August Weather report

The last month of Winter.  According to the Bureau of Meteorology it was a very warm Winter, but it was still a Winter.  Presumably in about 2 months we will be complaining about the heat, but the chance would be a fine thing!

Rainfall
It was another dry month. with precipitation on 9 days totaling up to 31.4mm.  As you'd expect from that, there were no dramatic falls, with only 3 days getting above 5mm  with the heaviest being 9mm which occurred in a thunderstorm early in the morning of the 30th.  Here is the summary chart.

One can almost hear Hanrahan getting ready to comment about being runed if we don't get some rain/dry soon..

Temperature

A comparison with July is interesting;

	July	August
Days max below 10	6	8
Days max above 15	1	7
Days min below 0	14	10
Days min below 2	21	19
Days range <10 td="">	13	13

While the number of cold maxima is similar in the two months, the number of acceptable maxima (ie above 15C) is far better in August - that metric is assisted by a run of warm days in the last week.  Similarly while the number of frosts (below+2C) is similar, less of them were air frosts.

Wind

August is often thought of as a windy month.  There weer a few patches of breeziness but in contrast 4 days were so still that no wind was recorded on the update instants (but there were some light gusts during the rest of the day).

I am still grappling with the windrun data: perhaps next month?

Humidity
We are not yet at the part of the year when humidity becomes a major comfort factor.  This chart is mainly of interest for the apparent disconnect between humidity, as measured at 5pm, and rainfall.

Actually one of the interesting features of the graph is my finally noticing that in the current version of EXCEL one can change type of chart at the series level.  This has enabled me to get a column approach for rain and a line for humidity.