Tuesday, December 30, 1986

An inspiring cold-front passage at 3.45pm.

Monday, December 15, 1986

Rained all day, inspiring clearing of sky at 3.30 though.

924 (!) mb depression over the Atlantic, apparently.

Friday, December 05, 1986

A dark, rainy and very windy day.

'unsettled, and windy' [...]

Sunday, November 30, 1986

Nothing happened at all. It isn't even foggy this afternoon.

Monday, October 20, 1986

A wonderful day of sunshine and heavy rain and strong winds.

October 21st. A vicious, raining day: cold and wet.

October 22nd. Watched a cold front pass over at lunchtime.

October 24th. ..strong the wind was too.

October 25th. Walked back in a splendidly stormy autumn evening.

October 28th. Boring, wet day.

'Fine first half, then windy and wet.' [...]

Thursday, October 02, 1986

Hot and wearing afternoon.

Monday, September 15, 1986

It rained from 9 in the morning to 4.30 this afternoon - 7½ hours.

Saturday, September 13, 1986

Started raining at 1.30pm, still going now six hours later.

Wednesday, August 27, 1986

Pressure at 985 mb.

Monday, August 25, 1986

Rained all day.

'A very wet and windy Bank Holiday, thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Charley. The 25th was the wettest August Bank Holiday on record, with 25 mm+ of rain widespread' [...]

August 26th. Rained most of the day again. Pressure at 977mb.

'The rain continued in the east on the 26th'

Thursday, August 21, 1986

Walked along beach to Alnmouth in the afternoon, whereupon it immediately began pissing down with rain. Spent 20p on Polos. Walked 4 miles back by the road in the rain.

Sunday, August 03, 1986

Violent rainstorm at 4.11 pm.

Thursday, July 17, 1986

Hot but with a pleasant breeze.

Wednesday, July 16, 1986

Hot again. Spent most of day reading Maia by Richard Adams - outside to start with, but had to retreat inside at 12 noon.

Tuesday, July 15, 1986

Extremely hot. Spent most of the day outside reading Maia.

Saturday, July 12, 1986

First day of the holidays. Miserable weather though. Hope it clears up a bit.

Wednesday, July 02, 1986

Long hot day. Cirrus appearing, cumulus too - an end to the heat.

Monday, June 30, 1986

Nice clear day after grey first half hour.

Saturday, June 28, 1986

Beautiful weather.

Thursday, June 26, 1986

Everyone at school was hot and flushed. Exam passed over quickly (like a squall). Came home. Had an attack of heat exhaustion.

Sunday, June 22, 1986

Raining at 8pm.

Saturday, June 21, 1986

The longest day, it's still light now at 9pm.

Friday, June 20, 1986

The house is quiet and empty this morning: outside it's grey and windy, inside I can't revise Geography.

Wednesday, June 18, 1986

Much cooler today.

Tuesday, June 17, 1986

Weather a carbon copy of yesterday. Cooler now at 8.30pm.

Monday, June 16, 1986

Stiflingly hot (thermometer reads 91° - think it's wrong).

11pm. A breathless, thundery air to the night - a yellowish moon, and can I detect that smoky thundery smell?

Sunday, June 15, 1986

Another beautifully hot June day. Hot enough to draw the curtains.

Saturday, May 31, 1986

Wet gloomy and miserable day. In fact it might even be worth going back to school by comparison.

Thursday, May 29, 1986

Got a good barometer.

Monday, May 26, 1986

Slow, warm day.

Sunday, May 18, 1986

Nice sunny day.

Monday, May 05, 1986

Weather improved dramatically from about 4.30pm.

Sunday, May 04, 1986

Beautiful morning.

Friday, May 02, 1986

Interesting day. Cloudy, and hot in the afternoon.

Thursday, May 01, 1986

Beautifully warm morning - abandoned my coat 2½ months early.

Saturday, April 26, 1986

Beautiful start to the day weatherwise.

Thursday, April 24, 1986

This is one of the summerest evenings this year.

Monday, April 21, 1986

Another classic front-passing day - thunder as the cold front passed. So the warm front passed on Saturday evening, about 9pm; the cold about 5pm Monday (today).

Sunday, April 20, 1986

Weather went from overcast drizzle at 8 am to overcast and windy at 9 am, to cloudy and windy at 11.30, to bright and fair with fractocumulus flying from the southwest at 3 pm. Uplifting.

Sunday, April 13, 1986

Cooler than yesterday.

Tuesday, April 01, 1986

Showery weather.

Monday, March 24, 1986

Very windy, Springlike day. Officially surpasses that day in January 1984 for 'greatest in memory' wind.

'Strong winds later in the month' [...]

Tuesday, March 18, 1986

Came out of school at 3.40, thought 'that's a funny smoky smell, what is it? Yes, thunder - what, thunder in March?' 20 minutes later: thunder, lightning (at 2½ miles) and rain.

Friday, March 14, 1986

An amazing thing happened this morning. Went out at 7am, sky was grey. At 7.10 a slash of blue had appeared, at 7.15 a large gap had opened and at 7.25 the clouds were retreating rapidly into the East

Thursday, March 06, 1986

Spring is coming on apace, really noticeable this year.

Monday, March 03, 1986

Snow melting rapidly.

Atlantic fronts started to encroach on the 3rd as high pressure retreated to the south, and the thaw reached all areas by the 4th. [...]
Spring seems to be here. Today was the first spring-evening sunset of this year. Snow melting rapidly.

Saturday, March 01, 1986

Thick snow on the ground today. (Makes 23 days of lying snow this winter)

'There were blizzards across England on the 1st... over much of the south and east temperatures were beneath freeezing all day, giving the coldest March day on record in many areas.' [...]

Wednesday, February 19, 1986

Snow was renewed overnight.

Saturday, February 01, 1986

Very cold and windy this morning.

February 5th. Snowing now.

February 6th. A lot of snow on the ground.

February 7th. Lots of cold snow. No PE, thank god.

February 9th. A day of snow showers.

February 12th. Snow melting rapidly.

'Very cold, with frequent light snowfalls.' [...]

Sunday, January 26, 1986

Weather absolutely invariable all day.

Sunday, January 19, 1986

Wind very strong today.

Sunday, January 12, 1986

Set up the new thermometer on a 4ft. pole in the back garden - first readings tomorrow.

Friday, January 10, 1986

Wind and rain. Cold front passed over about 2.30pm.

Tuesday, January 07, 1986

Viciously cold all day; school heating had failed and everybody was sent home at 3.15pm. Glad to get home: at least it's warm here.

Saturday, January 04, 1986

Rather wet and miserable afternoon.

Thursday, January 02, 1986

Quite a cheerful day weather-wise: cold and showery, but the sun managed to break through the clouds about four p.m.