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Weather Analysis
May 2026 was a cool and changeable late-spring month, with a mean temperature of 10.7 °C — very close to, and marginally above, the station’s long-term May average of 10.4 °C (2004–2025). The month’s highest temperature, 23.1 °C, was recorded on 23 May, the warmest moment of an extended mild spell that dominated the final third of the month. The lowest reading, 0.5 °C, occurred in the early hours of 7 May, when clear skies and light winds during a cold-air outbreak brought temperatures to the brink of frost — though, notably, the month passed without a single sub-zero reading.
The month divided clearly into two halves. The opening two weeks were dominated by cool, often raw conditions: between 3 and 14 May, daily mean temperatures hovered mostly between 6 and 9 °C, with several days failing to exceed 10 °C even at their peak. From mid-month onwards the pattern relaxed, and the period from 19 May to month’s end brought consistently double-digit daily means, culminating in the 23 °C warmth of the 23rd and a second push to 21.8 °C on the 30th. Only two days of the month reached the 20 °C threshold.
Relative humidity averaged 73 %, spanning a wide range from a very dry 23 % during sunny, well-mixed afternoons to 97 % in damp and rainy conditions — a spread typical of May, when strong daytime insolation can dry the boundary layer dramatically.
Air pressure averaged 1012.1 hPa, with considerable synoptic activity. The barometer peaked at 1028.2 hPa on 9 May under a cold but settled high-pressure ridge, and bottomed out at 991.8 hPa on 13 May as a low-pressure system delivered the month’s heaviest rainfall. Winds blew predominantly from the southwesterly to westerly sector (SSW, WNW, W, and SW being the most frequent directions), averaging a moderate 2.6 m/s. The strongest gust of the month, 15.6 m/s, was measured on 27 May in a brisk westerly flow.
Rainfall Analysis
Total precipitation for May 2026 amounted to 33.0 mm, distributed across ten days with measurable rain, of which five produced 1 mm or more. The rainfall was strongly concentrated in a single mid-month wet spell: between 11 and 15 May, a slow-moving low-pressure system delivered 22.6 mm — over two-thirds of the monthly total — with the wettest single day being 13 May at 12.6 mm. A secondary, lighter event on 19 May contributed 5.4 mm, and early-month rain on 4 May added 3.6 mm. Outside these episodes the month was largely dry, with the final week recording no precipitation at all.
Against the historical May mean of 28.4 mm (station records 2004–2025), the 2026 total of 33.0 mm represents approximately 116 % of the long-term average — a modestly wet outcome, though comfortably within the normal range. As the chart below illustrates, May rainfall at this station is highly variable, ranging from a remarkably arid 1.0 mm in 2024 to 58.5 mm in 2011. May 2026 sits in the upper-middle portion of this distribution, close to the totals of 2005, 2016, and 2025, and continues the recovery from the extreme dryness of May 2024.
