Week’s Weather 17.1.10
Eight days have passed since we had a good spell of rain. The 100 mm or so we had then failed to penetrate very deeply into the hard dry ground and we now need some continuous precipitation to combat the high evaporation rate we have at this time of year. The week’s weather pattern was slow moving with very little change in the synoptic situation. The monsoonal trough line drifted a little north, and one of its weak lows in the Gulf has a potential to become a tropical cyclone. Our hottest day of the week was on Sunday with 31.2°C at 1.30pm, recording a THSW Heat Stress factor of 39.8°C.
World weather news has been overshadowed by the devastating tragic loss of hundreds of thousand lives in the Haiti earthquake.
| Jan 2010 | Bright Sun hours | Heat Stress
°C THSW |
Evap.
mm
|
Soil Moisture Guide |
| Mon 11 | 8.5 | 35°C | 4.6 | 7.1 Wet |
| Tues 12 | 8.8 | 35°C | 3.8 | 8.4 “ |
| Wed 13 | 9.0 | 35°C | 4.3 | 10.2 Adequate |
| Thur 14 | 8.8 | 35°C | 4.5 | 8.0 “ |
| Fri 15 | 6.3 | 33°C | 4.1 | 11. “ |
| Sat 16 | 8.8 | 33°C | 2.8 | 14.4 “ |
| Sun 17 | 7.3 | 40°C | 3.5 | 17.1 “ |
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