Category Archives: Historical climatology

Wrap up well for St Valentine’s Day – a good chance of snow!

Posted on 8 February, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By Roger Brugge The days are getting longer, the nights are getting shorter, but the temperature keeps falling – and so does the snow. At least in the climatological statistics they do! Looking at the date of occurrence of the … Continue reading →

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Summer 2015 in Reading – the story so far

Posted on 17 August, 2015 by Stephen Burt

By Roger Brugge Now that we are half-way through August, the nights are getting longer and a Bank Holiday approaches, I thought it would be a good moment to take a preliminary look back on the summer of 2015 in … Continue reading →

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I blame Spain and France!

Posted on 13 July, 2015 by Stephen Burt

By Ross Reynolds I was concerned to read this warning published recently in a national newspaper, partly because to roast me would require perhaps 200 °C for quite a few hours, but to boil the air (see lower down the … Continue reading →

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Zeppelins at nine o’clock …

Posted on 15 June, 2015 by Stephen Burt

By Stephen Burt One of the interesting and rather unexpected benefits of compiling One hundred years of Reading weather, the book Roger Brugge and I have written as part of the Department’s 50th anniversary commemoration, was the unexpected insights provided into … Continue reading →

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