May CET

[Thundery wintry showers]

It's true that April was by far the biggest contributor, but the 1981-2010 average does rather exaggerate this as the new 30-year means for the spring months are markedly higher than for any other 30-year period.

Using 1961-1990 the anomalies are 1.0, 3.9 and 1.0, which gives an impression of modest warmth in the other two months adding to the warm April. The 1971-2000 averages give anomalies of 0.4, 3.7 and 0.9.

[The PIT]

Well we matched Aprils temp of 12c. Interestingly the day time Max was lower than Aprils but those mild nights did the trick.

At least I was only 0.3c off this time rather than 1c plus.

[damianslaw]

Yes the mild nights prevented a CET below 12 degrees, otherwise we would have been looking at a very near average month. Certainly for the north maxima have been preety average for the whole month and it never felt particularly warm at any stage in contrast to April.

[stewfox]

12.2 c for me please

[J10]

The Figure has been confirmed as 12.2, So I can post the score now.

A lot of people were very close but 5 players got it spot on.

Eabie, stewfox, sundog, davehsug and Don

The Seasonal comp is now over and the top 3 is Don (1st) from Jack Wales (2nd) and Milhouse (3rd).

In the Overall comp Jack Wales leads from fozfoster (2nd) and reef (3rd).

May 2011 CET.pdf

May 2011 CET.xls