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JANUARY
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FEBRUARY
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MARCH
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A very mild month across the whole of the UK,
with most places receiving near average sunshine. Higher than
average rainfall over Scotland, but elsewhere close to
normal.
A cold start to the month with temperatures
down to -15 °C at Braemar on the 2nd, but temperatures as high
as 15 °C by the end of the month. Stormy end to the month,
with low level gusts as high as 74 knots at Barra and
Lanark.
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A very mild month across much of the UK,
although temperatures were near normal in the Northern Isles.
Another wet month, with many places receiving two to three
times their normal rainfall.
Eskdalemuir reported 16 cm of lying snow on
the 23rd. Folkestone reached a temperature of 15.1 °C on the
22nd.
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A very mild and sunny month across the whole of
the UK. It was also a fairly dry month across Northern
Ireland, England and Wales, with only central parts of
Scotland and the Northern Isles experiencing above average
rainfall.
With gusts of over 60 knots on the 9th
over Norfolk, a marked 'Fen Blow' was experienced as the
strong winds lifted the topsoil. Boltshope Park in Durham
reported 10 cm of lying snow on the morning of the 10th.
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APRIL
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MAY
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JUNE
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Another mild month, with temperatures generally
around 1 to 2 °C above average. It was the sunniest April
over England and Wales since 1990.
Enfield recorded a temperature of 23.7 °C on
the 23rd. On the other extreme, Altnahara recorded a
temperature of -7.2 °C on the 13th.
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Temperatures above average across the whole of the UK, with
near or above normal sunshine across most areas. Much of the
UK was wetter than average, with only parts of the north and
east experiencing less than normal rainfall.
Temperatures peaked at a high of 28.5 °C on Jersey on
the 16th, and fell to a low of -5 °C at Corgarff on the 6th.
Hail showers over Belfast on the 27th, led to ground surface
accumulations of up to half an inch.
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Mean temperatures were close to or slightly above average
across the UK, with temperatures 2 °C above average across
Shetland. Very wet over Northern Ireland, northern England and
southern Scotland, with between 150 % and 200 % of average
rainfall.
Thunderstorms and heavy rain affected
south-east England and East Anglia overnight 4th/5th, with 42
mm of rain being recorded in parts of Surrey and Greater
London. Top temperature of 29 °C over East Anglia on the
17th.
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JULY
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AUGUST
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SEPTEMBER
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Mean temperatures generally
close to average across the whole of the UK. A very wet month
across most parts, with some areas receiving three times their
normal rainfall.
At Leuchars it was the wettest
July since records began in 1922, with 145.8 mm.
Temperatures touched 33°C at Northolt on the 29th, with
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Another generally warm month across the UK, with most
places having mean temperatures 1 to 2 °C above normal.
Sunshine values close to or just below normal, with above
average rainfall across eastern Scotland and north-east
England.
On the 1st, Fylingdales had 115 mm in
24 hours, their wettest day (09 to 09) since records
began in 1984. There were localised floods on the 7th in the
London area, with some places receiving 60 mm in just
one hour.
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A dry month across virtually the whole UK, with Scotland
having its driest September since 1972. Mean temperatures and
sunshine were above average, with the exception of the far
North of Scotland which had slightly below normal sunshine.
Driest September since 1959 at Dyce ( Aberdeen )
with 15.6 mm, and also the driest September at Plymouth since
1959, with only 4 mm of rainfall recorded. Swanage recorded
121 mm of rainfall on the 9th.
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OCTOBER
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NOVEMBER
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DECEMBER
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A cool and wet month across most of the UK. However, there
were some exceptions to this, with the far south-east of
England and north-west of Scotland, receiving less than normal
rainfall.
Aberdeen had its wettest October reporting 230.4 mm, and
the 4th wettest of any month, since readily available records
back to 1924.
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A very mild and wet month, the only exception being
north-west Scotland, which received less than average
rainfall.
80 mm of rainfall fell overnight on 13/14th in Penzance,
with severe flooding there and in St. Ives. It was the wettest
November for Northern Ireland since 1963.
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A very wet month across England and Wales and south-eastern
parts of Scotland. It was much drier than average across
north-west Scotland. Most eastern areas experienced a very
dull month, but in contrast western areas were sunnier than
average.
Dyce and Leuchars only experienced around a third of
their average sunshine for the month. Aviemore had around 16%
of their monthly rainfall, whilst Dyce and Leuchars received
around 152% of their normal rainfall.
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