June 2016 Weather

Temperatures
(Jan 1993 to date)

Current year

Max
Min
Average
June 2016
14.0
-4.6
7.0
Past years
Max
Date
Min
Date
June
20
8 June 2005
-10
08 June 1996
All Months
45
 24 Jan 2001
-10
 02 Aug 1997
Rainfall
(May 1984 to date)


Current year
Past years
Total
Average
Max
Min
June
176.2
54.4
144.3
4.2
Annual total
821.1 (est)
659
1005
410

Rainfall for the month is highlighted as it is the highest for the month of June in this area since records began in 1984.  The heaviest day was 5 June on which we received 88.6mm, the second highest recording (and only 5.4mm behind the record of 94mm on 12 October 1996).

Rainfall

We had two major rain events during the month, from 4 - 6 June (118.4mm) and 17-21 June (37.2mm).  Overall we received more than 0.2mm of rain on 13 days.  The relative magnitude of the fall is emphasised by this chart.
All dams in the area are full and Whiskers Creek has run steadily throughout the month.  A local rsident, possibly channelling Hanrahan, commented to the effect that "We haven't got a problem with rain - other than too much - until September."

Temperatures

Basically a month of 2 moods.  Quite moderate temperatures during the rain events followed by cold (or chillier) temperatures at other times.
The temperature fell below 0oC on 13 days.  This is more than for recent years but above the average since 1993.  Taking the BoM definition of a frost (less than 2oC) the count of days is still 13!  This is well below the long term average of 20 frosty days in June.

The average maximum temperature of 11.2oC was almost on the long term average, and similar to recent years.  
However the average minimum of +2.3oC was well above the long term average of -0.1oC (but that value is more like the values recorded prior to about 2007).

Humidity

An undry month.  If 40% relative humidity is 'normal' we were above that the entire month.  Indeed the 3pm rH only dropped below 50% on one day.
 This seems quite normal when compared with other years since 2013.

Wind

The month felt windy.  And so it was:
 As expected the windy days coincided with the rain events.  This daily windiness is reflected in the average gusts recorded over the month, which while not as high as May 2016 were still way above previous Junes.
 

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