Weather Statistics – Tideswell – Whole Year 2013
Temperature
Mean daily maximum: 11.8 (0.3 above average)
Mean daily minimum: 4.7 (0.1 below average)
Mean temperature: 8.3 (0.1 above average)
Highest daily maximum: 29.2
Lowest daily maximum: -1.2
Lowest daily minimum: -9.5
Highest daily minimum: 15.5
Lowest daily grass minimum: -11.8 (23rd)
Number of air frosts: 81
Number of ground frosts: 131
Days with max 25.0-29.9: 12
Days with max 20.0-24.9: 38
Days with max 15.0-19.9: 76
Days with max 10.0-14.9: 70
Days with max 5.0-9.9: 107
Days with max 0.0-4.9: 52
Days with max -5.0 to -0.1: 10
Frost duration: 923.7 hours
Rainfall
Total fall: 1199.3 mm (106% of average)
Wettest day (0900-0900) 89.1 mm
Rain days (0.2 mm or more): 206
Wet days (1.0 mm or more): 155
Snow
Days with snow or sleet falling: 71
Days more than 50% cover at 0900: 45
Deepest at 0900: 30 cm
Sunshine
Total sunshine: 963.8 hours
Sunniest day: 13.7 hours
Days with no sun: 77
Other phenomena
Days with thunder heard: 9
Days with hail: 14
Days with fog at 0900: 16
Remarks
A fairly average year though with a bit more frost and snow than average. Major snowstorm late March. Remarkably wet day on 27th July
—
Norman Lynagh