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, including Plymouth Pride, Brighton Pride and ‘Stompin’ on the Quomps’ in Dorset. The storm caused transport disruption with the Great Western Railway advising passengers not to travel between Exeter and Penzance due to fallen trees on the line. A number of residents were evacuated from their homes

January 1982. Daily weather extremes Highest Maximum Temperature 7.0 °C at Penzance, Penlee Gardens (Cornwall) Lowest Minimum Temperature -27.2 °C at Braemar (Aberdeenshire) Most Rainfall 22.3 mm at Jersey Airport (Channel Islands) Most Sunshine 7.1 hours at Ringway (Greater Manchester) & Hemsby

for several hours) and motorists were stranded by floodwaters. The mainline railway between London and Penzance was closed due to landslides. A number of schools across Cornwall were closed for the day and the Eden Project was badly affected by flooding. Weather data Overnight on 16/17 November, a deep

. Austell Barnstaple Exeter Princetown Plymouth Plymouth Nettlecombe Bruton Yeovilton Taunton Yeovil Exeter airport Teignmouth Torquay Penzance Penzance Gwennap Head St. Mary’s Falmouth Pendennis Point Lizard Stations Places Figure 1. Map of South West England. The plateaux are deeply incised by rivers

Devon and Cornwall, with Newlyn, Penzance, Mevagissey, St Ives and Plymstock worst affected. Most problems related to surface water flooding but a number of properties were inundated. The persistent heavy snowfalls, accompanied by freezing temperatures and dri ing, caused numerous impacts across North

wind warning for parts of Wales and south-west England – and many people on holiday at this time of year. A number of events were cancelled including the Cardigan County Show and Big Welsh Bite food and drink festival at Pontypridd. In the south-west, train services between Exeter and Penzance were

in inland Devon. On 8/9 January 1982 conditions were especially severe in the Bristol area where dri s were locally 1 m deep. Another event, this time from convective showers, on 12 January 1987 produced snow depths of 35 cm (Falmouth), 39 cm (Penzance) and even 23 cm on the Scillies. Also, persistent

and there were just two meteorological flights making twice daily soundings to 24,000ft at Mildenhall and Aldergrove. Radiosonde stations were located at Penzance and Lerwick using Finnish and French equipment until these countries were invaded, at which point the Met Office was forced into developing

over whether accurate forecasting was possible, the first thirteen stations began to send in their observations by telegraph on 3 September 1860. They were Aberdeen, Greenock, Berwick, Hull, Yarmouth, Dover, Portsmouth, Jersey, Plymouth, Penzance, Queenstown (now Cobh), Galway and Portrush. Soon