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Updated: 1432 on Thu 15 May 2008
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Latest observations - 1400 on 15 May 08: UK

Location
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Temp
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Belfast (Aldergrove) Sunny 14.2 °C ENE  8 mph   18 km 1014 hPa, Falling
Cardiff (St Athan) Light Rain 9.9 °C NE  13 mph   5 km 1011 hPa, Falling
Edinburgh (Gogarbank) Low-level Cloud 10.8 °C ENE  8 mph   30 km 1015 hPa, Falling
London (Heathrow) Low-level Cloud 13.5 °C NNE  7 mph   11 km 1010 hPa, Falling
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24 hours ending 2200 on 14 May 08: UK

Highest max 23.6  °C Solent
Lowest max 9.6  °C Loftus
Lowest min -1.4  °C Kinbrace
Highest rainfall 14.6  mm Cardinham
Sunniest 14.6  hours Aldergrove

Last updated: 0827 on Thu 15 May 2008


UK last month

April 2008

Mean temperatures close to average across the whole of the UK. Provisionally, England, Wales and the UK all had their coldest April since 2001. Rainfall generally above average, and well above average across parts of eastern Scotland and north-east England. However, rainfall was actually below average most of Northern Ireland. Sunshine generally above average, but below average across parts of northern England and southern Scotland.

Weybourne (Norfolk) recorded a maximum temperature of 22.0 °C on the 26th. Blencathra (Cumbria) recorded a minimum temperature of -7.7 °C on the 6th. During the 6th an area of sleet and snow moved across much of the Midlands and SE England with 5 to 10 cm reported fairly widely, causing Heathrow airport to close for a time.

Monthly assessment | Contoured maps | Regional average

North East England West Midlands Grampian South West England Orkney & Shetland Central, Tayside & Fife Northern Ireland North West England East of England Highlands & Eilean Siar Strathclyde Wales East Midlands SW Scotland, Lothian Borders London & South East England Yorkshire & Humber