What a month it has been with glorious sunshine and warm temperatures you could have been mistaken it was July. A record-breaking month as well with the sunniest May on record and smashing it by quite a bit and amazingly it was the sunniest month on record. It was also the driest month, more about…
Its been a record month for sunshine across the UK which makes a change from the start of the year. April showers didn’t appear until the last two days of the month. With the country on lockdown, it has been so tempting to head for the beach, you just know when the lockdown finishes it…
It was a month of 2 halves as the rain relented bringing an end to the deluge which started in September last year! The continuous low-pressure systems which crossed the Atlantic slowed down as the difference between the polar and Atlantic regions abated. This temperature difference shows up in the AO (Atlantic Oscillation) it fuels…
It has been a very wet month with record-breaking rainfall, with predominantly low-pressure systems across the country they have come one after the other, they always seem to hit at the weekends. Storm Ciara came on the 9th and Storm Dennis on the 15th bringing exceptional rainfall totals. It has also been very mild with…
Another mild month which over the UK which was the 6th warmest January since 1884, it ended up 2c above average. Lots of low-pressure systems crossed the Atlantic fueled by the very strong jet stream. Which in turn was magnified by the difference in temperature in the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. The cold has…
December was mild and wet but much wetter in the SE and NW of the UK. The CET was 5.80CÂ 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…
