Plenty of ice about.

Very cold today. Grey enough for snow.

Light snow today. The first time for ages it's snowed in November. Very cold.

'The 19th was a cold day, with temperatures close to freezing in easterly winds. 2-5 cm of snow were laying in Kent and east Sussex by the 20th.' [...]

Windy and very cold. The moon glows precisely in the November night.

Windy & wet.

Very cold and clear. First frost last night.

Grey, cold.

October 31st. Grey, very cold, bleak and darkling.

'On the 30th the maximum was only 6C in Jersey, as it turned much colder on easterly winds' [...]

Grey, cold day.

Cold and grey in the morning with a short shower at 10.40, then the sun came out. Got duller before sunset.

In the morning cold and grey with slight mist. In the afternoon a light grey-white sky, little wind.

Sunny and clear but chilly, and in the morning a light E. wind.

Sunny with light wind - cold in the morning, hot and clear in the afternoon. Summerlike.

Cold, grey, north-east wind in the morning; warm and sunny in the afternoon.

In the morning, very cold, clear and sunny. In the afternoon warm, clear and sunny.

Clear, cold and sunny in the morning. Clear, warm and sunny in the afternoon.

AM: Overcast.

PM: Clear, sunny, windy.

Sunny with drifting, flat white cloud.

Flat, light grey sky. Cold.

Cold, grey roll-overcast.

Cold, grey drizzling morning. Cold, grey afternoon.

Heavy rain this afternoon.

Really hot for October.

'There were widespread temperatures of 27C+ (80F) on the 1st and 21C+ for several days thereafter.' [...]

A cool morning today, almost cold.

Did my paper round in heavy fog.

Came to school in thick fog.

An easy Sunday, starting off nicely with cold air, bright sun and clear skies, thickening and darkening as the day went on. But now a golden sunset is pouring through the gaps in the dark grey cloud in the West.

A slow, hot day with a foggy start.

'Local highs of 27C on the 12th and 13th in a late hot spell.' [...]

Cold, bleak morning.

Rode to school - first parka day of the coming winter.

My family have gone to Fircombe; I didn't go because Fircombe is horrible on dull days.

Sunny for a change.

Windy.

Sunny, windy.

Showers. Windy. The sun is shining now, and it is raining at the same time. Typical.

Wet, cold, drizzling.

The sun came out - today's been blustery, sunny and rainy. Makes a change.

Boring and gloomy, cold, wet.

The clouds are breaking up at last after a grey day.

Went to Staple Tarland lake. Peaceful summer country afternoon.

The end of term. Spent a cold, wet lunchtime playing Racing Demon. Said goodbye to the teachers, went home in the drizzle. Just now at 3.35pm there was a very heavy 'clearing-up' shower and and a brief burst of sunlight, but now the sky's coagulating again.

Was woken at 3.15am by a thunderstorm. Quite hard. Depressingly hot day. Stayed inside. The rains came at 5pm and the temperature dropped mercifully.

'30C was recorded at Jersey on the 13th; this was followed by a thundery spell.' [...]

Very hot in morning, retired to my room to shelter. Made some recordings from Live Aid.

Another hot day.

Came to school wearing my coat. I explained it was going to rain. No-one believed me. It had been very hot and close all day, when at 3.20 the wind got up and at 3.35 the heavens opened. Hope they all got wet. The temperature dropped 13° F in 20 minutes.

Hot, close.

It showered a lot today, but in between it's been sunny.

It is the Solstice - now at 9.36 pm it is about as dark as a winter morning.

At home revising all day. A thunderstorm occurred about 1 pm.

Watched the classic signs of a warm front approaching.

A day of strong winds, sun and massive cloudbanks. It's nice to have some bad weather in June - I haven't heard the wind's sound for a long time.

A day of bright sunshine and massive, drifting thundery cloudbanks.

It was cold and drizzling this morning, but the wind was strong enough to give a kind of fineness to the morning. I was quite cheerful.

It got very hot and oppressive during the afternoon.

At lunchtime it was hot and humid. I said 'It's going to thunder.' Then there were several rolls of thunder.

During games it got louder, eventually it rained so much we had to go in at 3.20pm. Good.

Had a massive attack of depression about four o'clock which hasn't really gone away yet. I wish it would rain.

Today was hot and stifling. All afternoon I could feel the heat building up; it thundered slightly every hour. As 4pm approached I saw dark clouds building in the West; they were virtually boiling up.
About five past, there was a few glimmers of reflected lightning, a roll of thunder and light rain began to fall. At ten past I heard a tremendous slashing on the window, got up and looked out.
To call it a deluge was understatement. Huge raindrops, mixed with large hailstones were thundering down in a solid wall. Water was deluging from the gutters. It was the heaviest rainfall I've ever seen.

'There were some notable hailstorms in Suffolk and Essex on the 26th. The "Dunmow hailstorm" was particularly damaging; the sky was reported as turning green, hailstones up to 65 mm fell, and nearly 32 mm of rain fell in half an hour midafternoon.' [...]

An intense, sunny, windy May afternoon.

A sunny, windy Friday morning.

Cold day.

It went very dark twice today, at 10 am and 3.30pm. The second time it was hot and humid and it nearly thundered.

It rained this morning.

Hot, hazy day.

It was raining heavily this morning so I got a lift to school.

A really beautiful May morning today, almost windless, sunny and intense.

Today started off with damp, dim greyness, but funnily enough I wasn't depressed by it. But about 10am I went down town to buy a new typewriter ribbon. After this I sank into depression until the sun came out at 3.30pm.

This morning was an intense, quiet, almost deserted, sunny, windy spring morning. It was beautiful.

Home in gale and driving snow.

'There were snow showers on the 24th in the north, and again on the 27-29th, on cold NW winds.' [...]

Started off bitter, but then the day turned beautifully warm, finishing with a beautiful, yellow, non-evening spring afternoon.

7pm. It is another beautiful spring evening, but a bitter East wind has been blowing till about 6pm.

'Intense', sunny windy afternoon.

Much colder today.

'..but the next day was much colder across the country.' [...]

A hotter day.

'It was 21.4C in London on the 19th...' [...]

It is a warm spring evening with a cool breeze. The Sun shines rosepetal orange from behind clouds. It is low in the West, well between the houses.

It is a warm spring evening with a cool breeze. The sun is shining from behind a layer of cloud.

Spent the afternoon erecting cricket nets. It was too hot.

Grey and drizzling in the morning.

Beautiful spring evening.

Today and yesterday were the first hot days of 1985.

A beautiful Spring morning, but a bit very windy. It then became a beautiful day.

Warm, very windy in the afternoon.

It is the first day of Spring. It was snowing this morning.

'There was a cold, snowy spell midmonth' [...]

Here we are on the cool mist of Saturday morning.

At 10am a morning so fair it might have been the first morning of the world.

A cold, clammy mist enveloped the streets this morning. However, it cleared during the day and it became quite Spring-like.

Another bleak, miserable day.

Watched the new-style weather - not too bad, Centigrade gone, Celsius instead.

The ice on the river was thick enough to cross!!!

Noticed a can blowing along the river ice at about 25mph - strong wind and no friction.

Went out in the afternoon to sledge.

'Heavy snow in the south on the 8th and 9th.' [...]

Sharp frost this morning.

Woke up to it raining. The rain has destroyed the snow. The grass is breaking through in a blast of emerald green.

22nd. All the snow has gone, at last.

'Thaw from the 19th' [...]

Snow melting unenthusiastically.

5pm and it has been snowing almost consistently since 11 o'clock.

14th. It has snowed almost all day. Snow was 2½" deep in some places. We were sent home at 3.05pm today because of 2" of snow.

15th. A day of thick snow. Woke at 6.15am to find it snowing. At school 9 people were at registration.

17th. This evening the snow has not melted yet.

The ice was 2 1/2" thick, due to the -9 freeze.It was OK to walk right over the swamp from side to side.

'-16 at Jubilee Corner (Kent) on the morning of the 8th.' [...]

The temperature did not rise above -3 C today. -5 1/2 C was achieved last night.

'The 7th was a cold day, with temperatures beneath freezing over much of the country' [...]

The rest of the morning passed without incident except for a snow flurry at ten-thirty.

January 5th. There was an inch of real snow on the ground this morning. The temperature never climbed above freezing all day. It was -3 at 5pm.

January 6th. This morning's paper-round was done in 2 or 3 inches of snow. During the afternoon it snowed, occasionally, but a shower started at about 5pm and it is still snowing now. There was a thaw (up to 2 C) at about 1pm but it refroze and the rotten snow is being replaced by a fresh, new, forecast layer.

January 7th. The temperature did not rise above -3 C today. -5½ C was achieved last night. There is frozen snow everywhere.

'Very cold (0.8C CET) with frequent snow in the first three weeks.' [...]