Weather-history

Summer 1969 had a summer index of 234 for Manchester, so it must have been a pretty ok summer

The first one for 1994

Some more scary stats Wettest April to June periods on record for England and Wales since 1766 (mm) 1782 336.7 1830 324.4 1797 313.1 1843 305.2 1879 293.1 1860 290.2 2012 282.4 (up to 11th June)

The last forecast from 1993, we had snow here that night, so it was a white New Year.

Why the 21st? Summer solstice is the 20th this year. Contrary to popular belief, the solstices and equinoxes are not fixed dates.

Greenwich recorded 9.4C on the 19th June 1903 as a maximum.

Classic scenario for frontal snow

The first 10 days of June have recorded about the same amount of rainfall for England and Wales as it did for the whole of summer 1995.

This was the start of a period where white Christmases increased in frequency.

Last Sunday? That was chilly.

That Sunday we had heavy rain and sleet which turned into snow in bursts.

It was a pretty wild night here courtesy of this gale.

Raining here still, has been off and on for the last 48hrs. No sun since Wednesday.

16th July -11th August 1987 CET: 14.1C

Mid July to Mid August 1987 was bad, I remember a Friday in early August 1987 being really chilly and drizzly. There was a Spanish plume around the 22nd August bring thunderstorms. It wasn't great.

Superman 3 was laughable with a satellite firing beams into the atmosphere to create a huge rotating storm over Colombia. The tornado looked unrealistic and then Superman goes to the base of the tornado and inverts the tornado so it is above the cloud tops?!

This June is bringing back memories of this dire summer month. June 1987 was a disappointingly cool, very dull and wet month. The 2nd test match at Lord's, England v Pakistan, was a disaster with 3 days washed out and the first day of Wimbledon fortnight was washed out with play not beginning until well into the 2nd day. The 5th of June was a particularly wet day This heralded a very cool spell of weather that lasted from the 7th to the 16th, a number of places never got to 16C during this period. Thunderstorms did breakout during this period with hail. For Manchester, June 1987 was actually the wettest month of the 1980s. The weather finally picked up at the end of June with temperatures getting into the 20s. Its the dullest June on record in the Areal series. CET trackometer. 1. 13.5 2. 12.9 3. 13.0 4. 13.1 5. 12.5 6. 12.7 7. 12.5 8. 12.3 9. 12.1 10. 11.9 11. 11.9 12. 11.8 13. 11.7 14. 11.6 15. 11.5 16. 11.5 17. 11.5 18. 11.5 19. 11.6 20. 11.7 21. 11.7 22. 11.8 23. 11.8 24. 11.9 25. 11.9 26. 12.1 27. 12.2 28. 12.5 29. 12.7 30. 12.8 Abbotsinch Mean Max: 15.9 Rainfall: 93mm (160%) Sun: 146hrs (78%) Durham Mean Max: 15.1 Rainfall: 92mm (180%) Sun: 89hrs (53%) Elmdon Mean Max: 16.9 Rainfall: 107mm (202%) Sun: 119hrs (61%) Heathrow Mean Max: 18.6 Rainfall: 70mm (137%) Sun: 133hrs (65%) Manchester Mean Max: 15.8 Rainfall: 174mm (276%) Sun: 103hrs (54%)