October has been a mild & dry month, there has hardly been any frosts across the country. Mostly the winds have been coming from a southerly direction, warm at this time of the year. There was a brief northerly at the end of the month which in Watford gave us a ground frost on the…
Its mid October and I don’t usually do a blog post on the weather mid month. But today (16/10/2017) is 30 years since the Big Storm of 87 and its a coincidence that we have a hurricane (ex) on our doorstep. Plus the red sun appeared today across much of England. Â Hurricane Ophelia It…
Its been a rather disappointing month with the UK weather being changeable with lots of showers and spells of rain. Our weather has predominately been Atlantic driven with lots of low pressure systems driving our weather. We had a warm spell at the beginning of the month which was very fleeting but overall its been…
It is amazing that as soon as the school holidays start, the summer goes downhill. This has been the case more than often in the last 20 years. The summer was on course to be a record till the last week of July and continued getting cooler through the rest of August. Although if you…
This was certainly a month of two halves, July started with hot temperatures and ended cooler and wetter and practically autumnal. Mid month there was some spectacular thunder storms across the south. It was also a country of 2 halves with the north not having much summery weather than compared to the south. UK Stats…
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…
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…
