Tuesday, 1 July 2014 - Monthly Climate Summary for Adelaide Metro & Hills - Product code IDCKGC14L0
Adelaide Metro & Hills in June 2014: A mild start to winter with above average rainfall
Rainfall was average tending above average across the Adelaide region during June, with Adelaide (Kent Town) recording 104.2 mm. Rainfall was recorded 19 days, as compared to a typical 15 days. The heaviest rain was recorded in the last week of the month as a series of cold fronts and deep low pressure systems saw several locations across the plains and throughout the hills observe daily totals in excess of 30 mm on the 24th and again on the 28th.
Both maximum and minimum temperatures were near average, though tending above average for the month across the region. The average maximum temperature at Adelaide was 16.4 °C, 0.3 °C above the long-term average, and the warmest June since 2011 for the city. Average to above average daytime temperatures where recorded elsewhere across the city. Nights were also warmer than average across the city, with Adelaide (Kent Town) observing an average of overnight temperature of 9.4 °C, resulting in the warmest June nights in 6 years.
- Adelaide has warmest June nights overall since 2008
- Rainfall above average as severe weather crosses the city in the latter part of the month
- Year-to-date rainfall for Adelaide (346.6 mm) is the wettest first half of the year since 1971 (43 years)
- Daytime temperatures near average
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
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| Extremes in June 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day | 19.5 °C at Parafield Airport on the 7th |
| Warmest days on average |
16.5 °C at Adelaide Airport 16.5 °C at Parafield Airport |
| Coolest days on average | 10.8 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Coldest day | 6.7 °C at Mount Lofty on the 28th |
| Coldest night | 2.2 °C at Parafield Airport on the 10th |
| Coolest nights on average | 6.4 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Warmest nights on average | 10.3 °C at Noarlunga |
| Warmest night | 13.9 °C at Adelaide (Kent Town) on the 3rd |
| Warmest on average overall | 13.2 °C at Noarlunga |
| Coolest on average overall | 8.7 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Wettest overall | 222.0 mm at Uraidla |
| Wettest day | 52.4 mm at Ashton on the 24th |
| Highest wind gust | 96 km/h at Edinburgh RAAF on the 23rd |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Summary statistics for June 2014 | ||||||||||||
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| Maximum temperatures for June (°C) |
Minimum temperatures for June (°C) |
Rainfall for June (millimetres) |
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| Mean for June 2014 |
Diff from average |
Highest for June 2014 |
Mean for June 2014 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for June 2014 |
Total for June 2014 |
Average for June |
Rank of June 2014 |
Fraction of June average |
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| Adelaide (Kent Town) | 16.4 | +0.3 | 19.3 | 7th | 9.3 | +1.2 | 5.0 | 18th | 104.2 | 79.3 | high | 131% |
| Adelaide Airport | 16.5 | +0.6 | 19.3 | 7th | 8.9 | +1.3 | 4.7 | 18th | 67.2 | 56.8 | average | 118% |
| Edinburgh RAAF | 16.3 | +0.4 | 18.7 | 4th | 7.8 | +1.0 | 3.2 | 10th | 67.8 | 55.0 | average | 123% |
| Kuitpo Forest Reserve | 13.2 | 17.4 | 10th | 8.2 | 5.2 | 24th | 103.4 | |||||
| Mount Barker | 14.5 | +0.8 | 17.6 | 3rd | 7.3 | +2.1 | 3.0 | 6th | 144.6 | 100.5 | high | 144% |
| Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) | 11.8 | 15.1 | 2nd | 7.0 | 3.1 | 24th | 144.8 | 87.6 | high | 165% | ||
| Mount Lofty | 10.8 | 13.9 | 10th | 6.4 | 2.9 | 24th | 176.0 | |||||
| Noarlunga | 16.0 | 18.9 | 7th | 10.3 | 6.6 | 10th | 47.2 | |||||
| Parafield Airport | 16.5 | +0.7 | 19.5 | 7th | 7.7 | +0.6 | 2.2 | 10th | 60.8 | 54.6 | average | 111% |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
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.
A Climate Summary is generally published on the first working day of each month.
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 9 am on Tuesday 1 July 2014. 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.
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