Spring Weather in Woodend New Zealand

Daily high temperatures increase by 11°F, from 56°F to 67°F, rarely falling below 49°F or exceeding 77°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 10°F, from 41°F to 51°F, rarely falling below 33°F or exceeding 58°F.

For reference, on January 17, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Woodend typically range from 55°F to 71°F, while on June 30, the coldest day of the year, they range from 37°F to 52°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average spring temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Myrtle Point, United States (7,140 miles away); La Ensenada, Chile (5,336 miles); and As Pontes de García Rodríguez, Spain (12,423 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Woodend (view comparison).

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The spring in Woodend experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 45% throughout the season. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 42% on October 25.

The clearest day of the spring is October 25, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 58% of the time.

For reference, on July 5, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 49%, while on March 4, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 61%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Woodend, the chance of a wet day over the course of the spring is gradually increasing, starting the season at 28% and ending it at 31%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 33% on October 2, and its lowest chance is 22% on February 11.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the spring in Woodend is essentially constant, remaining about 2.1 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 3.7 inches or falling below 0.7 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 2.0 inches on November 4.

Over the course of the spring in Woodend, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 4 hours, 0 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 40 seconds, and weekly increase of 18 minutes, 41 seconds.

The shortest day of the spring is September 1, with 11 hours, 7 minutes of daylight and the longest day is November 30, with 15 hours, 7 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the spring in Woodend is 7:05 AM on September 29 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 21 minutes earlier at 5:44 AM on November 30.

The earliest sunset is 6:03 PM on September 1 and the latest sunset is 2 hours, 49 minutes later at 8:51 PM on November 30.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 3:00 AM on September 29, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

For reference, on December 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:45 AM and sets 15 hours, 24 minutes later, at 9:09 PM, while on June 20, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 8:01 AM and sets 8 hours, 58 minutes later, at 4:59 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the spring of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy in Woodend is essentially constant during the spring, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on January 27, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on March 28, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed in Woodend is gradually increasing during the spring, increasing from 9.7 miles per hour to 10.6 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on October 10, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 10.8 miles per hour, while on April 24, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.9 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during the spring is 10.8 miles per hour on October 10.

The hourly average wind direction in Woodend throughout the spring is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 38% on October 5.

Woodend is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.

The average surface water temperature in Woodend is rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 8°F, from 49°F to 57°F, over the course of the season.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season in Woodend typically lasts for 8.3 months (251 days), from around September 16 to around May 25, rarely starting before August 12 or after October 19, and rarely ending before April 23 or after June 14.

The spring in Woodend is very likely fully outside of the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season very rapidly increasing from 31% to 100% over the course of the season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days in Woodend are increasing during the spring, increasing by 412°F, from 57°F to 469°F, over the course of the season.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Woodend is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 3.6 kWh, from 3.3 kWh to 6.9 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Woodend are -43.317 deg latitude, 172.667 deg longitude, and 43 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Woodend is essentially flat, with a maximum elevation change of 85 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 35 feet. Within 10 miles is essentially flat (1,191 feet). Within 50 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (6,512 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Woodend is covered by grassland (36%), trees (32%), and cropland (25%), within 10 miles by water (49%) and trees (20%), and within 50 miles by water (48%) and grassland (23%).