Weather-history

If the next 7 months were as warm as those of 2006, this year's CET would be 10.26C If they were like those of 1993, it would be 8.57C

Below average seasons since 1990 against 1961-90 averages Winter 1990-91 1995-96 1996-97 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2012-13 Spring 1996 2013 Summer 1993 1998 2007 2011 2012 Autumn 1992 1993 2008 2010 2012 Since January 2010 against 1961-90 averages Winter 2009-10 Autumn 2010 Winter 2010-11 Summer 2011 Summer 2012 Autumn 2012 Winter 2012-13 Spring 2013 Since January 2010 against 1971-2000 averages Winter 2009-10 2010-11 2012-13 Spring 2010 2013 Summer 2011 2012 Autumn 2010 2012 No question a cooling period in the last 5 years.

I think the answer is a bit obvious, winter 1962-63

Only 0.1C warmer than winter 1868-69

Hurricane Frances: 5th September 2004 http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/additional/science-focus/HurricaneFrances2004.shtml

27th January 2002

Night storms are spectacular to watch but they have been rare as hen teeth in recent times. If you have a clear horizon to view, you can see a night storm miles away flashing away.

We could if you think about it because temperature wise it wasn't that chilly the summer. There have been sub 14C CET summers in the past. Rainfall wise it was a shocker but temperature wise, it wasn't. Can you imagine combining the two? Summer 1879!

Peter Gibbs explains the cause of the Boscastle flood of 16th August 2004 Footage of Boscastle flood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscastle_flood_of_2004

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January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004

There was some appalling weather for most of England and Wales around the 7th and 8th July 2004 when a depression pushed up from the Bay of Biscay deepened bringing heavy rain and NEly gales. This caused flooding power cuts. Withering recorded 107.9mm on the 8th July 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3870635.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3875839.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3875699.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3874597.stm Jay Wynne warns of approaching storm ITN reports on 7th July 2004 gale BBC Weather 8th July 2004

20th January 2002

What is there to discuss? It hasn't started yet. No matter how you try, you always end up comparing it to the past. It was the wettest summer since..it was the coldest since....etc or if you are making predictions, it will be a summer similar to xxxx. The SSTs are similar to that year......People are going to give their opinion on what summer what they want and what they don't want. They are going to reminisce, I hope we get a similar storm to xxxx this summer.

Old netweather thread on ithttp://forum.netweather.tv/topic/17768-storm-reports-19th-june-2005/

Uploading forecasts from summer 2004. That was a strange summer. I remember the transit of Venus and how hot it was that day then we had a really chilly night later that June. There was that horrible day in early July with a strong NEly blowing. August felt tropical during the first part but was a right old thundery washout. During early July, there were some of the loudest thunderclaps I have heard, the windows rattled during the early hours.

Interesting because I thought it was a huge disappointment! I remember the storm and I could hear the radio crackling away like anything. When it struck, there wasn't that much thunder, saw hardly any lightning and there wasn't much rain for a storm and it certainly didn't go dark for street lights to come on.

Not really, it was a mild stormy wet month,

Venus, Mercury and Jupiter

Great opportunity to see the lingering twilight this evening. Venus is on view to the NW at the moment.

There must have been a very warm pool of air over Scandinavia which then tracked across the North Sea to the far north of the UK. It was unusually warm in the far north for time of year. Baltasound in the Shetlands got to 19.1C on the 8th May 2004, whilst many places much further south didnt even get into the teens that day.8th May 2004http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxrzjQvk3E4

It's going to be a noteworthy statistic if doesn't beat spring 1962 CET. Coldest spring for 50 years? When was the last time, we said this was the coldest season for at least 50 years for the CET? It would probably have been winter 1962-63.

Remember this. A dry morning then thunderstorms broke out and they drifted southwards. Very strange to see a thunderstorm moving from north to south. They were quite potent.

He's mad I tell you! "Time for weather, ain't that clever".

2013: 1 First day washed out at Headingley