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29.7 and rising right now with very little cloud cover compared to yesterday.

It maxed out at 31.4 and it’s dropped to 30.6, completely overcast and breezy now so about 4c lower than last Friday

At 1400 it was 29.5 and rising with Humidity at 47%. Heathrow seems to have it's own micro-climate or dodgy instruments, I can understand Kent being hotter with the SE wind flow. This time last week it was 33c here.

20.4 at 0830 after a low of 16.1 overnight. Humidity at 71% but very pleasant in the garden. That was the last decent nights sleep for a week I reckon.

It was also dank and dreary here this morning with temps around 20c, the sky is a lot bluer now and temps have risen to 25.5

I'm unable to view the Jack Scott forecast but no problem with the Michael Fish one - it wasn't that one. I remember the forecast was for the upcoming night and following day - those magnetic symbols for snow (2 flakes) were all over England & Wales for the whole night - It may well have been Jack Scott presenting it? Ah well, at least I'm not alone on this - there have been plenty more let downs but a most of them were a lot more marginal than this particular 'nailed on' event!

Thanks, that's really interesting. If it was the beginning of 1980 then even a brief northerly had the majority of England & Wales under under heavy snow forecast, you just don't see things like that happening now, I bet the southerly extent of arctic sea ice was a lot more pronounced back then which mean't any weather coming from the North was that much colder in its origin?

So a max of 25 today with a min of 16.1 - very pleasant albeit with a strong gusty wind. Lots of medium level cloud throughout the day - about 6/8 right now

It could well have been that date, there definitely was no school the next day so it was either on a weekend or xmas holidays - the winds must have been something else that night for so many mature trees to be felled like that. Anyway, it wasn't too long before Dec 81 and Jan 82 happened - those 2 months will stick in my memory for ever, I remember my 3 mates & me walking the streets as it began to fall about 9pm (Jan 3rd - it was the fine powdery type of snow that was drifting into the curbs of the streets - the next morning was a whiteout, visibility was no more than 100yrds it snowed like that on and off for the next 48hrs (there was a snow drift in my garden that curled all the way up to the roof so 20ft at least) My junior school was closed for a month Beautiful memories...

yep, I'm down with that as well!

I remember watching the weather forecast after the 9 o' Clock news on BBC1 and there were heavy snow symbols plastered all over England & Wales for the night ahead. I can remember lamp post watching from various windows until about 11pm but I didn't see a flake, it was still dry; it didn't really matter as the thought of waking up to a winter wonderland scene was just so exciting - the prospect of several hours of heavy snow over night at my home (back then) in South Wales (624ft asl). To this day I just don't understand how the met office could get a forecast so wrong because when I woke up and looked out of the window - the mountain on the opposite side of the valley was lush green in colour, the disappointment for a school kid obsessed with snow has stuck with me all these years! That morning I jumped on my bike and headed up to my local park and found dozens of trees felled like match sticks! To this day I don't know what happened and would love to see some synoptic charts of that night. I wish I could be specific about the year - I think it was around 1979-1980...

It's currently breezy with temperature at 19.1c with a low of 14.6 overnight - pleasant to sleep in. I'm dreading Thursday onwards...

Thanks Mizzle, I've been reading this site for years so better late than never I guess. 31.0 now and its been very gusty this afternoon with clouds building up - usually a sign of some electrical activity.

My first post here, been meaning to sign up for a while. It got to 33.1 a short while ago in North London but has fallen to 32 now