November 2025 Commentary

Basically the first half of November was mild before it became much colder with some fluctuation during the final few days. For two weeks the day-time temperatures were well into the teens before there were ten days with much lower figures accompanied by several nights when bird baths were frozen over. Strangely the last few days of the month returned to milder days and nights.

November is regularly a wet month and this year there were several days with fairly large amounts of rainfall, though there was a dry week during the cold spell.

The average temperature for the month was 9.8C which is just above the average for the last ten years while the total rainfall was 196.9mm (nearly 8 inches) which is above the average for the same time though there have been four November totals of over 200mm during the last decade.

The figures for the Autumn season (Sept, Oct and Nov combined) have revealed it to be average as far as temperatures are concerned and only slightly above average with regard to rainfall.

Locally, the river flow below the dam has increased dramatically and the well is again overflowing but nothing unexpected has occurred so far this winter.

Philip Spray