WEATHER RECORDS

  MOST RECENT RECORDS  -   posted 12th June 2023



   TEMPERATURE - Earliest Autumn Frost  -   A sudden but fairly brief plunge of Arctic air brought cool days and then with clear skies, first a ground frost (12.9.24), followed by an air frost the day after 

                                               Replaces -0.5°c from 17.9.2022.

  TEMPERATURE

Highest Temp'                                34.2°                 19.07.22
Lowest Temp'                                -14.6°                 08.12.10
Highest Minimum                              17.8°                 24.07.19
Lowest Maximum                               -4.3°                 08.12.10

Grass - Lowest -18.3° 08.12.10 Grass - Latest (Spring) frost -1.7° 22.06.21 Grass - Earliest (Autumn) frost -1.9° 31.08.12 Grass - Most consecutive 78 10.12.09 - 25.02.10

Highest Monthly Mean 17.14° July 2013 Lowest Monthly Mean -1.98° Dec' 2010

Earliest (Spring) 20° 21.0° 26.03.12 Latest (Autumn) 20° 20.4° 06.10.15

Earliest (Autumn) frost -0.5° 13.09.24 Latest (Spring) frost -0.2° 25.05.13

Earliest (Autumn) Ice Day -0.9° 27.11.10 Latest (Spring) Ice Day -0.1° 22.03.13

Most consecutive days of Max' 20.0°>= 23 days 06.07 - 28.07.13 Most consecutive days of Max' 25.0°>= 7 days 17.07 - 23.07.21 Most consecutive days of Min' =<-0.1° 18 days 17.02 - 06.03.13

Widest daily range 20.1° 27.03.12 Widest Monthly range 29.3° May 2012

Longest period below freezing 214 hrs 45 mins 16th - 25.12.10

  RAIN
Wettest day                                  122.4 mm                05.12.15
Rain Rate                                    240.0 mm/hr             16.06.20

Wettest month 571.9 mm Dec' 2015 Driest month 10.1 mm Sept' 2014 Driest wettest day of any month 3.4 mm (17th) Feb 2023

Month with least 'Rain days' 3 days Sept' 2014

Most consecutive 'Rain Days' 52 days 23/11 - 13.01.16

Most consecutive days with no rain 23 days 19/05 - 10.06.23

  WIND
Highest Gust                                  75.0 Mph               03.01.12
Highest Daily Mean                            32.0 Mph               05.12.15
Highest Monthly Mean                          14.1 Mph               Feb 2020

  BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
Highest                                     1047.2 hpa   19.01.20. + 05.02.23
Lowest                                       957.3 hpa               08.02.14
Highest monthly mean at 0900 hrs            1027.3 hpa              Feb' 2012
Lowest monthly mean at 0900 hrs              990.2 hpa              Feb' 2014

  SNOWFALL
Most consecutive days of laying snow           29 days    18.12.09 - 15.01.10
Greatest (level) depth                         20 cms                01.03.18
                                              (7.87 inch)                     

Earliest (Autumn) snowfall 26.10.12 Earliest (Autumn) day of laying snow 09.11.16

Latest (Spring) snowfall 28.05.15 Latest (Spring) day of laying snow 22.03.08 + 22.03.17

  THE TOP TEN

HIGH MAX
LOW MAX
LOW MIN
HIGH MIN
WETTEST DAY
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34.2°     19.07.22.
31.7°     25.07.19.
29.8°     01.07.15.
29.6°     14.08.22.
29.5°     19.07.16.
29.5°     31.07.20.
29.4°     12.08.22.
29.2°     28.06.18.
29.2°     18.07.22.
29.0°     25.08.19. + 22.7.21. + 13.8.22.
-4.3°     08.12.10.
-3.3°     19.12.10.
-3.1°     05.12.10.
-2.9°     08.01.10.
-2.9°     21.12.10.
-2.8°     24.12.10.
-2.5°     17.12.10.
-2.3°     20.12.10.
-2.2°     07.01.10.
-2.1°     18.12.10.
-14.6°     08.12.10.
-12.9°     07.12.10.
-12.6°     19.12.10.
-12.4°     08.01.10.
-12.1°     21.12.10.
-11.8°     07.01.10.
-11.4°     18.12.10.
-11.4°     20.12.10.
-11.3°     03.12.10.
-10.7°     06.12.10.
17.8°     24.07.19.
17.7°     09.09.23.
17.1°     02.07.09.
17.0°     20.07.16.
16.9°     11.09.23.
16.6°     01.07.09.
16.6°     03.08.18.
16.4°     23.07.18.
16.3°     07.09.16. + 12.07.22.
16.3°     19.07.22. + 15.08.22.
122.4 mm    05.12.15.
89.6 mm     08.02.20.
68.7 mm     15.02.20.
68.0 mm     11.01.09.
63.8 mm     04.12.15. + 21.01.24.
62.6 mm     27.07.13.
62.1 mm     22.05.24.
55.8 mm     24.09.12.
55.8 mm     12.10.18.
55.4 mm     28.06.17.