Luke Howard’s solar eclipse of 1820
The partial solar eclipse taking place on March 20th left me wondering if there is any record of past events for this area. Luke Howard‘s The Climate of London describes a similar […]
January 2015 – average, wet and sunny
This January saw the first falling snow in nearly two years with the last three days of the month seeing the first flakes of winter – nothing much to write […]
Final GFS ‘pub’ run – saved for posterity
The weather model GFS (Global Forecasting System) has, for years, teased weather anoraks with mouthwatering possibilities of what the weather could be like 5 to 10 days away. Many ‘coldies’, that […]
December 2014: Sunny, dryer than average
This December was the sunniest on record in my series going back to 1877. Over 90 hours of sunshine was recorded in this area which is 224% of what we […]
Wanstead Weather: 2014 review
This year finished as the second warmest year on record after 2011. Every month of 2014, apart from August and December, was warmer than average – the means being over […]
The Plymouth tsunami of June 1811
With the 10th anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami this year it has often occurred to me whether the British Isles has suffered from a similar catastrophe in centuries gone by. […]
Call that a weather bomb? Now this is a weather bomb!
Originally posted on xmetman:
Synops 1200 UTC on 25 Jan 1990 I’ve heard a lot of rubbish spoken about weather bombs in the last couple of days, so I decided…
Weatherlore: Colin Finch’s 38F rule
Signals for winter have always been well reported by the media. Back in the 1980s weather anoraks across Britain would wait with bated breath to read Bill Foggitt‘s latest prognostications for […]
November 2014: Mild and wet, average sun
The final month of autumn was most notable for its rainfall with 19 consecutive days of measurable precipitation and just four completely dry days . The month was warmer than […]
Will it be a white or green Christmas Day?
Over the next couple of weeks speculation on Christmas Day weather will inevitably build. Will Christmas be white or green? At this range it is impossible to tell from standard […]
