January 2020 was a little warmer and a little drier than usual and the average maximum temperature of 8.6°C was 0.5°C above the Usk average for January of 8.1°C. The minimum temperature sank below 0°C on four days. The warmest day was the 14th (max = 11.9°C) and the coldest was the 21st with a low of -1.1°C.
The measured rainfall was 116.8 mm, 92% of the Usk* average for January of 127.6 mm. Rain was measured on 23 days in the month, the wettest being the 14th when 20.4 mm fell.
* Usk is the nearest Met Office station for which long term averages (1981-2010) are available.
Day by day data for January are given below:-
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for JAN. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 6.0 7.6 00:00 4.8 7:30 12.3 0.0 0.2 0.2 12.9 23:00 SSE 2 8.1 9.8 23:00 5.9 5:30 10.2 0.0 4.2 1.6 24.1 16:30 SSE 3 6.6 9.6 1:30 3.7 00:00 11.7 0.0 1.8 0.8 22.5 7:00 SE 4 6.1 7.8 13:00 3.3 1:30 12.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 16.1 9:30 SE 5 6.8 7.8 14:30 6.3 18:30 11.5 0.0 0.0 0.6 17.7 00:00 WSW 6 6.7 8.6 15:30 4.8 23:00 11.6 0.0 2.4 2.3 24.1 9:30 SSE 7 9.3 11.9 19:00 5.5 2:00 9.0 0.0 1.6 2.1 24.1 14:00 SSE 8 8.9 11.0 0:30 6.6 20:30 9.4 0.0 8.2 1.1 24.1 22:30 SE 9 7.8 11.5 2:00 4.4 21:30 10.5 0.0 11.4 2.1 25.7 2:30 SE 10 5.3 7.7 13:30 2.9 7:30 12.9 0.0 0.0 0.6 22.5 23:00 SE 11 8.3 9.3 00:00 6.6 2:00 10.0 0.0 7.6 3.5 29.0 12:00 SSE 12 7.7 10.0 4:30 5.2 22:00 10.6 0.0 6.6 1.0 22.5 0:30 SW 13 6.5 9.1 17:30 4.8 5:30 11.8 0.0 14.6 3.7 33.8 16:30 SSE 14 8.0 11.9 15:30 5.2 1:00 10.3 0.0 20.4 3.1 32.2 12:00 SW 15 5.9 7.3 12:30 5.1 16:30 12.4 0.0 5.0 0.8 20.9 14:00 SW 16 8.3 11.2 17:30 5.7 0:30 10.0 0.0 10.2 4.8 30.6 12:30 SSE 17 5.1 8.1 4:30 2.1 19:30 13.2 0.0 1.0 0.8 17.7 10:30 SSE 18 2.6 5.8 13:30 -0.6 8:30 15.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 6.4 21:30 SE 19 2.1 5.8 14:00 -0.3 19:00 16.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 8.0 0:30 ENE 20 2.6 6.4 12:00 -0.7 6:30 15.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 6.4 13:00 SE 21 2.9 5.9 13:30 -1.1 3:30 15.4 0.0 0.4 0.0 4.8 12:00 WSW 22 6.9 7.8 15:00 5.2 0:30 11.4 0.0 0.6 0.3 9.7 9:00 ENE 23 5.8 7.2 0:30 4.6 23:30 12.5 0.0 0.4 0.0 6.4 1:30 ENE 24 4.7 6.1 14:30 3.9 6:30 13.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 4.8 18:30 SE 25 5.3 7.0 00:00 4.2 5:30 13.0 0.0 1.6 0.6 12.9 20:30 SSE 26 7.0 8.8 13:30 5.0 21:00 11.3 0.0 5.2 1.6 25.7 10:00 SSE 27 5.4 6.7 13:00 3.2 23:00 12.9 0.0 7.2 0.3 14.5 1:00 SW 28 3.1 6.1 11:30 0.8 7:30 15.2 0.0 1.8 0.0 16.1 21:30 ESE 29 6.1 9.2 14:00 3.2 0:30 12.2 0.0 0.6 0.0 20.9 19:30 SE 30 8.6 11.2 15:00 6.6 1:00 9.7 0.0 0.8 0.5 20.9 16:00 SE 31 9.6 11.0 16:00 8.2 2:00 8.7 0.0 2.2 1.3 20.9 2:00 SW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.3 11.9 7 -1.1 21 373.3 0.0 116.8 1.1 33.8 13 SSE Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 4 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 20.40 ON 14/01/20 Days of Rain: 28 (> .2 mm) 13 (> 2 mm) 1 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration