Very cold and clear again, frost persisting all day.

'late cold snap' [...]

Went for a walk after dinner: the sun had come out at last and it was cold but pleasant.

Got a book about Essex weather. Apparently the county is notable for thunderstorms.

Walked to the tech through fog and great cold. Even colder and foggier at 8pm.

Walked through lucid frosty pre-dawn morning air to the tech.

A very bright Full Moon in a clear sky at 8 pm seemed to bode well for seeing the eclipse, but it completely clouded over by 10pm.

At 10.30am it was raining pretty determinedly so I stayed in. It stopped about noon.

Barometer dropped from 1000mb at 12.40 last night to 972 mb at 12 noon - nearly an inch. Very windy all day. Floods round the country.

'Serious flooding... in the first week.' [...]

Very windy in the afternoon.

Very windy tonight.

Cold clear blue-skied day.

Very cold today.

Raining and windy in the morning.

Beautiful weather, clear, sun, blue sky.

Walked to the bus station in wind and rain, got soaked.

November 9th. Walked home through cold rain and wind under grey skies. But very bright Full Moon in the evening.

November 15th. Absolutely miserable grey, cold, damp weather.

November 16th. Cold and rainy.

November 21st. Gloomy rainy morning. In the afternoon went to town in the drizzle.

November 22nd. Wet, grey, gloomy but unseasonably warm. Wind came up in the evening.

November 26th. The river's very high, just about over the banks after all the rain we've had.

'A very wet month' [...]

Stratocumulus, windy.

Clear and cold and calm. After lunch glorious mellow sunlight and golden and red leaves.

Cold and frosty night.

Beautiful golden morning recalling past idylls.

Miserable weather, grey, rainy and cold.

October 20th. Raining very heavily and thundering at 9am. Still pissing down with rain at 12.30pm.

'Wet, with heavy rain almost every day from the 18th-28th...' [...]

Freezing cold N.W./W. winds. Got very cold in the house but wrapped myself in a blanket and prepared a hot-water bottle.

Beautiful clear cool sunny day today.

Cloudy, but they rolled away about 4pm and there was a lovely Hunter's Moon.

In the evening cold, cloudy, still.

Went for a fast walk at 5.30pm - in the cold wind and under grey stratocumulus it was exhilarating.

Went for a walk in the evening - cold and windy.

Very windy and exhilarating today.

It rained solidly all night and all morning. Into town in the afternoon, noticed the river was very high.

Lovely day, sun and wind and definitely September.

Lovely sunny, windy day with blue sky and big clouds.

Went for a walk - beautiful clear evening with a full Harvest Moon.

September 3rd. Cold and windy all day with a massive rain shower about 5pm.

September 4th. An extremely cold day.

September 5th. Still very cold.

September 6th. A grey, damp, rainy day.

September 13th. Foul weather, rain and grey clouds.

September 18th. Massive thunderstorm last night: preliminary rumbles about 2am and continuous thunder and lightning waking me up at 4am. One massive flash, and crack of thunder, about 4.10, I timed at ~ 0.3s between flash and crash, ~ 120 yards away! Actually I was quite scared but gave myself a good scientific talking-to.

'cool, and unsettled, with some heavy spells of rain, and in particular, some severe thunderstorms' [...]

September 22nd. Rain all day today and thunder now.

September 23rd. Rain most of day again, clearing towards the end of the afternoon - floods in various places, apparently.

'There was widespread flooding across N and W London ... following overnight thunderstorms on the 22-23'

September 24th. At 11 am went out: raining, and river very high, but on the way back the sun came out and cheered me up very much.

September 25th. Up at 10 am: heavy rain kept me in till about 2 pm.

September 26th. Very warm.

September 28th. Very warm and still today.

'Towards the end of the month, there was a warm spell'

Cool, windy, sunny today, like yesterday. Fluffy cumuli.

A beautiful sunny, windy, cool day with fluffy cumuli.

Lots of fluffy white clouds and general Summer indulgence.

Quiet grey afternoon, not sure what it reminded me of.

August 3rd. Blustery, sunny day - nice.

August 12th. Strong winds and heavy showers.

August 13th. It rained solidly today from noon to about 11 pm. Not very inspiring.

August 20th. Got soaked getting to the employment training place.

August 24th. Walked back in the rain.

August 27th. Very windy today. Not like August at all.

'Very wet and windy. England and Wales had their wettest August since 1956.' [...]

After tea went out for a walk round the old circuit. Halfway round, the sun escaped from the trailing edge of the cloud sheet and a beautiful golden summer evening sprang into being.

Much cooler today: a heavy shower about 8pm but no thunder.

July 3rd. Raining in the morning.

July 4th. To Burger King in pouring rain.

July 15th. Close, hot, grey day.

'Cloudy, wet, but at least warm' [...]

July 20th. About 8.40pm I was feeling bored when the rain, which had been light for about half an hour, suddenly increased. Then the heavens opened, lightning, thunder, the works. About 9.30 it got really violent. By 10.30 things were quieter. More rumbles at midnight. Woken at 1.50 am by the loudest clap of thunder I've ever heard.

'Severe thunderstorms over the southeast on the 20-21st, with parts of Sussex, Kent, and East Anglia receiving 40mm'

The weather drifting up from the East got stormier and stormier until, about 2.30, the heavens opened. Saw a brilliant sparkling purple fork of lightning. Afterwards with the storm moving West the light was reflecting off dazzling white cumulus in the East, making everything look like morning.

Clear, hot, windy day without the oppressive humidity we've had recently.

June 13th. Beautiful day, very hot and clear.

June 14th. Extremely hot - not humid though, but with a strong warm Westerly wind.

June 15th. Beautiful day, very hot and clear, light westerly breeze.

June 28th. Personally, since seeing her round his those two times, I don't think anything is going on. Mind you, who knows what'll've happened at Glastonbury, what with the weather so hot, and all?

June 29th. Fiendishly hot all day.

'One of the warmest [Junes] of the century ... the warmest since 1976 in many places' [...]

One roll of thunder during the night (18 seconds) and lots of rain. Dull, grey, warm day.

Cold and windy this evening (down to 62° in here after last week's 78° evenings), but at least it's stopped raining, which it did till mid-afternoon. All the vegetation looks better for it though.

Went out on my bike for a short ride - too hot and humid, as it was last night, for any serious exertion.

It rained briefly about 11pm, as it did about 1.30 last night.

May 1992

Hot and clear.

May 14th. Fantastically hot. Took my bike to the repair shop again, walked back in intense heat.

May 16th. Clear and hot again.

May 17th. Clear and warm, not quite so hot as yesterday.

May 18th. Hot again, but a cool breeze helped out.

May 19th. Still hot and sunny.

May 20th. Yet again hot and clear.

May 21st. Still hot and clear, very hot in fact. But haze and some cloud in the evening.

May 22nd. Yet again hot and clear.

'The warmest May of the century' [...]

May 23rd. Very hot again but cloudy later... a thunderstorm was approaching. There were a few rumbles of thunder and a few flashes of lightning and about 5 minutes' rain, but not a lot came of it. Gratifying to see the thunder arriving on schedule in the last third of May.

'violent thunderstorms at the end'

May 25th. Very hot and clear, with a mysterious static cloud somewhere over Harwich which could be seen from 12 noon to 5.30 pm.

'A warm and thundery late spring Bank Holiday'

May 26th. Did my best to avoid the heat in the afternoon.

Grey with showers and occasional sunshine. Went out in the pleasant cool damp evening. Caught the sun just setting through the clouds.

Rain in the morning.

Beautiful Spring afternoon, sunny and very clear. You could see right into Kent and just make out the bridge at Tilbury. The tide was right up and the sun was shining off the estuary.

Weather still very cold.

Pouring rain in the morning - very cold too.

Nice weather - sun, wind, showers, but very cold. In the evening, lowering clouds and cold wind.

Beautiful hope-inspiring sunset.

Nice warm sunny Bank Holiday.

Bottled out of going to the club at the last second. Walked back (no jacket - luckily very warm though), got home about 12.15am.

Very cold north wind and icy showers.

Rain in the afternoon.

Fine weather all day. Can't take any more of this depressing election.

Damp, showery day.

Very warm and pleasant.

Weather much improved with lines of bright white dark-based cumulus and bright sun.

It pissed down with rain all afternoon.

Great winds and driving rain in the afternoon.

In town enjoyed the windy grey Saturday afternoon feeling. There's nothing like a Saturday afternoon when the evening's arranged.

Fairly standard sort of day, but the weather was interesting - strong North wind, heavy showers, huge cumulus and sun.

Went for a rainy walk.

Weather very cold. Heavy rain at 11am, then the sun came out.

Very windy and sunny day. Once again we're having real 'equinoctial gales'.

It rained in the morning, read the Sunday papers. After dinner drove to Tollesbury, which is at the edge of the salt-marshes north-east of Maldon. Walked about a mile along the sea-wall, saw the sea and a ship on it. The weather brightened up a bit too, so I felt better.

Wind and rain and blue sky and big grey cumuli.

Wind, grey stratocumulus, rain - all very impressive. Four weeks till polling day.

Cold front passed over in the afternoon.

Freezing cold wind, and a miserable rainy morning.

Very warm and sunny and springlike - wonder if we'll get any cold weather again this (past) winter?

Fine weather this morning.

Grey, rainy, depressing day.

Up at 10 am to bright sunlight and fresh wind.

February 1992

Very quiet and calm and very mild.

February 26th. Springlike afternoon.

February 28th. Mild weather recently.

February 29th. In 75% of years today would be the first day of spring, and it certainly tried to live up to it: very warm, sunny and calm, similar to the Chubday in fact. Warm enough in fact to open my bedroom window during the day.

'Mild and dry' [...]

Very strong cold NW wind in the afternoon.

Felt very optimistic at dinner-time; sun, wind, shower cumuli.

Talked to Chris till 1.45am, came home and read my 1987 weather diary (for some reason).

Wind and rain.

Weather had completely changed when I woke up. The Sun had even come out.

Dull, foggy day, but late on the pressure dropped, the fog cleared and the wind got up. A change in the weather at last!

Fog.

Beautiful fine weather in the afternoon - had the window open.

Restarted my weather record (after reading the one I was keeping up to September 1988).

Cold, misty, damp outside. Drizzle in the evening.

Still very cold - freezing. Wish this high pressure'd piss off.

'A very anticyclonic month, particularly from the 11th on' [...]

January 31st. Still anticyclonic gloom, so haven't had a chance to look at the current sunspot which apparently is large enough to see with the naked eye - people've seen it through mist etc.

February 1st. Fog.

February 2nd. Dull, foggy day, but late on the pressure dropped, the fog cleared and the wind got up. A change in the weather at last!

February 3rd. Weather had completely changed when I woke up. Even the Sun came out.

Very cold, East wind. Brief, glorious burst of sunlight through the thick grey clouds just after 2pm.

Started drizzling in the afternoon.

Beautiful clear morning.

Things still very slow; grey weather again. But about 4pm the weather suddenly brightened up, as predicted on the forecast at dinner-time. Felt better, especially after seeing the waxing gibbous moon about 5.30.

Got very depressed about 8pm, went for a walk: clear and cold; was cheered by the fat crescent Moon.

In the evening went out for a walk in very cold fine drizzle. Not very inspiring!

In the evening very cold, calm, clear, frost on the pavements.

Mild in the morning, later very cold - strong North wind.

Good weather, clear and fine till about 9.30pm. Quite cold.