A few weather statistics from 2014. I’m not sure how useful they are but it’s interesting, well to me at least. We have a Maplin weather station in one of the fields which records wind, temperature, pressure and rainfall. The data is processed on a Raspberry Pi using an application called Weewx, which crunches the data and publishes it to Wunderground every 5 minutes.

2014 was a mild winter and hot summer,  July was the hottest month with 3 days over 30°C and another 15 over 25°C.  June and September also had  9 and 8 days respectively over 25°C. As for cold we only had 2 days where the minimum temperature was below -5°C and they were both this December.

Rain: Overall 719mm, just over 24 inches in old money. The beginning of the year was very wet (Jan 120mm , Feb 98mm). The sheep weren’t impressed and looked thoroughly miserable. Our lambing shed had 3 inches of water in it a month before lambing!
September was the driest with just 4.8mm which was just as well as August was miserable, 90mm.

The wind is almost always from the SW, ranging from SSW  to WSW. Sept (SE) and Nov (NW) were the exception. In general Dumblehole is not a windy place however there were 14 days where the wind exceeded 25 knots. As you’d expect the winter months were the windiest, February topped the polls with strongest wind at 34.4 knots and on 5 days the wind exceeded 25 knots. June and September were the calmest.