March 2019 was slightly warmer and much drier than usual. Overall, the average maximum temperature of 11.7°C was 0.6°C above the Usk average for March of 11.1°C.
The coldest by day was the 8th, with a maximum of 8.6°C, and the warmest was the 30th with a maximum of 15.7°C, the month ending with 13 consecutive days where the maximum was over 10°C.
Unusually, rain fell on every one of the first 17 days but on none of the remaining 14. The total rainfall of 43.2 mm was 52% of the Usk* average for March of 83.1 mm.
* Usk is the nearest Met Office station for which long term averages (1981-2010) are available.
Day by day data for March are given below:-
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for MAR. 2019 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 8.3 11.1 9:00 5.8 6:30 10.0 0.0 0.4 0.3 14.5 19:00 SE 2 9.3 12.3 10:00 6.9 1:30 9.0 0.0 2.4 1.3 19.3 19:00 W 3 8.1 11.1 16:30 4.4 23:00 10.2 0.0 5.2 2.7 33.8 15:00 W 4 5.2 9.3 10:30 3.3 20:30 13.1 0.0 0.8 0.6 17.7 13:30 W 5 7.0 10.2 10:30 3.0 2:30 11.3 0.0 6.0 1.4 24.1 00:00 W 6 8.7 11.4 15:00 5.1 00:00 9.6 0.0 2.4 3.2 25.7 1:30 SE 7 6.4 8.8 12:30 4.3 00:00 11.9 0.0 0.4 1.0 27.4 14:00 W 8 6.1 8.6 22:00 2.9 7:00 12.2 0.0 2.0 0.8 17.7 14:30 W 9 7.9 11.2 11:30 4.4 00:00 10.4 0.0 3.2 0.8 19.3 12:00 W 10 5.6 9.2 14:00 2.4 23:30 12.7 0.0 1.6 1.6 24.1 10:30 W 11 6.3 11.6 13:00 2.2 5:00 12.0 0.0 0.4 0.8 20.9 21:30 W 12 6.0 8.9 9:00 3.2 12:00 12.3 0.0 10.0 2.4 30.6 9:00 W 13 7.2 8.8 16:30 5.7 5:00 11.1 0.0 0.4 1.6 20.9 3:00 W 14 9.6 13.1 11:30 6.7 2:00 8.7 0.0 2.0 1.1 22.5 10:30 W 15 10.5 12.1 11:00 8.7 20:30 7.8 0.0 0.8 1.3 24.1 8:30 W 16 8.5 10.6 12:00 4.2 00:00 9.8 0.0 4.8 4.0 33.8 9:00 W 17 5.6 10.4 13:00 2.6 4:00 12.7 0.0 0.4 0.3 16.1 11:30 W 18 6.9 9.3 15:00 4.4 4:00 11.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.7 12:30 W 19 8.9 12.7 15:30 5.9 4:30 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.4 15:00 W 20 9.4 12.5 16:00 7.2 23:00 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 11.3 13:00 W 21 10.4 13.0 10:30 7.3 0:30 7.9 0.0 0.0 0.2 12.9 4:00 SE 22 9.6 11.2 14:00 7.9 6:30 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.6 16.1 14:00 W 23 8.4 12.1 13:30 6.4 00:00 9.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.0 13:00 ENE 24 8.6 13.7 13:00 2.8 6:30 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.3 00:00 W 25 8.3 13.1 14:00 3.4 00:00 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 11.3 8:30 ENE 26 8.4 14.7 14:30 2.8 1:30 9.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.4 12:30 SW 27 8.9 14.9 14:00 2.7 6:30 9.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.4 15:00 ENE 28 8.6 15.2 15:30 2.8 6:00 9.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.4 14:30 ENE 29 9.3 14.8 13:30 2.1 6:30 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.5 11.3 13:30 ESE 30 9.8 15.7 15:30 4.2 6:30 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.0 15:00 SSE 31 7.8 10.9 18:00 5.2 00:00 10.1 0.0 0.0 0.6 16.1 14:00 ENE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.0 15.7 30 2.1 29 317.3 0.0 43.2 0.9 33.8 3 W Max >= 32.0: 0 Max <= 0.0: 0 Min <= 0.0: 0 Min <= -18.0: 0 Max Rain: 10.01 ON 12/03/19 Days of Rain: 17 (> .2 mm) 9 (> 2 mm) 0 (> 20 mm) Heat Base: 18.3 Cool Base: 18.3 Method: Integration