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of 114% of average. The UK monthly extremes were as follows: A maximum temperature of 22.9 °C was recorded at Kew Gardens (Greater London) on the 29th. A minimum temperature of -3.8 °C was recorded at Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) on the 15th. In the 24 hours ending 0900 UTC on the 5th, 102.6 mm of rain fell

is not certain, but during the war weather echoes were regarded as a nuisance rather than of intrinsic value. Nevertheless, before the end of the war the Meteorological Office had established a radar research station at East Hill, some 30 miles north of London. For a time after the war, the Meteorological Office

at 0900 UTC 30.1°C on 1st at Cambridge, Botanic Garden (Cambridgeshire, 13mAMSL) 7.3°C on 27th at Balmoral (Aberdeenshire, 283mAMSL) 18.8°C on 2nd at London, St James's Park (Greater London, 5mAMSL) -3.0°C on 25th at Tyndrum No 3 (Perthshire (in Central Region), 168mAMSL) and Braemar No 2

University, Stockholm, Sweden. Dept. of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Downing College Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Earth Sciences Division, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA. Earth Sciences, University College London, London, UK. Environment

across Cumbria in the opening days which may have contributed to a landslide that caused the derailment of a Glasgow to London service at Shap early on the 3rd. The next day came reports of several road closures in west Cumbria due to surface water flooding. Parts of Wales were also notably wet during

observations of the weather in the London area and is credited with having first discovered the concept of the urban heat island, where night time temperatures in the cities do not fall as low as those in the countryside. He attributed this to the numbers of coal fires burning in close proximity

Increase in tropical cyclone risk to coastal regions Also known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic and typhoons in the northwest Pacific, tropical cyclones have maximum wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour and can be up to 1000 kilometres in diameter. Research by Imperial College London as part

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when mild air arrives from the south and skies allow strong daytime heating. The UK’s highest April daily maximum temperature stands at 29.4°C at Camden Square (London) on 16 April 1949. Elsewhere, April warmth can still be impressive even if it falls short of that UK benchmark. Scotland’s record