest recorded average minimum temperature is 15.7°C in 1971. April, last year, the mean minimum temperature was 12.2°C. The coldest minimum temperature recorded in the Adelaide metropolitan and hills area was 4.7°C on the 29th at Mount Barker, whilst the warmest night was 21.3°C at the South Australian Regional Office (Kent Town) on the 23rd.
Further information
South Australian Regional OfficeSouth Australian Climate Services Centre
Bureau of Meteorology
Phone (08) 8366 2600
Email climate.sa@bom.gov.au
Extremes
| Hottest day Highest temperature | 34.7°C at Parafield Airport on the 1st |
|---|---|
| Warmest days on average Highest mean daily maximum temperature | 23.4°C at Parafield Airport |
| Coolest days on average Lowest mean daily maximum temperature | 21.8°C at Noarlunga |
| Coldest day Lowest daily maximum temperature | 13.9°C at Mount Barker on the 26th |
| Coldest night Lowest temperature | 4.7°C at Mount Barker on the 29th |
| Coolest nights on average Lowest mean daily minimum temperature | 9.0°C at Mount Barker |
| Warmest nights on average Highest mean daily minimum temperature | 13.8°C at Noarlunga |
| Warmest night Highest daily minimum temperature | 21.3°C at Adelaide (Kent Town) on the 23rd |
| Wettest overall Highest total rainfall | 158.3 mm at Piccadilly (Woodhouse) |
| Highest wind gust | 91 km/h at Adelaide Airport on the 25th |
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Summaries
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| Summary statistics for April 2009 | ||||||||||||
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| Maximum temperatures for April (°C) |
Minimum temperatures for April (°C) |
Rainfall for April (millimetres) |
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| Mean for April 2009 |
Diff from average |
Highest for April 2009 |
Mean for April 2009 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for April 2009 |
Total for April 2009 |
Average for April |
Rank of April 2009 |
Fraction of April average |
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| Adelaide | 22.9 | +0.3 | 34.1 | 1st | 13.0 | +0.6 | 8.6 | 30th | 73.6 | 39.6 | high | 186% |
| Adelaide Airport | 22.2 | +0.1 | 33.8 | 2nd | 12.5 | +0.8 | 8.0 | 10th | 51.2 | 35.1 | high | 146% |
| Edinburgh RAAF | 23.0 | +0.1 | 34.4 | 2nd | 12.3 | +0.7 | 7.2 | 9th | 57.4 | 31.5 | high | 182% |
| Mount Barker | 22.0 | +1.6 | 32.5 | 2nd | 9.0 | +0.7 | 4.7 | 29th | 75.7 | 58.8 | high | 129% |
| Noarlunga | 21.8 | 33.0 | 2nd | 13.8 | 9.2 | 29th | 70.2 | |||||
| Parafield Airport | 23.4 | +0.8 | 34.7 | 1st | 11.7 | −0.1 | 6.5 | 10th | 84.2 | 40.1 | very high | 210% |
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Notes
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 4 pm on Friday 1 May 2009. 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.
Further information
South Australian Regional OfficeSouth Australian Climate Services Centre
Bureau of Meteorology
Phone (08) 8366 2600
Email climate.sa@bom.gov.au