Apart from two short periods of south-westerly
winds (15th-17th and 26th-29th) high pressure controlled
Britain’s weather throughout the month. With mean
monthly sea-level pressure 8-10mbar above normal in all
parts of the UK this was the seventh most anticyclonic
October in 135 years of records, and the most anticyclonic
since 1985. As a consequence rain fell infrequently and
gales were rare. Both mean max and mean min temperature
for the month were close to 0.2°C above the long-term
average over Lyneham, the mean maximum was 14.1°C and
thermometers topped 17.4°C on the 12th October.
The
month was quite bright with sunshine records topping 105
hours for the whole month and the most daily sunshine was
recorded on the 5th. There were only seven days where no
sunshine was recorded. Lyneham was the wettest place in
Great Britain on the 16th of the month where 41mm of
rain fell, close on 75% of the monthly total precipitation
of
54mm. The month otherwise was generally dry and there was
24 days of no rain recorded. The wettest month recorded
in Lyneham was way
back in 1945, where 176mm fell from the skies. |
