[summer '85]

1950s
January 1950: Very mild first half:cold second half
http://www.ukweather...ld-second-half/

The late April 1950 snow event
http://www.ukweather...950-snow-event/

21st May 1950 tornado
http://www.ukweather...-21st-may-1950/

Hot start to June 1950
http://www.ukweather...t-to-june-1950/

The Times: The cold snowy December of 1950
http://www.ukweather...cember-of-1950/

The very cold wintry end of March 1952
http://www.ukweather...-of-march-1952/

Warm May of 1952
http://www.ukweather...rm-may-of-1952/

Horrific toll of winter 1952-53
http://www.ukweather...winter-1952-53/

Lightning tragedy: 1st June 1953
http://www.ukweather...-1st-june-1953/

Cold wet Coronation Day of 1953
http://www.ukweather...on-day-of-1953/

Exceptionally mild November-December 1953
http://www.ukweather...-december-1953/

The summer of 1954
http://www.ukweather...summer-of-1954/

Tornado hits London! 8th December 1954
http://www.ukweather...-december-1954/

Winter 1954-55
http://www.ukweather...t-railway-film/
http://www.ukweather...times-articles/

An exceptionally cold start to February.....

http://www.ukweather...rt-to-february/

30th July 1956: A Truely Horrific Summer's Day
http://www.ukweather...ic-summers-day/

August 1956: Cool and wet
http://www.ukweather...y-cool-and-wet/

A white Christmas in a very mild winter: 1956
http://www.ukweather...ld-winter-1956/

March 1957: Warmest on record
http://www.ukweather...d-50-years-ago/

April 1957: exceptionally dry
http://www.ukweather...eptionally-dry/

Late June 1957 heatwave
http://www.ukweather...e-50-years-ago/

Horror in the Fog: 4th December 1957
http://www.ukweather...-december-1957/

January 1958: Wide variation in temperatures
http://www.ukweather...n-temperatures/

August 1958: Wet and thundery for England and Wales
http://www.ukweather...land-and-wales/

Even during a very good summer....
http://www.ukweather...ry-good-summer/

5th September 1958: Hailstorms
http://www.ukweather...958-hailstorms/

Driest September on record: 1959
http://www.ukweather...land-and-wales/

1960s
The Times: The white New Year of 1962
http://www.ukweather...w-year-of-1962/

1962: The Times weather review of that year
http://www.ukweather...w-of-that-year/

Winter 1962-63
http://www.ukweather...l-in-winter-63/
http://www.ukweather...times-articles/

March 1965: Huge temperature range -21.7C to 25.0C
http://www.ukweather...e-217c-to-250c/

April 1966 - a largely forgotten snowstorml
http://www.ukweather...ten-snowstorml/

The Times: The Snow event of January 1968
http://www.ukweather...f-january-1968/

A proper Spanish plume: 1st of July 1968
http://www.ukweather...t-of-july-1968/

Supercell? July2nd 1968
http://www.ukweather...l-july2nd-1968/

Severe Flooding of September 1968
http://www.ukweather...september-1968/

The snowy Christmas of 1968
http://www.ukweather...istmas-of-1968/

February 1969
http://www.ukweather...-february-1969/


1970s
The March 1970 snowstorm
http://www.ukweather...1970-snowstorm/

June 1970
http://www.ukweather...5264-june-1970/

White Christmas 1970
http://www.ukweather...christmas-1970/

The exceptional mild spell of 9th-11th January 1971
http://www.ukweather...h-january-1971/

Severe gale 12th-13th November 1972
http://www.ukweather...-november-1972/

2nd/3rd April 1973 severe gales
http://www.ukweather...73-severe-gale/

Morning Cloud sinking
http://www.ukweather...-morning-cloud/


The cold October of 1974
http://www.ukweather...ctober-of-1974/

Early June 1975 snowfalls
http://www.ukweather...don-and-the-uk/
http://www.ukweather...-usher-in-june/

Summer 1975
http://www.ukweather...92-summer-1975/

Saturday August 9th 1975 Torrent
http://www.ukweather...h-1975-torrent/

January 1976: A change in pressure patterns
http://www.ukweather...ssure-patterns/

Summer 1976
http://www.ukweather...th-anniversary/

The Buffalo Blizzard of 1977
http://www.ukweather...izzard-of-1977/

20.2C: 2nd March 1977
http://www.ukweather...2nd-march-1977/

January 1978: Tornadoes, storm surges, blizzards...
http://www.ukweather...rges-blizzards/

Great blizzard of February 1978
http://www.ukweather...78-30-years-on/

Telegraph weather review of 1978
http://www.ukweather...review-of-1978/

Winter 1978-79
http://www.ukweather...egraph-reports/

Fastnet tragedy in 1979
http://www.ukweather...ragedy-in-1979/

Exceptional mild spell of late November-early December 1979
http://www.ukweather...-december-1979/

1980s
Thunderstorms of June 1980
http://www.ukweather...s-of-june-1980/

Mid June-mid July 1980: Chilly
http://www.ukweather...ly-1980-chilly/

March 1981: very wet
http://www.ukweather...-1981-very-wet/

The great wet snowstorm of April 1981
http://www.ukweather...-of-april-1981/

Daytime darkness August 1981
http://www.ukweather...th-august-1981/

23rd Nov 1981 - 105 tornadoes!
http://www.ukweather...-105-tornadoes/

Winter 1981-82
http://www.ukweather...-times-reports/

25th June 1982
http://www.ukweather...25th-june-1982/

Mid September 1982 heatwave
http://www.ukweather...ember-heatwave/

Jan/Feb 1983: Contrasting months
http://www.ukweather...rasting-months/

Cold wet May of 1983
http://www.ukweather...3-cold-and-wet/

July 1983: hot
http://www.ukweather...5744-july-1983/

December 1983 very mild
http://www.ukweather...1983-very-mild/

January/February 1985
http://www.ukweather...yfebruary-1985/

A northerly then an easterly: mid March 1985
http://www.ukweather...mid-march-1985/

All Night Thunderstorm of 25th-26th July 1985 in Ireland
http://www.ukweather...985-in-ireland/

Hot 1st October 1985
http://www.ukweather...r-1985scorchio/

Storm of 2nd December 1985
http://www.ukweather...-december-1985/

Winter 1985-86
http://www.ukweather...zero-cet-month/

Cold April 1986
http://www.ukweather...-april-of-1986/

The Thundery June of 1986
http://www.ukweather...y-june-of-1986/

August 1986 v August 1995
http://www.ukweather...-v-august-1995/

Ex hurricane Charley: late August 1986
http://www.ukweather...te-august-1986/

January 1987
http://www.ukweather...3-january-1987/

March 1987: Cold
http://www.ukweather...arch-1987-cold/

The warm April of 1987
http://www.ukweather...-april-of-1987/

June 1987
http://www.ukweather...7-20-years-ago/

Greek Heatwave
http://www.ukweather...-heatwave-1987/

The Severe Thunderstorms of 22nd August 1987
http://www.ukweather...nd-august-1987/


the Great October 1987 storm
http://www.ukweather...-storm-of-1987/

July 1988: cold and wet
http://www.ukweather...8-cool-and-wet/

December 1988 very mild
http://www.ukweather...-december-1988/

May 1989: a superb month!
http://www.ukweather...a-superb-month/

1990s

The "Burns' Day" storm of 1990
http://www.ukweather...-storm-of-1990/

Towyn floods: Febraury 1990
http://www.ukweather...ods20-years-on/

August 1990 heatwave
http://www.ukweather...itish-heatwave/

Christmas Day gale of 1990
http://www.ukweather...y-gale-of-1990/

Winter 1990-91
http://www.ukweather...winter-1990-91/

USA Feb 1991
http://www.ukweather...3-usa-feb-1991/

A tragedy leads to motorway hazard signs warning of adverse weather
http://www.ukweather...dverse-weather/

Very dry May of 1991
http://www.ukweather...ry-may-of-1991/

Cold June of 1991
http://www.ukweather...d-june-of-1991/

Pavawetti
http://www.ukweather...5428-pavawetti/

August 1991
http://www.ukweather...n-summer-month/

Thundery Spell From May 24th to June 29th 1992
http://www.ukweather...june-29th-1992/

September 1992: Thunderstorms, flooding
http://www.ukweather...torms-flooding/

December 1992: cold anticyclonic spell
http://www.ukweather...cyclonic-spell/


Summer 1993
http://www.ukweather...36-summer-1993/

December 1993: a wide variety of weather
http://www.ukweather...ety-of-weather/

winter 1993-94
http://www.ukweather...nter-of-199394/

6th January 1994 snowfalls catches people out
http://www.ukweather...hes-people-out/

November 1994: mildest on record
http://www.ukweather...on-record-1994/

11th December 1994: Exceptionally mild and wet
http://www.ukweather...y-mild-and-wet/

March 1995
http://www.ukweather...101-march-1995/

May 1995: heatwave to snow
http://www.ukweather...atwave-to-snow/

The cold surge of 30th June 1995
http://www.ukweather...30th-june-1995/

July 1995: hot and dry
http://www.ukweather...6031-july-1995/

25th July-22nd August 1995: Hot, dry and sunny!
http://www.ukweather...-dry-and-sunny/

8th October 1995
http://www.ukweather...an-summers-day/

Warm May 1992/Cold May 1996 contrast
http://www.ukweather...rm-may-of-1992/

Winter 1995-96
http://www.ukweather...ter-of-1995-96/

Heatwave and storms of early June 1996
http://www.ukweather...-thunderstorms/

New Year's Eve 1996: snow
http://www.ukweather...-eve-1996-snow/

June 1997
http://www.ukweather...__1#entry318192

Christmas Eve gale of 1997
http://www.ukweather...e-gale-of-1997/

Winter 1997-98
http://www.ukweather...nter-of-199798/

7th - 8th Jan 1998 - Selsey tornado
http://www.ukweather...selsey-tornado/

13th February 1998: 19.7C
http://www.ukweather...uary-1998-197c/

Floods and snowfalls of April 1998
http://www.ukweather...-of-april-1998/

Boxing Day gale of 1998
http://www.ukweather...y-gale-of-1998/

July 1999: Dry
http://www.ukweather...-1999-very-dry/

Lothar and Martin storms of December 1999
http://www.ukweather...har-and-martin/

April 2000: wet
http://www.ukweather...__1#entry789701

Autumn 2000: Phenomenally wet
http://www.ukweather...enomenally-wet/