A light show lit up the sky over watford as some spectacular storms moved up from the south on some pretty humid air. They rumbled on through the night into the early hours. The maximum temperature for the day was 28.6c at 2pm, the storms arrived at 8pm producing 7.8mm of rain on 18th July…
It has certainly been a month of contrasts one week we reach 35c and the next its cool, wet and cloudy and barely scrapping 20c! Overall the month in Watford has been very warm. Across the country as a whole quite a few records have been broken. We had 5 consecutive days of 30c and…
It certainly was a scorching hot day in Watford, it reached 34.9c at my weather station making it one of the warmest June days for the last 20 years. This year it is not going to be the case, it will becoming unsettled with spells of rain and possibly may feel autumnal next week. Hopefully…
May was quite an average month in Watford but over the UK it was another above average month temperature wise with the CET running 2.1c above the long term average. The 5th month in a row this has been the case and also the 2nd warmest May in the UK series. The highest temperature in…
November certainly has been a big change month. After 6 months of above average temperatures November turned out significantly colder by -1.0c below average. Scotland was even colder than average with it running at -1.6c. It was also the sunniest November since records began. Over the UK the month was dominated by high pressure to…
October across the UK ended up being a dry month with average temperatures. The month was dominated by high pressure with a few warm spells at the beginning. The highest temperature in the UK was 22.2c on the 31st October. The CET ended up at 10.89c which is just above average, April is the only…
It has been an interesting month of weather on the UK with the final figures for the March taking it just below average. It was quite a change from the mild winter. We also had snow falling for a few days at the beginning of the month. The Watford statistics are below but I recorded…
