MOST RECENT RECORDS - posted 12th June 2023
Replaces -0.5°c from 17.9.2022.
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
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
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
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
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
RAIN
Wettest day 122.4 mm 05.12.15
Rain Rate 240.0 mm/hr 16.06.20
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)
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