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stations across the UK; the oldest at Hameldon Hill, near Burnley in Lancashire, has been operating since 1974. Our new radar deliver five times more data, with almost a terabyte being received from each radar over the course of a year. We now record 1.8 million rainfall observations per hour per radar

since 1862. Rainfall was well below average during May, especially from Lancashire and Yorkshire southwards, although northwest Scotland had above average rainfall for the month. The UK figure for May was 47% of average. England had its driest May on record, and Wales its second driest. Spring overall

of Scotland building and some public events were cancelled due to flooding. The heavy and persistent rain resulted in surface water and some minor river flooding in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Bradford with some properties flooded and travel disruption. England diary of highlights July started

their wettest October day on record, including several with 100+ year records, and scattered widely across the UK from London to the west Midlands to Lancashire to Aberdeenshire. These are listed in the table below. At Oxford, 60.0mm on 3 October made this Oxford's sixth wettest day in almost 200 years

, Suffolk, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and West Yorkshire recorded their highest December gusts since a major winter storm on 5 December 2013. Storms Elin and Fergus formed part of an ongoing sequence of very wet weather to affect the UK, The map below shows rainfall accumulations from 7 to 11

across Canada. Image copyright Met Office / NOAA / NASA. The rain-radar image at 1800UTC 27 September 2023 shows rainfall from storm Agnes, with the rain in northern and eastern Scotland from warm fronts and the narrow band of intense rainfall stretching from Cumbria through Lancashire to the Isle

). The chart below shows maximum gust speeds recorded across the UK, with the highest gusts recorded around Irish Sea coasts: 67Kt (77mph) at Aberdaron (Gwynedd), 64Kt (74mph) at Killowen (County Down), 63Kt (72mph) at Blackpool, Squires Gate (Lancashire) and 62Kt (71mph) at St Bees Head (Cumbria

There was below average rainfall, particularly for the south and east with close to average for Scotland and above average for north west England and Northern Ireland. Although Hazelrigg in Lancashire did see its highest daily rainfall on record with 73.6mm on November 22 which led to localised

Value Location (England) Date January 17.6 °C Eynsford (Kent) 27 January 2003 February 21.2 °C Kew Gardens (London) 26 February 2019 March 25.6 °C Mepal (Cambridgeshire) 29 March 1968 April 29.4 °C Camden Square (London) 16 April 1949 May 32.8 °C June 35.6 °C Camden Square (London) Horsham (West

Greatest snow depth 11 Dec 40cm Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wrexham Highest daily sunshine 17 Jun 18 Jun 19 Jun 16.2 hr Whitby, North Yorkshire Hastings, East Sussex Morecambe, Lancashire Highest gust speed 23 Feb 94 mph Capel Curig, Conwy Highest gust speed mountain 23 Dec 137 mph Cairngorm Summit