JERSEY’S reputation as the sunniest place in the British Isles took a bit of a hit in November – which featured 15 days without a single minute’s sunshine.
Last month was the dullest November since 2008, statistics released by Jersey Met have shown, with just 57.3 hours’ sunshine compared with the 30-year average figure of 88.4 hours.
Although the first half of the month was predominantly dry, rainfall over the subsequent fortnight resulted in a total of 116.1 millimetres, right on the average mark.
A series of extreme readings were recorded during this period: 32mm of rain on Monday 18, snow showers on Thursday 21, a minimum temperature of just 1.3°C on Friday 22 and an unseasonal high of 17.4°C on Sunday 24.
Overall, the November temperature was warmer than normal, with a figure across the month of 10.8°C, 0.6°C above the 30-year average.
The month began with a prolonged spell of foggy, gloomy weather which brought two days of extensive travel disruption at Jersey Airport.
The forecaster has also issued data covering the three-month meteorological autumn period from September to November inclusive.
A blazing start to autumn saw a temperature of 24.6°C recorded on 1 September, but over the season as a whole, temperatures were close to normal: just 0.3°C above the average mark for 1991-2020 of 13.5°C.
It was also a little duller than normal, with 394 hours of sunshine being more than 30 hours below average, but rainfall of 294mm was only fractionally above the average figure of 282mm.
After a brief dip in temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting an ice warning from Jersey Met, the temperature climbed significantly yesterday.
While relatively mild temperatures look set to persist across the weekend, the forecast also indicates wet and windy weather for the Island, with an orange storm warning issued by Jersey Met yesterday afternoon.
