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UK Weather Trends #36 – Spring 2025

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Spring 2025 in the UK was both the hottest & sunniest on record as well as the 5th driest.  For sunshine, 2025 was even more extraordinary than the exceptionally sunny spring in 2020 and was the result of 3 very sunny months in a row.  For temperature, there was no doubt in my mind this time the data was correct unlike last year when I questioned whether spring 2024 was in fact the warmest in record.  The Met Office has not corrected the record so apparently it was.

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UK Weather Tracker #99 – April 2025

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April 2025 was the sunniest April on record in the UK.  It beat the previous record set in 2021 which in turn beat the record set in 2020 during COVID19 lockdown.  There may be a theme but equally I’m not going to bet on all April’s being sunny.  Given March was also the 3rd sunniest on record, there’s a good chance this Spring will beat the extraordinarily sunny Spring of 2020.
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UK Weather Trends #35 – Winter 2025

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Winter 2025 in the UK was unremarkable.  Last year I explained I believe our winters are following a steady trend to warmer and wetter winters which began in the early 1980s.  The data for the winter just gone doesn’t my conclusions.

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