Took car on traditional post-Christmas trip to Clacton: blowing a proper gale there, the wind turbines offshore spinning madly and heavy brown and silver waves striking the sea front.

0800 Windy 8
->RAIN
1500 Sun

Bright cold winter day.

0800 0 Sun Cold
Same all day

0800 <2 Sun Cold

In the morning, walked down to Tescos for vitamin E. Got rained on on the way back.

0200 Windy
0900 <8 S, As
1230 RAIN
stops
Some sun later

Much sun
1800 0 *

0800 7
Some sun
Some rain
2200 2 *

CHRISTMAS EVE. Hadn't walked far back home at 1pm when dark clouds hurried up from the West and a cold, hard rain began to fall. I was drenched by the time I got home. But it did cool my aching face though.

0900 8
1300 7
[s ->>]8 dark S HEAVY RAIN
1400 stops
1900 0 *

Interesting weather at start of day: looked like being clear and cold but rapidly clouded over and turned stormy. Left work at 3pm, home by 3.45: it got dark very quickly while I was in the Co-op.

0600 4 Moon
0800 8
->Very windy P V
1400 RAIN

Sun <= 7
Cold

Wet day, windy too later.

RAIN in night
0900 RAIN
cont
1400 stops
1600 RAIN
Windy

0700 0
->Sun
1300 6 Ci
Cold

Bright and cold today.

Typically 4 Ci Sun
Cold j

Some sun
<=8 Ac, Sc
Wind cold SE
->strong
2030 RAIN

Another wet, dark day.

0700 8 Colder
1600 RAIN

Weather even milder today, woke up feeling far too hot under my winter arrangement of two duvets.

MILD
0800 8
1100 LIGHT RAIN
1600 LIGHT RAIN
1700 HEAVY RAIN
1900 cont

1300 RAIN
PM 8

Hurriedly off at 8.40. Rather a pleasant walk on a cold bright winter morning.

AM Sun
PM 8, windy

Not quite so cold, but pretty miserable weather. Worked hard in the morning: some nice rapport with #Carla.

8 As
Less cold
0900 RAIN
till 1400

Very cold and frosty in the morning, walked briskly to work.

<=6 Ac Sun Very cold
FROST
FOG

Cold bright day.

0 Sun FROST
Cold

1100 5 Ac Sun
Cold
Clearing

8 but bright

Quite windy today, peaking about 11am.

8 Wind increasing to 1100
1500 HEAVY RAIN
->1700 0 Moon

Interesting weather in the morning, that particular sort of cold that makes you wonder if it might snow.

>=6 Ci, Ac, S Sun
till
1800 0 * Cold

Now today felt like a winter's day, particularly when it started getting dark about 3.30. On strike today, so made myself useful about the house and garden. Picked all the apples I could reach from the stepladder, as I've noticed the blackbirds've been at them.

8 but bright a.m.
Cold

0700 8
<8 at times
Cold

Typically 6
-am Ac-allop Sun

Rather dull day.

8 all day

To appointment later. Rather a pleasant walk on a dry, cold, mostly grey afternoon.

Windy
0600 8
1600 6 Ci, Sc
1800 0 * Cold

0700 8

Sun Ci, S etc
Cold

Some sun
Cold
FINE RAIN at times

Mostly 7-8, some sun
1200 FINE RAIN
1300 stops

0900 Sun
->more cloud
1600 8
1700 FINE RAIN

In one of those periods at the moment where the house is cold not so much because it's cold outside, but because it hasn't been warm outside for so long, so everything has cooled down.

Much sun Cold

Another cold day, with heavy rain showers.

0700 HEAVY SHOWERS Cold
1500 Sun
1600 HEAVY SHOWERS

Really wet in the morning, rained for about 7 hours, and freezing cold too.

0700 8 RAIN
1400 stops
->1500 0 Sun
1800 3
COLD all day

Weather much brighter today and I felt much better.

Cold Sun
Wind N
0-4 Cu
1800 0 *

Very gloomy weather, grey and drizzling all day. Felt very down in the morning.

8 DRIZZLE

Gloomy weather.

8 all day
1300 LIGHT RAIN

Some sun

Sun
1200 <1
1300 8
1900 0/8 high cloud Moon

0730 Sun Cold
Wind fresh N

Bright cold day.

0800 Sun FROST Cold
Typically 5 Ci, Ac

RAIN overnight
0800 stops
->c. 6 Ci, Ac, Cu Sun

0800 8 RAIN throughout day at difrent intensities

Cold, bright morning.

0600 0
1100 Sun 0
1400 2 Ci, Cu afar
1900 <=1 Moon
COLD

Weather very wet again, like it has been almost all week.

0900 0 Sun COLD
1200 8 RAIN
1630 stops Moon

Came on to rain late in the afternoon, very unpleasant in the dark.

0800 8 As Sun-through
1500 RAIN Wind S
1900 cont

Typically 8 As Sun-through

Another rainy morning, and this time it went on raining all day, at least nine hours, till 4pm.

0700 8 RAIN
cont...
1600 stops <8 Moon

0700 8 RAIN
0900 stops
Then alternating sun and SHOWERS
COLD

One of those Mondays where it starts off dark and raining, and is unrecognisably clear and different by dinnertime. 0700 8 RAIN
0900 stops
1400 4 small dark Cu Sun
1700 0 * COLDER

1000 4 Cu Sun Windy
1500 SHOWER Rainbow
1600 6 Ci, Ac
2100 RAIN
0000 cont.

0900 <8 Cu, Sc Sun
1600 DROPS OF RAIN
1800 0 *

0900 8 S
1430 RAIN
1500 stops

0900 RAIN
1300 Stops 8

Much colder today.

0800 0 Sun Cold
Very little cloud all day
2100 cloudier

Rather colder today.

0800 0 Sun
->~4 Cu Cold
1900 0 *

It seemed quite quiet overnight, but from about 6-9am it was very windy indeed: when I went out at 7.30 I was taken aback by the violence of the wind, not seen that since the morning after the Great Storm. Quite quickly abated during the morning.

Lots of small broken branches, some large ones, a few small trees blown over and fences down. Good haul of windfall apples.

0700 984 V EXTREMELY WINDY
To - 7 Ac Sun
1300 HEAVY SHOWER
1400 HEAVY SHOWER

No 'Great Storm 2' here as yet. But...

I've been preparing for the worst by weighing down things in the back garden, and getting out and about on the net informing people about the difference between storms and hurricanes, a difference which is just the same now as it was in 1987.

News full of approaching storm, supposedly to rival the Great Storm of 1987. We'll see. Got out and about on the net pre-emptively scotching the 'hurricane' thing.

0800 GMT 0 Sun
->1200 4 Cu Windy
->1600 6 Ac Very windy
DROPS OF RAIN

Some sun
Occasional RAIN

0700 8 RAIN
1600 7 Ac, Ci, As Sun
1900 <1 k

Cold overnight, the first sub-6° night, which gave me the chance to wear my new coat.

0800 <1 Sun
1600 4 Ac, Ci, Cu

RAIN overnight
1000 Cloudy
->1400 2 Cu Sun

0730 RAIN intermittent till c.1300
Some sun later

0800 ~8
AM HEAVY SHOWER
->1900 0

0800 8 HEAVY RAIN
1000 stops
->Sun
->1500 8
More RAIN later

Slept till ten - a grey day, and it soon began to rain, the sun not appearing till late afternoon, when everything cleared up.

Made bread, and a batch of stew, did the ironing, so it was a productive wet Saturday.

1000 8
1100 RAIN till 1600
1630 Sun
->1900 2 Ac Moon

<=8 As, Ci with Sun-through and Sun-breaks

Typically 5-6 Cu & Ci Sun
1900 0/8 Cs Moon-through
2100 0/8 As Moon-through

Bracingly cold grey morning. 0730 8 Cold
->1900 Some sun

0800 8 S
1400 7 Sc-allop
1600 some Sun

Miserable wet start to the day, but it stopped about 8am, as it often seems to.

0600 RAIN
0800 stops
->7/8 Ac/As Sun

RAIN overnight
1130 HEAVY RAIN
->6 Sc high retreating front Sun seen
1300 SHOWER

Mostly 8 Some sun
1800 Clearer Moon

Very cold, wet day.

0800 7 Ac frag
->8 dark S
RAIN HEAVY AT TIMES
Cold
Gusting F8

Great weather - polar maritime with big Cu, blue sky and heavy showers. Leaves still mostly green, so could've been a March/April day. Some fine effects walking home as the sun came out after one shower - trees glowing yellow-green-grey against dark clouds.

RAIN overnight
0900 4 large Cu Wind strong NW (twigs off)
1300 on... HEAVY SHOWERS
2400 RAIN

0800 8 dk S
->7 Cu Sun
->1800 7 Ac, frags Moon

Went up the garden at 5pm, snapdragons going well, and marigolds out. New Moon too.

In day some sun
1700 0 Moon

0800 Some sun

A beautiful Autumn Sunday.

0800 Cold 0 Sun

Rather miserable dark weather most of the day.

7-8 sc__Ac__llop
1500 DROPS OF RAIN
1900 Lighter

Waited till 8am to leave for work because the sun was shining through rain and I was sure it would stop, which it duly did.

0730 7 Sun RAIN
0800 stops
Typically 6-7 Sun

0700 7 Sun
->
1300 8 dark Ac/S RAIN
1700 LIGHT RAIN Sun-through
2230 THUNDERSTORM

Miserable dark wet day.

0600 RAIN
More RAIN at times
8 S

Periods of sun
->small Ac 8 Sun-through pm

Much sun Ci
Windy

0900 6 Ci sun Windy
->1500 8 Sc

1000 2 Ci Sun
->more Ci, mAck, dark Ac by 1800

Typically 7 Ac Sun

0700 0 Sun
->~6

Started off chilly, got quite warm at lunchtime, then chilly again.

Some sun
PM HAZE

A bright mist in the morning, which lifted a bit but was still there, as mist rather than haze, late in the afternoon. Unusual.

0700 SKY OBSCURED MIST Sun-through
->lifting a bit to be 0/8 MIST/low cloud

8 S

After dinner walked up to the meeting: rather a pleasant journey, a quiet grey Sunday afternoon is a good thing when you've got a purpose.

8 S with sun patches
1800 2 S Sun

Much 7-8
Some sun
1400 DROPS OF RAIN

Much 8
Clearer at times with sun

0600 6 S Sun
->8
1300 RAIN

1000 4 Cu Sun
1300 6 Cu
1500 8 S
1700 6 Cu, Ci

Some sun
1200 8 As, sun-through
1300 RAIN

Classic post-cold front weather: and the sun still being quite high in the sky, cumuli quickly formed and we had great heavy showers in the afternoon.

0700 0
0900 2 Cu
1200 5 large Cu
1300-1600 HEAVY SHOWERS
Some with HAIL
Colder
Windy

0800 4 Ac mackerel Sun
->1200 8 As
DROPS OF RAIN
1730 RAIN

Wet, rather dismal day.

RAIN overnight
SPELLS OF RAIN
1700 on Sun-breaks

Got a bit down in the afternoon, what with the wet weather.

RAIN overnight
8 S
Occasional bright spells
1500 RAIN
2100 RAIN\0100 RAIN

Cloudy start, but cleared to beautiful golden early autumn day.

0700 8
->
1200 7 large Cu Sun
1600 5 Cu, Ac
Warmer

Typically 8 As/4 Ac
SPELLS OF RAIN
Some sun
Breezy

Another cold day.

0600 6 Ac
->8
1200 Sun-breaks
1400 RAIN Intermittent
Windy
Cold

A 'watery' sky at sunrise led, as expected, to rain - 7 hours thereof. One of the surest weather signs, that.

0800 4 Cu Sun
->
1300 6 Cu, Sc
1500 HEAVY SHOWER

Nice weather - sun, big cumuli, breeze. In the afternoon put in some time in the garden picking up windfalls.

Typically 6 large Cu Sun Breezy
2300 0 Stars Very dark and clear

Rather cooler today.

First sight of the autumn of Capella and the Pleiades just now (midnight). NB the Camelopardalis region nicely placed at this time of year. Was looking at it when a fine shooting star came down just below Polaris. Made a wish.

0700 8 S
1000 Sun-through
1200 RAIN
1800 stops 7 large Cu, Ci Sun

Even hotter today.

0700 0 Sun
->MIST
->2 Cu HOT

A real golden September day, with thick radiation fog early in the morning. Quite hot in the afternoon.

0700 0 Sun
->MIST
->0730 FOG
clearing
2 Ac/8 Cs HOT

Sun
Typically 6

Cool start to the day but turned hot.

~5 Cu, Ci Sun
Cool at first

Rather cooler in the morning.

8 As with varying sun

Sat in the garden, enjoyed the last day of summer.

0700 0 Sun
1100 2 Cu Cool breeze but HOT
1900 7 Ci, dirty Ac

Sun HOT
2-6 Cu, Ci

8 S, quickly ->
~2 Sun HOT
Ci, Ac

0700 7 S
clearing
Sun HOT
then Ci, Cs PM

0-4 Cu, Ac Sun HOT

Beautiful weather. In the afternoon sat out in the garden for a bit as I like to do on August Bank Holiday when it's the last day of my summer holidays.

1000 2 Ac Sun
->0 HOT

Typically 6 large Cu/8 Cs Sun HOT

Weather not summery at all, it rained all day, quite heavily around 3pm. Ideal weather for chucking stuff out from old files. Went out to the Co-op - interesting rain haze around everything.

8 S all day
RAIN all day HEAVY at times
HAZE

<2 Sun HOT
PM->8 As

Was up early to go to town, but had to wait for the rain to stop. A long enough lull occurred about 12.15, so off I went.

8 S
SPELLS OF HEAVY RAIN

Picked up that coat I left to be repaired and dry-cleaned. Looking forward to wearing it at work in the cooler weather.

4 Cu Sun HOT
->8 As by 1900

Typically 6 Cu Sun HOT

This afternoon finally got the diary completely typed up from Dec 1982 to Aug 1998, four years after I started. And I now just have to keep doing '15 years ago' in perpetuo.

Typically 6 Cu Sun HOT

Stabilising at PM 6 large Cu Sun

Quite dark and cool and autumnal in the afternoon and in the evening btw. Was like this a couple of days ago, but today was the first time that reminded me that summer won't last forever. Also I've noticed this week that the nights are drawing in - quite dark at 9.30 whereas 2 months ago the sun would only have set a while ago. Oddly I don't think of that being the case till the end of August.

1300 DROPS OF RAIN
Some Sun
Windy later
2000 RAIN

Rain meant that planned DIY outside couldn't take place: instead carried on typing up diaries.

am Some sun
->8 dk Sc Breezy
1700 RAIN
1745 stops

Typically 5 Ac Sun
->8 As

It's been a good holiday though. The one thing I regret about stopping smoking is that I don't have a reason to stand about outside and appreciate the summer evenings.

Journey from Cirencester to Chippenham very pleasant at 7pm on a summer evening, wish I hadn't been so tired.

Rather an imbrial morning with big dark grey Sc. A change from yesterday's sun, big Cu and showers.

More sun as day progressed.

Much cloud Sc, Cu
Some sun

Much sun.

0630 RAIN 8
->1200 6 Ac Sun HOT
1330 RAIN\N1500 7 Ac Sun
1900 RAIN
->clearer

~6 Cu, Ci Sun

Mowed lawns before going into town as it looked showery.

Cloudier am, 8 Sc at times, ->4 large Cu Sun,
->2000 <3
Fresh breeze

Yesterday evening it was really hot outside, like being in a warm bath. Today looked at first as if it was going to be worse, but altocumulus castellanus appeared and it duly thundered. I wish I'd learnt about Ac cast. earlier, I'd never heard of them till I was reading ahead in a geography textbook when I was about 14. Since then I've found them an infallible thunder-predictor.

Trudged home from work in the heat.

0600 0
0700 6 Ac, Cu, Ci, Ac cast
1000 THUNDER SHOWER
PM ~4 Ci Sun
HOT

Really hot day.

<1 Ci all day Sun HOT

Some sun
Occasional light rain

It rained for about 5 hours starting at 9am, and it was colder too.

0700 <8 Sc Sun
0900 8 RAIN till 1400 Cooler
1700 Brightening .

Was in Mugsborough at lunchtime - back to Dulchester at 3.15. Think there'd been showers here - puddles, and I'd seen huge CuNi with anvils and virgae in the morning.

Typ 6 huge Cu, CuNian Sun HOT
Fresh breeze
2030 SHOWER

Typ 6 large Cu Sun
Windy
HOT

In the afternoon worked in the heat getting those ivy stumps out. Very strange 5 minutes of raindrops with the sun shining and no clouds overhead (though a suspicious virgae-ish cloud off to the E). Steady rain in the evening, thank goodness. I was getting bored with the hot weather, and with carrying watering cans up to the potato patch. 0900 8 S
1100 0/8 Sun
HOT
Cloudier later
(1600 DROPS OF RAIN)
2000 RAIN
2030 THUNDER

Much sun HOT

Heavy showers first thing, turned very hot again later.

0600-0700 HEAVY SHOWERS 8
->Sun with Cu VERY HOT

Little cloud at first Sun
6-8 at times later
VERY HOT

Splendid pair of thunderstorms at 4am and 6am, but a muggy morning. We were all tired at work from lack of sleep after the storms.

...
RAIN stops ~1900
6-8/8 Ac, Cu/Cs+As Sun-through
MUGGY

0700 0 Sun
1->6/8 Cs
VERY HOT
Fresh breeze
1800 Ac cast seen P v
0400 THUNDERSTORM RAIN
0600 THUNDERSTORM

0900 8
->1300 4 Ci HOT Sun

Typically 8 Sc
Some sun
WARM
1230 SPOTS OF RAIN

Really hot and clear today, would've been a day to enjoy if I hadn't had to walk to work in it.

Sun <1
VERY HOT

Really hot today. I noticed on the Independent website they were making comparisons to 1976, but it's not one that's occurred to me yet. No drought for a start.

0600 8
0800 0 Sun
VERY HOT <1

Really hot again.

Typically 4 Ci, Cu or Ac Sun
VERY HOT

Even hotter and more unpleasant today - last night was a positive inferno.

0800 0 Sun
->1600 4 Ci
HOT

0/8 Cs Sun
HOT

Sun Some Ci & Ac
HOT

0700 8 Sc
SPITS OF RAIN
1200 Brighter
1400 Sun Ci
HOT

0700 8 Sc
1000 Sun-breaks
1200 0 Sun
HOT

0700 4 Ci
->1000 8 S
->1400 4 Ci Sun
VERY HOT

Another very hot day. Worked as hard as the heat allowed.

0600 0 Sun
<1 all day
VERY HOT

Another very hot day, the kind of day when you have to walk slowly.

0500 6 Ac
->
0700 0 Sun
<1 all day
VERY HOT
Fresh breeze

Very hot again.

0900 0 sm Cu Sun
VERY HOT
Fresh breeze

Very hot, clear day, too hot really for the work I was doing in the garden - digging out the ivy bushes where the trellis used to be.

0900 0 Sun
VERY HOT
Breeze
<2 all day

Quite hot day.

0600 Sun
Typically 2/8 Cs Sun HOT

0600 <1 Cu Sun
0700 8 S
->
1700 4 Cu HOT Sun
2000 0/8 Cs

0600 RAIN
0730 stops
Near sun breaks

0700 6 Sc Sun
->8
1600 RAIN
1930 stops
2130 RAIN

5-7 Ac & Sc Sun
HOT

Hot, sunny day, very appropriate to the date somehow.

<= 4 Ci, small Cu Sun
HOT
FRESH BREEZE

8 Sc with more and more sun
-> 1500 6 Cu
1900 5 Ac

Rather a damp, 'untidy' day. 0700 8 S
0900 RAIN\b1600 RAIN
2000 cont

0700 6 Sc Sun
1600 DROPS OF RAIN
2000 SLOW RAIN

0600 8 S Sunny spells p.m.
->8 Sc

0600 0 Sun
1100 4/8 Cu/Cs Sun
1600 6 higher flatter Cu

8 all day

In the evening after rain, a powerful yellow-grey sunset exploding through lateral lines of cloud in the NW.

0800 4-8 large Cu in rapid alternation Sun
->
HEAVY SHOWERS
CuNian seen

0830 8
+>
4-8 large Cu in swift alternation Sun
Some RAIN
Windy

0700 LT RAIN
stops
8 Sc with sun-breaks Humid
1730 LIGHT RAIN
stops
2130 RAIN

Interesting weather - humid again but cooler, weirdly autumnal. Misty in the afternoon. 0700 8
0900 Hazy sun
1000 RAIN
stops
1600 MIST Humid cooler

Horrible muggy weather - very hot in the afternoon after morning rain.

0600 8 RAIN
0730 stops
very humid
8 Cs/As with typically 4 Ac sun-through
Hot Close

Some sun but either 8 Cs, 8 As or 8 yellow-grey Sc

2-6 Ac/8 As typically all day. Some sun-through. Fresh breeze

Some sun Warm

Like last week, thought rain was coming so got out into the garden to mow lawns and finish clearing up. Unlike last week, it did actually rain, starting about 2.15 when I'd just gone back into the garden hoping it would rain so I could do more work on the kitchen

Put on my waterprooof jacket and went to the Co-op at 5pm in sunlit rain. It stopped quite abruptly and the weather became quite warm

0900 6 large Cu
->8 Sc
1415 SHOWER
1600 THUNDERY RAIN (HEAVY)
1700 Rapidly ->3 Cu Sun

0700 7-8 Sc Some sun
1430 ->0 Sun Warm
2000 5 Ci/m-Ac-k

8 Sc
Windy
Some sun-breaks
1600 RAIN

8 Sc
1600 RAIN

Mostly 8 Sc
Some sun

Really quite cold and unpleasant.

0430 8 S
Same all day, brighter at times
2230 0 ?

0800 8 low Sc
Cold

0930 8
PM sometimes 6 Ac Sun
1900 8

0700 0 Sun
<3 Ci in day
Fresh breeze

Beautiful weather.

Beautiful day, real summer weather.

0700 0 Sun
->
1800 4 Ci Fresh breeze Hot

Just seen that gorgeous summer-evening light on the tall trees down in the brook valley. Reminds me of 1991 and wandering round the park during/after the finals.
Went back to the computer intending to find the typed-up 1991 reference. I did find it, a lyrical piece from May 17 1991 about the evening light in the river valley and the horse-chestnut blossom.

0 Sun
1300 4 flat Cu
1700 5/7 Cu/Ci

Fine weather, fresh with wind.

0930 0
1030 2 sm Cu
1130 5 flat Cu. Wind fresh NW

Much cloud often 8
1100 Sun-breaks
1400 DROPS OF FINE RAIN
2000 5/8 Ac/Cs As Sun

Weather suddenly brightened and warmed up halfway through the day.

0700 8 Sun-through
gradually brightening
1200 6 Cu Sun
1900 0 (/8 Cs ?)
Warm

That interesting kind of 'rainy' stratocumulus in the morning, where it's quite dark overall, shading into particularly dark bits, always reminding me of the 9p violet stamp which shades from light on one side to very deep on the other.

0700 8 'rainy' Sc
Same all day

0700 8
0830 LIGHT RAIN
LIGHT RAIN at times all day

Wet day - got soaked walking home. It wasn't windy though, but a steady rain.

0700 8
0930 LIGHT RAIN
1030 stops
1400 STEADY RAIN
1900 stops

It's a shame that my anxieties have made me dislike clear, fine sunny days, because this was a beautiful one.

0900 0 Sun
1200 1 Cu cells
1400 4 Cu
1600 5 Cu, Ci
Fresh breeze

0800 Sun
Typically 6 Ci

Beautiful weather today, much warmer.

Sun Typically 4 Ci, Cu

Another freezing cold day. And now a wet Friday night - something I quite like, because I don't plan to go out early tomorrow. And perhaps because of the World of the Children bit about 'On Friday night she woke up to the sound of heavy rain', and then there's the bright morning with the raindrops in rainbow colours. Particularly remember that because, soon after reading that, I did actually see that phenomenon.

0700 8 RAIN
0800 stops
SPELLS OF RAIN all day, large Cu
1700 Sun-breaks
Wind E cold
More RAIN in eve

RAIN overnight
Sun 4 large Cu Wind strong N
1300 HEAVY SHOWER
pm SHOWERS
1900 8 S

Typically 5 Cu Sun Cool
1300 DROPS OF RAIN

Some sun

8 S scallop with sun breaks later

0800 8
->6/8 Ci, Cu/S Sun

Another miserable grey day. Got quite a lot done though.

0800 8
Same all day
Some sun-breaks

Was pretty down in the morning what with the cold grey weather, and work pressure, and second thoughts.

0700 8 Cold Windy
Same all day

Typically 5 Cu Sun
Some large Cu

Very cold these last few days, windy too. Had to have the fan heaters back on.

0800 8 WINDY
->Some sun
Cold

0800 Sun
1130 8 LIGHT RAIN
1630 RAIN
2100 RAIN WINDY

Unpleasant dark morning, but I was interested in how much different I felt a few hours later when it brightened up. A lesson about short-termism.

0600 RAIN
0800 S
->1300 6/8 dirty Cu/As Sun
1700 6 Cu
1945 HEAVY SHOWER

1400 7 Cu Sun
1500 8

Weather quite cold at the moment, windy & rainy too.

0500 8 RAIN overnight
1000 Sun ->8
1600 RAIN
1900 RAIN
Fresh breeze

0700 <8 Sc Sun
1600 4 Cu

0700 0
0800 Sun 1 Cu cells
1200 6 Cu
1600 5 Cu\Windy

0730 RAIN
1030 stopping
1200 6 Cu Sun

A wonderful spacious May evening with the round Sun sinking, the sky shading from blue to green to lavender, a lithe woman jogging and the trees blossoming.

Mostly clear Sun
Perhaps high haze pm/eve

0800 Sun ~4
Cloudier in middle of day
1800 Clearer

0800 Sun
Typically 4-6 Warm

Excellent hailstorm about 3pm, heavy rain too and thunder, streams of water 2ft wide in the gutters.

0800 6 S Sun
1300 SHOWER
1500 HEAVY SHOWER with HAIL & THUNDER
->Typically <8

0700 ~1 Sun
Much same in day
2000 6 Ci

0700 Sun Typically ~3
More haze late p.m.

Lovely weather today and yesterday - bright and sunny with a pleasant breeze.

0700 ~0 Sun
Typically 1 all day, some Ci.
Cool breeze

Much sun

0700 Sun
-> 1200 7 Sc

Bright at first but still pretty cold.

0800 0 Sun Cold
1000 2 S in NW
->1500 4/8 dirty Cu/As

0830 <8 Sun
1430 RAIN
1600 <8 Sun
1700 RAIN
2000 <3

Horrible wet morning, and I had a headache too. But soon I began to enjoy the day.

Walking home it was a cold, sunny April evening, rather a strange combination.

0700 8 RAIN
->1200 ~4 Sun
1600 HEAVY SHOWER
Cold.

0700 <8 Sc RAIN & sun
->6-7 Ac, Sc sun
Warm

<8 Sun
2100 RAIN
2300 cont

Quite nice looking out from work and seeing people sitting on the grass in the fine weather.

0600 8 S
quickly ->
0730 3 sm Cu
~4 Cu sun
Warm

Typ As & dirty low Sc
Some sun

0900 8 low S/FOG
Burns off
->~3 Ci Sun

Beautiful day all day.

0700 0 Sun
<1 all day

0600 DRIZZLE
0745 RAIN
PERIODS OF RAIN
Colder
Some sun

Good thundery shower about 3.30, very powerful downdraughts.

0700 ~4 Sun Windy
1500 THUNDERY SHOWER with HAIL till c.1600
1630 4 CuNi with virgae seen

0800 MIST
->
Typically sun with Ci/haze

Sun with Cs or haze Windy
2000 <2

0700 <8 Sun
1600 7 Ci, Ac
Windy

Much sun but Ci
Windy Much warmer today, actually like spring.

0900 8
Some sun through As & Ac
1530 DRIZZLE
1700 RAIN
Fresh breeze

0700 8 RAIN
1300 HEAVY SHOWER
1630 RAIN
1730 Sun breaks, RAINBOW

0800 RAIN soon stopping
->8
1600 8 hazy bright with cracks

0700 0/SKY OBSCURED
->1400 0/8 Cs Sun

8 S
0800 DROPS OF RAIN
1930 RAIN

0800 0/8 Cs Sun
[s ->0/8 As

Warm sunshine today - still cold in the wind though.

0800 0/HAZE Sun
->1300 8 Cs
1700 8 As

Sunny today and quite warm.

0900 0 Sun FROST
Warm
2100 0 *

Perhaps slightly warmer today, especially the longer the sun shone. On the way home it was quite high for 5pm, and shining quite strongly.

<8
Sun later
Wind cold

Still with the freezing cold East wind, and more snow ffs.

0800 8 Wind cold E
0900 SNOW to ~1200
Intermittent SNOW later

Horrible weather - icy cold wind and those 'scallop' clouds with grey-yellow cracks between them, that remind me of winter/spring 1990.

0700 FROST
some Sun
Typically <8 Sc
Windy

Some proper strong sunlight today - still icy cold in the wind though, gloves and hat still required.

0600 0 FROST
->Sun
<2 all day
Wind cold

Bright and sunny in the afternoon, but very cold in the wind.

0800 8
->6 Cu Sun
Wind cold

Like yesterday, a beautiful start, but turned colder quite quickly. 1000 BST 4 Cu Sun
->8
1900 <8

Quite a few snow showers today. Never known such a March for snow.

SNOW SHOWERS during day
Sun later
2200 0 *

Quite bright and promising weather early on, but it greyed over later, and it was still pretty cold.

0800 4 Cu Sun
->8 Sc
Very cold

Rather sunnier today, but once again, still perishing cold.

0700 ~4 Sun
Wind very cold Typical of day
1700 FLAKES OF SNOW

0700 Sun Very cold
1200 5 Cu Typical of day Bit sunnier today, though still perishing cold out of the sun.

0700 8 S Very cold
-> Sun + Ac
2100 7 Ac Moon

0700 8 S Very cold E wind
Same all day

More snow today, and bitterly cold, but there's no more snow lying now (5pm) than there was in the morning.
Went to Quaker meeting: nearly fell over on my way to sit down due to snow on shoes. Afterwards T joked about what meaning such ministry might have.

0800 8 S Very cold
0900 SNOW
stopping later.
Wind E

A coating of snow in the morning, and it began to snow in the morning and carried on all day. Fortunately it hasn't laid on the roads and paths though, it's quite wet. Cold too.

8 S
0700 Some SNOW overnight
1000 SNOW
cont all day, little accumulation

Really cold weather, with a vicious East wind. Quite invigorating though - very dry and sort of bright grey. A good day as the last of my main holiday.

0700 8 S Same all day.
0900 FLAKES OF SLEET
Cold E wind. Bright

0800 8 S. Cold.
Same all day

I'd envisaged today being a beautiful spring day, but it was miserable, cold and with spitting rain and sleet.

0800 8 S RAIN SLEET occ
Same all day
Cold

1200 As/Sc Sun-through

Very cold today - fog and heavy frost in the morning - sun burnt the fog off, but it was still v cold. There was snow on the hills at Hay. Weird weather we're having for March, what with the snow at home and the wet snow I walked back to the hotel through in Bolton on Saturday night.

Very cold today - fog and heavy frost in the morning - sun burnt the fog off, but it was still very cold. There was snow on the hills at Hay. Weird weather we're having for March, what with the snow at home and the wet snow I walked back to the hotel through in Bolton on Saturday night.

Very cold day but some nice sunlight in the park in Warwick, and on the landscape from the hotel window here in Banbury.

Horrible wet grey rainy morning. Lovely weather since mid-day, but It came on to rain again as dusk fell.

Rain, spray etc. Glad to get past Birmingham - always the crucial point in these northward journeys.

Walked back from town with sun and huge, dim cumuli.

0800 Sun ~4 Cu
large and huge Cu
1700 7 Ac

Really bitterly cold wind today.

Some sun
V. cold
1230 HAIL
1530 CuNi seen, SNOW SHOWER

Couple of inches of fine powder snow lying in the morning, and fiendishly cold. Never seen snow like that in March, a proper snowy day requiring boots.

But the sun shone strongly in the afternoon and melted all the snow that wasn't shadowed. Very interesting weather.

0600 8 2" SNOW LYING Very cold
->4 low Cu Sun
->~6 Ac

Freezing today, with dry snow.

SNOW overnight
0600 8 SNOW
SNOW SHOWERS all day.
V. cold
Wind E
Occ. sun

SNOW overnight
0700 8 WET SNOW to 1030.

0900 8S
Damp
Same all day

0700 FOG
1000 RAIN Heavy at times
2100 cont
0100 cont.

Rotten wet weather at lunchtime, which got worse later.

RAIN overnight
0600 8
1200 RAIN
cont

RAIN overnight?
0700 8 Damp, cold
Warmer later

0600 0 FROST
-> Sun
Always <2
Warm. Hazy. Again warm, hazy and spring-like.

Quite warm today, definitely Spring-like.

1000 0 Sun Warm.
-> Thickening Cs

Some hazy sun today. I might start putting the marginal weather summary at the end of each entry instead of the start, because it's influencing my opening sentences. Just realised btw that they're going to be annoying to type up.

1000 8 Sc
Brightening
Hazy sun

Quite a bit warmer today.

Some sun Warmer

8 Sc
1600 SPITTING RAIN
Wind cold

Warmer again, with hazy sun. Last day of winter too.

~6 Ac Sun
Warmer

Bit warmer today, with some hazy sunshine.

some sun later

Another grey cold damp day.

8. Cold

Rather damper than the last few days, and not any more pleasant.

RAIN overnight and occasionally
8. Cold

Yet another very cold grey day.

8. Very cold
OCC. SNOW

Another cold, grey day with those occasional small snowflakes.

8. Very cold
FLAKES OF SNOW
2245. SNOW

Again cold and grey, with more of the small snowflakes.

8. Very cold.
SNOW SHOWERS

Very cold and grey, with icy little flakes of snow at times.

8. Very cold.
Occ. FLAKES OF SNOW

Cold East wind in the afternoon.

Some sun
E wind

0600 FROST
Typ <2 all day Sun

Rather like yesterday but without the bright start.

0700 8 low S MIST Col
->
1200 5 Ac/low cloud Sun

Bright, cold and frosty first thing, then warm and sunny, but by 11am mist and low cloud descended and it was very cold.

0800 0 Sun FROST
-> 1200 SKY OBSCURED MIST/low cloud
Occ sun but then -> 8

Quite warm in the middle of the day, though there was a chill in the air by 4.30.

Typ 4/8 Ac/Cs Sun

Although there are only a few patches of clear sky at the moment (8pm) I'm going to try and spot NEO 2012 DA 14, the Earth-grazing asteroid, later.

Typically 6 Ac/Sc Sun

Started raining in the small hours, by 7.30 it was one of those weeping mornings that remind me of Richard Adams description of the flooded land: 'as grotesquely awash as a courtyard where a fountain-basin has given way'. 0400 RAIN
0700 cont 8
1100 stops
1200 4 Sun

Another bleak cold dry grey-white day.

8. Cold

8. Cold

Snow overnight, but wet stuff really.

SNOW overnight
0600 SNOW cont, -> RAIN
8 all day

Rained all day, so far as I could tell.

0900 8 RAIN
Same all day

Some sun

Everything had that odd '70s film stock' look, sort of mellow and faded.

Typ 0/8 Cs-Ac Sun-through
1800 RAIN

Much sun

Heavy cold shower began when I got back, got soaked going to the Co-op for supplies.

Some sun
1530 HEAVY SHOWER

Cold, windy day, bright at first but with wet snow late in the afternoon.

0600 0 *
0800 Sun
clouding to
1700 8
1730 WET SNOW
Windy all day
2100 RAIN

0700 8 S RAIN
1000 3 Ac Sun
1500 Windy

Dry, cold, grey-white day, with some cracks in the clouds very late in the afternoon.

0900 8 S
1700 Some cracks

Bright day but cold northerly wind.

Sun, wind N, cold, ~4
1800 0 *

0600 RAIN
cont
~ till 0900
Clearer in evening, *

Very windy at times today, but dry and bright.

RAIN overnight?
Much sun
Very windy

Typically 4/8 /Cs Sun-through
Windy

Typically 8
Some RAIN

Weather got windier and rainier as the afternoon went on.

0800 FROST 0 Sun
-> 1200 8
-> 1400 RAIN stops
1730 HEAVY RAIN
Windy

Much warmer today. Very sunny too.

0900 ~4 Ci Sun
Mild

Some snow overnight, it seemed, but it quickly melted and a general thaw began.

SNOW overnight
Some sun
Warmer .

8. Cold.

<8 at times FINE SNOW FLURRIES
1900 <4 Moon

Odd pinkish tint to the overcast in the west in the morning, wondered if it was going to snow again, but it didn't.

0700 8

Some sun - Ci, Ac
1600 6/8 Ci,Ac/As Moon-through

3 inches or so of snow on the ground in the morning, but the road was tolerably clear so I drove to work as usual for Monday (but very much more carefully).

0500 8 3" lying snow
Later, FLAKES OF SNOW

It snowed all day - fine at first, and not lying thickly, but in the afternoon it began to build up. Think I may walk to work tomorrow if the roads aren't clear. Snow exascerbates my worries about the car. But the weather was ideal for starting The Masters.

0900 8 FINE SNOW
continues all day, beyond 2100...

0900 8

Very cold, with a bitter North wind. Don't know if this caused it, but I felt kind of cold about my issues - that mood I get where they haven't gone away, but I don't believe I can do anything about them.

8 FLAKES OF SNOW
+0100 SNOW

Very cold in the morning.

0600 -5°C 0
-> sun

Very cold overnight, about -3°C.

0700 6 Ac Sun

SNOW overnight
some sun
1400-1500 SNOW More snow overnight, just a covering, but enough to make the walk to work annoying. Further snow about 2pm, but it still didn't add up to much.

It began to snow about 2pm - it'd been forecast, but the sky certainly looked right for it earlier.

0700 8 Dry
1400 SNOW
till ~1700

Typically 8
Some Sun-breaks
Clearer after 1500

8 As Sun-through
Cold
Breezy

0800 8
Brighter at times

Cold, misty and foggy day.

0600 0/8 *
0900 MIST Sky obscured
1200 FOG
Cold

Turned much colder and brighter in the afternoon - a real relief to get some proper cold weather. I was starting to seriously worry about pests this spring.

0800 8 S
->
1500 1 Sun Colder

Some brightness.

Dull day with a foggy start.

0800 FOG
->8

Weather still rather milder than I like it. I don't want insects to be encouraged out early.

1000 LIGHT RAIN 8

Some sun.

0700 6 Ac/S
-> Sun Pressure rising rapidly

Very dark and wet on the way home, and cold. Though the days should be getting longer from now on.

0600 1 Ci Moon
0800 7 Ac
1200 RAIN
1630 FINE RAIN

Woke up at 10.30 to a bright day.

1030 2 Ci Sun