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• Wimbledon extremes: How weather has shaped the championships

  the championships Author: Press Office Wed 25 Jun 2025 As the world’s oldest tennis tournament, Wimbledon has seen its fair share of dramatic weather over the decades.  From scorching heat to torrential rain, the British summer has tested players and fans alike. Drawing on historical data from Kew Gardens

• uk_monthly_climate_summary_annual_2019pdf

  February in a series since 1910 (behind 1998), and included a new UK winter maximum temperature record (21.2 °C at Kew Gardens). March, April, July and December were all a degree or more warmer than average overall – and a new UK record of 38.7 °C was recorded at Cambridge Botanical Garden on July 25th

• Mixed bag of weather for the Easter weekend

  in from the south on Monday morning, which could bring further snow to northern hills as it heads north during the day. With such a variety of weather over the next few days Guy Barter, Chief Horticulturist at the RHS, provides some advice on how to keep your garden in the best shape: "Gardeners dread

• A month of contrasts for January’s weather

  this January clearly demonstrates is just how abrupt these changes in weather type can be.” Gardeners will be glad of more subdued rainfall figures compared to the wet conditions of December, according to Royal Horticultural Society Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter. He said: “Gardeners will have been grateful

• Met Office scientists protecting our forests from pests and pathogens

  ), is a collaboration between the Met Office’s Vegetation-Climate Interactions team, Defra’s Plant Health Risk and Horizon Scanning team, the University of Exeter, Fera Science, the University of Warwick, Forest Research and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Since 2006 the non-native and invasive Oak

• Alternative sources of Meteorological Data

  /Collections.htm Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens collection at Kew houses a large collection of private papers from gardeners and botanists. Given the influence of meteorological factors in both horticulture and botany these diaries are an excellent source of information on weather

• A selection box of Easter weather

  on how to keep gardens in the best shape. Guy Barter, Chief Horticulturist at the RHS, said: “Gardeners dread spring frosts as these can nip the new flowers of fruit and other plants such as magnolias, but in many cases vulnerable flowers in the north will still be in bud, the growing season

• Storm Darragh brings 90mph gusts and heavy rain

  include:  bins plant pots garden furniture (bring inside or secure in place) trampolines (turn upside down or secure with tent pegs)  sheds (ensure doors are locked) like bins, plant pots, garden furniture or trampolines  Being outside in high winds makes you more vulnerable to injury. Stay indoors

• Thunderstorm warnings – August 2020

  for much of the week, temperatures will start to fall from their peak from Thursday onwards. Overnight temperatures will also be high for many. Friday saw 36.4°C recorded at Heathrow and Kew Gardens, the hottest August day since 10th August 2003 (38.5°C, Faversham). Whereas on on the weekend, 34.5

• exceptional-warmth-september-2016---met-office.pdf

  stations. On 13 September temperatures exceeded 30 °C across much of East Anglia and Kent, with 34.4 °C at Gravesend (Kent), 33.5 °C at Kew Gardens (Greater London) and 32 °C reached at Writtle (Essex), Bedford and Cambridge. The chart below compares hourly air temperatures recorded at two locations