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Nationwide extremes for 10-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

London/Heathrow 24 metres 16.1°C

Solent M.R.S.C. 9 metres 16.1°C

Llanbedr 0 metres 15.6°C

Gravesend 3 metres 15.5°C

London MET 5 metres 15.5°C

Thorney Island 4 metres 15.5°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 15.4°C

Charlwood 80 metres 15.4°C

Filton 59 metres 15.4°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 15.4°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Altnaharra 81 metres 2.4°C

Lossiemouth 13 metres 2.5°C

Tain Range 4 metres 3.1°C

Aviemore 220 metres 3.3°C

Skye/Lusa 18 metres 3.4°C

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 3.7°C

Baltasound 15 metres 4.0°C

Spadeadam 285 metres 4.0°C

Keswick 81 metres 4.4°C

St.Bees Head 124 metres 4.8°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Culdrose 82 metres 16.0mm

Camborne 87 metres 7.0mm

Scilly, St.Marys 31 metres 6.8mm

Guernsey 102 metres 5.5mm

Cardinham 200 metres 5.0mm

St.Mawgan 119 metres 5.0mm

Isle of Portland 53 metres 4.0mm

Dunkeswell 255 metres 3.4mm

Plymouth Wc 50 metres 2.6mm

Bournemouth 11 metres 2.2mm

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By Jo Farrow

Not too bad this weekend, away from the damp and windy southwest

For much of the UK it has been a fine weekend, dry for most with patchy cloud. However, the southwest of England has been very windy indeed and had rain off and on throughout the weekend.

It was very windy through the Channel during Sunday too. Gusts of wind of 50mph buffeted the Isle of Wight and the coasts of Cornwall had gusts of around 47mph.

It was a nippy night in the Highlands as Kinbrace dipped to 1 Celsius overnight.

To start the day, there was patchy rain along the Channel coasts, from Hampshire across Dorset into Cornwall and also for the Channel Islands.

The rain became confined to southwest England through the day with some quite persistent rain over the tip of Cornwall by evening. Teignmouth in Devon recorded the most rain with 17mm (0.65 inches).

Elsewhere there was a lot of cloud about to start the day, over Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, bringing just the odd shower to Yorkshire and eastern Scotland. By mid morning it was sunny for East Anglia, much of northern England, southwest Scotland and southern Wales. Hunstanton in Norfolk had the most sunshine with 9 hours worth. The Midlands and the southeast soon joined in with the sunny skies by lunchtime.

One or two showers affected Aberdeenshire, Lincolnshire and the Peak District.

Through the afternoon the cloud broke up over parts of northern Scotland and central southern England.

The top temperature was 16 Celsius (61F) for Heathrow airport and also at Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire. Many places did feel cold though thanks to the brisk easterly wind and Spadeadam in Cumbria only reached 9 Celsius during the day

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 11-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Aultbea 11 metres 14.4°C

Cardiff Weather Centre 9 metres 14.4°C

Yeovilton 23 metres 14.4°C

Boscombe Down 124 metres 14.3°C

Pembrey Sands 3 metres 14.3°C

Pershore 32 metres 14.3°C

Solent M.R.S.C. 9 metres 14.3°C

Middle Wallop 91 metres 14.2°C

Valley 11 metres 14.2°C

Jersey 84 metres 14.1°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Aviemore 220 metres -1.0°C

Loch Glascarnoch 265 metres 0.3°C

Altnaharra 81 metres 1.8°C

Kinloss 7 metres 2.2°C

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 2.2°C

Aboyne 140 metres 2.5°C

Lossiemouth 13 metres 3.1°C

Aultbea 11 metres 3.9°C

Castlederg 51 metres 4.1°C

Tain Range 4 metres 4.1°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Culdrose 82 metres 10.2mm

Scilly, St.Marys 31 metres 10.0mm

Cork 153 metres 9.0mm

Camborne 87 metres 8.0mm

Fair Isle 59 metres 4.0mm

Roches Point 40 metres 4.0mm

Barra 3 metres 2.0mm

Guernsey 102 metres 2.0mm

Lerwick 82 metres 1.6mm

Kirkwall 21 metres 1.2mm

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By Isobel Lang

A brighter day for most of us.

Our weather has recently been dominated by a large area of high pressure sitting over Scandinavia. Therefore, many of us have been fine and dry. However, a pretty nasty little low has settled itself over Northwest France, bringing gusty winds and heavy rain, and it is this low that has begun to play a part in the breakdown of the UK weather.

Through the early hours of Monday morning, there was variable cloud across the United Kingdom. Most places remained fog and frost-free, although a few places dipped below freezing, Aviemore in Highland being the coldest spot with minus 1C, (30F).

During the day, many places remained fine and dry. In Scotland, eastern areas caught one or two showers, but much of the country was actually quite bright with a reasonable amount of sunshine. Aviemore remained on the cold side though, with temperatures peaking at a mere 9C, (48F).

Northern Ireland saw a fair amount of cloud during the day, and there were a few light showers in the east.

It was a brighter day in Wales, with variable cloud and some sunshine, the best of that in the west. However, there was a noticeable east wind, with gusts around 35mph in places.

Across much of England, the weather was largely fine and bright with some decent sunny spells. Hunstanton in Norfolk came out the sunniest spot with just over 7 hours. The wind was quite a feature, with easterlies gusting up to around 35 to 40mph in places. The exception to this fine weather was Cornwall, the Channel Islands and the Isles of Scilly. Here cloud thickened up enough to bring some patchy rain now and again. In fact, over a 24 hour period, Culdrose in Cornwall recorded 10mm rain, 0.4 inches. Through the evening, rain developed in the English Channel, threatening southern coastal counties.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 12-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Gravesend 3 metres 16.1°C

Manston 55 metres 16.1°C

Langdon Bay 117 metres 15.3°C

London MET 5 metres 15.3°C

Shoeburyness 2 metres 15.3°C

St.Catherine's Point 16 metres 15.2°C

Shoreham 2 metres 15.1°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 14.9°C

Thorney Island 4 metres 14.9°C

Solent M.R.S.C. 9 metres 14.7°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Loch Glascarnoch 265 metres 2.1°C

Shap 249 metres 2.4°C

Kinloss 7 metres 2.8°C

Preswick rn 6 metres 3.3°C

Aultbea 11 metres 3.6°C

Strathallan 35 metres 3.7°C

Aviemore 220 metres 3.8°C

Drumalbin 245 metres 3.8°C

Glasgow/Bishopton 59 metres 4.2°C

Topcliffe 25 metres 4.3°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Guernsey 102 metres 56.0mm

Herstmonceux 17 metres 10.0mm

Shoreham 2 metres 10.0mm

St.Catherine's Point 16 metres 9.0mm

Brize Norton 88 metres 8.0mm

Odiham 123 metres 8.0mm

Boscombe Down 124 metres 7.2mm

Charlwood 80 metres 6.2mm

Little Rissington 215 metres 6.0mm

Middle Wallop 91 metres 5.2mm

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By Kirsty McCabe

Channel Islands get a soaking

The main theme of today’s weather was the arrival of a low pressure system that had been lurking on the other side of the English Channel for the past few days. It finally made its way to British soil today, bringing in a lot of cloud and occasional spells of rain to much of England and Wales as the low slowly tracked northwards.

The Channel Islands in particular, bore the brunt of the heavier downpours. Jersey was the wettest place with 60.7 mm (2.39 inches) of rain over the past 24 hours, but Guernsey wasn’t too far behind with 56 mm (2.2 inches). For both places that’s about half the monthly average for October.

For Scotland and Northern Ireland, however, it was a different story. After a chilly start, 2 C (36 F) at Loch Glascarnoch, it was a dry day for many with bright spells at times. The Western Isles in particular enjoyed plenty of sunshine, a whopping 7.2 hours worth in Stornoway. That nearly made it the sunniest place today, beaten only by Falmouth in Devon with 7.7 hours worth of sunshine.

Devon got the lion’s share of the sunshine today, as along with parts of Cornwall and southwest Wales, it managed to escape those rain bands sweeping north. But things weren’t quite so pleasant elsewhere in Wales. Sennybridge in Powys, for example, was the coldest place in the UK with a chilly 8 C (46 F).

In contrast, today’s top temperature was 16 C (61 F), as seen by Margate in Kent, which also escaped the worst of the wet weather today, with just the occasional light rain shower.

But over the next few days, it looks like most of us will see some spells of rain and you’ll be very lucky indeed if you escape them.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 13-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Ballycastle 68 metres 17.9°C

Gravesend 3 metres 16.2°C

Holbeach 3 metres 16.2°C

Coningsby 7 metres 16.0°C

London MET 5 metres 16.0°C

Aboyne 140 metres 15.9°C

Hereford/Credenhill 76 metres 15.9°C

London/Heathrow 24 metres 15.9°C

Lossiemouth 13 metres 15.9°C

Cardiff Weather Centre 9 metres 15.8°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Lough Fea 225 metres 2.6°C

Castlederg 51 metres 2.9°C

St.Angelo 47 metres 4.3°C

Ballypatrick Forest 156 metres 4.4°C

Sennybridge 309 metres 4.4°C

Ballykelly 2 metres 4.5°C

Shobdon 99 metres 4.8°C

Glenanne 161 metres 4.9°C

Machrihanish 13 metres 5.2°C

Pembrey Sands 3 metres 5.2°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Lyneham 145 metres 17.2mm

Boscombe Down 124 metres 17.0mm

Charlwood 80 metres 17.0mm

Church Fenton 9 metres 17.0mm

Scampton 61 metres 17.0mm

Linton-On-Ouse 16 metres 16.0mm

Little Rissington 215 metres 16.0mm

Nottingham Weather Centre 117 metres 16.0mm

Valentia 9 metres 16.0mm

Waddington 70 metres 16.0mm

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By Kirsty McCabe

There is no mistaking the season

Autumn has well and truly arrived, bringing chilly winds and blustery showers.

For most of us it was a frost-free start to the day with the overnight temperatures dropping to around 8 C (46 F). But under the clearer skies across parts of Wales and Northern Ireland, it did get colder. Tenby in Pembrokeshire dropped to 4 C (39 F) and there was a touch of ground frost at Katesbridge in County Down where overnight temperatures reached 1 C (34 F).

Most places saw some wet weather today as two main rain bands swirled across the UK. The first rain band was the remnants of Tuesday’s rain which today pushed northwards across Scotland, and as the day went on things gradually improved across central and southern parts. They didn’t improve quick enough for Lerwick in Shetland, however, as it remained wet here all day and it was the coldest place with 10 C (50 F).

The second band of rain formed a curve which ran from Northern Ireland over to northwest England and down to the Isle of Wight. This curve of rain gradually pushed northeast through the day, bringing some very heavy bursts at times. Oxford bore the brunt of the downpours and was the wettest place with 18.8 mm (0.74 inches) of rain.

Behind the rain band, it was a fairly pleasant afternoon for much of Wales and southwest England. Newquay in Cornwall got the lion’s share of the sunshine with 7.6 hours worth. And nearby Saunton Sands in Devon was the warmest place with 16 C (61 F).

The nice spell didn’t last, however, as the showers soon got going. These were very heavy across southwest England during the evening. Elsewhere more bands of wet weather swept northwards across the UK. Between the rain bands dense fog would develop and it would take some time to clear on Thursday morning.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 14-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Boulmer 23 metres 18.1°C

Northolt 40 metres 14.5°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 14.4°C

Thorney Island 4 metres 14.4°C

Cardiff Weather Centre 9 metres 14.3°C

Great Malvern 46 metres 14.3°C

Shobdon 99 metres 14.3°C

Solent M.R.S.C. 9 metres 14.2°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 14.1°C

London MET 5 metres 14.1°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Sennybridge 309 metres 0.7°C

Trawscoed 63 metres 1.8°C

Capel Curig 216 metres 1.9°C

Llanbedr 0 metres 1.9°C

Pembrey Sands 3 metres 2.0°C

West Freugh 12 metres 2.0°C

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 2.6°C

Hawarden 10 metres 2.8°C

Keswick 81 metres 2.8°C

Bingley 262 metres 2.9°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

London/Heathrow 24 metres 34.0mm

Barra 3 metres 23.0mm

Northolt 40 metres 23.0mm

St.Catherine's Point 16 metres 22.2mm

Rosehearty 4 metres 22.0mm

Boscombe Down 124 metres 18.0mm

Cardinham 200 metres 18.0mm

Wattisham 87 metres 18.0mm

Thorney Island 4 metres 17.8mm

Farnborough 65 metres 17.0mm

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By Jo Farrow

Heavy showers, sunshine, double rainbows and a tornado

I would imagine some people were woken this morning by heavy rain, and it was an awful rush hour for central and eastern England on Thursday 14th October. However, the residents of one street in Horsham in Surrey were woken extra early by a mini-tornado ripping off roof tiles. Chimneys fell down and branches were ripped off trees in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Through the day there were heavy showers, sunny spells and lovely rainbows spanning the sky.

To start the day there was an area of low pressure centred on southeast Britain, which brought the torrential rain. This heavy and persistent rain slowly edge northwards during the day. Heathrow airport had the most rain with 34mm (1.34inches) and as the rain edged northwards Rothamstead totted up 30mm as well. The wet weather moved through the East Midlands and Lincolnshire during the morning, across into Yorkshire and the northeast of England by the afternoon. It was a wet and miserable end to the day for Northumberland and much of eastern Scotland.

For the rest of the UK, it was a day of heavy showers and sunny spells. With our Birmingham web camera we were able to spy a beautiful double rainbow during the afternoon.

Northern Ireland had a lot of showers, as did western Wales and the Channel Islands. The Isle of Wight was most favoured with seven and a half hours of sunshine, although many areas did see some sunny periods. Hastings in East Sussex had the top temperature of 15 Celsius 59 Fahrenheit. Most places did feel cool though and Lough Fea in County Tyrone only reached 8 Celsius 46 Fahrenheit through the day.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 15-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Aultbea 11 metres 14.4°C

Keswick 81 metres 13.9°C

Skye/Lusa 18 metres 13.9°C

Preswick rn 6 metres 13.5°C

Omicron Persei 8 28 metres 13.4°C

Manchester 78 metres 13.4°C

Hawarden 10 metres 13.3°C

Altnaharra 81 metres 13.1°C

Crosby 8 metres 13.1°C

Dundrennan 114 metres 12.9°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 0.7°C

Leconfield 0 metres 1.7°C

Loch Glascarnoch 265 metres 2.2°C

Albemarle 141 metres 2.3°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 2.4°C

Linton-On-Ouse 16 metres 2.6°C

Scampton 61 metres 2.6°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 2.9°C

Shoreham 2 metres 3.1°C

Cottesmore 138 metres 3.2°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Llanbedr 0 metres 63.0mm

Trawscoed 63 metres 33.0mm

Marham 23 metres 30.0mm

Rhyl 77 metres 30.0mm

Leuchars 12 metres 27.0mm

Capel Curig 216 metres 24.0mm

Strathallan 35 metres 23.0mm

Tiree 12 metres 21.8mm

Aboyne 140 metres 21.0mm

Sennybridge 309 metres 21.0mm

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By Alex Deakin

Cold, soggy and foggy

My colleague John Hammond kept saying in the office today ‘it’s like November has jumped the queue’ and with good reason, temperatures were well down on the usual October values.

To describe the day as ‘chilly’ would be a major understatement with most places struggling to get into double figures in terms of Celsius, 13 to 15 Celsius would be a typical value for mid-October.

An area of low pressure sitting over the UK has been responsible for the cold and wet spell of weather over the last few days. With so much moisture in the atmosphere it is no surprise when fog forms at night. The increasingly low sun angle means that fog takes longer to clear as Autumn wears on and this morning the fog took until nearly lunchtime before it left the Vale of York.

It was a cold start to the day where the skies had broken during the night, at dawn the temperature at Albermarle, Northumberland, was just 1C (34F).

Officially the coldest spot during daylight hours was Cottesmore, Rutland, with a measly 8C (46F) but London, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol only got up to 11C (52F). The warmest place was Torquay at 15 Celsius (59F) because it had the most sunshine with nearly 8 hours worth.

The depression sitting over us is not especially deep, so the winds have not been too strong, which means the areas of rain have been slow moving. As a result, some places have dodged the rain and had a reasonably bright day.

Much of northwest England had a dry and bright day with decent spells of sunshine, although rain arrived here in the evening. After a wet night, Scotland had some drier conditions for a while during the day before rain returned from the east in the afternoon.

Most other places had rain on and off throughout the day. The rain was especially persistent in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, but wettest of all was Llanbedr, Gwynedd with in impressive 63mm of rain (2.49 ins).

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 16-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Coltishall 20 metres 13.9°C

Crosby 8 metres 13.8°C

Valentia 9 metres 13.8°C

Bridlington Mrsc 15 metres 13.7°C

Chivenor 8 metres 13.6°C

Linton-On-Ouse 16 metres 13.5°C

Milford-Haven 37 metres 13.5°C

Church Fenton 9 metres 13.4°C

Hawarden 10 metres 13.4°C

Leconfield 0 metres 13.4°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Yeovilton 23 metres 2.0°C

Pembrey Sands 3 metres 2.6°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 2.8°C

Liscombe 348 metres 3.0°C

St.Angelo 47 metres 3.3°C

Castlederg 51 metres 3.8°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 3.9°C

Chivenor 8 metres 4.1°C

Coltishall 20 metres 4.1°C

Dunkeswell 255 metres 4.1°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Charterhall 112 metres 20.0mm

Edinburgh/Gogarbank 57 metres 18.0mm

Kinloss 7 metres 16.0mm

Aberdeen/Dyce 65 metres 15.0mm

Leek Thorncliffe 299 metres 15.0mm

Leuchars 12 metres 15.0mm

Drumalbin 245 metres 14.0mm

Hawarden 10 metres 14.0mm

Capel Curig 216 metres 13.6mm

Aboyne 140 metres 13.0mm

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Im sure county durham comes up as the wettest as it not stopped raining all day today same gos for friday too.

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http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/

The above website is a good place to find how much rainfall you have received in a certain time period e.g. 6 hours, 12 hours etc .. I'd recommend it Robert

By Matt Taylor

Some positives on a gloomy day.

The words gloomy, cold, and miserable have no doubt been used by many of us in describing the weather over recent days. Personally, this is the type of Autumnal weather that I really dislike.

If you managed to avoid the rain totally today, then you were in the minority. It was there for many from the start. Some of the heaviest rain during the overnight period was across Wales, but we also saw heavy bursts elsewhere with flooding reported in parts of County Antrim (Northern Ireland). Persistent rain was also a feature in eastern Scotland. Here, heavy rain also lead to road closures in Fife during the morning.

The rain persisted for much of the day in eastern Scotland, but there were numerous splashes of rain elsewhere across the country, and in the south a few pokier showers developed. The odd rumble of thunder also accompanied the showers in the south, but the wettest place was to be north of the border. Salsburgh (North Lanarkshire) notched up 26.8mm (1.06 inches) of rain in total.

With the cloud, the rain, and a north or north-easterly breeze, it was another cold and dank day for a large chunk of the country. At Aviemore (Highland) the temperature never got above 7 Celsius (45F), and for many it was a struggle to get the temperatures into double figures.

It’s all too easy to put a doom and gloom slant on the day, but there were some brighter moments to be had. The cloud broke in places to allow some sunshine through central and southern parts of the country. At Eastbourne (East Sussex), we even managed an impressive 8.4 hours sunshine. This perhaps made up for the chilly start to the day where, further along the south coast, in Bournemouth (Dorset) the temperature started at a cold 2 Celsius (36F).

The days warmest spot was to be at Saunton Sands (Devon). 15 Celsius (59F) may not sound like much to shout about, but it is actually close to what we would normally expect at this time of year.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 17-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Cardiff Weather Centre 9 metres 14.5°C

Great Malvern 46 metres 14.2°C

Llanbedr 0 metres 14.0°C

Yeovilton 23 metres 14.0°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 13.8°C

Guernsey 102 metres 13.6°C

Sennybridge 309 metres 13.6°C

St.Catherine's Point 16 metres 13.6°C

Valley 11 metres 13.5°C

Scilly, St.Marys 31 metres 13.4°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Sennybridge 309 metres 2.2°C

Redhill 63 metres 2.3°C

Charlwood 80 metres 2.8°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 3.2°C

Yeovilton 23 metres 3.5°C

Farnborough 65 metres 3.7°C

Liscombe 348 metres 3.9°C

Marham 23 metres 3.9°C

Wattisham 87 metres 3.9°C

Benson 63 metres 4.0°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Loftus 58 metres 30.0mm

Lossiemouth 13 metres 20.0mm

Bridlington Mrsc 15 metres 18.8mm

Kinloss 7 metres 18.0mm

Aviemore 220 metres 16.0mm

Charterhall 112 metres 15.0mm

Newcastle Weather Centre 30 metres 15.0mm

Redesdale 207 metres 14.0mm

Altnaharra 81 metres 10.0mm

Capel Curig 216 metres 10.0mm

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By Matt Taylor

The gloom lifts for many.

My walk into work today was a much cheerier affair. The reason; I at last had the enjoyment of seeing some sunshine after several days of gloom and rain.

Saturday’s rain had continued overnight in many parts. There was one band of rain clearing southwards across England and Wales, another in the north of Scotland, and then showers developing quite widely across many eastern areas of the country.

In between the areas of rain, some clearer spells developed. With these came a drop in the temperature and some mist and patchy fog briefly formed. At Katesbridge (County Down), the temperature dropped to 2 Celsius with a frost just avoided.

However, this did mean that there was some sunshine to start the day in parts of Northern Ireland, as there was to be in southwest Scotland and parts of central and southern England. Once again, it was the south coast of England that managed to hold on to the sunshine better than anyone else. This time it was Weymouth (Dorset) that was the sunniest, with 7.4 hours.

Elsewhere, cloudier skies dominated for much of the morning. The showers also remained rather persistent in eastern England, northern and eastern Scotland. At Loftus (Redcar and Cleveland), this lead to 31.4mm (1.24 inches) of rain accumulating over 24 hours. A line of fairly persistent showers also ran into parts of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cornwall, making it a rather damp day for some here.

During the afternoon, the showers became a little more widespread with the odd rumble of thunder in East Anglia and Lincolnshire. However, at the same time the cloud also began to break up with more spells of sunshine developing – a welcome site for many. By the evening, most of the showers had begun to fade away from inland areas.

Once again it was a cool day, with temperatures ranging from 8C (46F) in Loch Glascarnoch (Highland) to 15C (59F) at Guernsey (Channel Islands). At least with some more sunshine, it perhaps felt a little more pleasant for many when compared with the start of the weekend.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 18-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Solent M.R.S.C. 9 metres 15.2°C

Charlwood 80 metres 15.0°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 14.9°C

London MET 5 metres 14.9°C

Gravesend 3 metres 14.6°C

Shoeburyness 2 metres 14.6°C

Great Malvern 46 metres 14.4°C

Thorney Island 4 metres 14.4°C

Manston 55 metres 14.3°C

Northolt 40 metres 14.3°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 0.1°C

Loch Glascarnoch 265 metres 0.8°C

Altnaharra 81 metres 0.9°C

Aviemore 220 metres 1.6°C

Aboyne 140 metres 1.7°C

Strathallan 35 metres 2.1°C

Tain Range 4 metres 2.4°C

Lossiemouth 13 metres 2.8°C

Aberdeen/Dyce 65 metres 3.0°C

Topcliffe 25 metres 3.1°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Llanbedr 0 metres 13.0mm

Islay/Port Ellen 17 metres 11.0mm

Aultbea 11 metres 9.0mm

Isle of Man/Ronaldsway 17 metres 9.0mm

Castlederg 51 metres 7.6mm

Trawscoed 63 metres 7.6mm

Capel Curig 216 metres 7.0mm

Rhyl 77 metres 7.0mm

Barra 3 metres 5.0mm

Hawarden 10 metres 4.6mm

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By Matt Taylor

A fine Autumnal day.

The sun was shining on our Olympic and Paralympic athletes at today’s celebrations in Central London. Elsewhere across the country, after a weekend in which the weather would barely deserve a wooden spoon, for many of us it almost achieved the gold medal…for mid-October anyway.

The weather was a bit slow of the starting blocks for some though. Showers plagued a few western areas overnight, and they became quite persistent for some parts of west Wales. At Llanbedr (Gwynedd) 13.4mm of rain fell making it the wettest spot of the day. By daybreak, most of these showers had migrated across north Wales into Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Grey skies therefore dominated here during the morning.

Showers also peppered parts of western Scotland and northern coasts of Northern Ireland during the morning, but for much of the rest of the country the sunshine was quick off the blocks. It was a chilly and rather misty start for some though. For instance, Tulloch Bridge (Highland) started with a touch of frost and a temperature of just 0 Celsius (32F).

However, those spells of sunshine helped to lift the temperatures reasonably well. In Torquay (Devon) the mercury rose to a very respectable 16 C (61F), and with light winds it will have felt very pleasant. Even in northwest England and East Anglia, where the cloud dominated at first, the sun eventually won through. Bognor Regis had the lion’s share of the sun, with an almost uninterrupted 9.2 hours.

The reason the weather lost its place on top of the podium, was that it didn’t stay dry and sunny everywhere. A few showers cropped up late in the day for Lincolnshire, East Anglia and some western parts of England and Wales, but the main showery activity continued in parts of Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Here it stayed fairly cool as well, with Lough Fea (County Tyrone) stuck at 9 Celsius (48F).

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 19-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Gravesend 3 metres 16.2°C

London/Heathrow 24 metres 15.5°C

Cardiff Weather Centre 9 metres 15.3°C

London MET 5 metres 15.2°C

Yeovilton 23 metres 15.2°C

Chivenor 8 metres 15.0°C

Mumbles 35 metres 15.0°C

Charlwood 80 metres 14.9°C

Northolt 40 metres 14.7°C

Scilly, St.Marys 31 metres 14.7°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Redhill 63 metres -0.5°C

Charlwood 80 metres 0.7°C

Northolt 40 metres 0.8°C

Coltishall 20 metres 0.9°C

Cranwell 67 metres 1.1°C

Pershore 32 metres 1.3°C

Altnaharra 81 metres 1.4°C

Redesdale 207 metres 1.7°C

Great Malvern 46 metres 1.8°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 1.9°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Drumalbin 245 metres 20.0mm

Skye/Lusa 18 metres 19.0mm

Dundrennan 114 metres 18.0mm

Tiree 12 metres 17.0mm

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 17.0mm

Barra 3 metres 15.0mm

Eskdalemuir 242 metres 15.0mm

Isle of Man/Ronaldsway 17 metres 14.0mm

Valentia 9 metres 13.2mm

Aberdaron 95 metres 13.0mm

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By Kirsty McCabe

It was a lovely day today...

Tuesday was something of a wash-out for most of us, as two areas of rain attacked the UK from either end, while a third brought rain to Irish Sea coasts.

If it wasn’t already raining first thing, it was a cool and cloudy start with temperatures around 6 or 7 C (43 or 45 F). Across some parts of England, the skies were clear overnight and here it was much colder. Redhill in Surrey, for example, was a frosty -1 C (30 F) this morning.

The main area of rain was due to a cold front that had already brought wet weather into parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland on Monday. On Tuesday it continued to sweep eastwards across the UK, bringing spells of heavy rain to southwest Scotland and Cumbria in particular. Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire was the wettest place with 21 mm (0.83 inches) of rain in the past 24 hours.

Being a cold front, the air behind it was, not surprisingly, rather cold. Across Northern Ireland it was an extremely chilly day and it took a long time for things to warm up with frequent showers throughout the day. At Ballypatrick Forest in County Down, the thermometers peaked at only 7 C (45 F) making it the coldest place today.

The second area of rain was patchier in nature and moved northwards from Hampshire to northeast England through today. Either side of this rain area had a fairly pleasant day, so it was mostly dry across southeast and southwest England. This can be seen in the weather extremes with Saunton Sands in Devon and Gravesend in Kent being the warmest places with 16 C (61 F), and Falmouth in Cornwall enjoying the most sunshine with 8.9 hours worth.

The third area of rain brought a wet night to Irish Sea coasts, with 15 mm of rain falling in 3 hours across Pembrokeshire early on Tuesday morning. During the day, this rain cleared and it was a pleasant afternoon for much of Wales and the west Midlands as the brighter conditions across Devon and Cornwall extended northwards.

All good things come to an end, however, as the cold front mentioned earlier perked up and brought rain into Wales and southwest England during the afternoon and evening. This rain area was the first sign of the next wet weather system headed our way. By the end of the night it would be wet, windy and also rather mild across the whole of England and Wales.

For Scotland and Northern Ireland it would be a very different story. Underneath clearing skies the already low temperatures would plummet, and a frosty night was in store, especially across the Highlands.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 20-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Gravesend 3 metres 18.9°C

Jersey 84 metres 17.9°C

Manston 55 metres 17.7°C

Herstmonceux 17 metres 17.6°C

Shoeburyness 2 metres 17.6°C

London MET 5 metres 17.5°C

London/Heathrow 24 metres 17.3°C

Redhill 63 metres 17.3°C

Charlwood 80 metres 17.2°C

Coltishall 20 metres 17.2°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Castlederg 51 metres -2.3°C

Loch Glascarnoch 265 metres -2.3°C

Tain Range 4 metres -2.3°C

Lough Fea 225 metres -2.1°C

St.Angelo 47 metres -1.6°C

Altnaharra 81 metres -1.3°C

Aviemore 220 metres -1.3°C

Ballycastle 68 metres -1.1°C

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres -1.1°C

Aboyne 140 metres -0.4°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

Guernsey 102 metres 22.0mm

Boulmer 23 metres 19.0mm

Scilly, St.Marys 31 metres 17.0mm

Shoreham 2 metres 17.0mm

Bridlington Mrsc 15 metres 16.0mm

Herstmonceux 17 metres 16.0mm

Leeming 40 metres 16.0mm

Shap 249 metres 16.0mm

Baltasound 15 metres 15.0mm

Bournemouth 11 metres 15.0mm

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By Peter Gibbs

Search for the sunshine

The developing autumn colours weren’t looking their best as cloudy conditions prevailed across most parts of the UK. Low pressure was the driving force, although its position to the southwest of Cornwall meant that the anti-clockwise circulation also brought very mild air from the Mediterranean regions along with the cloud.

Ahead of that, Northern Ireland and Highland Scotland experienced a taste of winter with widespread frost under clear skies around the dawn period. Icy patches made road conditions difficult for drivers in Northern Ireland but the lowest temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch in the Scottish Highlands, minus 3 Celsius. Cloud and rain encroached from the east during the morning to give most places a damp day, the exception being the Western Isles where Stornoway managed 4.6 hours of bright sunshine.

Across England and Wales the day started wet just about everywhere, with some unpleasant conditions for rush hour travellers. The heavier rain soon pushed away northwards, leaving behind dull, damp drizzly weather with fog over hills. A few brighter spells developed across Eastern England during the afternoon and the inherent warmth of the airstream became apparent as Gravesend reached a high of 19 Celsius despite the lack of sunshine.

Further south, the rain clouds started gathering over the Channel Islands during the afternoon, giving Guernsey a grand total of 20mm of rain. These heavy outbreaks of rain then spread to much of Wales, Southern England and Northern Ireland during the evening, as gales developed in the Celtic Sea.

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website

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Nationwide extremes for 21-10-2004

WARMEST

Weather station Altitude Daytime Temperature

Jersey 84 metres 16.1°C

London/Heathrow 24 metres 16.1°C

London MET 5 metres 15.8°C

Northolt 40 metres 15.8°C

Cardiff Weather Centre 9 metres 15.5°C

Bournemouth 11 metres 15.3°C

Yeovilton 23 metres 15.3°C

Farnborough 65 metres 15.2°C

Chivenor 8 metres 15.1°C

Gravesend 3 metres 15.1°C

COLDEST

Weather station Altitude Overnight Temperature

Cork 153 metres 1.9°C

Valentia 9 metres 2.4°C

Lough Fea 225 metres 3.2°C

Glenanne 161 metres 3.3°C

Aviemore 220 metres 3.6°C

Lake Vyrnwy 360 metres 3.9°C

Roches Point 40 metres 4.0°C

Sennybridge 309 metres 4.1°C

Ballycastle 68 metres 4.2°C

Tulloch Bridge 237 metres 4.2°C

WETTEST

Weather station Altitude Total Daily Rainfall

West Freugh 12 metres 31.0mm

Capel Curig 216 metres 28.0mm

Strathallan 35 metres 28.0mm

Glenanne 161 metres 27.0mm

Islay/Port Ellen 17 metres 27.0mm

Eskdalemuir 242 metres 26.0mm

Barra 3 metres 25.0mm

Belfast/Aldergrove 81 metres 25.0mm

Keswick 81 metres 25.0mm

Skye/Lusa 18 metres 25.0mm

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By Jo Farrow

Wet and windy for some, but beautiful blue skies with sunshine elsewhere

Wednesday night was so windy that it woke me up. The heavy rain and flooding delayed fellow weather centre forecaster, Darren Bett, on his way home. However, by Thursday morning it was glorious for many with blue skies and sunshine and hardly a breath of wind.

It was a beautiful morning for much of eastern and central England. Not bad either in Northern Ireland. By contrast there were heavy showers flirting with the coast of northeast England and a whole host over Wales. There was also a line of showers along the south coast of England, stretching all the way from Cornwall through to Kent. These showers persisted throughout the day, especially across Kent. A few affected the Channel Islands in the afternoon but Guernsey managed the top temperature with 17 Celsius (63F). The fine weather continued for much of central southern England and East Anglia. Hunstanton in Norfolk had the most sunshine with 9.3 hours.

Wales was blighted by heavy and thundery showers. There were reports of flooding in Gwynedd and damage from the very strong gusty winds. Lines of showers fed in from the Irish Sea across Wales and then to the Peak District, Pennines and much of northern England.

Scotland had a wet start to Thursday. The rain hung on for northern areas, where it was grey and dank. After a very wet night in southern Scotland the skies did brighten through the morning and for a while it was a fine with some sunshine. Then more rain pushed up from the south to end the day and West Freugh in Dumfries and Galloway managed 31mm of rain (1.22 inches). Northern Scotland finished the day on a very windy note.

There were some showers for Northern Ireland, mainly in Armagh and Down with some pretty hefty downpours in the thundery ones. For northern and western counties it was mostly dry and bright. Although it was quite cool and blustery, Lough Fea in Co.Tyrone only reached 7 Celsius (45F).

Information thanks to the BBC Weather Website