Summer of 95

Lovely sunny day again, very little wind too. Just hope that grot over East Anglia doesn't menace areas further west.

July 2010 had just 86 hours of sun at Shawbury. It was an absolute shocker of a month round here, despite not being particularly wet. That August 2012 one was terrible too, 30C in London and barely 20 everywhere else. Also late July 2012 there was a S/SE warm spell whike cloud sat over the north and Midlands and refused to move. More recently there was Halloween last year, another SE v the rest stinker.

18C and clear skies here too. Lovely out, can it make 20 today? That's been the only let down this month, all these dry sunny days and it hasn't made it yet.

Shawbury is (the Tern and Roden is a tributary of the Severn) but I'm not sure about Newport. It must be close to the Severn/Trent watershed.

Newport and Shawbury are nowhere near the Severn- that flows SE from Shrewsbury towards Bridgnorth. Neither is particularly hilly; Shawbury is in a bit of a "bowl" but the hills are low (150m). I wonder what the minima were at Preston Montford (right by the Severn, but averages slightly higher minima than Shawbury) or Tern Hill (about 7 miles NE of Shawbury) or Cosford (10 miles S of Newport, very flat) those nights. Shawbury seems to be a cold spot on summer days too, often 2C or so colder than Shrewsbury and Cosford, and 3-4C below Hereford.

Actually seemed to be brightening up well earlier (about 9), yet featureless muck has returned. Satellite pics don't show standard North Sea crud, there seems to be a rotating spiral of cloud off E Anglia?

The thing is, we don't often get the good weather here in a W/E split because the Pennines end at Stoke, and we are east of the Welsh mountains. So the dividing line goes north and west of here (through Mid Wales and Cheshire) while in a NW/SE split it's south and east.

Sunshine gone very hazy here, not as warm as yesterday when we were in the blue sky all day. That band of cloud seems to have reached the Midlands and then stopped. SE v the rest is the absolute worst in summer (Aug 2009, July 2010, Aug 2012); day after day they bask in sunshine while everywhere else gets cool dull rubbish. Never get any thunder when it happens either, I actually prefer June 2012 type weather given the choice. The divide always sets up in the same place, and the heat constantly refuses to shift even 100 miles north. It seems to be more and more common since 2000.

Much sunnier than I expected, and vetting warm too

2014 was definitely the better one here. June and July were probably the best pair of months since July/August 1995. 2013 was an average summer to me, it had 10 days of warmth in July and one hot day on the first of August. In the 90s that would have seemed normal, it only seemed good because of the absolute rubbish between 2007 and 2012. 2014 would have been right up there with a half decent August. That month has been a constant letdown in the 2000s, in the last 10 years it has averaged barely one day above 25C.

Down to -1C overnight, first April air frost since 2013

Been more sunshine here today than on several days in the "warm spell", including yesterday. No rain since 9am and feels quite nice out of the wind at 12-13C.

More and more cloud seems to be moving in from the south, not as warm as yesterday or Tuesday. Highest temp in this spell so far exactly 19C yesterday afternoon.

Completely cloudy now, just a sheet of muck sitting across a large slice of the country for no reason at all. Better shift by the morning....

What a strange coincidence- French air traffic goes on strike, all of a sudden Britain is covered in masses of aircraft muck so thick the sun is barely visible. Merci beaucoup....

That wind was just reserved for us then... It just can't leave us alone whenever there's a warm spell, constantly turning up and keeping us 2-3C cooler than places east and south.

16.7C here. Is it really 19-20 just 30 miles away in the same weather? I can believe 18 in central Birmingham and maybe Hereford (always warmer than here for some reason). We are a lot warmer than London for once though!

Cleared a lot earlier than yesterday, a lovely day apart from that damn wind that just refuses to go away, even with 1030mb+ over us. Nicest BH Monday for ages though.

Fog has descended... are we ever going to see a clear high again?

Sun trying to come out, only 8 hours after everywhere else...

Where is our sunshine? The murk cleared yesterday afternoon, it was clear till at least midnight, why has it come back? Wind isn't even E'ly. Especially as Sat shows Wales and large parts of England clear, why just here?

Don't remember any snow, but I certainly remember the earthquake. Was in school at the time and it made all the walls shake and actually did some damage in town- they closed off the centre because of bits falling off buildings. No weather sticks in my mind for April 1990 in fact, 1989 was the one I remember it snowing.

3 years ago today a real surprise snowfall. A week before it had been 20C, and there had been practically no snow all "winter", including one day when it managed to rain at -1C. So it was really surprising to wake up to a blanket of white on April 4th 2012. Forecasts the night beforehad been for rain with "a bit of wintriness possible" sort of thing. We got 2-3cm of snow that lasted till around midday, making it the biggest snowfall of 2011-12. Anyone else get this?

Windy, showers rain, feels cool, first light evening since October and we get November weather. Looks like a squall line over E Midlands?

2007 was the last total one I remember seeing, although I remember being surprised by the New Years partial one in 2009 as well. Also saw them in Jan 2000(?) 1996(?) and August 1989.