Weather rather warmer - much like last Saturday.

1000 6 wispy edged Sc plates.
Much the same all day

Woke up to find it snowing heavily. Had a very pleasant morning with the Osskil bit of A Wizard of Earthsea, watching the snow fall.Fr a change it was perfectly quiet here. I could hear the snow sifting onto the windowsill.

Turned to rain quite suddenly about eleven. I'd meant to go into town first thing: as soon as I saw the buses were running I had an early lunch and went out into a chaos of slush, with heavy rain on a cold southerly wind.

0800. 8 S. Snowing heavily. 1" overnight. Perhaps 1" more until
1100. Turns to rain suddenly.
Wind S.
Cold rain all rest of day.

0800. 8 S. Cold. No thaw.
Same all day
Mist.

More snow overnight, about 1½" in total lying in the morning. Car took 4 tries to start. Drove extra far through the snowy countryside to warm it up, before going to the Co-op. 0800. Mostly clear. More snow overnight to 1½".
Very cold.
Wind N.
Very little cloud all day.

Very pleasant morning watching the snow and reading Towards the End of the Morning.

0900. 8 S. Snowing. ½" lying
1200. 2 wispy Sc, bright sun.
Wind N.
c1900 More snow

1000. Bright sun with some Ci
Wind NE. Cold.
1500 6 NS, Ci, far Cu.
Rain at times.
2000 Sleet.
2100. Snow.

0800. 2 Ci
Wind NE
Much the same all day.

CHRISTMAS EVE. Was at the Co-op by 9.30, just before the queuing started. Walking back the low hazy sun was very warm. Had there been leaves on the trees it could have been an early morning in summer.

0800 Hazy high cloud and sun.
1600 8 Sc Wind NW
2000 Clear.
2130 Fog

Almost mild weather today. 0700 8 S/Sc
Much the same all day. Again warmer

0700 8 S/Sc
Much the same all day.
Warmer

Quite grey today, like you'd expect Dec. 20th to be.

0700 8 S/Sc
Wind SW
Warmer

Tried valiantly to spot Venus, this time at lunchtime without binoculars, but despite clear sky and unobstructed southern horizon, couldn't do it. Think I was looking too low.

0700 0 Still.
Not so cold
Gradual Ci and flat As bits towards evening, then 0.

Bright and sunny till about four, but very cold. Finally managed to see Venus in daylight (and through double glazing) 17º altitude at 2.40pm, 37º left of the Sun, mag -3.9 against limiting magnitude -3.2, so quite a feat. It took binoculars to locate it, but it was easily visible with the naked eye thereafter.

0930. 0, still. Frost. Very cold.
1440 Venus observed!
1500 4 Ci increasing to 8 As.

0800. 4 Ci very cold.
NE wind.
Much the same.

Now there's a promising-sounding date.

0700. 8 low Sc with breaks.
1200. 'Clean' dark grey Sc. Wind NW.
1700. High Cs against Moon.
2100. Clear

Beautiful sunset with red-lit cirrocumulus. Have noticed the Moon being very high recently, and checking the ephemeris found it at 27°N declination (4°N lat.), actually 4 degrees higher than the Sun at the solstice. In fact it's predicted at 70° altitude tonight, whereas I wouldn't expect the Sun to beat (90-52=) 38°+23°=61°.

0700. S Ci.
Warmer?
1600. 4 Ci & Cc. .

0700 8 Sc Wind N.
Some Sun breaks later.
1600 6 Ci Cs flat Cu.
Cold.

Moon very high indeed in the sky. Night-time ecliptic is high in winter, of course - will check latitude tomorrow.

0700. 8 low Sc.
Same all day.
Cold. Wind N?

Oil depot still burning, with huge smoke plume trailing away south-westwards, and being noted on the weather forecast maps.

0700. 8 S/Sc Warmer.
Wind E
Clearing
1300. 5 Cu/Ci/S, not so warm
1600 3 dark flat Cu, Ci, quite cold again. Wind E still .

Huge explosion at oil depot in Hertfordshire this morning, visible by satellites, and (due to temperature inversion) audible far off. I did hear something betwen 6am and 6.30 - assumed it was the neighbours.

Said temperature inversion presumably responsible for low mist under clearish sky with bright sun. in the afternoon a 'sparkling mist', which cleared in time for an almost-daylight Venus Observed at 3.36pm.

0830. Low mist, clear with Ci above
1100. Straight halo seen.
Mist returned in afternoon.
1536. Venus observed.

Heavy frost in the morning.

0800. 4 Ci Frost. Cold.
More Sun in day.

0730. 6 Ci Cold.
More Sun in day.

Mostly clear, Ci & Cu at times. Wind very light E.
1700. Clear. Colder

0700. 0. Calm.
1300. 3 Ci

0700. 6 Ci and flat dark Cu.
1630. Light rain.
1900. Clearer

Some Sun.

Quite a lot of sun today. Washed car.

Frost.
0900. 6 Ci Warmer.
1300. 6 flock flat Cu.

0830. 7 light rain. Some Sun later.
1530 More light rain, clearing W.

1000. 7 flat dark grey Cu, Sc, sun breaks. Wind strong SE.
Same rest of day with cloud variations.
2230 Rain

Damp day, slightly warmer.

0900. 8 S. Damp. Wind S. Warmer.

Saw a beautiful shooting star last night, due N, like a white falling spark.

0900. 7 small scallop Sc with spaces, Ci, distant (>20mi) Cu. Heavy frost. Cold.
1400. 8 S. Light rain

Had a brisk bright walk in the cold, low lunchtime sunlight.

0700. Overcast.
1300. Clearing to about 4, Cc inter alia.
Wind N.
Very cold all day.

Seem to be a lot of leaves still on the bigger trees despite the last week of cold weather.

0700. 7 S/Sc with breaks.
Wind N.
Cold.

Gave car a mini-wash in the cold drizzlle.

0900. 8 S/Sc. Drizzle.
Sun breaks later. Warmer?

0830. 6 low Sc, light rain, wind NW.
clearing, but
1100. 8 Sc, Heavy rain.
Sun breaks, more rain PM.

Icy cold again, very dry, distant horizon. Have seldom seen such good visibility in Dulchester.

0700. 6 Sc/Cu strands, very cold, excellent visibility, wind N.
PM. 8 Sc, snow flurries.
1700. 6 flat Sc/Cu.

Damp start, with a very windy mid-afternoon after which wind went round to the North and it began to feel ('soft' or 'smooth' cold feel to the wind) and look like snow, in the stormy grey rather than flat grey or yellowish-grey senses.
0700. 8 S/Sc.
1300 Drizzle. Wind SW.
1500 Sun breaks, big Cu.
1600 6 Cu, pannus, small Sc scallop. Wind strong N. Feels & looks like snow.

0700. 8 S/low Sc. Mist.
1300. 7 Sc, Ci.
Not quite so cold.

Warmer in the morning but very cold indeed coming home.

0730. 6 Sc scallop, Ci.
Very cold.1600. 4 flat Cu.
2000 clear. Very cold indeed.

Very cold dark foggy day.

0730. Fog. Very cold.
1200. 4 Ci.
1600 Fog.

Again very cold.

0830. 1 Ci. Very cold. Heavy frost.
More Ci during day to 5 by 1800.

Very cold in the morning, heavy frost.

0830. 1 Ci. Very cold, heavy frost.
Much same all day
1700. 5 Ci. Wind S? light

Mars and Venus in sky at same time (opposite sides) at 5-5.30 today and yesterday evening. Both very bright.

0730. 0. Frost. Very cold indeed.
1200. Wind very light E.
Same all day.

Walked the last mile to work. A beautiful, intensely cold, clear frosty morning for walking.

0730. 0. Frost. Very cold.

Same all day. Wind N.

0800 1 Cu afar.
1200. 4 Ci and young Cu, wind NE.
1700 2 Ci and flat Cu.
Cold

0800. 8 damp Sc. Wind NW.
1200. 6 Ci, young low Cu Cold.

Third bus of the three did not turn up, so walked from Tescos. To be fair it was a fine morning for walking fast, very cold with heavy frost on the fields. 0730. 4 Ci, frost, very cold.
1600. 6 Ci, flat Cu.

1000. 6- low young Cu on N wind.
1800 Flat Cu bits. Wind still N.
Bright day.

Some sun. Quite clear in the evening

Worked from home all day. A nice change, but tiring. For lunchtime exercise strolled over to the Co-op. On the way back there was a change in the weather, with dark rainy Sc clearing a little from the West to reveal confused Ci and Sc, and sun breaks. Everything turned dazzlingly bright and warm for a while, a like a Vega-break on Aloysius.

0800. 8 dark Sc. Wind SW.
1300. Spots of rain.
1330. Quickly clearer from W. Sun break. Warmer.
2000. Strong wind. Rain

0800. 8 ripple S/Sc
1200. 8 low Sc, spots of rain, wind SW. Cold.

Very odd weather, cold but very sunny. Walking by the lake at lunchtime, so many leaves were still on the trees that it felt like an early morning in spring, the sun being low but powerful. So nice as to be a bit worrying.

Much cloud during day. Sunny.
1700. 1 Ci, low flat Cu. Cold.

0800 4 Ci and low Cu. Wind SW.
1200 7 Ci, Ac, flat Cu.
1700 6 Ci, Ac, flat Cu.

0800. 0
Gradually increasing Ci, Cc to ~
1900. 4.

0800. 0
Gradually increasing Ci, Cc to ~
1900. 4.

0800 0 Cold - frost.
1300. 4 Ci, Cc.
1600. 7 Ci, Cc, As. Spots of rain.

All day 4 Ci, Cc, Ac with strong SW wind.
Colder.

0800. 7 flying S/Sc below Ci, strong SW wind. Heavy squally showers.
1300. 8 S/Sc, rain stopped.
1700. 5 flying S/Sc, clear above.
2100. Clear. Still windy.

1200. 8 S/Sc with drizzle.
1700 8 S/Sc, spots of rain. Wind strong W.
1800 Steady rain.
Colder.

1200. 5 Many flat-based young medium Cu. Wind SW. Also high Ci.

If the clocks hadn't gone back it would've been a really dark, depressing morning with heavy rain. As it was, it was lighter than last week.

0800 8 S/Sc. Rain until...
1600. 6 S frags, Ac, wind SW. Rain stops.

1 Ci, Cc.

0800. 4 Ci Mist.
1000 8 Sc/rippled S.
1200 Some light rain, wind SW.

0800. 8 rippled Sc. Rain. Wind strong SW.
1300 6 Ci, Ac, As.

0800. 6: Ci and dark Ci-like Cu? Wind W
1100. 0. Very warm. Wind quite strong W.
1700. 2 (flat dark Cu or Ci)

Coming back it really felt like Autumn, with a cold wind blowing, dry leaves rattling etc. Had a sudden breath of October 1989, that dodgy nostalgia I sometimes get for bad times.

0800. 8/8, Wind W still quite strong.
1300. 7, low Cu frag, low Cu, Ci.
1700. 8, low fat Sc, clearing golden in W.

0700. Dark S/Sc, strong W wind.
AM. Rain
1300. Sc clearing away to E, 5 Ci.
1700. 6 Ci and low dark Cu. Still strong W wind.
2000 Clearer.

0700. Dark Ns, heavy rain, strong W wind.
1300 Dark S. Rain stopped
1700. Dark S, wind still strong W.

1000. 4 sm. Ac, to Sc.
1300. 4 Ci & Cc.
Wind W

0800. High flattish Sc.
PM. Some Sun
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Wind brisk.

Went very dark indeed during rain about 9am - streetlights on and everything.

0800. Very dark Sc 8
0900 Very dark indeed. Rain.
1300 Wind SW 4, big Cu in lines.
1700 2, shrinking Cu. Wind strong SW

0800. Dark, wet Sc, no rain. Wind SW.
1300. Wind NW. 3 Cu (young) & Ci
1700. 6 Ci.
Warm in middle of day.

0800. (6) Ci, Ac. Wind SE.
1100. Rain
1300 (7) Dark Cu, CuNi.
1500. Rain
1600. (3) CuNi. Wind SW.
Fresher.
2000 Rain

0700. Ci, Ac, 'red sky' Wind brisk SE, cold.
1300. 8 high Sc.
1700. Plus dk grey low Cu

Cold, foggy start.

0700. Fog
1300. Sun with Ci.
1900 Ci, Cs, As.
Wind E
Warm once fog lifted.

Another warm sunny day.

Fairly clear, varying amounts of Ci & Ac. Wind E/SE. Warm.

0800. Mist
1000. Clear, sunny. Wind E?
1700. Clouds over with Cs?
Very warm in the afternoon.

AM. Flat, rugose Sc with sun through scallops. Wind NE.
PM. Dark, low Sc/S, wind SW, pannus.

AM. Dark - low Sc/S
1300 Wind S
PM Rain
1700 Still low Sc/S.
Colder.

AM. Dark - Sc
1300. Wind SW
1700 Low Sc/S, rain.

0800 Clear with cool haze, Ci.
1300. Much Ci.
1500. Much Ci: wind SE.
1700. Much Ci, Ac, As.
Warm day.

Warm and fine at lunchtime, but with strong S breeze. Felt like the last fine day of the year.

0800. Clear with cool haze.
1300 Clear, warm, wind fresh from S/SW.
1700 Much Ci/Cs, but still sunny.

Sunny - Ci, small Cu, Ac, W wind.

0800 Mist Low Sc/S & As? translucent to Sun.
1100 Low Sc Wind SW Mild
2000 Some rain Wind stronger than recently.

AM: low Sc/S v light E wind
1300. Wind changes to v light SW.
1600 Now definitely Sc w scallop cracks, blue sky and Sun showing
V light mist all day. Warm.

Weather quiet, grey, quite warm.

All day: low Sc (S?)
V. light variable wind. Warm. V light mist all day.

0800. Low Sc with pannus. NE wind
1300. Low Cu, sunnier.
Clearing to 1900.

Very interesting sky at 8 am, stratocumulus cover retreating westwards before Cu & broken Sc with the Sun shining between them. Like the sky when it clears towards sunset. Rather disorienting.

0700. Sc.
0800 Breaks in NE wind to Cu + Sc with Ci, Cc above.
1300 Large, developed, fuzzy-edged Cu.
1700 Cu & Sc Clearing.

Partial eclipse in the morning. Got a good view through my trusty eclipse glasses (previously used for 1999 total eclipse and 2004 Venus transit) Also saw the crescent shapes produced by sun through leaves, which I haven't managed to see before.

Cold. N wind
AM: Ac and unformed Cu, quite well developed; PM. Clouds over to 8 Sc

Walked back from the station in the afternoon in warm sun and cold N wind. A great bay of sky opened up between headlands of altocumulus, with little cirrocumulus wavelets.
I remembered the bit from American Beauty about beauty and a benevolent force. Except that there isn't a benevolent force - there doesn't have to be because there isn't a malevolent force either. A beautiful sight like that is a free gift to be appreciated. Take it, there'll be more to come.

Cold. N wind. Bright.
1500 Cc ripples and flecks with flat Cu
1800 Ac ripples Clearing

AM. Cold, large dark Cu.
PM. Heavy cold showers.
EVE. Clearer, still cold. Strong N wind.

Very humid. S, dark, damp.
PM Rain Dark 'scales' under S
Rather warmer
Humid

Pleasant fresh bright day with cold NW wind.

AM. Cold, clear, small Cu cells
--- Cu - a little flattened NW wind
EVE Ac 'raft'

With no work tomorrow, about 10.30 spent a very pleasant quarter-hour reading Coming Up For Air and listening to the steady rain on the window.

0800 Clear, few Ci.
1300 Cs, SW wind.
1630 As. Halo Wind stronger.
Altogether colder.
2200 Steady rain

As can be seen from new marginal weather log, dark with heavy rain first thing.

0630 Dark, heavy rain.
0830 Rain stopped Cleared, brightened SW wind
1600 Ci, fresh wind, bright
2000 Stars

Grey start, sun and cumuli later, clear in the evening.

Cold and clear early in the morning, more cloud in the afternoon but warm for a while, cool in the evening.

Went into town - for an hour or two it was unexpectedly hot and I had a paranoid fear of being gunned down by killer cops for wearing a thick fleece and rucksack.

Clear sky but haze itm, calm; wind from S, thickening cloud, rain later, clear evening.

Cool, damp start, hazily sunny later, rather nice but unmistakably early autumn.

Misty start, warm and sunny later. Research shows that it's quite normal to get a sea breeze 10 or 15 miles inland, and not unusual as many as 40 miles inland, which would certainly account for fresh smells on certain days here.

Got quite carried away with internet weather records. The snowy day in December 1981 that I remember can not have been both the 9th and a Friday. Either Wed 9th or Fri 11th: certainly the cold weather started on the night of the 8th, but then we didn't get any days off school, so it could well have been the Friday.

Bright and cold today. Reminded me of early October 1991, when unemployment was just starting (contrast two years into it, October 1993, which I always remember as grey). It was a pivotal time. I still had hope of getting a job, but not for long.

Much colder today, with much untidier, bigger cumuli than you'd get in summer. Bright and pleasant though - but still the first noticeably 'cold' day of this winter.

Another rather nice cool sunny day.

Sun came out in the afternoon for a pleasant sunny afternoon, cool enough to need jacket done up. The first autumnal day, just as this morning was the first dark morning.

Really dark, dim, damp grey day with rain. in the afternoon dim enough to be cosy when I put the lights on.

Damp, grey day, raining in the morning when I did my shopping. Rather depressing, though there were some flashes of sunlight in the afternoon. I've got to do something about weekends - I'm getting back to the frame of mind where I used to go in to work at weekends out of boredom.

Rather nice weather, bright and clear, hot but with cool breeze and noticeably lower sun. New Moon seen in the evening.

Humid weather, much too warm.

Very hot today - a little high cloud, but not much filtering from that. Had another stroll through the woods on the way home in the afternoon.

Quite hot at first, but gradually hazed over to a misty late afternoon.

Appropriately hazy for the first day of autumn.

Very hot, little bit of haze in the morning but a beautiful blue afternoon for the last day of summer.

Beautiful weather - rather too hot - high cloud appearing at lunchtime but then clearing in the afternoon. Walking about was like swimming in a warm blue sea.

Beautiful weather, clouded over about five but was flawless with a couple of hours before that. A real burst of Summer to counteract my sad fin de siècle feelings yesterday.

Beautiful weather - deep blue sky, soft but strong SW breeze. Went for a walk in the country park for an hour in the afternoon, thinking about the end of Summer. About half the blackberries are ripe.

Beautiful cool clear evening, both earlier when the sun was still shining on the leaves of the chestnut tree, and later when the sky was a profound deep clear blue.

Very heavy thunderstorm from 4.20 to 5.20pm, hail, pelting rain, the works. Lent H. my spare umbrella.

A little like Friday and Monday - cool, bright start, pissing down by eleven, went on till the evening. At lunchtime went out in the rain for a walk.

Definitely the final act of Summer - noticed red berries appearing on the hedges last weekend, a symbolic shower of leaves blew at the car, when I walked round the lake at lunchtime there was a cool breath in the air.. I never used to feel like this at the end of the Summer. I used to like to watch Spring getting started, but never used to see this sad, doomed grandeur in late August.

Weather started out beautiful, but it was raining by eleven and it went on till 5pm.

As suspected by me, since seeing yesterday's high cloud, it rained from 10am ~ 8pm, solidly for 10 hours. Very heavy at times, particularly when I was walking across town between buses, having decided to go and work at home. It took something like an hour door-to-door, but it seemed like longer walking through the downpour and stuck in traffic in a bus full of damp, steaming people. Wish I'd stayed in my nice dry office!

Did yoga then finished off some work while my tea cooked. Interesting being able to do that, might make more use of it.

Same as yesterday but without the cool breeze. High cloud in the evening too.

Some definite signs of the end of summer now: more yellow leaves than there were on Tuesday, the conkers on the tree outside have been getting quite mature this past week, acorns are fully-formed on oak trees. This year we'd barely got going with summer before it started finishing, though I wouldn't be surprised if we got some hot weather next month.

Beautiful hot clear summer's day, with cool breeze. Beautiful calm evening and night after the long summer day, and a lovely low yellow moon waxing full, the last moon of summer.

Thought I saw a few yellow leaves this cool, clear morning. It's been bright the last few days but only in the afternoon today did it get too hot to wear a coat.

Interesting weather with bands of showers. in the afternoon went out, in the bright inter-shower sunshine, for a brisk walk to the Co-op.

Brief sunny period early in the morning while I was shopping, wind and rain later.

Not so bright as Sun and yesterday, but quite cool when the sun was in.

Realised we're as far from the solstice now as we are on May 5th - last week and today I thought I detected an autumnal slant in the afternoon sun, which in previous years I haven't noticed earlier than c. 18th (equiv Apr 25th).

Again bright, with hot sun, but cool N wind. Rather pleasant, a bit like being at the seaside.

Beautiful calm evening, spent some time admiring the various greens and yellows of the chestnut tree outside against the deep blue sky. Children playing nearby, recreating the sound of summer holiday evenings circa 1977.

Weather fresh with strong N wind.

Pouring with rain when I went out at 6.45, but was fine before ten, never mind eleven.

Beautiful afternoon with big white-grey clouds and deep blue sky. Waiting for the bus home, the clouds and sky together with the dark green summer trees and white buildings made me feel like I was on the cover of an SF novel, one of those impossibly pure paintings.

Grey, quiet day. Short shower of rain about 7pm.

Some thundery rain in the evening - didn't live up to the promise of the huge, hard-topped clouds that'd bubbled up in the afternoon. But in Birmingham a tornado has injured 19 people. Genuine tornadoes very rare in Britain, especially in cities.

Another wet day, none too warm either.

Rained most of the day, but cleared to a mellow, sunny evening.

Cloudy, grey day ideal for staying in and fiddling with tapes.

To Southend. Very clear air afforded fine views of Kent. Dartford bridge towers also clearly visible.

Beautiful hot day.

Beautiful weather, cloudless till about 4pm.

Very hot again today.

Very hot.

Weather had got very hot by the end of my walk (1pm).

Beautiful hot, clear day. Walked to Asda through the country park - from the hilltop field a huge sky with grand sweep of cirrus across it.

Some nice weather at times. Fierce sun.

Very calm, warm, quiet summer day. Enjoyed green and gold light seen through leaves of chestnut tree outside back window.

Not very summery in the morning - grey and cold. Weather warmed up in the afternoon: strolled up to the Co-op for a Radio Times.

Really started raining about 4.30, went on all evening. Dark, cold, not like summer at all.

Real 'rain before seven, fine before eleven' weather, with heavy rain well into the morning. It may've stopped about eleven but it was at least 3pm before the sun came out. A bit like the weather on Aloysius, grey and wet with a powerful sun (Vega) occasionally breaking through the clouds.

Weather's gone off these last few days - not chilly, but no feeling of summer heat either.

Quite good thunderstorm 3.45-4.30 - we only caught the fringe of it but there was the heaviest hail I've ever seen - some pellets 1" x ½" with opaque core and clear outer coating. Leaves pulled off trees by same.

Incidentally quite a good storm last night too, around 11.30pm.

Quite chilly in the morning, turning hot later.

Hot but with pleasant cool breeze. Detoured my walk home through the edge of the country park. Thinking about it, with the dry weather I could walk across the whole park, and save 15 minutes.

Eventually turned out quite a nice day, though not so hot as in the week.

Grey, damp, much cooler.

Very hot till 2pm when we had a fantastic thunderstorm. It was preceded in classic fashion by cold gusts and passed right over the campus. Went upstairs to watch from a corridor window - many forks, branches and sheets of lightning. Then the rain started and the thunder got positively apocalyptic - great ripping cracks and explosions. By 3pm the sun was out and it was cooler.

Definitely the best storm since that one I waited all one long summer day for back in Mugsborough. (Ha, I see that was also Friday, June 24th).

There've been many fruitless waits in my career as a thunder fan, but one sign never disappoints: the pre-storm cold gusts. If you get those, you're in for a show.

Btw, realised why June 24th is called Midsummer Eve: June 25th is one of the quarter days.

Even hotter today - sun very powerful at only 7.40am. This time of year, in the early morning you can pretend it's 3pm on a bright winter afternoon (the low sun).

Very hot today - hot enough again to have to stand in the shade at the bus stop on the way home.

Answer from the Essex Libraries 'answers' service, identifying the hot office/iceberg poem I've been trying to remember these last few hot days. It's The Ice-Cart by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.

Hot again but easier to tolerate - drier perhaps?

Unpleasantly warm and muggy.

Very hot and clear. Quite tolerable inside though, with a warm, fragrant through breeze. Admittedly, I can hear more of the neighbours' garden conversations than I'd like, but at least here I can have the windows open before 9pm. At the old flat it was always way too noisy and fume-ridden for that.

Beautiful day - often cloudless, and so hot even by 8am that I did my shopping in a black t-shirt.

Beautiful day - often cloudless, and so hot even by 8am that I did my shopping in a black t-shirt.

Dark, damp grey day.

Really quite chilly today.

Rather colder today.

Hot sunlight with cool breeze today, very pleasant.

Impressive rainless cold-front squall about 6pm.

Heavy rain at times today, so had an indoor Bank Holiday making the most of my new network connection.

Gorgeous hot, sunny day with intense blue sky and strong, cooling breeze.

Very hot indeed. Router arrived at work - great! but had to tote it home in the heat. Then had to wait an hour for S. at the station due to horrendous delays, but had water, shade, book and chill-out MP3s, so didn't come close to losing my temper.

Much warmer today.

Weather really rather nice at times, particularly in the afternoon with warmth, sun, wind and big white cauliflower cumuli.

Rainy, windy weather confirmed my tendency away from going into town.

Home in the rain, massive traffic jam.

Really rather cold in the morning and at lunchtime.

Really rather cold in the morning and at lunchtime.

Bright weather with fair-weather cumuli in the morning, and beautiful clear evening.

Sunny but with high cloud.

Wind went round to the East, so skies were less crystal clear than of late, but it was still a beautiful bright day with a cutting wind. in the afternoon the heat of the sun enabled me to bask at the bus stop, with my temperature moderated by the cool wind. Delightful!

Cool, bright and clear again.

Beautiful bright day again, but again a cold NW wind.

Appreciated another day of bright showery weather.

Excellent weather - strong NW wind with bright sun, huge cumuli and heavy showers.

some good rumbles of thunder at lunchtime.

Beautiful sunny weather. It's been nice enough for a stroll round the lake every lunchtime this week. Ducklings have been much in evidence.

One of those April days - windy but not cold - which remind me of campus in the 3rd year (1991), with the light green leaves against grey sky or buildings. Quite a pleasant association.

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

Beautiful calm, clear sunny morning like yesterday. At lunchtime that smell of the sea that I've noticed before here in Dulchester. Clouded over after a bit in the afternoon, wind changed, no more sea smell.

Gorgeous weather, hardly a cloud in the sky all day, with fantastic 'full colour' feeling whenever I was outside. At lunchtime: the lake, the daisies, the blackthorn blossom, the grass. In the morning: the great green dome of a chestnut tree by the bus station. In the afternoon: green slopes on campus, new oak leaves. In the evening: the bright leaves of the chestnut outside my window, and a clear evening sky.

Beautiful weather, both in the morning (calm and sunny) and at lunchtime (breezy big-cumuli spring day ambience which doesn't need much sun to be enjoyable).

Raining hard in the morning - very pleasant bus journey listening to Every Day Is Like Sunday and Death of a Disco Dancer with the rain streaming down the bus windows. One of those dismal occasions that become cosy because one feels warm and relaxed.
Weather completely cleared up later, turning into a sunny, big-cumuli, breezy afternoon and a beautiful clear evening.

An intensely bright day, really calm and clear.

Up at seven and off, in a fog, to charge the battery and get groceries. Sun came out and by 8.30 I was buying a fan in B&Q, on a beautiful spring morning. Going to Sainsburys at 9.15, I was reminded of the Saturday mornings of childhood - sun and drying dew.

Beautiful weather in the morning - clear, sunny and mellow, like an intimation of summer.

Weather warmer, sun out most of the day, clear post-sunset sky with a few clouds drifting calmly across it.

Beautiful weather in the morning, cool and bright with huge cumuli. Walked into town, admiring green willows in the field on the side of the road. For the first time in a while felt that this is a nice part of Dulchester to live in.

Even colder, with strong North wind. Heating on again this weekend, indicating we've had a whole week of this cold. Spring greenery coming on fine in the sun, though.

Good showery weather.

Perhaps some spring-like strong afternoon sunlight on the way home. Green leaves have been appearing on the hedge at the back of the flat for the last week.

Still very cold. Good to see the leaves opening on the chestnut tree outside, though.

Again very cold.

Still very cold - and raining in the morning.

Unexpectedly cold today.

Weather much cooler than yesterday.

Warm again, sunny in the morning but hazing over in the afternoon.

Another beautiful day.

Beautiful warm sunny day, the first to be a real spring day as opposed to a day having spring-like elements. Very pleasant afternoon with the windows open.

To Felixstowe in the morning. Strolled along the front admiring the many bright sun-sparks on the silver-grey sea, and thinking 'This is better than being shut up in any office'. After a whole week off I seem to be really chilling.

Beautiful day, cold and bright.

To Rendlesham. Enjoyed the moist forest air and sound of wind in the branches. Then on to Aldeburgh: offshore wind so strong and cold that I cut my beach stroll very short indeed, opting instead for a car picnic.

Walking into town in the morning felt as if Spring was here - everything had a dusty brightness.

Walked back through the park. Lake very pleasant to look at, big half-formed grey cumuli drifting past, ducks and moorhens going about their business, trees rustling in the wind.

Nice weather again.

Again it started snowing during the bus journey to work, again it came on heavily, but this time it snowed thickly all morning, leading to student frolics, snowmen etc.

On way to work, it began to snow as we passed the bookshop, and 5 min later the roads and paths were visibly white, and 10 min later everything was bright white. Perhaps ½" of snow in 10 minutes. As so often these last few weeks, it didn't last more than a few hours, but it was impressive. Haven't seen serious snow in March before.

In the evening very cold indeed but very clear, Sirius like a blue jewel, Rigel, Betelgeuse, Capella all glittering away too.

Rather damp, very cold, altogether unpleasant. Glad to get home and warm up.

Possibly a hint of spring while I was waiting for the bus in the afternoon. It was drizzling, but it wasn't dark, crocuses were coming up and there was a sense of 'spaciousness' which I associate with spring and summer.

Very cold and clear in the morning - -2-°C by the display thermometer down by the station. Later, iron-grey sky with dry cold, and some snow late in the afternoon.

Bright sun and an inch of snow on the ground in the morning.

More snow in the morning, but it didn't 'lay'.

Went out shopping - got caught in a blizzard on the bypass. Before the gritters came out it was horrendous - and very cold.

Half an inch to an inch of snow on the ground in the morning. Went out well wrapped up, expecting bus chaos, but at the bus stop footprints showed people had successfully got on a bus! In fact journey only took 40 minutes - as timetabled. Obviously half term far more influential than weather.

Heavy snow at times today, but none of it 'layed'.

Snow at times today, though it didn't result in anything more than another light covering.

Very light covering of snow in the afternoon.

A little warmer today. Bright and sunny till late in the afternoon; a few flakes of snow in the morning.

Cold again and very still.

Weather very cold again. Keeping me warm were an unusual number of mutual gazes from attractive people.

Weather dry and icy cold with NW wind.

Cold, windy day, turning bright, colder and windier later. Very much my sort of weather.

Warmer, and rainy.

Little bit warmer, some more hazy sunshine. This week is the equivalent of the sloping sunlight one gets about August 20th. On Monday, looking across the lake, I thought of that oddly warm February 23rd we spent fishing in the park in 1985.

Cold, still and foggy.

Cold and clear. Walked round lake at lunchtime for first time this year. Hazy sunshine coming across the water, like an intimation of summer.

Calm and grey - in the afternoon a hint of that 'spring is coming' vegetation smell. In the evening very calm indeed with a layer of fog, just about moving in very, very slow eddies.

Coming out of work saw beautiful red-edged clouds in the sunset, pale, white wine coloured sky.

Heavy rain at times in the morning and at lunchtime.

Slightly less cold, but wet.

Again very cold - possibly colder.

Very cold today. But the double glazing was completed. I feel warmer already.

Really very cold. Snow about 0745, and more showers up until lunchtime.

Again cold.

Again very cold.

Very cold and clear today.

Weather had turned very cold indeed when I came out at 9pm. Clear though, with Sirius glittering with winter-warming blue fire.

Very cold in the morning.

Wet and windy weather.

I'm getting into the 'new year' thing - I caught myself wondering when Easter was. Also I think the sun's a little higher in the sky than it was.

Went out for a walk in the afternoon in the woods - just a 45-minute stroll and a look at the clouds drifting near the westering sun.