Extremes of Temperature at Kilkenny:
Month |
AbsoluteMax
|
Year
|
Site
|
AbsoluteMin
|
Year
|
Site
|
|
January |
16.2 |
2015 |
Greenshill |
-14.1 |
1979 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
February |
16.1 |
1891 |
Kilkenny Castle |
-12.2 |
1900 |
Kilkenny Castle |
|
March |
23.3 |
1929 |
Kilkenny Castle |
-8.9 |
1886 |
Kilkenny Castle |
|
April |
23.5 |
1975 |
Dunningstown Rd |
-5.4 |
1968 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
May |
26.3 |
2012 |
Greenshill |
-3.7 |
1967 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
June |
33.3* |
1887 |
Kilkenny Castle |
0.5 |
1962/85 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
July |
31.4 |
1983 |
Dunningstown Rd |
2.3 |
1965 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
August |
31.3 |
2022 |
Greenshill |
1.2 |
1964 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
September |
28.0 |
2023 |
Greenshill |
-2.2 |
1893 |
Kilkenny Castle |
|
October |
23.7 |
1959 |
Dunningstown Rd |
-4.8 |
1993 |
Dunningstown Rd |
|
November |
19.4 |
1927 |
Kilkenny Castle |
-9.6 |
2010 |
Greenshill |
|
December |
15.5 |
1994 |
Dunningstown Rd |
-12.1 |
2010 |
Greenshill |
* This temperature is regarded as the highest recorded in Ireland. Kilkenny Castle temps are all converted from whole fahrenheit figures.
Note re climate data: We in Kilkenny do not have the luxury of long term (>100 yrs) data from any one climate site. Nevertheless I have combined the data from the three sites 1) Kilkenny Castle 1886-1900 2) Kilkenny Met Station 1957-2008 3) My own site 2007+ . All three sites are within a radius of 1km and an 11 month comparison between my site and Kilkenny Met revealed only a -0.1C difference. Looking at the Kilkenny Castle average and extreme data, I would not expect much appreciable differerences here either, to the other two sites.