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wind. But away from the cloud around coastal districts, there is some sunshine breaking through as well for Northern Ireland. Do watch out for a few showers around North Wales, parts of northwest England. And there is just some heavy rain lingering around Kent and Sussex first thing this morning
Ciarán were comparable in severity with those experienced in the south-east of England during the ‘Great Storm’ of 16 October 1987. While Ciarán also brought very strong winds to the South Coast, with gusts of 60 to 70Kt (69 to 81mph), the location of the storm track meant that the worst impacts
and the south-east from late afternoon. Most places were cool and cloudy on the 7th, with persistent light rain for central and eastern areas, which turned more showery in nature in the south-east with isolated thunderstorms for Hampshire, East and West Sussex; Fylingdales (North Yorkshire) recorded
in the table below. Station Date Mintemp (degC) Previous mintemp (degC) Previous date Record length (years) Bradford, West Yorkshire 17-Dec- 2015 11.6 11.5 29-Dec- 1987 108 Hastings, East Sussex 20-Dec- 2015 12.3 11.9 12-Dec- 1994 83 Plymouth, Devon 27-Dec- 2015 12.7 12.5 03-Dec- 1985 83 Heathrow, Greater
, Hertfordshire and -2.4°C at Wych Cross, East Sussex – 8 to 10°C below average for the time of year. Even central London remained below freezing with a daily maximum of -0.1°C at St James’s Park. The maps below show daily minimum temperatures from 9 to 12 February 2021. The coldest night was 11 th /12th
and warnings were posted across London, Sussex and Kent. Further heavy rain in south-east England led to renewed flooding on the M20 and M25 on the morning of the 6th. During the 10th and 11th there was prolonged rainfall over the north-west Highlands of Scotland and the Western Isles, with flooding near
) in Northumberland. The Met Office issued an extensive amber warning covering over half of the UK’s land area, while an overnight red warning for wind was issued for parts of north-east Scotland. In terms of widespread gusts across the UK overall, Isha was the most significant major wind storm to affect
’ with the daily minimum temperature exceeding 20°C, for example 20.2°C at Mumbles Head (Swansea) on 7th and 20.3°C at Hastings (East Sussex) on 10th. The chart below shows UK average daily mean temperature for 2023 compared to the daily 1991- 2020 long term average. The natural variability in the UK’s weather
01/01/2022 10.6 03/01/1932 113 Buxton, Derbyshire 10.3 01/01/2022 8.9 22/01/1969 100 Valley, Anglesey 11.1 01/01/2022 10.7 11/01/1998 91 Plymouth, Mountbatten, Devon 11.8 01/01/2022 11.6 06/01/1999 88 Hastings, East Sussex 11.3 02/01/2022 10.6 19/01/2007 88 Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 12.5 01/01
sunny with an average of only 1100 hours per year. The highest known monthly sunshine totals in the region are 334.8 hours at Levington and 331 hours at Wattisham in May 1989. The highest UK monthly total is 383.9 hours at Eastbourne (East Sussex) in July 1911. In the dullest winter months, less than 20
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