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areas with a few spots from south Lancashire and Yorkshire southwards seeing 27 or 28 °C. The highest temperature of the day is likely to be in or just west of the London area where 29 °C is possible, smashing the previous record high for early May Bank Holiday Monday. The warmest early May Bank
(height in metres) Capel Curig (Conwy) - 216 m 79 Aberdaron (Gwynedd) - 95 m 69 Crosby (Merseyside) - 9 m 65 Aberporth (Ceredigion) - 133 m 63 Blackpool Squires Gate (Lancashire) - 10 m Ronaldsway (Isle of Man) - 16 m 61 Rhyl (Denbighshire) - 77 m 61 11/12 March 2008 - station highest gust values
Wellesbourne, Warwickshire 48.6mm 21 May 2024 44.2mm 6 May 1955 69 Buxton, Derbyshire 47.6mm 22 May 2024 46.7mm 3 May 2021 108 Blackpool, Squires Gate, 45.2mm 22 May 2024 34.1mm 14 May 2001 78 Lancashire High Beach, Essex 44.2mm 21 May 2024 35.2mm 27 May 2007 45 Prestatyn, Denbighshire 41.2mm 22 May 2024
to Lancashire. Series are produced for maximum, minimum and mean temperature - both daily and monthly. Data from a small number of stations are used, since 2007 the core network comprises Rothamsted (Herts), Pershore (Worcs) and Stonyhurst (Lancs). Any effects of urbanisation are minimised by comparison
(Isle of Wight). Numerous other stations recorded gusts exceeding 60Kt (69mph). A feature of storm Gerrit was the persistence of the strongest winds. The chart below shows hourly maximum gusts at Blackpool, Squires Gate (Lancashire), Lake Vyrnwy (Powys) and Mumbles Head (Swansea) from Christmas Day
since 2013. It was a dry month in Cumbria and north Lancashire but wet elsewhere, and with 160% of average rainfall it was the joint 7th wettest March in a series from 1910, and the wettest March since 1981. Some parts of the south and south-west, the Midlands and the north-east had well over twice
record for the hottest late August bank holiday with 33.2 °C at Heathrow on 26 August. Also during July, Cheshire received more than twice the average rainfall for the month (219%). Other counties in central and northern England, including Lancashire, Staffordshire Derbyshire and Leicestershire, also
. There was widespread travel disruption across the east and south-east of England due to fallen trees, debris and some flooding. The Orwell Bridge was closed, and major delays arose on the M25, A12 and M11. There were some power outages, a landslip between Horsham and Dorking, and trees on train lines caused
, the Mourne mountains in Northern Ireland, mid-Wales, Lancashire and Berkshire. Fortunately rainfall at the end of the first week of May helped the fire services bring these under control. Following the exceptionally dry Spring, on 10 June, parts of the east Midlands and East Anglia were declared
Max gust speed (m.a.s.l.) (knots) Highest gust since: High Bradfield, South Yorkshire 395 81 18 January 2007 86 knots Capel Curig, Gwynedd 216 76 11 November 2010 79 knots Islay, Port Ellen 17 71 3 January 2012 84 knots - see Table 1 Winter Hill, Lancashire 440 71 3 January 2012 73 knots - see Table
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