Local Forecasts, History & Records
July 2025 started very reasonably in Durham, although there was a break in the drought at last and there was some rain in the first week. There was a very active gust front passed over on 7th July in late afternoon. Winds got pretty wild for 30 mins and the temperature dropped 5.4 degC in 40 minutes. Not much rain …
I have been increasingly discussing new UK daily records on Facebook. This year, as summer has progressed and the weather has become hotter, people are noticing. Here’s a list of new daily maximum records that have been broken this year. I’ll update it as the year progresses and write a similar post each year. January 2025 14th January 15.7C Cassley …
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 Weather Forecast – Saturday 12th July “Leave the brolly at home – you won’t need it.” For once, we’ve got a proper peach of a forecast lining up for Gala day. No messing about. If you’re heading into Durham early to catch the banners, brass bands, speeches, or just to soak up the atmosphere with a …
* Header image courtesy of Duncan Blakemore – Thunderstorm over Toft Hill The very dry weather of Spring continued. June began in a very similar way to June 2024. A few days of faux-warmth, followed by a lull back into the teens, then much warmer in the second half. Although there were 11 days with rain in the first half …
May 2025 started with a bang. After the heat peaked at the end of April, the 1st May was the warmest ever for that date in the UK. Kew Gardens reached 29.3 degC, closely followed by Wisley and Chertsey at 29.2 degC. We all thought the earliest May day to record the magic 30 degrees was going to be shattered …
A superb start and end to April April 2025 opened superbly, with perfect blue skies and reasonable temperatures for early Spring. There was a nagging Easterly wind though; the position of the stable high pressure cell was feeding air from a chilly direction, meaning that it was warm in the sun as long as you were out of the breeze. …
March 2025 was a little above average temperature-wise. The Grassland temperature sum (the sustainable start of vegetation growth in Europe) reached 200 on March 7th 2025. This was 12 days later than the previous year, mainly due to the coldness of January 2025, which was on the colder side of average. The mean temperature was pegged back a bit by …
The month began with a blocking high giving cold easterly winds, but as easterlies aren’t what they used to be, it wasn’t exceptionally cold. The high started moving away on the 19th, allowing frontal systems to bring some snow to the north, but then mobile westerlies meant the rest of the month was changeable and mild. Maxima in Durham went …
A little late this month, but here are the numbers for January 2025 in Durham. It was the coldest January since January 2021 in Durham. Mean temperature was about 1.5 degC below the long term average. The spell from Jan 2nd-12th averaged just 0.1 degC. The 10th-11th was the coldest night nationally for 15 years, with -18.9 degC at Altnaharra …