I hope you enjoyed the least rainy June on record! It was also the third warmest and fifth sunniest June on record.
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UK Weather Tracker #16 – May 2018
I hope you enjoyed the sunniest May on record! It was also the second warmest May on record though the Met Office chose to sow confusion by claiming it was the warmest on record.
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UK Weather Tracker #15 – April 2018
Whilst the UK fluctuated between heatwaves and snowstorms in April, overall the monthly averages ended up being unremarkable. It just goes to show that in many ways, our experience of weather is in the variation rather than the expectation. [Read more…]
UK Weather Tracker #14 – March 2018
Whilst the UK shivered under two major snow storms in March, it turns out that the whole month was unremarkable meteorologically albeit somewhat colder than normal. [Read more…]
UK Weather Trends #4 – Winter 2018
Meteoologists define winter in the UK to be the period from December to February so winter is now over and we are officially in spring. The 2018 winter was very sunny but this hides the fact that our winter climate has changed quite notably over the last 25 years.
UK Weather Tracker #13 – February 2018
Last month, I expressed my cynicism at the media crying wolf over bad weather in the UK. The wolf finally appeared but in the first week of March instead so that means that February still did not see the wolf as I explain in this month’s UK Weather Tracker. [Read more…]
UK Weather Tracker #12 – January 2018
Every time I went online in January, I would find a headline promising an extreme cold snap in the UK which never materialised. I’ve grown tired and cynical of these headlines and given that the latest met office data shows that January 2018 was completely unremarkable, I think I am justified in this attitude! [Read more…]
UK Weather Tracker #11 – December 2017
My latest UK weather tracker shows that December 2017 was the only month of 2017 to set a new UK weather record with the lowest rain intensity recorded in December. [Read more…]
UK Weather Trends #3 – Autumn 2017
Meteoologists define autumn in the UK to be the period from September to November so autumn is now over and we are officially in winter. The 2017 was completely unremarkable but this hides the fact that our autumnal climate has changed quite notably over the last 25 years.
UK Weather Tracker #10 – November 2017
My latest UK weather tracker shows that the November 2017 was the 9th brightest on record which is some comfort for those that curse the onset of dark evenings with the change of clocks.
