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in many areas. The mean temperature for March was provisionally 0.8 °C above the 1981-2010 long-term average, with the north-east being the warmest district relative to average. Rainfall was 78% of average, but it was a rather wet month in Cumbria and Lancashire. Sunshine totals amounted to 103

) was recorded at Brizlee Wood (Northumberland) on the night of the 26th. A snow-depth of 18 cm was measured at Middleton, Hillside (Derbyshire) on the 27th. Weather impacts November began unsettled, with reports of localised surface water flooding on the 1st across Merseyside, Lancashire and Greater

mostly sunny but with fog or low cloud at first in some eastern counties, and very isolated showers in the south-west, then cloud increased in the afternoon with isolated thundery showers, locally heavy from the north Midlands to Lancashire; it was again very warm and locally hot, but cooler on coasts

but persisting along the east coast. Low cloud, mist and fog early on the 31st soon burned away, then it was generally sunny and very warm, Northolt (Greater London) recording a maximum of 24.8 °C and Morecambe (Lancashire) getting 15.9 hours of bright sunshine. Wales diary of highlights Most of the month

losing power. Fallen trees blocked roads in Cheshire and Lancashire, while trains between Oxenholme and Penrith were disrupted due to a tree across the track, and overhead line damage affected trains from Carlisle. Electricity NorthWest reported that nearly 1,700 homes in Wigan were without power

• Duration of sunshine • Descriptive weather diary Fig. 9. Seathwaite observing station Lancashire, 28 August 1893 (note the Stevenson screen and rainfall guages in the foreground). Daily weather reports These consist of daily summaries of general weather conditions. We have a continuous series of them

December, and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire on 26 December. Wet weather continued into the beginning of January, with a colder interlude around midmonth. Stormy conditions returned at the end of January and continued into February. By the middle of that month the weather turned drier and colder

18.2 08-Sep-1898 Highest for 118 years Armagh 6 18.0 18.3 06-Sep-1898 Highest for 118 years Bradford, West Yorkshire 7 17.7 16.8 06-Sep-2006 107 Valley, Anglesey 7 16.9 16.7 10-Sep-1981 85 Hastings, East Sussex 14 20.0 18.9 05-Sep-1949 83 Morecambe, Lancashire 13 18.7 17.9 29-Sep-2011 82 Cromer

The Central England Temperature (CET) monthly series, beginning in 1659, is the longest continuous temperature record in the world (Manley, 1974). It comprises the mean of three observing stations covering a roughly triangular area of England from Bristol to London to Lancashire; the current

Preparations for dispersal of the Met Office at the outbreak of war were made in 1938. Initially it was planned that the HQ and administrative division would move to Southport in Lancashire, then the location changed to Tetbury in Gloucestershire but in the end a small HQ branch remained in London