Epping Weather Station

Monthly Summary: October 2006 (Daily Readings)

Temperature °C
  Date or compared to 1971-2000 average
Mean Maximum
16.2
+2.5
Mean Minimum
10.6
+3.4
Monthly Mean
13.4
+2.9
Highest Maximum
20.5
9th
Lowest Maximum
13.1
23rd
Highest Minimum
14.3
10th and 11th
Lowest Minimum
5.4
27th
Lowest Grass Min
3.9
27th
Wind mph
Mean wind speed
4.8
Strongest Gust
34
Date
31st
Dominant Direction
SW
Direction at 0900
N
NE
E
SE
S
SW
W
NW
CALM
No of mornings
0
0
4
5
7
5
9
1
0
Precipitation mm
Date or compared to 1971-2000 average
Monthly Total
47.2
80%
Wettest Day
10.7
22nd
Rain Days (>0.2mm)
19
Wet Days (>1mm)
13
Sunshine hours
Monthly Total
110.9
% Average
98
Days with no sun
3
Sunniest day
10.23
Date
7th
Number of days with
Air Frost
0
Ground Frost
0
Snow/sleet falling (0000-2400GMT)
0
>50% snow cover at 0900
0
Fog at 0900 (vis <1000m)
0
Thunder heard
5
Hail <5mm diameter
0
Hail > 5mm diameter
0

 

Miscellaneous Data
Mean Relative Humidity at 0900 (%)
89
Mean Air Pressure at 0900 (mb)
1010.2
Lowest Pressure 24th
Date
984.0
Highest Pressure 13th
Date
1031.7
Hours of air frost
0
Mean soil temp °C (20cm depth)
13.3
Greatest snow depth (0900)
n/a
Date
Particular days/events

 

31st Much colder northerlies arrived at the end of the month as a depression tracked eastwards over Scotland. The temperature fell from +13ºC at midday on the 31st to +2.5ºC the following morning.

 

 

 

 

Month as a whole

 

Third warmest October, after 2001 and 2005, since records began here in 1979

 

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