Monday, 2 June 2014 - Monthly Climate Summary for Adelaide Metro & Hills - Product code IDCKGC24L0
Adelaide Metro & Hills in May 2014: A warm end to autumn
May 2014 started with a burst of cold conditions, with much of the months rainfall occurring before the 10th. The 11th to the 16th saw a period of well above average temperatures due to strong high pressure systems centred over eastern Australia, with Adelaide observing a record run of consecutive May days with maximum temperatures above 20 °C. Despite the cooler than average temperatures at the beginning of the month, day and night temperatures averaged across the month ended up well above average. Rainfall was near average across the region as a whole, though Adelaide recorded its wettest May in 11 years.
- The first week of May sees the coldest May day since 1987 with 12.1°C on the 2nd
- Adelaide observes a record 16 consecutive days with maximum temperatures greater than 20 °C
- Warmest May days for Adelaide since 2005
- With 64.4 mm of rainfall, Adelaide has its wettest May since 2003
- Warm nights with equal record highest mean daily minimum temperature at some locations
For further information on the warm spell through May please see Special Climate Statement 49
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Further information
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| Extremes in May 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day | 27.4 °C at Adelaide (Kent Town) on the 16th |
| Warmest days on average | 20.8 °C at Parafield Airport |
| Coolest days on average | 14.9 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Coldest day | 7.7 °C at Mount Lofty on the 2nd |
| Coldest night | 2.7 °C at Mount Barker on the 8th |
| Coolest nights on average | 9.8 °C at Mount Barker |
| Warmest nights on average | 13.2 °C at Noarlunga |
| Warmest night | 19.5 °C at Noarlunga on the 17th |
| Warmest on average overall | 16.6 °C at Noarlunga |
| Coolest on average overall | 12.4 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Wettest overall | 124.2 mm at Belair |
| Driest overall | 14.0 mm at Adelaide (Salisbury Bowling Club) |
| Wettest day | 36.2 mm at Belair on the 27th |
| Highest wind gust | 85 km/h at Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) on the 27th |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Record highest May mean daily minimum temperature | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Mean daily minimum temperature for May 2014 (°C) |
Previous warmest for May |
Years of record |
Average for May |
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| Mount Barker | 9.8 | = 9.8 | in 2007 | 113 | 6.7 |
| Edinburgh RAAF | 11.5 | = 11.5 | in 2013 | 41 | 9.2 |
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| Summary statistics for May 2014 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum temperatures for May (°C) |
Minimum temperatures for May (°C) |
Rainfall for May (millimetres) |
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| Mean for May 2014 |
Diff from average |
Highest for May 2014 |
Mean for May 2014 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for May 2014 |
Total for May 2014 |
Average for May |
Rank of May 2014 |
Fraction of May average |
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| Adelaide (Kent Town) | 20.6 | +1.6 | 27.4 | 16th | 12.2 | +2.0 | 5.9 | 4th | 64.4 | 60.0 | average | 107% |
| Adelaide Airport | 20.4 | +1.9 | 26.2 | 16th | 11.6 | +2.0 | 5.2 | 8th | 59.2 | 54.1 | average | 109% |
| Edinburgh RAAF | 20.7 | +1.5 | 26.8 | 16th | 11.5 | +2.3 | 4.4 | 8th | 45.6 | 44.3 | average | 103% |
| Kuitpo Forest Reserve | 17.7 | 24.2 | 16th | 11.2 | 5.2 | 8th | 71.4 | |||||
| Mount Barker | 19.2 | +2.7 | 25.0 | 21st | 9.8 | +3.1 | 2.7 | 8th | 59.6 | 87.3 | average | 68% |
| Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) | 16.5 | +1.6 | 22.3 | 21st | 10.8 | +2.3 | 4.3 | 3rd | 70.4 | 66.1 | average | 107% |
| Mount Lofty | 14.9 | 20.7 | 21st | 9.9 | 3.7 | 3rd | 98.8 | |||||
| Noarlunga | 19.9 | 25.5 | 16th | 13.2 | 7.3 | 8th | 55.0 | |||||
| Parafield Airport | 20.8 | +1.9 | 26.8 | 21st | 11.2 | +1.8 | 4.9 | 3rd | 52.6 | 48.2 | average | 109% |
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.
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 8 am on Monday 2 June 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.
Further information
Bureau of MeteorologyPhone (03) 9669 4057
Email media@bom.gov.au
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