1000 4 Cu Sun
1200 8 Sc
1400 4 Cu Hot Breezy

Another hot day. The head of department came round with a bag of ice lollies about 3.30, which I appreciated a lot.

Typ 4 Cu Sun Hot.
Windy

Very hot day.

4/8 Cu/Cs some alt. cast.
->0/8 1900
VERY HOT

Typ 8 but sun
1700 HOT
DROPS OF RAIN

Much cloud some Sun HOT.

Typ 6 hazy Cu Sun
Hot.

Rather a pleasant day weather-wise.

RAIN o'n
1200 HEAVY SQUALLY SHOWER Huge Cu seen
-> Cu and Sun
Fresh breeze

1000 Sun Cu
-> 8 Sc
1700 DROPS OF RAIN
2100 DROPS OF RAIN
2200 DROPS OF RAIN
0000 RAIN

Unsettled weather. Felt pretty unsettled myself, having had only 4 hours' sleep, but managed OK.

1000 RAIN
1630 RAIN
Otherwise <=8 Cu Sun Windy

Very wet day.

0600 RAIN
-> HEAVY RAIN
stops 1000
1300 RAIN
1700 RAIN
2000 Sun breaks
2100 Windy (very windy)

Hot day but with a breeze taking the edge off it, quite pleasant.

<=6 Ci Sun
Hot
Fresh breeze

Typ 6 Cu, Ac Sun
HOT

Typ 6 Cu, Ac Sun
HOT

Rain in the morning, and very dark at lunchtime with a huge band of clouds sweeping in from the NW, but only a few drops of rain.

RAIN overnight
0700 RAIN stops a.m.
-> typ 7 Cu Sun
also Ac

Weather just like yesterday except that it did bring itself to rain a few drops.

1000 4-7 Cu Sun
Later -> 8
Warm
1700 DROPS OF RAIN

1000 4-7 Cu Sun
Windy
1700 8

Some sun Typ 4 Cu
1730 SPOTS OF RAIN
Windy

0700 sun
-> Cu
-> 8 As-through
2200 LIGHT RAIN

Brighter and warmer today.

0800 6 sm Cu, Ci, S Sun

Actually stopped raining in the late morning.

0600 RAIN
1100 stops
2000 Brighter
Sun

Think it rained all night and up to 1pm, about 19 hours. Then it started again in the evening and is still going. Beginning to remind me of June 1997.

0600 RAIN
cont
1300 stops
1500 RAIN
2000 cont

Sky showed classic signs of approaching warm front in the morning, so got straight on with giving the gate and fence their second coat of paint.

0930 4 Ci Sun -> more Ci
1400 8 As
1800 STEADY RAIN
2000 cont

0930 8 Sun through
Occasional DROPS OF RAIN
-> pm ~4 Ac sun

Very wet day till later in the afternoon. Windy too.

0700 8 RAIN Windy
0900 stops
1130 RAIN
1300 stops
Some sun later

Got soaked walking home.

0700 8
Some sun
1400 RAIN -> heavier
1700 stops.
Windy
1900 5 Cu

As expected, cloudy at sunrise, so no transit observation.

0600 8 Sc
-> typ. 6 huge Cu/CuNi HEAVY DROPS OF RAIN / LIGHT SHOWER
-> Ac sun

Heard that rain was due in London by 4pm, so at 30mph I reckoned it'd be here about 5.30, which it duly was. So I was hurrying all day to beat it, and also to go to bed early enough to have an option to see the transit tomorrow, though it looks like being cloudy.

Typ <=8 Sc, As Some sun
1730 RAIN
1900 cont

A few drops of rain but otherwise fine as forecast.

0930 sun 5 Ac Warm
-> less cloud
2100 0
In day a few DROPS OF RAIN and huge Cu seen

Very wet day. Went for a walk round the park about four. Some people were damply celebrating the jubilee in the bit that's been fenced off as a garden.

1030 8 RAIN
(Most of day except c. 1600)

Mostly 8 Sc a.m.
Ac mackerel p.m. Some sun
Quite warm at times
2000 Pressure down
2230 RAIN

8. Colder from 1200