Parents went to London today - drove them to the station at 9am just as a vast rainstorm came on. Nice weather after that - sun, blue sky, cumulus, Northerly gale.

December 1988

December 12th. Beautiful still sunny warm weather. Returned a couple of library books, wandered about in the sun.

28th. Beautiful afternoon. There was a quality in the air like a March or April evening.

Exceptionally mild (7.5) - the second warmest this century [...]

First day of winter. Freezing cold East wind in the morning - grey all day, dark and gloomy by 2pm.

Windy in the evening.

Foul morning; wet, cold and windy. Dramatic skyscape about 3.30pm, flying pink shreds of cloud on a powerful cold wind.

Freezing cold day.

Cold but good day - snow and sleet and rain showers in that order.

At 1.30pm went out for a walk - eventually reached the village. Had to come back the same way, unfortunately, but it was preternaturally beautiful weather. Wind got a bit cold and strong at the end, though. Lots of hail showers in the evening.

Woke up to a beautiful, sunny, blue-skied, golden-leaved autumn morning.

Well foggy all day.

'much fog and frost.' [...]

This afternoon the sun came out for the first time in days, illuminating the grass and the golden autumn leaves.

Back by 6.30pm, just ahead of a massive thunderstorm.

Fucking cold and really windy.

Up at 7.30 to thick fog and breakfast.

Sat outside with others in a total sociable world until about 2.30pm when the sun finally went in.

Pissed down with rain all day.

A quiet sort of day, apart from the weather: gales, broken cumulus and a blue and gold sunset.

It's been a fine autumn day, with the haze of oncoming winter about it. To the bank tomorrow to sort out student accounts etc - leaving in 9 days.

Grey, very windy autumn afternoon.

And away south Hurricane Gilbert continues to menace the Gulf of Mexico - apparently the strongest ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere. I think the Earth is beginning to re-balance, removing the humans, responsible for pollution etc.

Winter's definitely coming - cold and squally until about 3pm when glorious clear autumn sunshine and blue sky shone out. 'Here comes another winter, of long shadows and high hopes...'

Beautifully hot weather.

Wind and rain in the morning. A cold front came over later on, so it was unusually chilly and the air had a definite bite to it. Autumn and Winter can be invigorating in prospect.

It thundered all morning, cleared up in the afternoon.

Hot and hazy in the afternoon.

Weather's been a bit dismal - whitish overcast, my least favourite, but it eventually gave way to dark nimbostratus and heavy rain followed by sunbreaks.

Hot and oppressive.

Grey but breezy morning with sun breaking through.

Brilliantly shining stars in the evening, with the Milky Way arcing across the zenith.

Boiling hot and cloudless all day.

Another hot and hazy day.

Quiet day with beautiful weather.

A quiet, greyish day except about 3 pm.

In the afternoon gave my brother a lift up to his golf thing: beautiful July end-of-term weather, the hazy town spread out below me to the south.

About 10am the sun came out properly and by afternoon it was July-boiling-hot and brightly sunny.

Cooler today.

Hazy heat.

A quiet day, plenty of sun and wind.

A strange, cool day: leaden stratocumulus in the sky at the same time as blue sky and golden cirrocumulus.

July 1988

Showery wind sun white round cloud day.

July 3rd. Went out in the afternoon on an 86-mile drive in excellent rain.

July 21st. ..it rained for a bit...

July 22nd. My father gave Karen and me a lift to hers, as it was raining.

July 23rd. Went for a 20-mile drive in the pouring rain - it cleared up later though, with a glorious sunset.

July 24th. Windy but sunny and showery with blue sky and white altocumulus - one of my favourite types of weather.

'It was the wettest July since 1936 in the south. It rained ... on 23 days over most of the UK.' [...]

To school for the last time to hand my books in. Then went for a farewell fag behind the firing range - quiet, grey, dry afternoon. 6 years 9 months 18 days since I started there. Can't say I'll miss it.

Amazing thunderstorm with very heavy rain from 7pm-10pm after a hot and humid day.

Drove home in wind, sun and blue sky - beautiful weather. Sat in the garden reading Sherlock Holmes.

A fine, windy, sunny day - sat in the garden reading King Lear for the exam.

Damp and dull.

Hot and sunny, sat in the garden till 4.30.

Beautiful summer's evening, warm after rain, on the estuary. Very peaceful.

Quiet Bank Holiday. Pissed down with rain all morning - was forced to venture out to buy fags. In the afternoon the sun came out - about all that happened.

Drove through a really heavy shower on the M11 - sheets of water; I thought I was going to drown.

Pissing down with rain this morning, so walked around the block with my umbrella, came back before nine a.m.. Did A-level revision.

Odd weather though: at half-past two a hazy sun appeared, and by eleven p.m. it was well clear. Nice.

Went for a drive, stopped in Epping Forest. Very peaceful - sunset, green leaves.

Beautiful cool showery sunny May afternoon.

Fine, cool breeze, cloudless till about 3pm.

Not quite so hot today.

Very hot.

Very hot, hazy today.

Hot, humid night followed by hot, grey, humid day. Reports of thunderstorms, tornadoes and ball lightning elsewhere.

'Thunderstorms on the 8th' [...]

Too hot if anything.

Driving on the A12, it was pissing down with rain but off to the south the landscape was green and sunny through the grey rain. It was so strange I drove down there to be in it.

Landore very very depressing on a grey day. In the evening wandered round the streets of Porthcawl - reassuringly quiet, cold, windy, empty Friday night.

Lay outside in the sun in the later afternoon. In the evening gentle April rain.

Hot uncomfortable and boring.

Hot again, hazy again.

A small thunderstorm just after midnight today - very early this morning, I mean.

Bloody hot today after about mid-day.

'It was 21.3 at Coningsby (Lincs.) on the 18th.' [...]

Another beautiful Spring day.

The stars are shining patchily through the clouds after a beautiful sunny, windy bright April day, and they shine on the just and the unjust alike.

Hazy hot day.

Very nice spring evening, with a slow sunset.

Wind. But rather a depressing day in total, despite the interesting weather.

Went down town at 1.30, bought Day At The Races CD as cold front passed over and the sun came out.

Nice springlike showery day after about 1pm.

March 14th. Nipped off for a fag behind the rifle range in the rain. Surreal.

March 18th. Took a taxi home because it was pissing down.

'[March was] very wet across most of the country' [...]

Weather was nice, almost hot in the sun.

Went to Southend: cleverly she'd brought soup and food which was an unexpected bonus as it was freezing. Then the sun came out and we wandered up to the park.

'Cold end [to February]' [...]

Cold and wet but clear.

Pleasant weather - though without yesterday's spring-like haze. More hard-edged.

A real hazy Spring-like afternoon with dusty sun and warmth.

Went to get a look at the sea: ochre and angry. Raining in the evening.

Started raining during the morning, till about noon.

Beautiful sunny, windy, showery interesting-cloud weather these last four days. Amazing for February - it's usually such a miserable month.

Bought a new max/min thermometer - the old one fell off the windowsill in the night. £8.95.

Bunked off assembly for a wet walk. Better take Dean's umbrella back tomorrow - he left it in my room on Monday.

January 13th. Bunked off assembly again - found a nice new dry place to smoke under the eaves of the new multi-storey carpark.

January 22nd. Snowing this morning. Threw the remains of the speaker into the river - well flooded, full and very fast.

January 24th. Drove through a flood and came out alive. The landscape in the dusty sun.

January 30th. Brilliant sunlight and clear blue skies.

'Mild and very wet, although quite sunny' [...]

Walked back through town in the windy greyness of the first morning of the year.