Bordeaux commentator Bill Blatch provides this compendium of statistics on weather and picking dates to complement Blatch on Bordeaux 2017 – the vines and Blatch on Bordeaux 2017 – the wines.
The year’s monthly rainfall and temperatures
| Rainfall (mm) | Cumul min temp (ºC) | Cumul max temp (ºC) | Sun hours | ||||||
| Winter | 11/16 | 86 | -9% | 7.1 | +2 | 13.8 | +0.7 | ||
| 12/16 | 13 | -77% | 4.2 | +1.3 | 12.1 | +2.2 | |||
| 01/17 | 28 | -72% | 0.7 | -1.6 | 8.6 | -0.8 | |||
| 02/17 | 75 | -12% | 5.5 | +2.4 | 4.1 | +2.9 | |||
| 03/17 | 65 | -15% | 7.8 | +3.9 | 16.6 | +2.9 | |||
| Total | 267 | -21% | +1.6 | +1.6 | |||||
| Spring | 04/17 | 22 | -70% | 6.8 | +0.3 | 19.5 | +3.2 | 281... | |