December was mild and wet but much wetter in the SE and NW of the UK. The CET was 5.80C which was 0.74c above the long term average. We also had a record-breaking temperature of 18.7c at the end of the month in Scotland. Which means that every season in 2019 had some sort of…
Its been very wet the last month across the UK and fairly cool with the CET coming out below average at 6.2c which is -0.3c below the long term average. This was the 2nd month in a row that this has occurred, low-pressure systems have rattled across the UK and we even had the remnants…
It was a wet and chilly month with enough cold spells for some snow around. The west of the country took the brunt of the rain and wind, this was the first month of the year with a below-average temperature on the CET record. It came out at 10c which is a -0.6c fall. The…
September has been a fluctuating month with spells of rain and wind, with ex hurricanes coming at us, some of these has pumped the heat up from the mid-Atlantic near the Azores. We had above average sunshine as well as warmth mid-month and combined with the rain has made all the mushrooms start to bloom….
August has been another strange month which has continued the pattern of rather cool and wet and then some very warm weather for the last week to 10 days. In the SE it has been high pressure dominated with the NW being wetter with Atlantic systems continuously brushing the coast. The end of the month…
Summer 2019 will be remembered in the record books for the highest ever temperature that has been recorded in the UK. 38.7c occurred at Cambridge on the 25th July 2019. It is also only the 2nd time we have broken the 100F. It hasn’t been an especially hot summer but there have been some notable…
April was a month of contrasts it started with a warm 1st week and the last week of the month, in the middle it was very cool with some late severe frosts and some places snow. April is usually the month of showers but not the case this year as it was very dry, especially…
It’s the month of great spurts of growth from blossoms to spring flowers but because of the warmth of February, we are 2 /3 weeks ahead of where we would normally be. 2/3rd through spring and it’s looking like it will be one of the warmest springs! It was a strange month where the month…
It has been an amazing spell of settled weather over the last 2 weeks of the month. Which has culminated in the highest February temperature ever recorded! These records are the longest in the world and go back to 1656. It is also significant that previously no winter month had ever gone over 20c before….
This is definitely a month/winter of two halves, the first half being very warm which peaked at 5.7c CET on the 17th then the rest of the month was well below average. The final CET finished on 4.0c just 0.1c above the long term average. Arctic air plunged down the country on the 16th giving…
