Very foggy night.

Snow in the evening.

29th. The snow that fell on Boxing Day evening is still lying - very cold, about -5 C, ever since then, though it warmed up to -1 C this afternoon.

'There were four consecutive nights from the 26-27th recorded beneath -20C... Although it was nowhere near as cold in the south, it was still cold: the lowest temperature at Elmdon (near Birmingham), for example, was -9.0C on the 29th.' [...]

Damp, misty evening.

I was so pleased to be invited to the party, that the grey winter skies, nondescript industrial purlieus and misty estuary valley almost seemed to light up.

Cold and damp.

Raining in the morning.

Started snowing again at 8am. In the afternoon the snow had become thick and soft, and people on campus were having snowball fights and building snowmen.

Walked home along the footpath over the fields - nearly a white-out. It was like the Zero Room, I expected to come out purged.'

Home by four, glad to get out of the cold - fine snow falling all day but no increase in depth.

Snow shower about 9.10; walked past a bloke who said 'Winter's begun eh?' More snow in the morning, then sunshine.

More snow at twelve, then about three it started again and didn't stop till about seven. The wind was driving copious snow.

Very cold east wind.

Grey, damp and cold.

Very cold, dark, grey day.

Well cold today. It snowed for a bit in the evening - some of the earliest snow I can remember. I said we were in for a harsh winter last month when I saw the quantity of berries on the pyrocanthus and acorns on the oaks in Galen Lane.

About 9.30am the weather changed, got much colder and clearer. And the Sun came out for the first time in a long time.

Up fairly early to a beautiful morning.

Still very cold.

Very cold again.

Beautiful clear morning.

Foggy in the evening.

A stuffy, warm, misty morning but not unpleasant. By 4pm the Sun had shone through the mist.

A misty, moisty morning. By 3.30 in the afternoon the Sun was just breaking through the mist.

Windy night. Rain about 9.45.

Lovely weather for the 1,552nd and last day of unemployment.

October 8th.

Beautiful weather.

October 9th. Really beautiful weather - walked up the road to the campus through the countryside.

'A warm spell at the start of the month, with temperatures of around 25C in the south on the 8th and 9th. On the 8th, under cloudless blue skies that were enjoyed across much of Britain, Torquay had 10.8 hours of sunshine.' [...]

Weather lived up to expectations - excitingly windy.

Beautiful weather btw.

Beautiful day, strong N.W. wind and cumuli.

Much colder today, polar air with a N.W. wind. In the evening had a look at Pegasus, Perseus etc - very good seeing.

An afternoon very much like a golden Saturday afternoon six years ago when I moved into the new student house.

Wind finally went round to the West after 4 or 5 days N.E. .

Lovely weather, blue skies, N.E. wind, white clouds, sun.

Damp morning; felt a bit rusty myself, but forced myself to exercise.

Up about nine, watched it rain. Rained heavily in the afternoon.

Lovely weather, deep blue sky and shower clouds in dazzling white and grey heaps.

Had to walk all the way into town and back in the rain for a new inner tube.

Rain and wind - lawn turned green again.

Cold and hazy in the morning, very Septembral; sun came out later though for a bit of autumn gold.

Heavy rain and thunder all morning left everything looking much greener.

'There was thundery rain in the south on the 2nd' [...]

Last day of summer. Cold with big grey rolls of stratocumulus, and light rain in the evening.

Very cold and grey today, practically dark by 8pm. It reminded me strongly of other peaceful times with autumn approaching and something to look forward to.

The day was quite cool, as things have been since the weather changed on Sunday evening.

Much cooler today, quite windy in the evening.

End of the heat all right: a decent shower at 3pm. My brass weather forecaster predicted it. First real rain since July 11th, six weeks and a day ago.

'Very dry (many parts of the south-east being rainless - England and Wales had only 10% of the average - hence on average the driest on record, with 9.1 mm or 11%).' [...]

Barometer dropped 6mb, from 1025 to 1019, in the evening. End of the heat on the way?

Damp smell outside.

Too hot.

Hot again. This weather's getting a bit tedious.

Very hot.

Very hot, but swathes of cirrus and cirrocumulus in the morning perhaps betokening a slight change of weather.

Weather quite hot.

Cool and cloudy for a change.

Sunny, cooler.

Weather bright, but cooler, like yesterday - quite pleasant.

Sunny but not so hot, almost pleasant.

Still very hot.

Really hot again. Seems to've gone on for weeks.

Even hotter today, up to 28.5°C in the afternoon. The ground's dry as a bone everywhere with no rain for so long.

Very hot today - up to 82 F about 4pm.

July 21st. Very hot again, beautiful clear blues, whites and greys in the sky.

July 22nd. Lovely weather, sunny with a cool breeze.

July 24th. Weather still very fine.

July 25th. Peculiar weather, hot but with a strong east wind.

July 26th. Hot and humid in the morning. Went to the Jobcentre. Good thunderstorm about midday, some very loud thunder and heavy rain. Got very dark. Failed to cool things down though.

July 27th. Grey, hot and humid, not too pleasant.

July 28th. Hot and humid still.

July 29th. Very hot and humid again. In the afternoon a thunderstorm dropped anchor a couple of miles to the east, plenty of flashes (and one dazzling fork) and bangs but no rain. A pity to miss out on the real fireworks.

July 30th. Another hot cloudless morning.

July 31st. Very hot today, cloudless but hazy.

August 1st. Even hotter today, up to 28.5 C.

August 2nd. Really hot again, with apparently no chance of the weather breaking till Sunday at least. Seems to've gone on for weeks.

August 3rd. Still very hot.

'Dry, sunny, and hot (18.6). Widespread readings over 30C from the 20th on' [...]

Very humid and unpleasant.

Cloudy and windy.

Cooler today.

Cooler today.

Nice weather, sunny but with a pleasant cool breeze.

Good weather again, a bit cooler and in fact very pleasant.

When the temperature rose from 22.5 C to 24 C between 11.15am and 11.45am, I knew we were in for thunder, which indeed we had for about half an hour at 12.45. Nothing too spectacular though.

Extremely hot. A few rumbles of thunder in the evening but nothing spectacular.

Extremely hot today.

Weather still very good.

Hot and clear again.

Cloudy again, rather unpleasant, plenty of rain in the late afternoon and evening.

Cloudy when I woke up at eleven. In the afternoon the clouds disappeared, and it was a pleasant evening.

Cool, grey weather today, not very nice.

The plan to study at Weffolk is becoming more and more real every day. I know well enough it's an expensive course with the purpose of work, but it doesn't mean there won't be landscapes and weather to chime with my memories from UoL. I can find counterparts to 1988's golden autumn mornings, its grey winter dampness, red February sunsets from 1990, beautiful summer afternoons, spring thunderstorms... was there ever a crisp frosty morning at UoL? I think I associate a few with Nov. 1988 on the horrible morning journey.

Cold, grey day.

Damp day.

June 1995

Rained most of the day today.

June 8th. Very cold for the time of year.

June 9th. Cool, damp morning, ideal for going into town.

June 10th. A cold, grey day.

June 17th. Went out shopping in the drizzle.

June 18th. The weather had changed completely and was sunny and hot.

June 19th. Hot and sunny, 23°C in the afternoon compared to 9°C on Thursday 15th.

June 20th. Beautiful weather again, very warm.

June 21st. SUMMER SOLSTICE. Beautiful weather again.

June 22nd. Beautiful weather again.

June 23rd. Yet again, beautiful weather.

June 25th. Beautiful cloudless weather.

June 26th. Lovely weather again.

June 27th. Beautiful weather yet again.

June 28th. Fiercely hot today.

June 29th. Very hot, very clear.

'Cool and cloudy first half [of June], warm and sunny second half.' [...]

Did some more painting till it started raining.

Cold today but tolerable in the sun.

Walked back in a cold clear night under a full moon, like old times but better.

May 1995

1st. Lovely Spring weather.

2nd. Lovely weather.

3rd. Very hot today, too hot for a coat.

4th. Even hotter today. Went and voted tactically, both votes for the Lib Dems.

5th. Beautiful weather, very hot. Tories took a beating, Labour did extremely well.

6th. Even hotter today.

7th. Really hot today but it cooled down in the evening.

'Notable heatwave in the first week, bettered only by May 1990. 27C was reached somewhere in the south every day 4-7th.' [...]

8th. Much cooler, a cold front having passed over last night.

'Temperatures were 12C lower on the VE celebration Bank Holiday Monday on the 8th'

17th. Grey skies, heavy rain.

'The 17th was very wet'

Warm, hazy weather.

Went for the blood test by bike in the afternoon, against ferocious North wind. Rode back with wind behind me - much better.

Horrible damp grey weather, the sort you find when you wake up on someone's floor with a stinking hangover. But it brightened up about one.

Beautiful weather but cold.

April 20th. Beautiful weather again, but cold.

'Northerly air became established on the 18th and led to several days of wintry showers and sharp frosts.' [...]

Lovely weather, very warm.

April 3rd. Even better weather.

April 4th. Warm again.

April 12th. Lovely weather again.

April 13th. Lovely spring weather.

'Very warm, sunny first half' [...]

Bright but cold with a North wind and snow forecast. 'The north wind doth blow / And we shall have snow...'

28th. Stayed in in the morning and watched it snow: big flakes but too warm to really settle - it got dispersed by rain in the afternoon.

'Another Arctic plunge resulted in a snowstorm on the 28th' [...]

Nice weather again, a bit hazy.

March 1995

Lovely weather.

March 11th. Not bad weather again.

March 12th. Beautiful weather again.

March 15th. Lovely weather again.

March 21st. Lovely weather.

March 22nd. Nice weather again.

March 23rd. Beautiful weather.

'Very sunny; over England and Wales only 1907 and 1933 were sunnier.' [...]

Beautiful weather, very calm and hardly a cloud.

Lovely weather in the morning with small cumuli. Cold though. Barometer dropped from 992 to 972 mb in the evening, with snow forecast.

3rd. There was a lot of snow lying about 2 am but it had gone by 9.30.

'The heaviest snowfall of the year in southern Britain fell on the evening of March 2. 15cms over Wales, the Midlands, and the outskirts of London' [...]

Nice weather apart from a very heavy shower about 11.25am.

It got very windy later but nothing spectacular happened.

Blue sky, fluffy clouds.

Very boring day with very boring weather. Very bad hangover to go with it.

Nice weather.

Very windy now after increasing all afternoon.

Lovely weather, cloudless in the morning. Clouded over later and got very windy.

Wet and windy, falling barometer.

Very wet in the afternoon.

Nice weather - warm winter sunlight.

Rained all morning.

Bright and windy.

Interestingly windy today.

January 1995

Went out in the afternoon in freezing drizzle to the bottle bank, to dump Christmas empties.

17th. It got very windy and rainy in the day. Got a lift to the hospital, but had to walk miles in gales and freezing rain afterwards.

19th. Foul weather in the afternoon, strong winds and heavy rain.

25th. Miserable weather in the morning, wet and grey, and a hangover to go with it. Ideal weather for contemplating abstinence, though. Later the weather improved - interestingly windy now, down to 980mb.

26th. Windy again.

29th. Interesting weather - heavy rain beating on the windows in the morning.

30th. River very high and thrusting at the pillar of the viaduct.

It was very wet in the south: the wettest in the London area since 1943. [...]

Very cold day. Peter Cook died, unfortunately.

There was a lot of wet snow in the morning but it didn't come to much.

Freezing cold morning, lot of ice about. Lovely sunlight though.

Icy conditions.

Bright and clear and frosty.

It started snowing about 2.15pm and put down a couple of inches by 4pm with a strong north wind. About an inch lying, I suppose.