Lovely bright day but very cold with frost and last night's snow on the ground.

Very cold today.

Drove back under cold, round white Full Moon.

Very cold today.

Very cold indeed.

Even colder, with stiff breeze and whirling snow in the evening.

Very cold today, with rain.

Weather very cold, very clear.

Went to Clacton and looked out from the cliff. Rays of low sunlight slanting through vast spaces down to the silver winter sea. Glad I went.

Another beautiful clear day, but very cold.

Drove to work as it was raining.

Still cold, but cloudy - rippling, smooth, low 'scarf-like' clouds in the morning.

Another beautiful clear day after a foggy start. In the evening stars very bright.

Beautifully cold & clear again.

Very cold today.

Another clear, cold, bright day, with a kind of 'faded' quality to the light, like 70s TV footage.

Cold and clear again. Strikingly clear in the evening: five Pleiades clearly visible, despite the light pollution.

Cold, dry, clear, really wintry.

Very windy in the evening.

Very cold and dry in the morning. Reminded me strongly of the day after the party in Hatfield in December 1991.

Grey and drizzling at first, but by midday the clouds had broken up and the Sun was visible again, with deep blue sky. Most cheering. Felt very light-hearted.

Last day of autumn. Rather mild but also rather wet. One of those pink-flushed grey skies around sunset.

Raining most of the day.

Very cold today. Wonderful '18th-century' full moon in cloud-wrack behind bare black trees when I left at 5pm.

Heavy frost in the morning. By the evening it had clouded over and heavy cold rain was falling as I walked home.

Clear and cold - wonderfully clear in fact, with vivid autumn colours. Sunset sky of such clarity that I was able to watch the sun set and look out for the 'green flash'. Didn't see it.

Weather beautiful first thing, but clouded over horribly and started raining.

Gloomy, damp weather. My mood pretty good though.

Colder today. Not quite so dull though - a number of sun-breaks to make the leaves on the tree outside glow with orange fire.

Dismal weather again.

Miserable dark, drizzly weather.

Cold and clear again. Wonderful 'spacious' sunset, cloudless, yellow/gold/orange at the horizon shading off through pink and green to blue, dark blue and black.

Very cold today.

Rotten weather - dark, dim, damp & dull in the morning. Felt quite subdued. It was raining, too, but as there was no wind, walked to work with an umbrella.

Very cold indeed today, with heavy showers.

Very cold and very windy - north wind - and raining in the morning. Snow shower at lunchtime.

Cold again. At lunchtime that winter brightness to the half-cloudy sky. Later a black, windy evening.

Still cold, but good walking weather.

Cold day with hard, bright sky and sunlight. Again very reminiscent of 1999.

'Hard' blue sky and sun.

Another wonderful clear day, and colder again.

Very clear weather, and quite a lot colder than yesterday, with a stiff breeze. About 5pm a wonderful full moon, floating above the fields.

Wonderful clear, slightly hazy mellow day (apparently this is the warmest October on record).

'With a CET of 13.3C, easily the warmest [October] ever recorded! Goodbye 1969. In some places, October was warmer than September 2001' [...]

Quite cool weather today. Wonderful sunset with dark flat grey clouds illuminated underneath in deep red.

Beautiful 'hard' blue-sky weather.

Bright, cold morning.

One of those 'cosy' very dark, dry, not too cold days, windy, which I rather like.

Drove home at 9.45pm with Andy Kershaw on again. Wonderful to be transported from cold, dark Colchester to the tropics.

Heavy rain in the morning, but rather nice by lunchtime with big white cumulus.

Sun came out in the morning, thank God. Very mild day in fact.

Another day of rotten weather. No sign of the sun, and heavy rain. In fact torrential rain at lunchtime when I was on the A12: for some minutes it was impossible to go faster than 40 mph.

Gloomy day with a lot of rain. Couple of glimpses of the sun around sunset.

Misty, mellow day. Leaves well on the turn now.

October - there's a cosy element of the first year at uni about my associations, but there's a lot of 1991 in there too: before I got so drunk and desperate - the new computer and bright hopes.

Sun came out again in the afternoon - quite an improvement.

Misty start.

Dark, rainy morning.

Damp, foggy morning: church absolutely packed for Boys' Brigade centenary.

Another warm, hazy, mellow day.

'Cosy' fog in the morning, thinning all day till a beautiful, mellow, hazy autumn afternoon. Kind of reprise of summer. Actually saw the 'sun shining through ground glass' effect.

By the way, a few days ago saw a parhelion (false sun).

Grey weather again.

Clouds & clear gaps today.

Blowy day with heavy, cold rain at times.

Weather wild and windy, wet too later. Appropriately stayed in and listened to The Tempest on Radio 3.

Another beautiful, mellow, sunny day. The 'reflection of spring' effect in the morning - enough green leaves and slanting light to be an early May morning. Later though a hard edge to the blue sky that reminded me of the fearful mornings of two years ago.

Clear, cool, sunny day with fair-weather cumuli sailing high. Leaves just turning, and the vivid colours especially clear in the strong sunlight and against the bright sky. Perhaps recalling the leaves on the Eastchester ring road in autumn 1988.

Dark and raining hard in the morning, but perfectly calm, so took umbrella and walked. Wind and rain would've been sufficient excuse to take the car.

I was a little uncomfortable with the return of dark evenings, but was OK.

Rather autumnal weather - rain in the morning, and wind, and dead leaves flying past the church windows. Interestingly windy in the evening.

Pouring with rain in the morning. Waited for a dry spell to go into town - it started raining again as I walked. Doh!

Lovely mellow, warm weather today.

Rather nice weather, mellow and hazy.

Last night and tonight, silent purple sky flashes to the SE. Made the radio crackle like lightning does, but there was no thunder. Odd.

Return of summery weather today, up to a point, though it was cold in the morning.

Weather definitely Septembral now. Very much reminiscent of going away to uni.

Enjoyed leaning out of the window to watch the rain falling in the afternoon.

Rained most of the day. It was pleasant to listen to the rain while in bed, and during the morning to see it beating on the windows while I was assembling my new chest of drawers. Not so pleasant walking back from town in it when it started again in the afternoon.

Rainy, windy day - rather interesting weather.

Lovely cool, sunny, blue & white breezy morning.

A bright sunny day. Heavy rain in the evening.

Dark, dim weather most of the day - quite bright at lunchtime though.

World Trade Centre collapse dominating news again all day.

Wonderful pre-dawn clear sky at 4.30 am, dark blue shading through turquoise to yellow, and Venus bright on the blue - Eala Earendel eongla beorhtast!

Cold front passed over in the early afternoon.

Clear, sunny start, but greyed over, with rain, for an autumnal if not wintry feel.

Very much colder and greyer today, with stiff North wind. Brought coat out of summer storage.

Weather grey and dull.

Grey start but really brightened up later, with some excellent rain falling through sunshine about 3.30pm.

Grey and cool today with rain later. Felt the end-of-summer feeling I had yesterday, and this time last year, again. It's not quite melancholy but more a form of contraction - drawing in, to face the winter.

Interesting programme on Radio 4 claiming the Lynmouth flood in 1952 was caused by experimental cloud seeding.

Cooler and bright again.

Bright and cooler again; out of the sun, almost chilly. Saw rowan berries out. Autumn sort of clearing its throat in the wings at the moment.

Bright and cooler, with fair-weather clouds.

Dull grey morning.

Just before 2pm it got extremely dark - street lights came on. Three good lightning flashes (one nice fork) and some hours of heavy rain. Not bad. Never seen a storm make it so dark before.

Wonderful day today - another hot, mellow, hazy one.

Marvellous, understated post-sunset sky, dark lavender with darker flat cirrostratus shaded onto it, like something from a Jack Vance novel. Felt as if God were saying 'I can show you many more like these, if you stick with me.'

Lovely mellow, hazy late summer day.

Misjudged the weather in the morning and got soaked on the way to church.

Climactic discussion with G. Memorable image: looking out of the window at the misty, rainy grey August dusk and seeing it as healing rain, which it seems to've been.

Good weather, hot but breezy with fair-weather cumuli and a high cloud base.

Good thunderstorm about 12.30 am - so the altocumulus castellanus yesterday didn't come to nothing after all.

Pretty hot and sunny again today with heavy rain about 6.30pm.

Absolutely gorgeous weather - really hot, very few clouds, quite humid though, ~ 70%. Some altocumulus castellanus in the afternoon, but came to nothing. Turns out C is very interested in clouds.

Grey start but turning into a mellow, sunny day and beautiful clear evening with Arcturus prominent in the West. Autumn on its way.

Rained heavily all morning and up till about 1pm.

Lovely weather.

Lots of thundery rain.

Driving to my appointment in the afternoon, followed an excellent cumulo-nimbus with anvil top and virgae all the way. Beyond it there was a superb bank of towering cumulus, distant but very detailed, sharp structure.

Beautiful weather to start with, but damp and gloomy later, with heavy rain about 4pm.

Cooler and greyer in the morning. Violent thunderstorm 1645-1730. Lots of stones washed out of the hotel car park and into the road again.

Turned out nice after overnight rain.

Nice weather in the morning, coolish with blue sky/white clouds. Rained in the afternoon and evening.

Started cool, hazy and grey, but I had a feeling it'd warm up, and it did. Found excellent website with different cloud type photos.

Cooler today with rain in the afternoon and heavy rain in the evening. Makes a change.

Very suitable weather for the date - gorgeous, with only tiny clouds most of the day.

Started off gorgeous again, clouded over quickly in the afternoon and was cooler, 'which was nice'.

Really very hot today, gorgeous weather.

Extremely hot and with a hot breeze too.

Beautiful morning, even more calm and cloudless than yesterday.

Slept with the windows open last night - cool but lots of traffic noise.

Beautiful weather again today. Absolutely flat calm at 7.30am, and cloudless. Very hot later - cool green shade under trees on way home much appreciated.85[s deg]F in here now.

Started off deceptively cool and grey, became very hot later.

Beautiful weather, with high clouds taking some of the edge off the heat of the sun.

Lovely weather - really quite hot.

Beautiful weather, so decided to go to Felixstowe. Positively idyllic, with lovely herbal scent from cliff gardens, sparkling sea and just the right strength breeze.

But there was a bonfirey, autumn smell inland, and the tiniest touch of autumn in the evening air outside afterwards.

Impressive rain from about 2.30pm, still raining at 10pm.

Large clouds in the morning, sort of uneasily good weather till 3.30pm, when there were very heavy showers.

Beautiful morning, got cloudier later but still a lovely day. And not too hot.

Came on to rain in the morning, very heavy, but no wind, so it feel straight down and I was able to keep the window open and look out and enjoy it. Very cosy.

Flawless at 7 am - real 'deep one perfect morning' - ideal summer morning.

Very windy day.

Day of wind, rain and big grey clouds. But by 9pm the weather was clear and cool with summer scents.

Cooler again but drizzling in the morning.

Cooler today. Very dull and gloomy and damp too, with rain in the afternoon and evening.

Rotten night's sleep - far too hot even with windows open.

Very hot again.

Gorgeous weather, even hotter.

Wonderful weather, cloudless and hot but with a strong breeze. Staff picnic rather good fun - a couple of women going round with trays of strawberries. A bit like a Breughel painting, or something from Thomas Hardy.

Beautiful weather again - too hot to be wearing a jacket really.

Beautiful cloudless morning.

Couple of great thunderstorms in the night. First one at about 0100 the best - almost continuous rumbling, moving about 15mph, came as close as 2 miles. Usual mixture of scientific curiosity and being frightened.

Morning came, hot and clammy.

Very hot again, quite cirrussy with traces of altocumulus castellanus in the morning. Sun very high in the sky. After work once again trudged home in the heat.

Weather like yesterday, gorgeous and almost too hot. Read the Alfred Douglas biography at lunchtime in the empty, sunny library looking West across the summer valley.

Trudged home in the sun and dust. Very glad to get inside into the cool stairwell at home - and glad I drew the curtains before I went out in the morning, to keep the sun off.

Later rather peaceful with blue sky and evening sun on the leaves outside.

Beautiful weather all day, cloudless most of the day. Had all the windows open and sun streaming in.

Came home in lovely summer evening. Even a cricket match being played near Bicknacre.

Another beautiful start to the day, but it clouded right over later.

Exceptionally nice weather: cloudless and hot with a delicious northerly breeze to take the edge off it.

Beautiful weather, rather too hot at times. Sun very high in the sky - was able to have my bath with the light off. Was suddenly reminded of rushing back from the pub to my student room in 1991, to see if the sun was far enough round in the North-west to be visible therefrom at sunset.

Lovely weather.

Bright at times but rather cold.

Gloomy, wet, cold day, brightening up later while I was at evening service - Communion celebrated by J. With so few people communion seemed to have extra power, and I felt God's presence more strongly, I think, than any time since my first communion. As if to underline this, the Sun broke through the clouds and shone down on us all as we knelt at the rail.

Waited in the rain for M. to turn up at the rendezvous - a bit like the rainy Saturday in Sid's Mystery Tours.

Heavy showers all day. One lightning flash 0.6 miles away in the afternoon, real clap of thunder with that one.

Another hot day.

Weather hot again - rain in the evening.

Lovely bright, clear morning - went right off in the afternoon.

Cold, grey weather.

Lovely weather in the morning.

Clear and sunny in the monring, turning grey and rainy later.

Grey and windy.

Grey in the morning, brighter later, then grey again with damp smell and feeling of impending rain.

Weather very cold, windy. Had to start wearing a coat again.

Grey, windy morning.

Weather grey, cool and windy.

Perhaps lovely weather coming to an end - nice in the morning, clouding in the afternoon, clear again in the evening.

Very hot again. Some small cumulus cells about in the morning, some promising development later, but they'd all flattened out in the afternoon.

Lovely weather.

Still sunny but hazy, and a bit close.

Grey start but it was obviously going to brighten up, and it did.

Lovely weather again. Rather nice evening - slanting light and greenery, and birdsong.

First really hot night of the year. Bit of a pain but also a kind of languid tropical ease.

Beautiful weather but quite windy.

Lovely weather, if a bit cool.

Grey, cold weather of the last few days ended quite abruptly about 11 am.

Grey morning, but weather improved after eleven.

Windy - very windy in the afternoon. Rain too, but fortunately not when I was walking to work or back again. Very cold too.

Rain and sun interchanging today. In the library at lunchtime rain beating on the glass, and far away a sun-break advancing across the woods on the other side of the river.

Rather dull, grey, damp and cold in the morning. Fortunately the sun came out before lunch, and I cheered up.

Damp, grey morning. Very verdant though; tree outside my window a positive viridian glare. Started raining about 1pm, pouring at 7pm, still going at 9.30.

Weather fine in the morning, clouding over and getting damper later.

Weather still quite gorgeous - hot and cloudless.

Weather marvellous again. Dispensed with coat for walk to work for first time this year.

Another beautiful hot day. Very calm and pleasant in the warm evening.

Cold and grey in the morning but brightened to another lovely day.

Beautiful weather - flawless. Went to see my counsellor: lovely drive there through the countryside, really quite verdant now with only the largest trees still looking wintry. As I said to her, it's a good metaphor for my psyche.

Utterly lovely Bank Holiday weather.

Bright, windy evening.

Lovely picture-book weather with blue sky and big white clouds.

Evening very nice, with that April/May quality of light I like.

Cloudless sky in the morning - clouded over later, but lovely while it lasted.

Thunder at one point with great big raindrops.

Gloomy weather - quite dark & wintry in the afternoon. Freezing rain on walk home.

Raining very heavily in the morning. In the evening wonderful sunset just visible beyond receding Western hem of cloud cover.

In the morning interesting showery weather. Lovely in the afternoon.

Another interesting showery day.

Rainy start. In the afternoon sunny, green trees and grass, blue sky and wet black road.

Lovely clear evening after a rainy afternoon.

Lovely spring evening.

Sunny and quite warm, rather nice. Hail at lunchtime.

Weather very interesting with hail and squalls, latter with very strong gusts of wind.

In the evening a huge shower came up from the East (as they had been all day). The front was lit brown and gold, with 'rain-brooms' hanging all the way down it. In the West the sun was setting between flat clouds, and the wind was gusting very strong. Feeling of being in a picture or film or story - the evening light is getting to that late April/May quality that reminds me of something elusive.

Still cold, still bright.

Very cold wind in the morning, but bright and sunny.

Lovely weather.

Good Friday. Up early to lovely picture-book weather.

Lovely weather - sunny and windy.

Lovely weather in the morning, quite enthusiastic at church.

Terrible nightmare in the early hours, woke up suddenly. Looked outside, the full moon was shining peacefully; calmed down.

Lovely weather with big white clouds till about 5pm when it began raining. Wonderful smell of spring rain in the evening.

Fine in the morning, windy and rainy later. Walked home in cold, driving rain, fortunately coming from behind me.

Interesting weather, grey in the morning but windy, and clearing later to a beautiful evening sky.

Lovely weather again, very taken with the deep blue sky and white clouds.

Wonderful weather again. Came on to rain in the evening: dusty damp smell as it started very evocative. Also the rain on the roof when I got home.

Lovely weather. Definitely spring-like.

Beautiful weather, with actually a warm wind.

Lovely weather - sun, big white clouds.

Interesting weather again - heavy showers. Looking out about 1.45 saw well-developed, close, large clouds and looking 'fresh' with blurry edges - I thought 'heavy showers this afternoon.' Duly one such at 2.30, with hail.

Interesting weather today - heavy rain and wind. Some great effects in the afternoon with half the sky dark, and rain coming down in buckets, the other half lightening up. Love it when that happens.

Still no sunshine today - dull weather continuing.

Raining in the morning so drove to work. Wish the sun would come out - we've had miserable weather recently.

Grey, windy, cold day.

Raining hard in the morning.

Rain mixed with ice pellets in the morning, was glad of the car.

Enjoyably windy & cold today. Daffodils outside the window at work a real joy to behold.

In the early afternoon the weather turned cold, with a biting East wind.

Rained so didn't go out much.

Beautiful weather - sun, blue sky and fleets of cumulus. But in the afternoon, heavy rain from the west.

Fresh smell in the air today, like Spring. In the evening a wonderful bright full moon - like summer with the damp breeze, and sky with cirrocumulus like daytime seen through blue glass.

Started raining at 8.50am, rained all day, still going at 8.50pm.

Bright, sunny weather. Was going to write 'almost Spring-like' but then, it is Spring.

Snowed during the evening meeting, and stuck. On the way home it 'flowed down in ever-denser clouds'. All of a sudden it began sticking in the road and 3rd gear became a necessity, then 2nd. Found myself in a blizzard with visibility less than 10 yds. Was lucky to get down the hill without slipping and just as lucky to get up the other side. Proceeded with extreme caution home. Even had trouble getting up the drive. Can't remember proper snow this late in the year before.

March 3rd. Bright sun in the morning with snow still lying, but thaw underway.

'A very cold, snowy start' [...]

Snowed in the afternoon, quite thickly, but didn't lie.

Sort of raining and snowing simultaneously in the morning. Dismal.

Some nice dusty sunlight on the way to work, but very cold SE wind.

Covering of snow in the morning - bright sunny day but very cold. Nice morning for churchgoing.

Beautiful day again but very cold.

Rather nice day - wind, sun, lots of fast-moving clouds - but cold, with a snow shower in the evening.

Very cold, and grey.

February 20th. Cold again.

Hazy sunshine, pressure still very high.

Dull in the morning, cleared and brightened in the afternoon.

Thick fog in the morning, thicker in the afternoon with visibility less than 100yds, I reckon.

Beautiful weather again, barometer still very high and steady at 1043 mb.

February 2001

Raining hard in the morning. The water-meadows between campus and the river were flooded by the afternoon, and got visibly more flooded as the day continued.

9th. Cold & bright. Water-meadows even more impressive today, with the sunset reflecting off them.

12th. Heavy rain most of the day, and very dark.

13th. Bright, totally clear morning: so nice that I walked to work even though I'd intended to drive. Beautiful evening, hints of summer as I walked home.

'Wet and sunny; particularly wet in the SE' [...]

Weather rather good today - sun and strong wind. Went for a drive: had to turn back, faced by floods, on two different routes across the river valley.

Very foggy and cold in the morning.

Abominably cold again, with rain in the afternoon.

Very cold indeed all day.

Excellent weather - cold & clear.

To Frinton. Rather cold with stiff onshore breeze, sea rather beautiful, silver in fact.

Got soaked walking home, nice to get in and get dried and warmed up.

Sky quite light when I was walking home - very encouraging as I would love to be out of the 'perpetual night' thing one gets during the week Nov-Jan.

Bright, sunny day - not too cold either. Big improvement.

Didn't half rain in the evening. Find the sound of rain on a roof (when I'm inside) very comforting.

Wet, dismal morning.

Very wet - rain almost all day.

Very cold, foggy, grey, yesterday's snow still lying, and outlining the trees in white. Thick fog in the evening.

Cold again but grey: began to snow at lunchtime and came down all afternoon and evening in big flakes. Wonderful view West about 4pm from the top of the steps: trees black, grass white to grey, distance grey and dim with falling snow.

Very cold again.

Huge round red sun on horizon at 4pm.

Very cold and clear. Walking home in the sunset afterglow, I didn't find the sunset depressing because I knew the sun'd come up tomorrow.

At 3.30 rather nice round red sun above the winter fields.

Another beautiful day - clouded over at 5pm but dramatically, so even that was good.

Pressure very high at 1042 mb/30.7 in. Certainly a beautiful clear day all day, and a wonderful starry night. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn all on show - latter close to Hyades and Aldebaran.

Cold and grey, with the same dry East wind straight from Siberia.

Cold again, with a dry East wind.

Cold again.

Cold & bright.

Dark and raining heavily in the morning.

Dark, dismal weather.