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December, and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire on 26 December. Wet weather continued into the beginning of January, with a colder interlude around midmonth. Stormy conditions returned at the end of January and continued into February. By the middle of that month the weather turned drier and colder
18.2 08-Sep-1898 Highest for 118 years Armagh 6 18.0 18.3 06-Sep-1898 Highest for 118 years Bradford, West Yorkshire 7 17.7 16.8 06-Sep-2006 107 Valley, Anglesey 7 16.9 16.7 10-Sep-1981 85 Hastings, East Sussex 14 20.0 18.9 05-Sep-1949 83 Morecambe, Lancashire 13 18.7 17.9 29-Sep-2011 82 Cromer
The Central England Temperature (CET) monthly series, beginning in 1659, is the longest continuous temperature record in the world (Manley, 1974). It comprises the mean of three observing stations covering a roughly triangular area of England from Bristol to London to Lancashire; the current
five warmest springs in a temperature series that extends back to 1910. The standout spring statistic, however, is found within the Central England Temperature (CET) series. A record of temperatures covering a roughly triangular section of England from Lancashire in the north to London in the east
Preparations for dispersal of the Met Office at the outbreak of war were made in 1938. Initially it was planned that the HQ and administrative division would move to Southport in Lancashire, then the location changed to Tetbury in Gloucestershire but in the end a small HQ branch remained in London
temperatures over a central area of England stretching between Lancashire, Bristol, and London. The decade of 2002–11 has been a particularly interesting one for CETs, with a number of warm autumns (2009, 2011), along with a number of cold winters (2009/10, 2010/11). The emergent science
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