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Continuous rain overnight and much of the day much of it heavy,max 8 deg,min 4 deg.
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A mainly dry and sunny day with a few light showers,max 6 deg,min 4 deg
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2 hours ago, Summer8906 said:
It's quite staggering the difference in max temp between Northern England and Southern England (7C in Halifax vs almost 11 in Barton-on-Sea). You'd expect some difference but not that much; on a global scale, the difference in latitude is negligible.
Halifax is seasonable whereas Barton is very mild, yet both appear to have had the same airmass. Seems to happen an awful lot these days. It seems to be constantly mild in the south in an Atlantic setup, whether or not Tm is present - while the north has the mildness more restricted to Tm airmasses.
The difference is we are in the Pennine hills.Even more amazing is where i used to live at 340metres just a few miles from here it is between 2 and 3 degrees colder than here in the valley all year around.Yet if you get out of the hills say Leeds or Manchester it is also a degree or two warmer than here and just an hour down the road you have Doncaster which often gets temps like southern Britain,the warmest place in the North.
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An odd shower,mainly dry with rain arriving later,max 7 deg,min 5 deg
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Showers and spells of rain throughout,max 9 deg,min 3 deg
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Thunder and lightening late yesterday with hail.Showers overnight and rain and wind to start the day.Becoming drier with a few squally showers,feeling cold,max 5 deg,min 3 deg
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Some heavy showers and spells of rain becoming drier with showers then more rain later with several bangs of thunder and lightening and hail,max 9 deg,min 6 deg
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Wet and chilly overnight.Rain during the morning with showers the remainder,max 10 deg,min 4 deg
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Dry and mainly sunny,max 8 deg,min 5 deg
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Showers and calmer to start with increasing winds and rain arriving later,max 10 deg,min 8 deg
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Mild and windy with spells of light rain and squally showers almost all day,max 12 deg,min 8 deg
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The most memorable thing i remember about 1989 is the switch from wet to dry.Having endured almost 5 years of wet weather working on the farm the land was boggy for all the summers of 1985-1988 and getting stuck with the tractor in early April 1989 it suddenly became dry.All the land dried parched and went back to times not seen since the great summer of 1984.It also managed to throw in the blip of the 'Halifax storm',19th May which debatedly holds the UKs 2 hour rainfall record which i was lucky enough to witness.
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On 19/12/2023 at 20:58, Summer8906 said:
Indeed, an epic summer as far as I'm concerned - one of the very best. In my remembered lifetime only 1995 would come close to 1989, indeed dare I say it maybe 1989 even exceeds 1995 a little. I think 1976 would still be the winner for my entire lifetime, but sadly I don't remember it. It's possible that as my very earliest memory (of anything at all, not weather) occurred in 1975, I just perceived 1976 as a normal summer, any poor summers preceding it being before my earliest memory.
I remember June 1989 as being persistently warm and sunny, often hot, from around the 10th (the charts would suggest the 11th, ISTR all four Sundays being sunny, including the 4th even though it was in the cool changeable spell) until Monday 26th when Atlantic cloud encroached in and the rest of the month was briefly unsettled, only for summer to return on July 2nd, continuing the long run of fine Sundays which started back in May.
I also remember the cool and thundery period mid-week around the 6th.
I don't however remember the brief blip on the 22nd at all, maybe it only affected the east (I was in NW Sussex).
Don't specifically recall what happened on Aug 10th but do remember there was another short unsettled, rather drizzly period this week. I do however remember thunderstorms being forecast sometime around Sun 13th which surprised me as it was a non-descript day with stratus cloud, neither warm and thundery nor cool Pm.
August was the least settled of the 3 months but started fine and summer returned perhaps around the 17th, though late Aug was less hot than earlier in the summer.
I missed two weeks from around Sat 22nd July to Sun 6th August, was in central-western France (Limousin, near the Auvergne border, west of Aurillac) but the weather there was much the same (not hotter save for one day which perhaps reached around 35). There were severe thunderstorms twice during this period in France, once on Sun 23rd followed by a cooldown (apparently including a tornado which amazed me at the time - a tornado in Europe? I assumed they were more or less restricted to North America and Asia). and then again towards the end.
So yes, 1989 was far better than many recent hot summers as all three months were good. Only 1976, 1984 and 1995 can equal that (1984 was less brilliantly good, but all three months were good).
July 1990 is another month I consider underrated by many. 1989 and 1990 together were a pair of notably fine summers, but I think in both cases the south had it particularly good. (And it was less wet down here in the intervening winter!)
I always remember 1984 slightly better than 1989 here.It was drier overall with a severe drought and although 1989 had a slightly better June,1984 had a better August which are as rare as hens teeth.
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Showers and spells of rain and very strong winds for much of the day,max11 deg,min 9 deg
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On 19/12/2023 at 00:08, damianslaw said:
Sadly too young to remember this spell, but seen photos of deep snow in the ground in the run up to christmas. There was a thaw of sorts post christmas, with the first few days of Jan being milder. A very snowy December, overall not bettered since, 2009 nearly rivalled it but the snow came much later then.
Cold wise on a par with 2010 nearly, but not the same degree of cold.
Not sure about that,certainly different in this area.December 1981 managed to give -23 and -24 deg in England only for January 1982 to beat that at -26.1 deg which is Englands all time record all in Shropshire and here in the Pennines December 1981 was colder than 2010 with monster snowdrifts in both December and January,something 2010 failed to do.
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Mainly cloudy and dry,breezy at times,max 7 deg,min 6 deg
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Mild and dry becoming breezy with drizzle later,max 12 deg,min 9 deg
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Mild and windy with sunny spells,max 10 deg,min 7 deg
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Dry with good sunny spells becoming windy later,max 10 deg,min 6 deg
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6 hours ago, A Face like Thunder said:
Being an ex-pat southerner living in the NW of England, I would want to nominate Nantwich in Cheshire in the top 10 - the hottest place in the NW on both 18th and 19th July 2022. If Nantwich is not a station as such, I think there is one nearby in Cheshire which would do instead.
What if any relation would somewhere like Shawbury and surrounding area [which holds the Minimum English record ] have the possibility of being close to the Hottest record.
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Dry and cloudy some drizzle later,max 8 deg,min 5 deg
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Rain to start becoming showery with a drier afternoon,max 9 deg,min 6 deg
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Very windy late yesterday and overnight, rain to start the day becoming drier with further heavier rain arriving later,max 9 deg,min 6 deg
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Rain during the morning leaving showers in the afternoon and back to rain later,becoming windier as the day went on,max 10 deg,min 5 deg
Daily weather observations - December 31st to January 7th
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A dull and cloudy day with some light showers,max 7 deg,min 5 deg