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to Whitby 4. Whitby to Gibraltar Point 5. Gibraltar Point to North Foreland 6. North Foreland to Selsey Bill 7. Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis 8. Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly 9. Lands End to St. Davids Head including the Bristol Channel 10. St Davids Head to Great Orme Head, including
Greatest snow depth 11 Dec 40cm Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wrexham Highest daily sunshine 17 Jun 18 Jun 19 Jun 16.2 hr Whitby, North Yorkshire Hastings, East Sussex Morecambe, Lancashire Highest gust speed 23 Feb 94 mph Capel Curig, Conwy Highest gust speed mountain 23 Dec 137 mph Cairngorm Summit
to 27 °C and locally above 28 °C - in places more than 14 °C above the long-term average for the time of year. The warmth also extended to much of northern and western England and Wales from 18th to 21st – examples including 22.6 °C at Porthmadog (Gwynedd) on 18 April, 25.0 °C at Whitby (North
= Lyneham (North Downs)– averaging 7.9 hours of sunshine per day 6. Slapton (Devon) – averaging 7.7 hours of sunshine per day 7. Aberporth (West Wales) – averaging 7.6 hours of sunshine per day 8. Bude (Cornwall) – averaging 7.4 hours of sunshine per day 9. Whitby (Yorkshire) – averaging 7.1 hours
winds (strong breeze force 6 or more) are displayed for the first 24 hours of the inshore waters forecast. Figure 9. Locations used in the inshore waters forecast. Number Area 1 Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney 2 Rattray Head to Berwick upon Tweed 3 Berwick upon Tweed to Whitby 4 Whitby
with sleet/snow falling and lying at Leeming and Whitby are shown below (a day of lying snow is counted if the ground is more than 50 % covered at 0900). The depth of undri ed snow does not o en exceed 15 cm at low altitudes but on occasions depths of 30 to 60 cm may occur over a wide area. When depths
disrupted and around 1500 properties experienced power cuts in Cornwall. Trains were cancelled in the Brighton area and an event was also cancelled on the Isle of Wight. Some flooding occurred in parts of north-east Scotland and in northeast England around Whitby, Scarborough, Redcar and Cleveland
areas were brighter with generally fewer showers. Between the 21st and 24th a weak ridge of high pressure brought mostly dry sunny weather and it turned increasingly warm, especially in the south-east. There was 15.4 hours of sunshine at Whitby (North Yorkshire) on the 22nd and at Boulmer
, and East Malling (Kent) recorded 12.2 hours of bright sunshine on the 25th. It generally turned warmer by day, with the month’s highest temperature of 19.2 °C recorded at Whitby (North Yorkshire) on the 25th. With clear skies and light winds, nights were chilly with some frost at times, especially
from fog persisting on some eastern coasts, with 15.8 hours of sunshine at Whitby (North Yorkshire). Most places started fine on the 2nd, but showers spread from the south-west, initially with isolated thunderstorms, reaching central and northwestern parts by early evening, while low cloud off
