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Max Temperature °C

Min Temperature °C

Humidity

Pressure hPa

Precipitation mm

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.