Monday, 1 June 2015 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Adelaide - Product code IDCKGC23L0
Adelaide in autumn 2015: Cool with average rainfall
Cooler days and nights with average rainfall across the city.
- Coolest autumn days in 16 years
- Coolest autumn nights in 14 years
- Dry start, but season finishes with above average rainfall
Despite a very dry start to the season during March, the autumn total rainfall for Adelaide was very close to the long term average, predominantly owing to a very wet April and average rainfall in May.
Overall, the season was cooler than average, with both maximum and minimum temperatures tending below average across the region. At Kent Town, daytime temperatures averaged 21.5°C, resulting in the coolest autumn days since 1999. Night time minimum temperatures averaged 11.9 °C across the season which resulted in the coolest autumn nights since 2001.
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| Extremes in autumn 2015 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day | 34.2 °C at Edinburgh RAAF on 16 Mar |
| Warmest days on average | 21.7 °C at Parafield Airport |
| Coolest days on average | 15.5 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Coldest day | 8.4 °C at Mount Lofty on 21 May |
| Coldest night | 1.4 °C at Mount Barker on 23 May |
| Coolest nights on average | 8.3 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Warmest nights on average | 12.4 °C at Noarlunga |
| Warmest night | 20.5 °C at Adelaide Airport on 17 Mar |
| Warmest on average overall | 16.7 °C at Adelaide (Kent Town) |
| Coolest on average overall | 11.9 °C at Mount Lofty |
| Wettest overall | 313.0 mm at Uraidla |
| Driest overall | 75.2 mm at Bellevue Heights |
| Wettest day | 46.0 mm at Kuitpo Forest Reserve on 7 Apr |
| Strongest wind gust | 135 km/h at Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) on 5 May |
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| Lowest autumn mean daily maximum temperature for at least 20 years | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Observed (°C) |
Most recent lower | Years since lower |
Average for autumn |
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| Edinburgh RAAF | 21.5 | 21.0 | in 1995 | 20 | 23.0 |
| Parafield Airport | 21.7 | 20.6 | in 1995 | 20 | 22.8 |
| Record lowest autumn mean daily minimum temperature | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for autumn |
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| Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) | 9.1 | 9.3 | in 1995 | 20 | 10.4 |
| Lowest autumn mean temperature for at least 20 years | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Observed (°C) |
Most recent lower | Years since lower |
Average for autumn |
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| Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) | 13.4 | 13.0 | in 1995 | 20 | 14.8 |
| Parafield Airport | 16.2 | 15.6 | in 1995 | 20 | 17.4 |
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| Summary statistics for autumn 2015 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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| Mean for autumn 2015 |
Diff from average |
Highest for autumn 2015 |
Mean for autumn 2015 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for autumn 2015 |
Total for autumn 2015 |
Average for autumn |
Rank of autumn 2015 |
Fraction of autumn average |
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| Adelaide (Kent Town) | 21.5 | -1.2 | 33.6 | 16 Mar | 11.8 | -0.9 | 4.6 | 23 May | 132.0 | 127.0 | average | 104% |
| Adelaide Airport | 20.7 | -1.4 | 33.1 | 16 Mar | 11.7 | -0.2 | 3.7 | 17 May | 102.4 | 111.1 | average | 92% |
| Edinburgh RAAF | 21.5 | -1.5 | 34.2 | 16 Mar | 10.9 | -0.9 | 3.0 | 17 May | 120.4 | 101.6 | high | 119% |
| Kuitpo Forest Reserve | 17.9 | -1.8 | 30.4 | 16 Mar | 10.0 | -1.1 | 4.7 | 13 May | 263.2 | 181.3 | high | 145% |
| Mount Barker | 19.8 | -0.8 | 32.4 | 16 Mar | 8.8 | +0.3 | 1.4 | 23 May | 210.6 | 177.2 | high | 119% |
| Mount Crawford (Mt Crawford AWS) | 17.6 | -1.5 | 30.7 | 16 Mar | 9.1 | -1.3 | 3.3 | 13 May | 145.2 | 141.1 | average | 103% |
| Mount Lofty | 15.5 | -0.1 | 28.6 | 16 Mar | 8.3 | -1.2 | 2.2 | 13 May | 303.8 | |||
| Noarlunga | 20.3 | -1.9 | 32.4 | 16 Mar | 12.4 | -1.2 | 5.9 | 20 Apr | 134.6 | 110.9 | average | 121% |
| Parafield Airport | 21.7 | -1.1 | 33.7 | 16 Mar | 10.8 | -1.1 | 2.2 | 14 May | 113.0 | 110.1 | average | 103% |
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Notes
A Seasonal Climate Summary is prepared to list the main features of the weather in Adelaide 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 11 am on Monday 1 June 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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