OK, here’s the Durham Weather links page.
I’ve tried to keep the useful weather links a little unique and not just fall into the pattern of every other weather site on the net. The pages featured here are all easy to use and understand and may even be useful ! If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to Contact Us.
The British Weather by Trevor Harley
Trevor Harley’s excellent weather webpages are a collection of records, information from his own weather station, along with records of the British weather since 1900. You can browse by month or by year, and find a concise history of the British weather in any month since the turn of the last century. Compulsive reading for the weather nut.
Archived Weather Charts
This is an archive of the charts detailed above. It’s a German language site, but is very easy to use, you just choose the date of the weather chart you want to see. You can’t really go far wrong. The charts go back as far as 27th January 1998, which is conveniently close to the start of the records here.
Bonacina/O’Hara Snowfall Analysis
In an attempt to analyse each winter’s snowfall events for the UK, a man called L.C.W. Bonacina produced this snowfall analysis list. It’s a subjective analysis of each winter’s snowfalls, which I have tried to maintain and continue in recent years in similar style (as his original list only went up to 1975). See if you remember correctly! If there are any glaring omissions, please let me know.
The British Isles Weather Diary
Roger Brugge’s British Isles Weather Diary contains a daily summary of UK weather data, with daily extremes of high temp, low temp, wettest and sunniest places. It is normally updated a couple of days in arrears and is archived back to 1999.
Pollen Forecast
For those of you who happen to suffer from Hay Fever (and I include myself amongst this unfortunate group) then a site you may be interested in is the Met Office Pollen Forecast. There’s all the information about Pollen that you could ever wish to know (but were afraid to ask) and you can also get a Pollen forecast, so you know when to hide.
River Level at Elvet Bridge, Durham
In view of the fact that Mother Nature seems to have decided that a substantial percentage of the population should, in fact, live underwater, we provide a link to the river level at Elvet Bridge. I know flooding isn’t a big problem in Gilesgate but it’s still a nice page to have instant access to.
Durham Amateur Rowing Club Webcam
The WebCam and weather station monitors the river/weather conditions at the City Boathouse 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Installed in 2013 we aim to help our members to minimise trips to Durham when the river conditions are not suitable for training.
The UK Met Office Blog
The official blog of the Met Office News Team. The team blog about all things weather, including hot topics, weather reports, weather extremes, climate change, awards, biographies and statistics. If you want the real story, rather than the sensationalised stuff peddled by our national press, look here first.
Met Office Digital Library
The UK Met Office has now digitised a lot of it’s historical weather documents and made them available as pdf files, on their digital library pages. Available are Monthly Weather Reports, Snow Surveys, British Rainfall records and many more.