Historical weather

The library has produced a number of historical weather fact sheets for key dates and weather events.

Event	Date
Severe gales across Scotland and Northern Ireland	23 May 2011
Royal Wedding	29 April 2011
Flooding in the Thames Valley	3 June 2008
Flooding across Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire	29 May 2008
Heavy rain across Devon and Cornwall	14 May 2008
Severe gales across the United Kingdom	31 January 2008
Heavy rain and floods across parts of central England	20 July 2007
Birmingham tornado	28 July 2005
Boscastle floods	16 August 2004
Highest UK temperature	10 August 2003
New Year's Day 2000	1 January 2000
The Braer Storm	10 January 1993
Towyn floods	26 February 1990
Burns Day Storm	25 January 1990
Thunderstorms across southern England	24 May 1989
Halifax floods	19 May 1989
Record wind speed	13 February 1989
October '87 Storm	16 October 1987
Lowest UK temperature	10 January 1982
Fastnet storm	14 August 1979
Hampstead storm	14 August 1975
Snow in June 2 June 1975	2 June 1975
Heavy rain across east Devon	18 July 1972
Southeast England floods	15 September 1968
Chew Stoke floods	10 July 1968
Great Glasgow storm	15 January 1968
Severe gales across Scotland	27 January 1961
Record 24-hour Rainfall	18 July 1955
Eskdalemuir floods	26 June 1953
Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II	2 June 1953
East Coast floods	31 January 1953
Lynmouth floods	15 August 1952
D-Day	6 June 1944
Cannington floods	18 August 1924
Severe floods at Louth	29 May 1920
Weather on the departure day of RMS Titanic	10 April 1912
Derby Day thunderstorm	31 May 1911

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Last updated: 19 February 2018

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