FROST
Much sun earlier
Cold
1800 <=8 Moon-through

FROST
Some sun
Cold

Very cold - in that situation where the outdoor temperature has been <10°C for days and the contents of the house, and the house itself, cool to match it.

In day typically
4 Sun Cold

Some sun
1700 0 *
Cold.

0600 RAIN
DAY - some sun

0900 <8
1400 8
1700 DROPS OF RAIN
1800 RAIN
2100 cont
2200 cont
2300Cont Windy.

0900 0 Sun
2200 0 *
2230 4 FROST

Beautiful New Moon in a clear sky about 4pm.

0600 RAIN
1000 Stopped
1100 2 Sun
1600 0 Moon

Typically 6 Ac
Some sun
Wind fresh NW

<=8 Sc
Wind fresh N

<=8 Sc

Some sun
Cold. Wind fresh N
1600 Clearing >0 *

0600 RAIN
0730 Stopped
1000 0 Sun
>~2
Cold Wind NW fresh

<=8 Sc Warmer
Fresh W breeze

0600 8 S
Some sun

Some sun
Clear a.m.
2300 RAIN Warmer
0300 cont

RAIN overnight
0600 RAIN stops *
Some sun

Much sun
Cold

Cold frosty day - lawns at the back still covered in frost at the end of the afternoon.

0900 HEAVY FROST Sun
Typ 2 flat Ac
COLD

0600 RAIN
0800 stops
Some sun
1300 <8 As Sun-through

Much sun
A.M. some RAIN

Some sun
Cold

0700 HEAVY FROST
Some sun
RAIN a.m.
1600 7 S Cold
2300 RAIN

Much sun
0700 FROST
Cold

Cold
Some sun PM

Very cold, bright day.

0800 0 Sun FROST
>Cs/Ci Moon

Another cold day.

Some sun pm
1400 LIGHT SHOWER
1800 2 Ac Moon
COLD

Horrible weather - cold, and drizzly.

8 DRIZZLE
cold
stops at times

Sun A.M.
P.M. RAIN 8

Weather like yesterday, but with drizzle.

8 S.
1000 DRIZZLE
1200 stops
1400 DRIZZLE

Weather really suited the date - felt like the first day of winter 93 or 94, cold and very dark.

8 S. Dark.
Cold

Did some careful Perl programming towards building up a suite of scripts and dbs to produce a universal calendar, where I can look up say the w/c Nov 25 1974 and see what the weather was, what Doctor Who ep was on, what stamps were current etc.

Forged ahead with typing up the weather data from the newspaper archive, and completed it; I now have data from my 3rd birthday and conventional headwater of memory, to the dawn of diarising in 1982.

Some sun

Walk back via Barnes was another of those 'one of the pleasantest journeys the Mouser could recall', like going to check the printout of my MSc result in Nov 1996. The sun was shining and I was walking over Hammersmith Bridge and down Castellnau thinking 'So it really is happening.'

'Maia swam the river'

Decided to go to Hay after all. Rotten weather with rain and fog. Got a good couple of political books from the honesty box shop - getting wet because they'd just been dumped on the ground in a box. Moved it into the dry.

Very cold, about 6°C at Letchworth. The 'World so wide' view before Baldock shrouded in mist today.

0700 FROST
->4/8 dirty As, sun-through
...OUT OF AREA

The streetlight blackout till 5am allowed me to see a beautiful starry sky - weather changed and turned clear and cold.

0500 0 * FROST
1200 4 Sun
1700 0 Moon

Another dark wet day.

0630 RAIN
8 dark S
RAIN all day

Really dark, wet, horrible day.

RAIN overnight
RAIN all day
8 dark S

0800 <=8
Some sun
1400 8
1600 RAIN

Don't think it rained at all today, quite a novelty of late.

<=8 Some sun

Another very wet day.

0600 RAIN
0730 HEAVY RAIN
0830 Stops
some sun <=8 Ac/S

<=8
1700 RAIN
1830 RAIN

Went on raining for a long time last night, and rained again this evening.

Some sun
1700 RAIN

Having stayed up till 3 am, wasn't in the best mood to face a dark, grey, cold Sunday morning.

Started raining at noon, still raining now (4.30).

0900 8 dark
1200 RAIN
1500 HEAVY RAIN
1600 RAIN cont
1900 cont

Damp, autumnally-coloured countryside made me realise it's time soon for my 'autumn wanderings'. There's a particular shade of orange leaves that makes me think I should be driving across Gloucestershire towards Hay.

<=8 Occasional sun

Raining in the morning, but fortunately I didn't get too wet walking to work. Did an Autoit script to make it easier to type up those weather stats - got to Nov 1977 now btw.

0700 8 RAIN
~1000 stops
PM some Sun

0800 <8 Sun 'watery'
Wind increases
->
1500 8
1600 RAIN

0900 8 S RAIN
1000 Sun ->
1 Sun

Did a lot of weather stats extraction from newspaper archives.

Typically 2 Sun

RAIN overnight
Clearing fast am -> 0 Sun
Cold
1800 ~1 *

13/8

RAIN overnight
Much sun
1200 SHOWER
1700 0 *

12/6

Earlier Sun
->8
Cold Windy
2000 RAIN

Wet morning.

11/(2)

0500 RAIN
1000 LIGHT RAIN
stops
Sun later

Much colder last night. Wore to work one of the sparkly Red Herring woolly hats I picked up cheap last spring, and have been wanting to wear all year.

NB I'm trialling putting the max/min temperatures level with the last line of previous day (because the day for temp purposes is from 9am to 9am. Eg here yesterday's maximum was 8°C and last night's minimum was 2°C.) Also note respective figures repeated in brackets against the relevant synopses.

8/2

(2) 0700 0 Sun COLD
More cloud later

Colder again.

0630 RAIN
0800 stops
RAIN in day
2000 4 Moon
(8)

Cold
Some sun
2000 4/8 Ci/Cs Moon

Got a lot colder today, in two stages too.

0500 RAIN
stops
0730 8 As, S Colder
1400 RAIN
1600 Clearing Sun Colder still

Into town, walked home in the rain.

1100 8 wet Sc
1200 HEAVY SHOWER
->RAIN
1600 Sc-allop with sun-cracks
1800 RAIN

Up at seven to beautiful clear sky, then mackerel sky, then overcast by nine. But it cleared up in the afternoon.

0700 0
->Sun
0800 6 m-Ac-k
0900 8 DROPS OF RAIN
->less cloud

Very warm for the time of year.

Much sun
Warm

Rather damp, dull day, but much warmer.

RAIN overnight
0700 8
Warmer

Unpleasant wet morning and evening.

0800 RAIN
stops
1600 RAIN

0700 0 Ac
1600 4 Ac

0700 <=8 Sc/Ac
0800 rolls away E
->0 Sun

Rather a pleasant dry dull day weatherwise.

8 high Sc

1 Clearing quickly to
1400 0 Sun

0600 RAIN
0800 stopped
Some sun
1600 8 dark Sc

Another good dry day. Got some good dry work done.

Typically <=8 Sc
Some sun

Noticeably colder today, first cold morning of the autumn. Particularly felt it having gone to bed at 4.15, ffs. It was honest dry weather, which seemed to help.

Early sun
Much colder

Exciting weather, very windy with showers all day and still going on now at 5pm.

RAIN overnight
All day SQUALLY SHOWERS
Very windy
Sunny intervals

Much cloud
Some sun
Windy

While exercising the car was surprised by the warm, dry weather and mostly green leaves - it could well have been late April.

In the afternoon painted front of near shed with the waxy fence paint - the fine dry weather today was too good to waste.

1000 8
->Windy
1645 RAIN
1700 <8 Sun
Warmer

RAIN overnight
0900 some sun
Much cloud

0700 8 S
Some sun later
1600 3/8 dirty Cu/As Sun-through

Some sun
1600 8 S, As DROPS OF RAIN

Not so sodden as yesterday - at lunchtime quite fine, with autumn brightness on the trees - but then more rain later. A fine effect walking home - grey rain lit up in the distance with bright diffused light.

Some RAIN overnight
1200 4 large Cu Sun
1600 RAIN

A real JB Priestley morning like a 'gigantic bomb filled with dirty water'.

0600 HEAVY RAIN
cont
1100 stops
1600 Bright cracks

Much early sun
->1600 8
1900 RAIN
2000 cont HEAVY
2100 cont

Rather showery day.

0900 DROPS OF RAIN
Much sun
1100 SHOWER
1300 SHOWER

Sun with large Cu
1500 SHOWER

A real storm - an imber - on the way home btw. First trailing 'black rain-brooms' a way off, then coming on as a huge black cloud with squally wind and rain.

0700 <8 some sun
1230 HEAVY SHOWER
1600 HEAVY SHOWER
1700 clearing 6 Ci, Ac Sun

Really wet morning, but cleared up nicely by 1pm.

0700 8
0745 RAIN
Cont, HEAVY at times,
1300 4 Sun
->
2000 3 Ac-allop Moon

Woken up by rain on the windows just before 6am, but fortunately it cleared up by the time I was walking to work.

In the evening a beautiful Full Moon.

0600 RAIN
0800 stops
->some sun
->Windy
1900 0 Moon

Rotten weather, even though it was dry first thing, I had to walk home through the rain.

0700 8. Windy
1100 RAIN
stops
1230 RAIN
1630 HEAVY RAIN
c.1930 stops
2200 <8 Moon

Noticeably colder in the morning, but bright. And during the day it was warm in the sun.

0800 0 Sun
Colder
1300 4 flat Cu
1700 5/8 S/As Sun-through

Sky got very dark and we had rain in the afternoon, so I tackled my 'rainy day task list'. 0800 <=8 some sun
1300 dark 8
1400-1630 RAIN
[s +>]clearer Sun

~5 Ci, Ac
Sun Warm

0700 8
->
1700 6 Ac-allop Sun Warm

0700 8
RAIN am
Warmer later, some sun

Rather nice day, possibly the last hot day of the year.

0900 2 hazy Cu Sun
HOT
2000 2 Ci *

Foggy start, then quite wet.

0600 FOG
1230 LIGHT RAIN
1630 SHOWER
->RAIN

Rather a nice day weather-wise, quite warm but not unpleasantly hot.

0900 6 Ac-allop Sun
Warm
->
1700 8 Cs, As sun-through

Busy afternoon in the garden; planted crocus and daffodil bulbs.

0800 8 Ac-allop
->Sun
1800 6 Ac-allop
Very light winds

0700 8
1000 SHOWER
->6 large Cu/Sc Sun
1800 2 flat Ac

Some sun
2000 0 *

0600 8 RAIN
0730 Clearing
1000 8 RAIN
1100 Clearing
->Sun, Cu flatter later

<=8 hazy sun

0700 Sun ~1
Warm later

>=6, some sun

Dark gloomy day, with matching mood.

RAIN overnight
0400 THUNDER
Mostly 8, some sun
DARK

Very hot in the afternoon btw, the last hot spell of the year I should think.

RAIN overnight
HAZY Sun
CuNi seen
HOT pm

0700 8 MIST
->
Much Ci Sun HOT

0700 8
->
Sun HAZY

0700 SKY OBSCURED MIST
->1700 0 hazy sun HOT

RAIN overnight
0600 LIGHT RAIN
->
1700 6 Cu, Ci Sun

4-6 large Cu
Sun
1600 HEAVY DROPS OF RAIN

Sun, much Ci & Cu

0-6 Cu, large later Sun
->1700 +Ci

0700 8 Cool
1200 Brightening
some sun later

Some sun
Cold early a.m.

Typically 6 Cu Sun
Clearer in evening

Beautiful sunny September day, really very pleasant.

0700 0 Sun
->2-5 small Cu, Ci

Alliterative date again! Full moon in the evening.

1100 8 SPITS OF RAIN
gradually ->
1700 4/8 Cu/Cs Sun
WARM

Alliterative date. Rather a damp, dull morning, but had a good day out.

8 As/Cs and lower cloud some sun-through

Very gloomy weather in the morning.

8 S, sometimes brighter

0800 2/8 Cu/haze Sun HOT
->8 S
->1800 6/8 Ci/Cs Sun-through

A fine September day, after a hazy start, but had that sort of doomed quality fine days at this time of year have.

0800 0/8 haze Sun-through
-> typically 2 Cu HOT

Some sun
Much Sc, Ac
Clearer 1930.

0700 7 Ac Red sky Sun
1200 RAIN 8 S
1930 more RAIN
Windy.

3-7 Cu Sun
flatter later

Some sun
Mostly 8 Sc
Breezy
1900 3/8 dirty S/As

Sun at first
1400 8 dark Sc
1900 dark Sc
Windy
RAIN

Horrible fine penetrating rain in the morning, like being on holiday in Wales. 0700 8 S FINE RAIN
1000 stops
Sun pm
Warm

0700 2 Cu Sun
->~6 Cu

Another wet night and morning, latter like one of JBP's 'bombs filled with dirty water bursting on London'. D asked how my clothes shopping mission went last week. I confirmed success, but said I'd been unable to wear any of them today because of the weather.

RAIN overnight
0600 8 S RAIN
cont
1100 HEAVY
1145 stops
Some sun PM

BANK HOLIDAY. As forecast, rained all day.

8 S RAIN all day
2100 cont

Some sun, much Cu, Sc

0-6 Cu Sun

Much 8 Sc
Some sun
1130 SHARP SHOWER

Gradually more Cu
0700 0 Sun
...
1700 7-8 As, Sc

Rather pleasant weather, cooler (as it has been the last few days now the autumnal slant of the sunlight is apparent) but very refreshing.

2-8 Cu/Sc, typically 6 sun

Typically 6-7 large Cu, sun
1230 DROPS OF RAIN

8 Sc Breezy
->some sun
1330 SHOWER

Mostly ~4 Cu Sun
but
1200 8 Sc
COLD. RAIN
then sun resumes

Typically 6-7 Cu Sun
Breezy

0800 <=8 large Cu some sun
->SHOWERS
PM. ~4 Cu, Ac Sun

It was a thundery afternoon, very suitable for these momentous work events.

0800 <=8 some Sun
PM HEAVY SHOWER then THUNDERY RAIN

4-6 Cu Sun
1500 DROPS OF RAIN

4-6 Cu, Ac
Sun Windy
1700 SHOWER
1900 SHOWER

Lovely morning, sunny but cooler than last week.

0700 0 Sun
gradually more Cu
Breezy
Several HEAVY SHOWERS\r2000 CuNi anv. seen

Dark, thundery morning, which at least added some interest to waking up at 7am having gone to bed at 2am.
Had lunch early to give the rain a chance to slacken, then walked into town.

0700 8
1000 Windy
THUNDERY RAIN
->1500 6 large Cu Sun\r1530 THUNDERY SHOWER

Typically 4 Cu
Sun HOT
Breezy
More Ac & As later

..in area
1200 8 RAIN
Intermittent RAIN passim
0030 HEAVY RAIN

Beautiful weather - blazing hot but with enough big Cu to provide occasional relief in the form of cloud-shadows. Stopped at Furnival Gardens by the river, with fine view of what from the A-Z proved to be Hammersmith Bridge, and had picnic.

Another hot day. Some nice landscapes - grand views from the South Downs and 'Surrey Hills', the neat little town of Alton, and magical green-and-gold forest vistas making me think of the Old Forest Road through Mirkwood. Forest escalades even!

0800 5 Cu Sun
HOT
..out of area

HOT
Ci & Cu

RAIN overnight?
0800 8
1100 Thinning -> more sun PM, HOT
1900 Cooler, more Ci and flat Ac

Another hot day - and we've had a long succession of hot nights too, about 2 weeks where I've had the fan on nearly every night. Most summers it's 3 or 4 nights of fan, then it's unused till I get the fan heater out in the autumn.

Into town to buy a loose skirt for these hot evenings.

Much sun
HOT

Very hot day.

Much sun HOT

0700 ~3 Sun
HOT
More cloud at times

<=2 Sun
HOT
1800 6-8 Ac-allop

Mostly 8 Sc, sun PM
HOT

Most fascinating talk out on the furthest lawn till 9.45 when it was too dark to see each other.

Mostly 3 Cu Sun
HOT
Some large Cu with sharp edged tops

1100 7 Sc-allop
Sun HOT
1445 SHOWER
1515 SHOWER huge Cu seen
1900 8

Very hot day again.

Little cloud
Sun VERY HOT
Breezy

Another scorching hot day. Took car up to garage - their new location is 1 mile from the nearest bus stop.

AM ~5 bubbly Ac Sun
VERY HOT
PM Less cloud

Gradually less cloud
->1300 4 Cu Sun
VERY HOT
2000 0

6-8 large Cu, Sc
Some sun
HOT
1630 DROPS OF RAIN

Unpleasantly hot and humid - sweating buckets in the afternoon just sitting in the house.

Sunnier earlier
1200 8 Very muggy
1700 SLOW RAIN

Very humid night and damp, unpleasant morning.

0900 8 Damp
1130 THUNDER SHOWER
5/8 dirty Ac/As Sun-through
Hazy sun
VERY HOT

Unusually, a thunderstorm at 6.30am - it was sunny at 6am, then went very dark and it rained and thundered.

Unpleasantly hot again today, I think tonight will be particularly hot.

0630 THUNDERSTORM
->Sun 4 bubbly Ac
->~6 Ci VERY HOT
2100 LIGHTNING
2300 SLOW RAIN

Really hot today, not a day for walking quickly.

0600 6 Sc Sun
->1300 4 large Cu VERY HOT
1500 2 small Cu

Why is it always so hot when I have to walk to a hospital appointment? Suppose it was nice and cool earlier, in the morning, but not when I set off at 1.20.

0800 8
->
1200 ~4 hazy sun
VERY HOT

0800 <8 Sc-allop
Sun gradually ->
1700 ~4
HOT

Typically 4/4 Ac/Ci
Sun HOT

Humid day, rain in the morning and much low-density rain in the afternoon. Well done me for mowing the lawns yesterday while the sun shone.

Varied routine to fit the weather: went into town at 2pm, after dinner.

RAIN overnight and to 1200
Intermittent RAIN rest of day, CuNi
Some sun
Warm

Rather dull weather for my walk to the salon in the morning. It turned hot and hazily sunny in the afternoon - got out in the garden and got a lot done. I was reminded a bit of the afternoon 2 years, 2 weeks ago when I was waiting with decreasing hope for that parcel.

0800 8
1400 gradually ->6/8 Ac/Cs
Sun HOT
Humid
2150 THUNDERSTORM

Got soaked walking to work.

0700 8 RAIN
HEAVY at 0800
0900 stops

8 intermittent DROPS OF RAIN
1700 RAIN
2100 cont

0700 8
gradually ->
1600 some sun
Windy

Much cloud
some sun
Breezy

0500 0
0700 2 Ci, Cu
Sun HOT
gradually ->cloudier
2000 5/7 dirty Ac/Ci

0800 8 SLOW RAIN
to 1130
Gradually ->
Sun HOT
<8/8

Complete change of weather - some very dark, lowering clouds most of the day.

RAIN overnight
7-8 Sc some sun
RAIN at times

Unnecessarily hot today. Had quite a lot of time in hand when I got home, so mowed lawns - it was too wet to do them last week, and it might be rainy tomorrow for all I know.

1-6 Ci, Ac, Ac-cast?
Breezy
Sun VERY HOT

Very hot, but a pleasant breeze too.

<=3 Ci, Cc?
Sun HOT
Breezy

Typically 5 Cu/6 As, Cs Sun

Much sun earlier in day
1600 8

Much sun
8 at times am
2000 3 Ac

Some early sun
1400 SHORT HEAVY SHOWER
Intermittent RAIN all afternoon

There were drops of rain on my walk back from the salon, and about 11.30 a really heavy shower began. Got drenched before I got home - don't think I've been so wet since I fell in the river. As I was already soaked, I went back out and gave the car a good sponge in the pouring rain. And later I used the damp to get out and do some hoeing in the garden.

0900 5 large Cu Sun
1100 8 DROPS OF RAIN
1130 HEAVY SHOWER
to 1200
More RAIN at times

Cloudier am
->Sun
Breezy
Large Cu
1700 SHOWER

Sun but much cloud

1200 5 flat Cu Sun HOT
1700 More cloud

Very hot weather - used the car air conditioning for the first time and was glad of it.

0800 7 S
Sun later

1000 Sun
~3 - Ci, Cu
HOT
Cloudier later

Beautiful weather. In the afternoon read The Pub and the People in a deckchair.

Sun HOT
0900 0
1130 1 small Cu
1230 5 Cu
1700 3 Cu k

Much sun

0800 6 Ci Sun
WARM\N1000 8 RAIN
1600 RAIN
1800 Brighter

Alternating 8 Sc
---
and ~5 Cu HOT Sun
all day

One of those awkward days where it's cold in the morning, so you wear a coat to work, and then it turns hot and you have to walk home in it.

0800 8
->1700 Sun
HOT

8
1500 LIGHT RAIN

1000 8
Occasional sun
Cooler

Walk to Co-op in evening light very pleasant.

RAIN overnight
1000 8
gradually clearing
1700 4 Cu Sun

HOT 2-6 Ci,Cu
Sun

Very hot day. Light in the NE at 2.20am.

0800 Sun
~3 varying Cu etc
HOT

Lovely clear dawn sky at 3.30am, beautiful weather most of the day.

0800 2 small Cu
Sun HOT
1800 5/7-8 dirty Ac/As, Cs

Quite a good day today - very hot weather though.

Typically 2 small Cu
Sun HOT
More cloud at times

Rather unpleasantly hot day with untidy clouds.

<=8 untidy
some sun
HOT

AM 1 small Cu Sun HOT
1500 6 Ci Beautiful weather; had a very pleasant day doing minor jobs and sitting in the garden reading.

Couple of days ago I replaced The Great Bear over the mantel with Rain, Steam and Speed which I got for my birthday. It shows different colours in different lights - in daylight a wonderful underlying blue comes out in the sky.

0500 THUNDER
DROPS OF RAIN
1030 8 Very dark
1100 THUNDERSTORM
1130 6/7 Cu/Ci Sun
Close.

A fine day, warm but with a refreshing breeze. Proper June weather. As rain was predicted for tomorrow, mowed the lawns.

0700 2 Ci Sun
Gradually more Ci.
1900 6 Ci
Warm

RAIN overnight
Decreasing cloud in day, sun, windy
1700 5 Cu

Walk home under impressive dark skies - CuNi actually under S, never seen that before. Duly followed by heavy shower.

0700 8 RAIN
0900 stops
1600 large dark Cu, CuNi/8 S
1700 HEAVY SHOWER/n2000 Sun

Weather, which had been rather too wet and cold and breezy for my thin jacket, turned warm in the afternoon. Have got out of the habit of putting sunblock on - must resume.

0700 8
RAIN am. Cold
RAIN pm
1600 4 Cu Sun warm
2000 8

0730 8
1000 RAIN
1400-1700 RAIN

Beautiful sunny day but couldn't appreciate most of it for worrying about the 24th. It was nice walking back across the park though.

4 small Cu Sun
->
1200 7 Sc-allop
->
8

Odd weather, dismal first thing but brightening up massively later. One of those days that the coat you walk to work in is rather too hot to walk home in.

0700 8
clearing
1200 Sun Cu
1600 4 small Cu
Warm

Some RAIN am
Some sun c.1630

RAIN on and off all day
8
inc 1200 8 Sc '9p'

0700 RAIN
0900 Stops
1000 LIGHT RAIN, stops
1700 RAIN
Stops
2100 RAIN

Some sun
1500 8
1600 RAIN
stops

Lovely day for it.

~5 Cu Sun
with Ci later
Warm
Windy

Up at 7am for another rainy walk to the salon. In the afternoon took advantage of a dry spell to mow and weed the lawns.

RAIN overnight
cont 0700 8 puffy 9p Sc
1100 stops
then
6-8 large Cu some Sun
1700 RAIN SHOWER

Typically 5 Cu, sun

Up to 7 typ Sc Sun
WINDY
1600 SHOWER
1800 2/8 dirty Cu/As

Rather cooler in the morning.

0800 <8 Ac, Ci, S Sun
1700 RAIN
1830 stops
2230 RAIN\2330 cont.

Hot, but quite cloudy.

0800 7 Sun DROPS OF RAIN
HOT
1630 DROPS OF RAIN

Another hot sunny day.

Sun HOT
++Ci from 1300, to 1700 6

Definite hot day. Rather pleasant afternoon, sat in garden for a bit. Beautiful day, hardly a cloud, very hot.

0-1 Ci Sun
HOT

First 'hot' day of the year. Much sun
Hot

Sun
Peak cloud ~1400
Cool breeze

Rather pleasant weather, not too hot.

Sun Cool breeze
Peak cloud ~3 Cu 1500

0900 1 Cu cells, Ci Sun
1300 ~5 large Cu
2000 ~2 Ci

Another showery day. One began just as I left Manningtree, turned into a hailstorm - then I drove out of it near Great Bromley, and surreally it didn't just stop raining, everything was dry too. Like coming out of a carwash.

0730 <8
0900 Large Cu seen
HEAVY SHOWERS some with HAIL

Much sun
HEAVY SHOWERS 1200, 1530
2030 THUNDER SHOWER

0800 RAIN
1100 stops
Some sun

Dismal weather in the morning, it wasn't pleasant getting up at 6am, and going out at 8 and walking to the salon in the rain. But on the way back it began to clear up, and I cheered up to the extent that I actually walked on into town for the paper, adding another mile to the 5½ mile round trip.

0600 8 RAIN
1000 stops
-> Sun
Windy
1600 SHOWERS

35 years ago a dreadful day... but this year a beautiful windy sunny one.

2-6 Cu Some large vertical development Sun Windy
SPOTS OF RAIN at times

Really wet day - fine drenching rain too, like being on holiday in Wales.

0700 8
0900 RAIN
1530 stops
1700 RAIN
2000 stopped clearing brightening

0615 RAIN
to 0730
Sun ~4 Cu
1800 SHOWER
Breezy

RAIN overnight
2-6 Cu Sun

0730 0 Sun
->
1230 6 Ci/As

Walking across the park to the Co-op about 1.30 I thought, looking at the trees and the big sky and breathing the warm air, 'This isn't so bad.' And when you consider all the stupid things I've done, and all the unusual things I've had to do in order to deal with my unusual issues, that is true. It really has gone quite well so far, considering.

Much sun
Warm
2000 6 Ci

0700 0 Sun Cold
->4-8 Ac Cold

Some sun
Colder

MAY DAY. Really dark, wet weather in the morning. Rather demotivating, but worked as hard as I could.

0900 RAIN
to
1300

0700 8 S sun-through
1200 Sun ~4
1600 4 large Cu
1900 7 hazy Ac-allop

RAIN overnight and to 0900
Some sun later

Some sun
Warm

0900 ~5 Cu Sun
Breezier, cloudier later

Walked to the salon through the rain, walked back through the rain. It cleared up in the afternoon but garden too wet to mow lawns.

0600 8 Sc RAIN
till 1200
Some sun pm
Clearer later

0800 RAIN
about 2 hours
1300 RAIN
about 3 hours
HEAVY ~1500
Some sun-breaks

Some sun
1830 6 Ci Sun

Some sun.

0600 8 S
1000 Brighter
Some sun later

Walked up to the Co-op along the long axis of the recreation ground, getting a welcome sense of space and 'big sky'.

<=4 Ci & Cu Sun Warm
->
1700 7 Ac-allop, As
1800 RAIN
1930 cont.

Dark, wet day, with the rain coming very unusually from the East. Think it's the first time I've seen rain on the back (NE) windows since I moved in here. 8 RAIN from E
1730 Clear crack

<=5 Cu Sun
Wind E
Cool

0900 4 large Cu Sun
Breezy
Gradually -> 8 Sc

Another cold night and early morning.

0600 FROST?
Some sun
1600 8 As/4 small dirty Cu
1800 8 Sc

Again warm in the sun, but the air cold. Rather tiring - intense colours in the spring sun. A bit too much, sort of.

<4 Sun

Warm sun, but the air still quite cold.

0-5 Cu Sun
More 2 Ci by 2000

Beautiful sunny day, but cold in the wind while warm out of it. Suffered rather from hay fever (rape blossom).

0-5 Cu
Sun
Fresh breeze

Beautiful weather - bit of a breeze but sunny and warm.

Sun Cloud rising to ~5 Cu, then clearing
Fresh breeze

<=8 Sc Some sun
clearing
1730 ~2

Much sun
~3-6 Cu/Sc

Typically 3 Ci Sun
Cloudier later
Warmer

Sun and Cu
Windy
Colder

Nasty wet day, and I was in a nasty glum mood for most of it.

0700 RAIN
Some sun
2000 RAIN

8 '9p' Sc
0930 RAIN
1030 stops

<8 Sun
->1900 8

8 but bright
1900. 8 Sc-allop
2230 8 Moon-through

Weather today - bright and grey, with the new green leaves against the stone buildings in town - reminded me very much of April 1990. Indeed of all 3 April months at uni.

Btw, the poor air quality was quite tangible on my long walk today. Unpleasant.

8 but bright

Earlier part of day sunny but very hazy - turns out this was partly due to combination of Saharan dust and high pollution levels, as were the other hazes earlier this week.

...1200 Sun
->1800 8 Sc bright

Cool and misty at first, but turned into a warm spring afternoon.

Another day with dark altostratus, which (again) oddly the sun was able to penetrate all day. Though this time there were showers about 5pm.

Got to Warwick at 4.30. Stopped for a quick walk round the park in the pleasant, hazy sunshine. Thought how happy I was compared to the last time I was walking round there, when I was just beginning hoping that I could go forward. Can that have been last spring?

Hazy sun

Very warm today, too hot to wear my wool coat in town really.

0 hazy sun all day
Warm

Interesting sky today, sun through altostratus, but all day. Usually it thickens till the sun vanishes, but not today. Indeed it got thinner in the afternoon and then reverted to how it had been.

8 As Sun-through all day

Typically 6 large Cu
Hazy
Sun

Cold day, more like very early March. Got soaked walking home in cold rain. Rather dampening of the spirit if I hadn't been already starting my holiday.

Some sun Cold
SHOWERS with HAIL and SPELLS OF RAIN

Typically 6 hazy Cu Sun
More Ci later

Very cold in the morning, heavy frost. Sun shone strongly later, but it was still quite a cold day. Wonderful intense blue and white sky colours at lunchtime.

0700 0 HEAVY FROST
->Sun
0800 <1 Cu
1200 4 Cu
1900 Cs: 7? *-through

Good showery day.

1000 <8 large Cu Sun
1030 SHOWER
1400 SHOWER with HAIL
1600 THUNDER heard

1100 6 large Cu Sun
1230 HEAVY SHOWER with HAIL

0700 8
0900 [s ->>]Sun Cold
2000 0? *

Sun earlier
->
1700 8 Windy
2200 RAIN

Some sun
Clearer in evening
Colder

Cloudier earlier
1600 6 Cu Sun
Cooler

Some sun

0800 0 Sun
1500 3 Ci
Warm

The walk back had to be taken slowly because of the extra distance. But it was one of those pleasant journeys I occasionally have. I was in no hurry, it was warm with a hazy sun, it was Saturday and a wine night, so it was easy to enjoy it.

0900 Some sun
1800 Clearing towards (0) Moon
2100 4 Ci Moon

Thick fog in the morning, very quiet and peaceful. Tried the new bridge over the river down by the gasworks on my walk to work.

0600 SKY OBSCURED FOG 50m
1200 ~4 Ci Sun Haze.

Another warm day.

Much sun
Warm

Almost as nice a day as Sunday, except with more cloud later on. Too hot to wear my grey coat (either one) on walk back to work at lunchtime, so had to wear brown corduroy one. I do like that jacket, and it's not so bad a shape.

0700 0 Sun
1300 4 Ci

Some sun
1600 ->0 Sun

0700 4 Ci Sun
->1500 <=8 Sc
Wind cold N

Beautiful weather, not a cloud in the sky all day. Wouldn't have been out of place as a day in May.

In the afternoon got out in the garden: dug potato beds over, mowed lawns. Saw a butterfly drying its wings on the path.

0800 0 Sun
Same all day
Warm

7/8 Ac, Ci, Cu/As Sun-through
Warm

Rather spring-like today - cold first thing though.

Much sun

The second time recently that we've had a classic red or yellow morning sky, but no rain.

<8 Ci, As, Ac
Some sun

Beautiful cloudless morning.

0700 0 ->Sun FROST
1200 4 small Cu
1600 6 Cu, Ci

Beautiful weather at first, then seemed to cloud over very suddenly at 3pm.

0700 0 -> Sun
Suddenly 1500 8 Sc

Looked like being a dismal day, but the dull start had blown away by 10am.

0700 Some RAIN->
1200 6 large Cu, Ac, Ci Sun

1200 <8 Sun
1500 8 Sc '9p' Windy
1800 RAIN

Much sun
Typically 6 large Cu, Ac
1800 0

Started raining just as I got to work at 8am, and carried on all day. Still going now 11½ hours later. Horrible thin cold rain too.

0700 8 dark '9p' Sc
0800 RAIN
cont
1930 cont.

Horrible wet morning, got soaked walking to work.

0700 8 S RAIN
1000 stops
1200 6 Cu Sun

Beautiful weather: cloudless, small fair-weather Cu, large storybook Cu and back to cloudless again after a spring-like evening.

Cold whenever the Sun went in though. But there's nothing like a brisk walk on a cold, sunny, breezy day with white fluffy clouds, and an appetite, and lunch ready when you arrive.

0700 0
->Sun
1200 4 Cu
1300 5 large Cu
1900 0 *

0700-1100 showers
Some sun

0600 <8 Some sun
1700 7 high dark Sc

8 Sc
1600 <8 Sun breaks

Very pleasant day, quite warm with little fair-weather cumuli. I expected those to proliferate and flatten, which indeed they did.

0900 <1 Sun
1100 3 small fair-weather Cu
1300 6 flat Cu
1900 ~5 As, Ac

0700 FROST
Much sun
Windy
1600 4 flat Cu

c.1200 RAIN
<8

RAIN overnight
[s +>]1200 6 Cu, Ci Sun
->1600 8 high Sc

It was a beautiful sunny evening about 4.45, like spring but cold.

0900 <8 As, Sc Sun
SHOWERS ALL DAY to 1600
6 Cu Sun
1930 RAIN

0700 Sun
->8
1700 <8 As Sun-through

Beautiful sunny day, a real contrast from recently.

The first Sunday diary of the year to be written in daylight - though I am writing about an hour earlier than usual, at 5pm.

0900 Sun
Typically 4 Cu
1700 6 Ci

Very windy last night, to that degree where there are draughts in rooms which don't usually have them.

Walking back, weather seemed to be almost exactly like it was last week, huge shower clouds with virgae. But then that's what it's been like this winter; the weather has been quite incredible. I think I first got the idea that the climate had gone wrong about June 1997, when we had all that rain: I'd been familiar with the theory of warming for at least a decade, but had not perceived any possible effects till then.

0900 Sun
1400 6 large Cu virgae
RAIN at times
Windy all day

Alliterative date. Another wet day, but fortunately it cleared up for my walks to and from work.

0700 8
0900 RAIN
~1600 stops
1830 RAIN
2300 cont
Very windy

Another stormy day, but without much actual rain. Some massive cumuli with virgae in the afternoon, really impressive. 0600 0 *
->8
0900 SHOWER
1600 Huge Cu with virgae seen
Windy

0700 Sun
->1000 8 Windy
1400-1700 HEAVY SQUALLY RAIN
1700 Rapid ->0 Sun

0700 <8
0800 8 RAIN
Brightening
1400 ~2 Sun Cold

Really wet morning. Very black clouds about 4.30pm but the subsequent heavy shower didn't really live up to the billing. Quite a stormy sky still now about 6pm - depression after depression rolling in off the Atlantic this winter, it's quite remarkable.

RAIN overnight
1400 stops
Some sun p.m.
1630 HEAVY SHOWER -> Rainbow
1800 7 large Cu

Windy
Some sun

Cold, very windy, showery day.

1200 HEAVY SHOWER
Sun Windy gusting F7
1430 SHOWER CuNi an. seen
1700 4 small Cu

RAIN overnight
0800 stops
->4 Cu Sun Cold

Rain arrived as forecast at 10am, still raining now.

0800 8
1000 RAIN
1700 cont

Wind and rain again - getting quite bad in the S.W. of the country I hear.

RAIN overnight
WINDY
->4 Sun
Increasingly WINDY in day

0800 Sun
Much sun
Evening - windy

Weather much drier, many of the familiar puddles finally shrinking.

0730 0 Sun
1600 6
2000 4 *

Rather strange weather, couldn't decide whether it was like a cold spring day or a warm winter one.

0900 Sun
Typically 0-6/8 Ci,Ac/Cs

February first, Boot... Beautiful weather though, warm - the butter had got soft in the evening.

Walking earlier the low sun was dazzling and quite warm, but a cold gale was blowing in my face, creating a strange combined impression of being at the seaside in summer.

0800 Sun
1300 2 Ci
Cloudier later
1700 0 Moon

In the afternoon went to the Co-op: coming out about 2.45 had one of those 'rare moments of happiness', or perhaps just pleasantness - it was calm and grey and just beginning to rain, and I'd done all the stressful bits of the day.

Wind increasing
Typically 8 some sun
1500 RAIN
1900 cont
2300 cont

Yet again it was raining: a very wet January this has been. The puddle in Station Rd has been there all month.

0400 RAIN
->~1200
1400 <8 Sun

0400 RAIN
~1000 stops
2030 RAIN

Wrote up about 1½ years of temperature observations that I've been procrastinating about.

0800 Sun
->+cloud
1600 8
1700 RAIN

Some sun
RAIN am

Strolled round town, though I didn't enjoy the latter as much as usual due to nasty cold rain. 1000 8
1100-1700 RAIN
1800 Clearing

Massive thunderstorm at about 5pm - very strong squalls, lightning, the works. Cold front obviously, with the rain last night and the warmer day today. 0900 8
Brighter later Some sun
1645 THUNDERSTORM
then colder

0900 7 mAck Sun
2130 RAIN

0700 8
0900 7 Ac a bit A.C.ish
1000 LIGHT RAIN
1100 HEAVY RAIN
1300 stops
some sun

0600 RAIN
0730 8 stopped
Some sun later

Cold, foggy day. Very thick fog on my way to Waitrose at lunchtime.

0600 SKY OBSCURED FOG Moon-through
FROST Sun-through Cold
1000 THICK FOG 50yds
1630 clears *

Much colder today.

0700 0 FROST
->Sun
Colder .

Sunny but cold out of the sun. Been warmer weather this winter though.

0800 Some sun
1300 Cu seen

1000 8
->some sun
1700 6 Ac
Cold

Really wet morning, one of those JB Priestley ones 'like gigantic bombs full of dirty water bursting'. It's been a very wet few weeks in fact.

0700 RAIN
continues
~1100 stops
1500 4 Sun

0700 8
Some sun later
1700 DROPS OF RAIN

0700 8 S RAIN
0800 stops
1400 RAIN
1700 Clearing

Some sun
Cold
1900 3/8 Ac/Cs Moon halo
Windy

Very cold and clear in the morning, but no frost: it'd been raining in the night and everything was very wet instead. Quite odd.

RAIN overnight
0700 0 [s->]Sun

Cold overnight, cold in the morning and pretty cold in the afternoon when the sun had gone in.

0800 4 Ac Sun FROST
->1500 8

Cold bright day.

0900 ~2 small Cu Sun COLD
1900 0 Moon

0700 0 FROST
->Sun
->~4 Ac, Ci

0730 LIGHT RAIN 8 low Ac
0830 stops
1700 0 Moon

RAIN overnight
0700 <8
8 but bright

0700 8
0830 RAIN
1000 HEAVY RAIN
1200 stops
Some sun

0700 6 Ac
Windy
0800 HEAVY RAIN
0900 stops

0800 0
0900 2 Ac
1200 8 As Sun-through
1300 8 S
1900 WINDY
2030RAIN

Rather a dark wet day.

Some sun
Typically 8
RAIN at times esp 1600

0900 0 Sun
PM HEAVY SHOWERS
1800 0 Moon

0500 RAIN
0700 stops
Typically 2 Sun

Seems a tradition for New Year's Day to have foul weather - dark skies today, wind and rain.

0900 8
Windy\m1400 RAIN