At the end of the year it is always interesting to look at the extremes, averages and trends in the years weather. Our weather station in Lanjaron, Alpujarras has provided the following information for 2011 (2010 figures in brackets).
Temperatures – nothing too different on the maximums and minimums, but interesting to note that 2011 was far more extreme overall than in 2010. The number of times the temperatures exceeded 30 or were less than 10 were much more than in 2010.
Rainfall much higher in 2010, but that was an exceptional year.
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Temperatures
- Max High 36.3 (2010 38.2)
- Min Low 0.3 (2010 0.0)
- Average temp 15.8 (2010 16.0)
- Average max 27.6 (2010 26.7)
- Average min 7.1 (2010 7.1)
- Max temperature over 30 degrees on – 48 days (2010 – 26 days)
- Min temperature under 10 degrees on – 154 days (2010 – 114 days)
Rainfall
- Total precipitation 442mm (2010 720mm)
- Days when precipitation over 2.5mm – 37 days (2010 – 42 days)
Wind
- Maximum gust 61 km/hr (2010 61 km/hr)
- Average maximum gust throughout the year 22.6 km/hr (2010 – 26.3 km/hr)
- Average speed 2.4 km/hr (2010 3.2 km/hr)
- Average wind direction – 265
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