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UK Weather Tracker #52 – May 2021

June 6, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

April 2021 laid down the challenge for unusual weather in the UK and May 2o21 failed to rise to it.  It was wetter and frostier than normal and generally colder and darker than usual but not to the extent that we could say May was unusual.
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UK Weather Tracker #51 – April 2021

May 4, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

Where do I start with the most abnormal April on record!?  Believe or not after the sunniest April on record for the UK in 2020, 2021 bear even that but it didn’t stop there.  April 2021 was also the frostiest on record by a long way, lowest ever rain intensity, 3rd highest daily temperature range and the 4th driest on record.  You’ll never top that says April 2021!
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UK Weather Tracker #50 – March 2021

April 5, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

The meteorological year of 2021 has been extremely boring so far and March was no different.  A bit stormier than usual, enough to cause a leak in my block of flats, but otherwise unremarkable.
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COVID19 Cases #2 – Is the UK an outlier internationally?

March 7, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

An unfortunate side effect of COVID19 has been ugly political debates over the best way to tackle the pandemic.  Often politicians will claim because country X does this, the UK should be doing it as well.  I decided it was time to do a proper comparison of the UK with other countries to see what extent the UK is an outlier and whether there are some countries we should be using as templates.

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UK Weather Trends #16 – Winter 2021

March 6, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

Winter 2021 was wetter than usual in the UK but otherwise unremarkable.

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UK Weather Tracker #49 – February 2021

March 6, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

The UK weather in February 2021 started cold and ended up warm but in the end, everything averaged out into an extremely boring month statistically.
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UK Weather Tracker #48 – January 2021

February 3, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

The weather in the UK in the second month of the new meteorological year was frosty but otherwise unremarkable.
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UK Weather Tracker #47 – December 2020

January 7, 2021 By Nigel Marriott

The weather in the UK in the first month of the new meteorological year was wetter than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
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UK Weather Trends #15 – Autumn 2020

December 4, 2020 By Nigel Marriott

The UK experienced unremarkable weather in all respects in Autumn 2020.

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UK Weather Tracker #46 – November 2020

December 4, 2020 By Nigel Marriott

The weather in the UK in November 2020 was warmer than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
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