A mostly quiet and dry autumn on the way?
I don’t usually bother trying to forecast autumn or spring given that there is far less interest in them than winter and summer. However, given the heightened interest in this […]
Summer 2016 review
Summer 2016 turned out to be a very decent season overall, the mean temperature of 18.7C (1.1C above average) made it the sixth warmest summer since 1797. While it wasn’t […]
August 2016: warm and very dry
Though there were no records broken August 2016 goes down as a mighty fine summer month, the warmest for 12 years. The mean of 19.5C was 1.3C warmer than average […]
Heat: A tale of two airflows
The past few days have offered a couple of perfect examples of how wind direction can have a massive effect on the resulting maximum temperature at this time of year. […]
July 2016: rather warm and very dry
There was plenty of interest in the weather last month even though the overall stats suggest July 2016 wasn’t that remarkable. Most notable was temperature: the warmest minimum on record […]
London to Dunwich by bike in the dark
Hypnotised by a long line of red lights and a sudden feeling of being totally alone in the darkness were surreal sensations I experienced as I took on the challenge […]
Synoptic similarity: 2 hot days compared
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June 2016: extremely wet, dullest on record
Storm clouds gathering was a common sight in June 2016, but enough about the tumultuous political situation… For anyone looking for summery weather there was little to cheer about. For […]
London’s choked by leaving the EU
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, a piece of government legislation prompted in part by the Great Smog of December 1952 that caused between 4,000 and 12,000 […]
June weather can be flaming horror show
The past week has produced the highest 24-hour rainfall total recorded in Wanstead since at least 1960. The multi-cell thunderstorm on Wednesday night saw 60.8mm fall, most of it in […]
