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: (Jun 1-30): 14.9°C (+0.8 degC)

E&W Rain: (Jun 1-30): 54.0mm ( 79 per cent)

E&W Sun: (Jun 1-30): 222.0hr (116 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.

Easterlies blew throughout the first ten days again during the last week, and this was the seventh most ‘easterly’ June in 137 years of records. Warm and cool spells alternated, and, except along parts of the North Sea coast mean temperatures were 1.0-1.5degC above the 1971-2000 norm. Rainfall was generally below normal, especially along the south coast. Sunshine was below normal in eastern areas, but well above in the west/north.

Most recent updates:

01/06 May charts uploaded

02/06 May review added

04/06 Long-range for June

01/07 June charts uploaded

03/07 June review added

04/07 Long-range for July