Introduction

These pages, together with those on weather-uk, are maintained by Philip Eden, and contain a substantial amount of original material, work in progress, and a growing quantity of historical information.

weather-uk

On this site can be found daily, monthly and yearly records for the observing sites at Hampstead in north London, Luton and Whipsnade, both in Beds, Chesham in Bucks, Howden in Yorks, and Milhaguet in SW France.

climate-uk

This site contains UK-wide summaries of the weather month by month, plus day-to-day monitoring of several climatic variables such as the Central England Temperature (CET), England and Wales rainfall (EWP), England and Wales sunshine (EWSS), and so on. There are also monthly charts of sea-level pressure (and anomaly) covering Europe and the North Atlantic, circulation indices for the British Isles, and more.

CET: (Jan 1-25): 6.2°C (+1.8 degC)

E&W Rain: (Jan 1-25): 58.9mm ( 71 per cent)

E&W Sun: (Jan 1-25): 60.0hr (128 per cent)

All value-added information, including observations from the managed weather-recording stations, is subject to copyright. Short quotations of up to 100 words may be made without permission as long as each one is properly credited. Longer items of text and/or data may be used only with my express consent.

This was the second most “westerly” December in 139 years of records; mean sea-level pressure ranged from 1mbar above normal at Scilly to 15mbar below at Lerwick. As with practically all westerly months, it was dull and very wet in northern and western regions, but moderately dry and sunny in eastern districts. This was also the warmest December for five years.

Most recent updates:

05/12 November charts uploaded

05/12 November review added

06/12 Long-range for December

02/01 December chars uploaded

02/01 December review added

03/01 Long-range for January