Pulpstar

I've had a better look at the daily data and my previous claim of breaching 8C average so far was mince. Aside from some years that started off warm and then went to more normal January temperatures, the soonest YTD av of 8 remains 3rd of May, 1990 and 2007 having exceptionally warm starts to the year. As of today it is the warmest ytd so far though..

Apologies, 2007 started off over 8 C in January, so my err "record" isn't right

CryoraptorA303 YTD Temp in 1879 went below 8 C on 2nd December 1879. I'd be staggered if this year dropped below 8C at all now. No year since 1879 has been below 8.

Above 8 Celsius average now btw (For the year) - the earliest this has ever been achieved.

I do believe we have a temperature record (Of sorts). Earliest in the year an average of 8 Celsius has been attained, since they started recording in 1772. (HADCET mean data) In 1879, this wasn't breached till the 6th September

Hi All, I've had a look at this and played around with a Google sheet from the England, Wales rainfall data. It's been very wet over the start of the year (3rd wettest since records started in 1766 (2014 was the wettest start to the year) and after March we're currently ranking 5th of 1108 consecutive 12 month periods since daily records in 1931). Here's my work: Weather - Google Sheets DOCS.GOOGLE.COM Daily rain record <a href="https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/daily/HadEWP_daily_totals.txt">metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/daily/HadEWP_daily_totals.txt</a> Daily England... 25 year moving average might move above a metre soon !

9.2 C and 92 mm

We've got the barest smidgen of sun here at the office in Sheffield, and the solar battery has charged up back in my Bassetlaw village. So not the worst day here in South Yorks/top of the East Mids..