Cold and raining - miserable day.

Heavy frost in the morning.

Very pleasant drive to Cambridge through sun/mist winter day.

Weather rather better with some sun.

Out at five to the nativity service. Windy and pissing down with rain. Rev Jane was there, doing the narration. Afterwards she offered me a lift to the manse. As it was only 6.05 I protested that this would be an imposition on them since I wouldn't have to leave till 7.45. So came back home for tea (salad and Stilton). Off again at seven to the manse, got absolutely soaked. Jane said she wished she'd insisted on bringing me round earlier when she saw the weather, I said yes, I'd regretted my politeness.

Cold and clear again.

Dismal dark morning.

22nd. Dark morning again.

Very cold again.

Beautiful, cloudless day, but very cold.

Cold and clear again.

Even colder today, icy wind. Dusting of snow overnight, wet snow in the morning.

Really cold today, heavy frost.

Beautiful clear golden morning, cold though. But later it got so dark and dismal that it seemed cosy inside - heavy cold rain.

Into town in heavy rain. Had to shelter under C&A's façade while it was particularly heavy.

Raining at 9pm.

More encouraging signs today: beautiful weather, beautiful sunset.

Weather miserable - dark and wet.

Cold & bright.

Very cold today, very windy during the day but calm and clear in the evening. Beautiful sunset with dark grey clouds lit up red underneath.

Weather better.

Dark, dismal, rainy morning.

Windy today with rain in the evening.

Beautiful clear morning, extremely cold.

18th. Still extremely cold with North wind. Showers pm, quite wintry at times. Can't remember it being so cold in November.

19th. Still very cold, with wintry rain.

23rd. Weather better today, a bit clearer.

Very cold weather btw, stars and new half moon very clear.

Beautiful morning but very cold.

Pissing down with rain in the afternoon.

Cold and foggy in the morning, in the afternoon the sun shining through the mist, warm and soft.

Weather rather nice again.

Another beautiful clear day, especially about 5pm with lovely rich orange light.

Up early, beautiful clear morning with the full moon 'bright as a snowball' in the west.

Very windy in the morning.

Rain at lunchtime but cleared up at two, more rain later on.

Rotten cold damp gloomy dark wet weather. Quite a good day though.

Weather dark, grey and cold with freezing East wind again. Autumnal colours round lake very beautiful.

Still bright, but very cold and windy.

Beauty of the weather (cold, bright, windy, lovely autumn colours) tempted me out for a walk.

Very clear and cold again.

Bright again and very cold.

Clear, bright and cold. Appalling nightmare about nuclear war finally breaking out.

Miserable weather at first in the morning, white-skied and dull, the kind I hate most. But it cleared completely to a lovely sunny autumn day. 'Which was nice.'

Damp and miserable weather.

Cloudier today, and damper, but colder still.

Still bright and clear, even colder again.

Weather ditto, even colder. Lovely sunset with yellow-gold clouds against dark blue sky, mellow gold light.

Beautiful weather again, even colder.

Glorious day, cold & clear.

Grey weeping clouds at 9 am. But blue sky was rolling up the clouds in the distance and by 10.15 it was a cold, sunny autumn morning

Decided cold wind and occasional rain. Wind rustling in branches of tree outside new flat, something I've never had, nice.

Damp and autumnal but not dull.

Lovely golden evening. After sunset, there was just a touch left of that summer-evening potential, mostly overlain with advancing autumnal chill. Made a change from the continuous rain in the morning anyway.

Beautiful weather in town in the morning. Clouded over in the afternoon, quite autumnal.

Weather much improved, cool, sunny and windy with fluffy clouds.

Dismal weather again.

Felt pretty well in the morning despite continuing dismal weather.

Weather so poor today it felt like winter had come and I'd been drunk for months without going outside - sort of Rip Van Pisshead scenario.

Windy, heartening evening.

Misty night followed by hot hazy day. Thought at lunchtime that the clouds looked thundery, quality of light at 3pm confirmed the impression, heavy rain at 4pm. No thunder mind but definitely a thunder-type shower.

Walking down the avenue the leaves were blowing off the trees. Autumn is very prompt this year.

Again a bit autumnal.

Perhaps a bit autumnal this morning.

September 1999

3rd. Beautiful weather, very clear.

6th. Misty night followed by hot hazy day.

8th. Still fairly hot.

11th. Very hot.

'There was a notable heatwave at the start of the month.' [...]

20th. Rain in the night and in the morning, thunder in the afternoon. Humid and unpleasant.

21st. Rain am and pm, clearing to a fine golden evening.

24th. Continuous rain in the morning. Lovely golden evening.

30th. Didn't finish till 6.15 pm, by when it was pissing down with rain.

'particularly wet in the second half'

Beautiful weather again, hot.

Warm again - muggy start but very clear later.

Weather warmed up again: hot and hazy. Definitely at the end of summer now though.

Definitely autumnal again, bright and sunny but pleasantly cool.

Weather quite cold again.

Cold enough to put my jumper on at work, and to wear my coat going home.

Beautiful cool sunny morning, sun with an autumnal slant like yesterday.

Nice weather, sunny with a cool breeze.

Scallop clouds, with seams thin enough for a good view of the eclipse. About a third of the Sun gone at 10.20, becoming impressive by 10.50. Everyone outside eleven. It got darker as if night were falling - the bits of blue sky were dark like as night comes on. Sun like a fiery crescent Moon - sort of about 40% width. Memorable. Just managed to see leaf-shadow 'blobs' later for about a second.

Rather cool and autumnal.

Autumnal again. Rained all morning and into the afternoon, when it thundered.

Hot, humid and grey, and curiously autumnal.

Lovely day, hot but not humid.

Hot and humid again.

Hot, grey and humid.

August 1999

1st. Weather suited the date - hottest so far.

2nd. Hotter still. Fortunately had to work in the air-conditioned machine room.

'35C reported at Mildenhall (Suffolk) on the 2nd, with 32.7C across East Anglia on the 1st and 2nd.' [...]

5th. Terrific thunderstorm overnight.

8th. Rained all morning and into the afternoon, when it thundered.

9th. Impressive thunderstorm in the afternoon. The heavy rain washed lots of biggish stones into the road outside.

'several spells of thunder, with some severe storms and heavily local rain and flooding.'

14th. Short sharp thunderstorm about 6.45 pm, very intense. Hail and strong winds. Hope it rains again as it damps down drunken behaviour.

16th. Lift home in a thunderstorm.

17th. Weather very cold and even more like autumn. Raining at 5pm. At the end of the evening, home in terrific thunderstorm with driving rain.

18th. More thunderstorms.

'The most thundery August since 1960.'

Very hot.

To Tescos; got with my shopping an eclipse viewer just in case it's sunny that day.

Very interesting conversation with Craig re thunderstorms. I recalled that fantastic one in 1994 that I was forewarned of by it disrupting Wimbledon before it arrived, and that went right over the house; he recalled a similarly impressive occasion in 1996 when he was taking landscape photos and one turned up with fork lightning and all.

I said I loved the proper fork lightning. 'None of your sheet rubbish' he confirmed.

July 1999

24th. Extremely hot. Looked SW across the fields to the river, a real summer afternoon.

25th. Beautiful day, very hot again.

31st. Extremely hot. Far too hot to go out in the afternoon.

'A very warm spell at the end of the month' [...]

Beautiful weather, not too hot, soft and clear with no haze.

Thirtieth anniversary of the moon landing (I thought it was tomorrow). Dirty weather, hot, humid and windy.

Very hot and humid, quite unpleasant.

Weather flawless and very hot.

Came out of the shop to an 'intensely rich scent of damp' and it started pouring with rain.

Very hot day.

Another beautiful day, extremely hot. Went out at 4pm when it'd cooled off a bit.

Cool bath in the evening, as it's been a very hot day.

Beautiful cloudless day.

Hot again.

Very hot, noticed altocumulus castellanus in the morning, it duly thundered in the evening.

Beautiful weather. Must get out on my bike tomorrow if the weather holds.

Rained at first but sun later.

No rain today.

Weather started off nice but got cold and windy, and came on to rain in the evening.

Beautiful weather again, no breeze so hotter. Beautiful all day in fact till it hazed over in the evening.

Lovely weather, cloudless sky, northerly breeze.

Same weather again, beautiful in the morning, colder and windier later.

Started off hot but windy, cooled down a lot later.

Hot and clear. Clouded over a bit in the afternoon.

Hot all day. Actually found a cyclone on that WWW cyclone satellite map.

Started off very hot again but mares' tails made me think it wouldn't last, and it didn't. Cooled down a lot.

Hot again, hotter than yesterday.

Very hot.

Unseasonably cold and grey today.

Weather again very hot in the morning but much cooler later. Strange.

Beautiful morning, showers later and quite cold.

Raining on and off in the morning, then cleared up a bit to a sort of grey blustery warmth.

Warm, sunny on and off but windy.

June 1999

2nd. Absolutely pouring with rain when I went out in the morning - like June 1997. Sun came out at lunchtime rendering everything hot and steamy.

29th. Rained all day.

'most of the rain fell just on the 2nd and 29th' [...]

7th. Lots of rain - heavy showers and some prolonged periods. A great thunderstorm at lunchtime: I was on the top floor and watched it approach, the landscape disappearing behind curtains of rain. Some great streaks of lightning.

12th. Rained all day, very heavily in the morning, thunder and lightning in the afternoon. June seems to be rainy as a rule (like June 1997 where it poured almost every day).

'a thundery month'

Suitably hot and clear for the first day of Summer. Walked home in lovely hazy afternoon. This nice weather really improves the flat.

Cold day.

Miserable dark day. Rotten hangover.

Still warm but cloudy and windy, clearing up later.

Beautiful morning again, clouded over a bit later again.

Beautiful day, sunny blue & white with wind.

Beautiful weather in the morning. Clouded over and got windy later, but still warm.

Rain in the morning.

Nice weather - sun, blue sky, big white cumuli, strong wind.

Rather colder today.

May 1999

1st. Lovely morning.

2nd. Cloudy to start with but cleared to a lovely day.

3rd. Bank Holiday and beautiful weather, so in true H.G. Wells early novel style I took to my bike.

4th. Cooler today and windy.

6th. Cool, grey and windy.

7th. Quiet grey day with a strangely cosy rainy afternoon.

'A very warm month, but dull in places ... Three very warm spells (1-3rd, 19-20th, 27th to the end).' [...]

13th. Some good heavy showers in the afternoon, with a bit of thunder.

14th. More heavy showers.

'Frequent thunderstorms'

27th. Lovely weather again, definitely a hot day.

29th. Hot weather. Clouded over in the afternoon, and a beautiful yellow-grey light was followed by rain.

Pissing down at 11.30, had stopped and become fresh by the afternoon.

Was raining when I came out of church, had to hang round in the porch till it stopped.

Beautiful, flawless morning; then turned cloudy and very cold with hail and heavy showers. Exciting.

Beautiful sunny day with huge cumuli and heavy showers.

Damp and grey, quite warm though and the spring foliage brightening things up.

Impressive cold-front shower in the morning, about 3 hours after I'd looked at the sky and thought 'Flat scallop clouds with blue showing, quite damp, breeze from W as usual, nothing'll happen today - quite strong breeze though...

April 1999

1st. Lovely weather again, hazy, windy as well though.

2nd. Apart from brief shower as I walked to Staples, another warm, hazy day.

'warm spells at the start and end (nearly 21C at Northolt, London, on the 1st, the highest reading so early in the year for some time)' [...]

13th. Beautiful, flawless morning; then turned cloudy and very cold with hail and heavy showers. Exciting.

14th. Extremely cold in the morning, heavy frost, very unseasonable. Bright and clear though, quite beautiful.

15th. Weather still very cold again.

16th. Cold and bright again, warmed up later.

19th. Beautiful day, still cold though.

20th. Cold, grey, windy, raining - miserable.

'a cold snap in the middle'

22nd. Warmer today, heavy shower at lunchtime.

23rd. Still quite warm but windy.

25th. Lovely weather all day.

26th. Interesting weather, warm and, strangely, hazy and windy at the same time.

27th. Warm and very springlike but still windy.

28th. Lovely weather - cloudless, warm, still a bit breezy. Left my coat at home for the first time this year (about 2 weeks earlier than usual I think).

29th. Grey and cold in the morning, brightened up suddenly to become a beautiful day with a strong N breeze.

'The warmest April since 1987, and the fourth warmest in the last half a century.'

Even more beautiful weather. Unfortunately forgot to put clocks forward so missed church.

Lovely weather. Almost too hot for a coat.

Cold, rained all morning from 9am onwards, sun came out later.

Beautiful mellow evening.

Vernal Equinox today. Windy with heavy showers, bright spells and a falling barometer.

Drizzling in the morning but the sun came out later - hazy but quite windy, and colder.

March 1999

17th. Lovely warm day, hazy; actually quite a thick mist in the morning, very strange with the sun shining strongly through it.

31st. Lovely warm weather.

'Warm spells in the southeast on the 17th (22.1 at Kensington) and the 31st' [...]

Rainy at first but lovely by eleven, spring-like like yesterday.

Foggy start, dramatic improvement at lunchtime leading to a mellow afternoon and evening.

Drizzly, white-sky start brightening up to a lovely mellow sunset. Great to be coming out of work with the sun still up.

Weather rainy and dismal at first but better than being at work.

Almost Spring-like with fast-moving cumuli and strong N. wind.

Windy day with showers and hail.

February 1999

Absolutely beautiful bright morning, very cold though, with strong North wind. Snow shower in the afternoon.

8th. Very cold in the morning. Snowed a bit in the afternoon and was snowing lightly but continuously at 5pm. Still snowing at 9pm.

9th. Very cold.

10th. Very cold again.

11th. Not quite so cold. Glorious sunny morning, reminding me as always of that bit in Ivan Denisovich about the smoke of Tszesar's pipe in the sunlight like incense in church.

13th. Flawless weather, if cold.

'Severe spell... 8-14th in the south.' [...]

Very windy on the way home, sunset and huge flying dark clouds.

Sort of spring-like smell in the air.

Horrible damp morning. But later in the day return of cumuli as noticed in previous Januaries.

Beautiful cold clear morning.

Beautiful weather.

Forbidding and cold enough for snow in the morning, but it eventually fell as rain. Cold North wind, you want an East here for snow.

Clear, cold, sunny winter's day.

Beautiful clear cold morning.

Clear cold day.

January 1999

January 3rd. Brisk weather with fast-moving clouds and rain.

7th. Rained heavily in the afternoon.

13th. Still cold. Heavy frost in the morning. In the evening cold and raining.

15th. Rather windy.

18th. Beautiful sunny morning with loud birdsong. But cold and raining in the afternoon.

25th. Enjoyably windy day.

26th. Raining hard in the evening.