2016 |Estonian Environment Agency Weather Services

Weather events

Estonian weather events in 2016 (normal for period 1961-1990)
Period	Region	Strong anomalies	Observed values and their effects
Winter – December (2015), January, February, 2016	Estonia	unusally warm	the three-month mean temperature −1,2 ºC (normal −4,7 ºC)
Winter – December (2015), January, February, 2016	Estonia	high precipitation total	the three-month precipitation total 180 mm (normal 117 mm) – the 4^th place since 1961
Spring – March, April, May, 2016	Estonia	very warm	the three-month mean temperature 6,2 ºC (normal 3,7 ºC) – the 6^th place since 1961
Summer – June, July, August, 2016	Estonia	warmer than normal	the mean temperature of the three months 16,5 ºC (normal 15,4 °C)
Summer – June, July, August, 2016	Estonia	very high precipitation total	the three-month precipitation total 317 mm (157% of normal) – the 2^nd place since 1961
Autumn – September, October, November, 2016	Estonia	low precipitation total	137 mm (68% of normal) – the 6^th place since 1961
February	Estonia	unusally warm	0,7 °C (anomaly 6,4 °C) – the 4^th place since 1961
February	Estonia	high precipitation total	69 mm (247% of normal)
February	Pärnu	high precipitation total	103 mm (335% of normal); wettest February in Pärnu since 1878
February, 18	Estonia	freezing rain	many road accidents
March	Estonia	warmer than normal	the monthly mean temperature 0,3 ºC (normal −2,1 ºC)
March	Estonia	low precipitation total	20 mm (66% of normal)
April	Estonia	unusally warm	the monthly mean temperature 5,3 ºC (normal 3,4 ºC)
April	Estonia	high precipitation total	46 mm (138% of normal)
May	Estonia	relatively high numbers of sunshine hours	375 hours (141% of normal) taking the 2^nd place since 1961
May	Estonia	unusally warm	the monthly mean temperature was 13,1 ºC (normal 9,8 ºC) – the 2^nd place since 1961
May	Estonia	low precipitation total	16 mm (41% of normal) – the 3^rd-4^th place since 1961
May	Võru	low precipitation total	3 mm (6% of normal) the driest May since 1912
May	Tartu-Tõravere	low precipitation total	2 mm (4% of normal) the 1^st-2^nd place since 1961
June	Estonia	high precipitation total	107 mm (210% of normal) the 3^rd place since 1961
June	Tartu-Tõravere	high precipitation total	206 mm (333% of normal) – the wettest since 1866, heavy rain caused floods in some places
June, 6	Jogeva County	extraordinalrily late snowfall (basically sleet and snow pellets)	–
June, 21	Tartu-Tõravere	heavy rainfall	51 mm in two hours (82% of the monthly normal)
June, 2	Viljandi County	a strong dust devil	a child was picked up by dust devil and lifted up about 1 meter, nobody was seriously injured
July	Estonia	warmer than normal	17,8 ºC (normal 16,4 ºC)
July	Estonia	high precipitation total	79 mm (108% of normal), heavy rain caused floods in some cities
July, 3	South-Estonia	severe thunderstorm	significant damages in the forests
July, 15	Vändra parish (south-western part of the country)	weak tornado	–
August	Estonia	precipitation total higher than normal	131 mm (167% of normal)
August	Pakri	low precipitation total	49 mm (71% of normal)
August	Narva	high precipitation total	202 mm (235% of normal)
September	Estonia	low precipitation total	28 mm (38% of normal)the 2^nd-4^th place since 1961
September	Estonia	warmer than normal	13,2 ºC (normal 11,1 ºC)
October	Estonia	cooler than normal	5,1 ºC (normal 6,5 ºC)
October	Estonia	low precipitation total	39 mm (59% of normal)
November	Estonia	cooler than normal	0,1 ºC (normal 1,4 ºC)
November, first decade	Estonia	particularly low decade’s mean temaperature	−2,7 ºC (anomaly −5,9 ºC), the coldest since 1961
December	Estonia	unusally warm	+0,8 ºC (normal −2,8 ºC)
December, third decade	Estonia	unusally warm	3,0 ºC (anomaly 6,6 ºC)
December	Estonia	low precipitation total	28 mm (54% of normal)
December, 31	Estonia	extraordinarily warm day	maximum temperatures reached 5,0…7,0 °C – the warmest last day of the year in many stations since 1919
The year 2016	Estonia	high annual mean temperature	the annual mean tempearture was 6,8 ºC (normal 5,2 ºC)
The year 2016	Estonia	precipitation total higher than normal	691 mm (110% of normal)

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Estonian weather events in 2016 (normal for period 1961-1990)

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