The Weather in Durham, North East England
The Extremes of Weather at Durham are the most interesting bits. We are fortunate enough to have one of the UK’s most famous Frost Hollows (Houghall) and Durham University Observatory has one of the longest continuous Meteorological records in the country.
April 1917 – Perishingly cold at Durham Towards the end of World War 1, with fighting still going on in the trenches, April 1917 was quite extraordinary and was the coldest April recorded at Durham. The mean temperature for the month was 4.4C, which is -3.9C when compared to the
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Severe weather events in Durham, North East England Just for a bit of fun, I asked ChatGPT to compile a Top 10 of severe weather events for North East England. I don’t think it did a bad job overall. The weather is such a fascinating subject, isn’t it? Now, let
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After the heavy rain of 14th August 2023, I set about looking back on days with similar totals in Durham since I started recording here. The total for 14th August was exactly 30.0 mm, which seems a suitable total to use as a threshold. Here’s what I found: 26th September
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As some of you may have noticed, yesterday (October 5th 2021) was extremely wet! After a long spell with no real heavy rain, it seemingly all arrived on one day. We’d been warned to expect heavy rainfall, but it proved even wetter than that. Durham and North East England just
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Just after the end of WW1, September 1919 was an unusual month as it went from a late summer heatwave to early winter snowfall in the space of just a few days. A hot southerly flow had allowed temperatures to climb as high as 32.2C at Raunds on the 11th
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The upcoming cold weather is expected to hit us hard in Durham next week. It will come from the continent and traditionally, this is where our coldest weather comes from. Over here on the East Coast, we have no protection from any Easterly or North Easterly, so we tend to
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Flooding, heatwaves, winter storms – extreme weather is about to start hitting you in the pocket. Lost among the latest barrage of national and international news events is the ongoing nightmare faced by almost 600 households unable to return to their homes in Lincolnshire because of flooding in June 2019.
Full ArticleThis is a post I made to the NetWeather forum in November 2014 about some of the longstanding records in the Central England Temperature Series (CET). This series goes back to 1659 and is a record of temperature in the Midlands of England. The stations it is computed from are
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The weather of Durham in July 2019 was a real mixture. The first week was very pleasant and dry, with temperatures hovering around the 20-22 degC mark. It got a little warmer toward the middle of the month, as we’d expect, but also slightly more unsettled. A few days peaked
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