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Weather-history I was living in Essex during the 1960s and I'm old enough to remember the summers during the second half of the decade. I noticed that 1967 and 1969 have the highest Manchester Summer Indices. I remember them as reasonable summers without them being great - probably the two best summers of the decade.
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danm Although a very poor summer, there was a definite improvement during the second half of July. We enjoyed a barbecue at my late brother-law's house on the 22nd July in fine weather.
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Hail then a little sleet in the precipitation.
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Hail then a little sleet in the precipitation.
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I was working at Cardington in 1974.
Winter 1973/74 was very mild with a total absence of sleet or snow in January - very unusual indeed in those days at Cardington. January and February were wet.
It was a dry spring until a wet period in late June when it had become more unsettled from then. July was not a terrible month, but lacked any significant warmth.
August and the autumn were wet. There was no lasting dry anticyclonic spell in September which more often than not happens. October was exceptionally cold - it had the lowest CET since 1919.
December was exceptionally mild with the highest CET since 1934 - actually higher than in October!
The absolute maximum temperature of the year at Cardington was 25.6 deg C on 15th August, the lowest since 1962.
In a nutshell, spring was the best season of that year, with a poor late summer and autumn, and an exceptionally mild December.
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1989 certainly had concerns about water shortages owing to drought with the very good summer following a very good May. At Herstmonceux where I worked at the time, there were 130 consecutive days of sunshine from 2nd May to 8th September inclusive.
I took these photographs of the pond at Hailsham on 8th September.
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Unstable sky today. At the moment, light shower with fairly large drops.
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ChannelThunder Unstable sky today. At the moment, light shower with fairly large drops.
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September 1959 and 1960, very dry to very wet. April 1983 and 1984, very wet to very dry
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A Face like Thunder Also a spell of unusually thundery weather for so early in the year in April and a shockingly dull early August in southern England.
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What I remember about 2011 was that in every month from April to October, somewhere in Britain had its highest temperature of that year.
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Nick F Beautiful sunset here as well. Even though it is the very first day of February, there was a hint of spring in the air this afternoon when I was outside my house.
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At Pagham, I remember how quite dark and stormy it looked with yellowy and orangey coloured cloud, but there was only a light shower.
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@Challock Weather Foggy here this morning as well, but has cleared.
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Light snow with crescent moon shining.
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38 minutes ago, A Face like Thunder said:
I remember the free school milk freezing up in Jan 1963 as it was kept outside until ready for consumption. Now that was a January to remember!
Likewise myself as a primary schoolboy in Essex. I also remember walking to school with rather painful toes from the cold.
The snow started lying on Boxing Day 1962 and never entirely disappeared probably until March.
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Bits of sleet in precipitation
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Prominent 22 degree halo, but also faintly visible a 46 degree one.
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Happy new year to you all, and drier and brighter weather. There have been alot of sunless days in December here, even for the time of year, so I would think that it was a dull one.
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Distant thunder to south about 1/2 hour ago. Thought I heard hail when in church this morning.
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Distant thunder to south. Thought I heard hail when in church this morning.
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I first noticed the nacreous clouds just before sunset when out running. I took these photos after I got home.
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2 hours ago, Tom Quintavalle said:
Just had the loudest crack of Thunder I've heard here in Lee, for a very long time.
Not great for this Brontophobe and has added to my stress after experiencing a Prostate Gland Biopsy Yesterday, for suspected Cancer.
Regards,
Tom Q.
I pray good news too. I will have my annual PSA test later this winter.
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Summer 1980 horrific!
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Summer1980 was indeed a bad summer. I was at a weather observer's course at Shinfield College near Reading in June then back to working at Herstmonceux, East Sussex in July and August.
June was cool, wet and thundery with places having up to 10 days of thunder. Sunshine figures were not too bad for that month because June got off to a good start.
Early and mid July was absolutely atrocious for coolness, dullness and wetness. The day maximum was 13.3 deg C at Herstmonceux on 1st. However, from 21st, it became much warmer, drier and sunnier to restore some respectability to July's figures. The absolute maximum of the summer was 26.3 deg C on 25th July.
August was also poor. The 14th was an extremely wet day because of evening and overnight thunderstorms that day.
Certainly a cool, dull and wet summer.