The Weather, in Royston

Review of 2020

Highlights of 2020

The Met Office summary for the year was “2020 has been a year of extremes with the wettest February on record, the sunniest spring, a heatwave in the summer and a day in October breaking rainfall records.”
For Royston rain it was a game of two halves with three times as much rain in the second half of the year than in the first. October was by far the highest for that month in my data.
Sunshine was average but from a small amount of data.
2020 was the hottest year I’ve measured in terms of the average temperature for the whole year but we are talking of small differences 11.7 for 2020 compared with 11.6 for 2018. The maximum temperature was 36.1C compared with 39.0 for 2019.