April 2020 had two long dry spells and was much warmer than usual overall too. Overall, the average maximum temperature of 16.7°C was 2.7°C above the Usk average for April of 14.0°C with a peak of 24.7°C on the 11th, the minimum temperature being 0.1°C on the 1st and there were no air frosts. There were 7 days on which the temperature exceeded 20°C.
There were 23 days when no rain (or a trace) fell, the wettest days being 18th when 18.6 mm fell each. It was drier than usual overall with the total rainfall of 54.4 mm being 81% of the Usk* average for April of 67.5 mm.
* Usk is the nearest Met Office station for which long term averages (1981-2010) are available.
Day by day data for April are given below:-
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for APR. 2020
NAME: Penallt210 CITY: Penallt STATE:
ELEV: 210 m LAT: 51° 48' 00" N LONG: 2° 42' 00" W
TEMPERATURE (°C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (km/hr)
HEAT COOL AVG
MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM
DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR
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1 5.3 8.8 12:30 0.1 4:30 13.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.7 15:30 NE
2 8.5 12.1 12:30 5.4 2:00 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.6 16.1 13:00 WNW
3 8.6 13.9 17:30 3.4 00:00 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.2 11.3 13:30 SE
4 8.7 14.9 14:30 2.1 6:30 9.6 0.0 0.0 1.8 20.9 16:30 SSE
5 12.8 19.7 14:00 7.3 3:00 5.6 0.1 0.6 6.1 29.0 13:30 SSE
6 10.8 15.3 14:00 4.5 00:00 7.5 0.0 6.4 1.1 24.1 1:00 SW
7 10.5 17.7 16:00 2.5 6:30 7.8 0.0 0.0 0.6 16.1 12:30 SSE
8 14.2 21.1 17:30 8.3 3:00 4.5 0.4 0.0 0.5 11.3 12:30 NE
9 15.8 22.8 17:00 9.3 7:00 3.5 1.0 0.0 0.6 12.9 14:00 NE
10 15.7 23.3 17:00 7.9 7:00 3.8 1.1 0.0 1.0 17.7 15:00 SSE
11 17.2 24.7 15:00 10.1 7:00 2.7 1.6 0.0 0.0 9.7 15:00 NE
12 15.2 20.4 12:00 8.7 6:00 3.6 0.5 0.0 1.1 29.0 22:30 NE
13 7.5 10.7 15:00 3.2 00:00 10.8 0.0 0.0 8.0 33.8 1:00 NE
14 6.5 13.5 17:00 0.2 7:00 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.8 14.5 10:30 NE
15 9.6 17.4 17:00 1.3 6:30 8.8 0.0 0.0 0.8 16.1 16:30 NE
16 12.7 19.6 16:30 3.6 4:30 5.8 0.1 0.0 1.0 16.1 13:00 NE
17 10.2 14.7 0:30 6.6 00:00 8.2 0.0 4.4 2.9 20.9 20:00 NE
18 6.6 8.1 18:00 5.0 7:30 11.7 0.0 18.6 1.8 17.7 2:30 NE
19 10.7 15.6 16:30 7.3 8:00 7.6 0.0 0.0 3.4 24.1 17:00 NE
20 10.1 17.1 16:30 4.4 4:30 8.2 0.0 0.0 6.9 30.6 17:30 NE
21 11.5 17.9 16:00 5.8 6:30 6.8 0.0 0.0 6.6 29.0 12:00 NE
22 12.4 19.8 16:00 5.6 6:30 6.1 0.2 0.0 4.2 20.9 0:30 NE
23 12.8 21.2 18:00 6.2 6:30 5.7 0.2 0.0 1.6 14.5 10:00 NE
24 13.9 20.8 15:30 6.9 6:00 4.8 0.4 0.0 0.8 12.9 13:30 NE
25 12.9 18.9 17:00 6.1 6:30 5.4 0.0 0.0 1.0 11.3 1:30 SSE
26 13.1 19.7 13:00 5.9 5:30 5.3 0.1 0.0 0.2 9.7 13:30 SSE
27 11.8 15.7 15:00 9.1 7:30 6.5 0.0 0.0 1.1 12.9 13:00 NE
28 7.7 10.9 0:30 6.2 10:00 10.7 0.0 11.6 1.6 20.9 11:30 NE
29 8.8 13.4 16:00 6.3 8:00 9.5 0.0 7.6 1.9 20.9 21:30 SSE
30 7.9 11.6 17:00 5.3 4:00 10.4 0.0 5.2 1.4 19.3 9:00 SE
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11.0 24.7 11 0.1 1 224.9 5.6 54.4 2.0 33.8 13 NE
Max >= 32.0: 0
Max <= 0.0: 0
Min <= 0.0: 0
Min <= -18.0: 0
Max Rain: 18.59 ON 18/04/20
Days of Rain: 7 (> .2 mm) 6 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm)
Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration