Wednesday, 1 December 2010 - Monthly Climate Summary for Adelaide Metro & Hills - Product code IDCKGC23R0
Adelaide Metro & Hills in November 2010
Slightly below average rainfall
- Maximum & Minimum temperatures within 1°C of November averages, but maximum temperatures mainly below average.
- Slightly below average rainfall across the Metro & Hills area.
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Rainfall
Rainfall totals in the Adelaide region were generally close to average, but tending just below average for November 2010.
Adelaide (Kent Town) rainfall for November 2010 was 23.2mm recorded on 11 days (this rainfall total is from the manually observed 203mm rain gauge which is used for the long term rainfall record. This may differ from totals on the Bureau's webpage which may be from the automatic tipping bucket rain gauge). This rainfall total is 8.5mm below the Kent Town average of 31.7mm on 8 days. Last November's rainfall total recorded at Adelaide (Kent Town) was 42.2mm. The driest November on record was in 1996 with 1.0 mm.
Rainfall totals were just below average across the metropolitan area, ranging from about 12 mm to 32mm. In the Adelaide Hills rainfall totals were up to about 50mm. The highest reading was 47.6mm at Woodside.
For the first 11 months of 2010, Adelaide (Kent Town) recorded 505.6mm which is 15.5mm below the long-term average of 521.1mm. Last year 499.0mm was recorded over the same period. Rainfall totals are generally close to average elsewhere across the Adelaide Hills and Metropolitan area for this year so far.
Adelaide had its lowest November temperature on record.
Temperatures
Mean maximum temperatures were within 1°C of average across the Adelaide Hills and Metropolitan area, but predominantly below average. Adelaide (Kent Town) had maximum temperatures reach 35°C or more on two days, on the 22nd & 23rd, which is the long-term average for the number of days at or above 35°C in November.
In comparison, November last year was very hot, with an extended period of heat producing Adelaide's first November heatwave in the record going back to 1887, and a record warmest November day. There was a total of 11 days at or above 35°C, with 8 in a row between the 8th & 15th resulting in heatwave conditions. The extended period of well above average temperatures across the first 3 weeks of the month also resulted in record November mean maximum temperatures being observed at most sites in the Adelaide region.
The coldest day recorded at Adelaide (Kent Town) in November this year was 15.8°C on the 3rd. Only five other November days have been colder in the 30 year Adelaide (Kent Town) temperature record. The coldest being 13.0°C in 1994.
The mean maximum temperature at Adelaide (Kent Town) was 24.3°C which is 0.8°C below the long-term November average.
The highest daily maximum temperature in the Adelaide and Adelaide Hills region was 37.6°C recorded at Parafield Airport on the 23rd. The lowest daytime temperature was 10.3°C recorded at Mount Lofty on the 3rd.
Minimum temperatures were within 1.0°C of average this November. The mean minimum temperature at Adelaide (Kent Town) was 14.1°C, which is 0.1°C above the long-term November average of 14.0°C. Adelaide (Kent Town) recorded its lowest November daily minimum temperature on record with 5.3°C on the morning of the 1st. This surpasses the previous minimum temperature records set at both Kent Town (5.7°C on the 8th November 1999) and at West Terrace (5.5°C on the 3rd of November 1974).
The lowest daily minimum temperature in the Adelaide and Adelaide Hills region was 0.9°C recorded at Mount Barker on the morning of the 1st, whilst the warmest night was 24.8°C at Adelaide (Kent Town) on the 24th.
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| Extremes in November 2010 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day | 37.6 °C at Parafield Airport on the 23rd |
| Warmest days on average | 25.7 °C at Parafield Airport |
| Coolest days on average | 18.4 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Coldest day | 10.3 °C at Mount Lofty on the 3rd |
| Coldest night | 0.9 °C at Mount Barker on the 1st |
| Coolest nights on average | 9.5 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Warmest nights on average | 14.1 °C at Adelaide (Kent Town) |
| Warmest night | 24.8 °C at Adelaide (Kent Town) on the 24th |
| Wettest overall | 47.6 mm at Woodside |
| Highest wind gust | 63 km/h at Edinburgh RAAF on the 28th |
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| Record lowest November temperature | ||||||
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Lowest temperature in November 2010 (°C) |
Previous lowest for November |
Years of record |
Average for November |
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| Adelaide (Kent Town) | 5.3 | on the 1st | 5.7 | on the 8th in 1999 | 34 | 14.0 |
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| Summary statistics for November 2010 | ||||||||||||
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| Maximum temperatures for November (°C) |
Minimum temperatures for November (°C) |
Rainfall for November (millimetres) |
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| Mean for November 2010 |
Diff from average |
Highest for November 2010 |
Mean for November 2010 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for November 2010 |
Total for November 2010 |
Average for November |
Rank of November 2010 |
Fraction of November average |
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| Adelaide (Kent Town) | 24.3 | -0.8 | 36.4 | 23rd | 14.1 | +0.1 | 5.3 | 1st | 23.2 | 31.7 | average | 73% |
| Adelaide Airport | 23.0 | -0.9 | 34.9 | 22nd | 13.4 | +0.7 | 5.6 | 1st | 18.8 | 25.5 | average | 74% |
| Edinburgh RAAF | 24.9 | -0.8 | 36.7 | 23rd | 12.8 | -0.1 | 4.7 | 1st | 11.6 | 24.9 | low | 47% |
| Mount Barker | 22.4 | -0.1 | 33.2 | 22nd | 9.7 | +0.9 | 0.9 | 1st | 32.4 | 40.1 | average | 81% |
| Mount Lofty | 18.4 | 30.7 | 23rd | 9.5 | 3.1 | 1st | 35.0 | |||||
| Noarlunga | 23.0 | 34.9 | 22nd | 13.4 | 6.2 | 1st | 19.0 | |||||
| Parafield Airport | 25.7 | +0.5 | 37.6 | 23rd | 12.7 | -0.1 | 3.0 | 1st | 13.8 | 27.1 | low | 51% |
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Notes
A Monthly Climate Summary is prepared to list the main features of the weather in Adelaide Metro & Hills 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 10 am on Wednesday 1 December 2010. 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
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