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Weather guide for the week ahead and a retrospective too. I enjoy comparing where I have lived of late (West Wales) with where I was born and bred (Midlands)

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I enjoy comparing where I was born and bred (Midlands) with where I have lived of late (West Wales) by logging daily weather across these regions and summarising each month/ year...

 

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Weather guide (severe weather update): Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th January 2013

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3] [b]Headline: Disruptive heavy snowfalls, very cold.[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3] Due to popular request and in view of the upcoming interesting and most probably severe weather here is a mid week update:[/size][/font][font=arial, sans-serif][size=3] Warwickshire had around an inch of snow on Monday, but so far this Winter the snow has missed West Wales, bar a few flurries. A weak front over the Irish Sea is giving some very light snow

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 7th to Sunday 13th July 2014

[font=Helvetica][b]Headline: Sunny spells and a few showers; wet in places Thursday; warm with thundery shower potential next weekend[/b][/font] [font=Helvetica][color=rgb(0,0,0)]June 2014 was a rather warm month with variable but generally below average rainfall, just a few spots in the Midlands being wetter than normal due to localised downpours[/color][color=rgb(0,0,0)] [/color][color=rgb(0,0,0)]towards the end of the month. Some monthly totals:[/color][/font] [font=Helvetica][color=rgb

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 26th January to Sunday 1st February 2015

[color=rgb(0,0,0)][font=Helvetica] [b]Headline: Mostly dry and quite mild Monday/ Tuesday; cold and often windy with wintry showers and some longer spells of sleet or snow Wednesday onwards[/b] [b]Last weeks highlights[/b] Quite a cold week just gone, the coldest of what has been quite a mild Winter to date, however only a few areas saw much in the way of snow: hard frost across Wales last Sunday night lowest readings -7.6c Llanwnnen, -7.5c Sennybridge and -5.6c Trawsgoed followed by a

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TonyH

Weather Guide Sunday 20th To Saturday 26th May (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Becoming dry, warm and quite sunny! [/b] The week just gone was not too bad overall with plenty of dry weather, if generally rather cool. Llanwnnen did manage to reach 18c on Friday though, which is a little above the May average. A total of 20mm of rain falling on Llanwnnen, and only 10mm on Coventry in the past week. A taste of Summer on the way in the coming week (let's hope it's not the last!), with the highest temperatures since that exceptionally warm spell in March.

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 28th Jan to Sunday 3rd February 2013 (West Wales and the Central MIdlands)

[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial][b]Headline: Very unsettled and windy, spells of rain and showers, heavy at times, localised flooding, cooler later[/b][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial]What a wintry week! Not especially cold for West Wales, surprisingly, with all the snow about, here at Lampeter there were no 'Ice days' and no hard frosts or windscreens to scrape. It was a very overcast spell, the cloud blanket preventing temperatures from falling below -4c here. However the 9cm s

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TonyH

Weather Guide Monday 11th To Sunday 17th June (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b] [b]Headline: Very unsettled, plenty more rain, more flooding prospects. Cool.[/b][/b] With just over a week of June gone most places in west Wales and the central MIdlands have already reached or exceeded the average June rainfall for the whole month. The Midlands had well over an inch last weekend, while Llanwnnen had over 2 inches falling over Thursday and Friday. These amounts, however, pale into insignificance compared with the amounts that fell over north Ceredigion and around Mach

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 4th to Sunday 10th February 2013 (West Wales and the Midlands only)

[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial][b]Headline: Mostly cold with wintry showers and night frosts; possible snow events later in the week.[/b][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial]Rain amounts this past week were not high enough to give more than localised flooding. A mild week gone with no frosts until the slight ones this weekend. For the month of January temperatures averaged out a little below normal, while rainfall was close to average for both West Wales and Warwickshire, with 120m

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 21st to Sunday 27th January 2013

[size=3][color=#000000][font=arial][b]Headline: Continuing very cold with more snow at times, snow cover persisting. Thaw possible next weekend[/b][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial]The snows duly arrived on Friday, for most of us. Carmarthen and some other spots somehow remained green oases in a white West Wales landscape, neighbouring Pembrokshire, Llanelli and all surrounding hills received at least a cm or so. Depths of snow heard about incude: Llanwnnen 9cm, Llanelli 4cm, Aberyst

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TonyH

Weather Guide Sunday 29th April To Saturday 5th May (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Very wet and windy Sunday, then some rain or showers, but generally drier and and milder[/b] This month is going some way to easing the water shortage in parts of the UK, and will end up one of the wettest April's on record; Llanwnnen has had over 5 inches rain so far and Rugby over 4 inches. The record for Coventry is 106mm (just over 4 inches), and so with a very wet Sunday coming up, a good chance this will become the wettest April on record. Another low pressure system

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TonyH

Weekly weather guide Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th December 2012 (west Wales and the Midlands)

[b]Headline: Rather cold, rain or showers at times; frosty at times, snow less probable.[/b] A reprieve from the rain last week, only 4mm falling since Monday here. As the models predicted it turned cold from mid week, and on Thursday morning Llanwnnen was colder than anywhere else in the UK getting down to -7.5c and only managing 1.8c during the day - very cold for November. Church Lawford, Warwickshire, had a minimum of -5c on Saturday morning. Turning milder early this week briefly, then g

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TonyH

Weather guide Early May Bank Holiday Monday 6th to Sunday 12th May 2013

[font=arial][size=3][b]Headline: Changeable, some rain or showers, cool down mid-week, a drier and perhaps warmer weekend[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]A lovely dry and fairly sunny spell lasted until Thursday gone. We were in a cool air mass so although it felt pleasant in the strong sunshine, clear skies at night gave a run of late Spring frosts. Lowest readings include -2.9c here on Tuesday night, while Bablake, Coventry had it's lowest May reading since 1984 getting down to -0.5c,

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 29th April to Sunday 5th May 2013 (Midlands and West Wales inclusive)

[b]Headline: Mainly dry with sunny spells but rather cool with further frosts; unsettled to end the week[/b] Another week has passed with only small amounts of rain, 12mm falling at Llanwnnen and just 5mm at Coventry in the past 7 days. Spring 2013 is turning out quite dry thus far. The Midlands turned warm with sunshine mid week, and we even managed the one mild day here in West Wales, as Tuesday reached 16.4c in my back garden. Big temperature contrasts on Thursday as a cold front slowly ed

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 11th to Sunday 17th March (central Midlands and West Wales)

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][b]Headline: Very cold with some snow showers, becoming less cold with some rain, night frosts[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]The prolonged dry spell has ended, although not spectacularly so, with only small amounts of rain for some of us over recent days, so only a meagre 4mm here so far this month. Llanwnnen managed 21 dry days on the trot up to last Wednesday, 3 or 4 weeks is about as long a dry spell as we can expect here in damp West Wal

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TonyH

Weekly look back and ahead Monday 12th to Sunday 18th August 2013

[font=arial][size=3] [b]The week gone was mixed[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]The low pressure at the start of the week gave some large rainfall totals over Wales and parts of the West Midlands. In the 48 hours up to Monday evening Mumbles near Swansea had a massive 76mm (3 inches), while Hereford had 45.2mm. Monday was the coolest day at Llanwnnen since July 3rd with a cool high of just 17.7c, although the Midlands had a warmer day. Some pleasant weather after all the rain, it becam

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th December 2013

[font=arial][size=3][b]Headline: Dry with some frost and fog to mid week; cold snap likely Friday to Sunday with wintry showers in places[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial][size=3]November ended on a dry, quiet note, very little rain falling anywhere in the final week. After a rather cold start temperatures recovered to around the late November average from mid week and Saturday was sunny for most with parts of West Wales such as Milford Haven topping a rather mild 10c. Overall November 2013 was

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 13th to Sunday 19th October 2014

[color=rgb(0,0,0)][font=Helvetica][size=4][b]Headline: Unsettled with rain at times, very mild but more windy from Thursday[/b][/size][/font][/color] [color=rgb(0,0,0)][font=Helvetica][size=4][b]Last weeks highlights:[/b][/size][/font][/color] [color=rgb(0,0,0)][font=Helvetica][size=4]Last week was unsettled with near average temperatures, West Wales (WW) in particular had a wet week. Heavy rain and strong winds last Sunday night into Monday gave 25.9mm at Llanwnnen and this was the wettes

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TonyH

Weather prospects for west Wales and the Midlands New Year's Eve to Saturday 6th January 2013

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][b]More rain and wind at first, then becoming mostly dry and mild [/b][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]The floods in the Midlands receded through the past week, as rainfall lessened, however there was still a substantial 40mm during the past week at Rugby. West Wales has had another very wet week with just over 3 inches (77mm) falling back home at Llanwnnen. All this rain has made 2012 one of the wettest years on record, Llanwnnen needs 2 inches

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TonyH

Latest weekly guide: Christmas Eve to Sunday 30th Dec 2012 (west wales and the Midlands)

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][b]Headline: Continuing very unsettled, further spells of rain and localised flooding. Average to mild temperatures[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]A very wet wet week gone- totals of 50mm for Coventry and 79mm at Llanwnnen, 41mm of this falling in the 24 hours to midnight last night alone at the latter. Coventry and Warwickshire in 2012 has had double the rainfall that fell in 2011, 800mm or so against 400mm or so. Llanwwnen has had a thor

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd December 2012 (W Wales and Midlands only)

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3] [b]Headline: Unsettled with rain and wind at times; rather cold to mild temperatures[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]A decent cold snap last week. The Midlands was especially cold due to persistent freezing fog, this meant that Coventry failed to top 0c on both Tuesday and Wednesday, while at least west Wales enjoyed plenty of albeit chilly sunshine.[/size][/font][b] [/b][font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Night-wise, Llanwnnen got down to -7.4c

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TonyH

Weather Guide Monday 8th To Sunday 14th October 2012

[b]Headline: Mixed; some rain, but dry spells too. temperatures around average[/b] This weekend's dry weather has been welcome, after rain falling on every day for almost 2 weeks here in west Wales. The Midlands on the other hand had a reasonably dry week until Thursday. A cool start to October, following on from the coolest September for almost 20 years. No real warmth again in the coming week, although as we progress through October we should not expect this really, as Summer rapidly recede

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TonyH

Weather Guide Monday 4th To Sunday 10th June (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Very unsettled, plenty of rain, and often quite cool[/b] The long fine and very warm spell is over, however fairly warm and humid air lingered until this weekend here in west Wales. While Rugby only reached 14c in cool drizzly conditions on Saturday, Llanwnnen managed a humid 23c. June is ushering in with a very unsettled, low pressure dominated and none too warm outlook. May taken overall had slightly above normal temperatures, the statistics masking the heat towards the mo

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TonyH

Weather outlook for west Wales and the Midlands Monday 10th to Sunday 16th December 2012

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][b]Headline: Cold, sunny and frosty to mid week. Unsettled and turning less cold, with rain at times from Thursday (outside chance of snow in places)[/b][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]A mixed, unsettled and quite cold week gone, almost two inches of rain falling here. Few places saw more than a few flakes of snow during the week, and it looks as though this theme SHOULD continue. However, were I typing this guide last Thursday I would have been

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TonyH

Weather guide Monday 19th to Sunday 25th November 2012 (cf. west Wales and central Midlands)

[b]Headline: Unsettled, rain and strong winds at times; average to mild temperatures[/b] Most places reached 13 or 14c mid week, well above the mid November average (10c). Llanwnnen saw the highest reading of the month (13c) on Tuesday afternoon soon followed by the lowest (-1.6c) on Thursday morning. This was due to the importation of less mild Continental air late on Wednesday bringing clearing skies which caused all the fog and local frost on Thursday. It was notable how thick was the fog

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TonyH

Weather Guide Sunday 17th To Saturday 23rd June (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Drier than of late, still some showers; rather warm mid week. Unsettled end to week.[/b] A slight respite from the cool, wet weather for a few days last week, particularly for west Wales. During Tuesday and Wednesday, we enjoyed some warm sunny spells raising temperatures to an average 19c. There were, however, very heavy showers about on these days too, but Llanwnnen missed the worst of these. I experienced a torrential shower just 2 miles from home on Tuesday afternoon, and an

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TonyH

Weather Guide Monday 7th To Sunday 13th May (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Unsettled, more rain or showers at times, temperatures close to average. Looking dry next weekend.[/b] Although overall April 2012 was the wettest on record for the UK, this was not the case at Coventry where the final amount fell just 2mm short of the all time record of 106mm, nor for Ceredigion, with Llanwnnen receiving 126mm rain compared with the 186mm that fell on Lampeter in April 1998. However, Rugby had almost three times the April average with 129mm falling, and probably

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