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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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Weather Guide Monday 3rd To Sunday 9th September 2012 (west Wales And The Midlands)

[b]Headline: Mostly dry and warm with sunny spells[/b] Some Summer...the wettest for 100 years for England and Wales overall -1912 being the wettest on record. Llanwnnen had a Summer rainfall total just short of 20 inches, so an exceptionally wet, dull and quite cool Summer. August has been the warmest month but this again tarnished by all the rain, over 6 inches falling at Llanwnnen. No spectacular heat all Summer really, Llanwnnen scraped 80f on the 10th August. Thunder occurred on just t
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Weather Guide August Bank Holiday Monday To Sunday 2nd September 2012

[b]Headline: Rather cool, sometimes windy, rain or showers at times to Thursday. Dry and warm start to September[/b] A short drier interlude for a few days last week for most of us, although the Lampeter area did get heavier and more widespread showers on Tuesday than anticipated!. The Aberystwyth area had thunderstorms during Friday, but yet again these evaded the Llanwnnen area! The Midlands experienced heavy showers and thunderstorms on Saturday.. August is turning into another thoroughly
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Guide Monday 20th To Sunday 26th August 2012

[b]Headline: Often dry and quite warm; unsettled and cooler with rain at times for the Bank Holiday weekend[/b] August has so far proven a rather warm but unsettled month, a vast improvement on the first half of Summer! During the past week Llanwnnen has received almost 2 inches of rain and it's pouring this morning, so a wet week. This weekend has been warm but nothing compared with South-east England which reached 32c on Saturday - the hottest of the Summer so far. Sunday will be equally hot
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Weather Guide Monday 13th To Sunday 19th August 2012 (west Wales And The Midlands)

[b]Headline: Unsettled, rain and showers, heavy at times, with warm, drier intervals between[/b] A mostly dry and warm week just gone, Llanwnnen reached 80f on Friday. Flashes of lightning here last night , but the thunderstorms stayed in the distance. A good dose of rain to come this week, especially for west Wales, but with warm, sunny intervals between times, these more likely for the Midlands. However, dry days at a premium in the coming week. A rather warm and humid Sunday afternoon,
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Weather Guide Monday 6th To Sunday 12th August 2012 (west Wales And The Midlands)

[b]Headline: Becoming warm, then even quite hot; mostly dry after Tuesday[/b] Although we have all seen quite a few showers in the past week, there has also been some decent dry and sunny spells between times, and with the temperatures close to the Summer average, feeling quite pleasant. Coventry and Rugby have, as is usual, experienced thunder with the showers over recent days, while here at Llanwnnen, no such luck, in fact I have not heard thunder since July 2011, quite a storm drought tha
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Weather Guide Monday 30th July To Sunday 5th August (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Unsettled with rain or showers at times; around average temperatures[/b] Summer arrived last week with temperatures into the low 80's for the Midlands, and completely dry for most of us until this weekend's showers, however even these have only produced a tiny 0.3mm here at Llanwnnen. We are now firmly back into a cooler, unsettled weather regime which is set to last well into the first half of August. The low 70's f will be the highest readings during the coming week, with ra
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Weather Guide Monday 23rd To Sunday 29th July 2012 (west Wales And Central Midlands)

[b][b]Headline: Warm and mostly dry until late in the week[/b][/b] April to July 2012 has already been the wettest such period in the 250 year England and Wales rainfall series, with an average of almost 20 inches falling in these soggy four months! At long last we are experiencing proper Summer weather with warm sunshine and dry days! It looks like the week ahead will turn even warmer with sunny spells and will be quite humid. Generally dry until Friday (start of the Olympics!) when it beco
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Weather Guide Monday 16th To Sunday 22nd July 2012 (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b][b]Headline: Unsettled, more rain or showers at times, could be a dry weekend, quite cool.[/b][/b] Another very unsettled and sometimes wet week just gone. For the Midlands it is turning into another very wet month, with over 3 inches already at Coventry, which is a little more than has fallen in usually wetter west wales. When the sunny intervals come along they feel warmer than they actually are, the highest reading of the week was just 19c here at Llanwnnen, which is barely up to the
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Weather Guide Monday 9th To Sunday 15th July (wet Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Cool and very unsettled, further showers or longer spells of rain at times[/b] A couple of warmish days last week, still nothing especially warm yet this summer though. Rugby has already had more rain this year than in the whole of 2011. Long range models showing little sign of improvement, and almost certainly no proper dry, warm and sunny spell before the end of July, in fact it's shaping up to be as exceptionally wet as was June. As for the coming week, we will be lucky indeed to reac
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Weather Guide Monday 2nd To Sunday 8th July 2012 (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Unsettled again; further rain and heavy showers at times, localised flooding mid week onwards, often quite cool[/b] June did manage to enter the records books as the wettest ever for England and Wales overall. Final totals: Llanwnnen, Lampeter 218mm = probably the wettest ever June locally Coventry, Bablake School over 140mm = not as wet as June 2007, but still well over twice the average Severe thunderstorms affected parts of the Midlands on Thursday, with hailstones of
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Weather Guide Monday 25th June To Sunday 1st July 2012 For The Central Midlands And West Wales

[b]Headline: Unsettled again; drier early week, rain and showers later. Warm and humid blip mid week.[/b] April to June 2012 has already been the wettest ever for this three month period (records back to 1766) for England and Wales overall. June itself may fall a little short of being the wettest ever, although it is up there with the wettest June's for many places. Llanwnnen is currently on 198mm (8 inches), while Coventry has had 128mm so far. In spite of a mainly dry, bright start to l
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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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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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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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Weather Guide Monday 28th May To Sunday 3rd June (west Wales/ Central Midlands)

[b]Headline: Warm with some showers to mid week, then mostly dry but cooler[/b] Some welcome dry, very warm and sunny weather in recent days. We all had a completely dry week just gone, the first one since March. West Wales was hot on Friday and again Saturday, reaching 28c in a few places, including Llanwnnen, and just missing out on breaking the all time May heat record of 29c for the Principality. Cooling off this week but probably still not much in the way of rain, just hit and miss
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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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Weather Guide Monday 14th To Sunday 20th May (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Cool and changeable; more rain and showers at times, with decent dry interludes. Frost risk mid week.[/b] The dismal, cool and soggy Spring continues relentlessly. A respite from the rain this weekend but a fairly unsettled outlook for the coming week, so still no prolonged dry or warm weather as yet. In fact, more late frosts are expected in the middle of the coming week. After a fairly sunny but windy weekend, the cloud from the next frontal system, attached to a deep low
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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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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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Weather Guide Sunday 22nd To Saturday 28th April 2012 (west Wales And Central Midlands)

[b]Headline: Continuing very unsettled with more rain and showers. Mostly cool.[/b] We all had a good dose of rain last week, with over an inch for most. With the set up having been generally showery of late, local variations have occurred, so that for example on Friday morning Lampeter only had a couple of short sharp showers, while inland from Aberystwyth a lot of heavy and prolonged downpours gave almost an inch of rain. Meanwhile the west coast of Pembrokeshire has stayed more or less d
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Weather Guide Sunday 15th To Saturday 21st April (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Dry bright start, then very unsettled with plenty of rain and showers. Rather cool.[/b] [font=arial, sans-serif]After the wet day Monday with almost an inch of rain, Llanwnnen and much of west west Wales dodged the showers until Friday, with plenty of dry weather and good sunny spells. Warwickshire too missed the worst of the showers this week, while other parts of the country saw several centimeters of lying hail and thunderstorms locally.[/font] [font=arial, sans-serif]The
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Weather Guide Easter Sunday To Saturday 14th April 2012 (west Wales And Warwickshire Specific)

[b]Headline: April showers, some longer spells of rain, cool to average temperatures[/b] A very sharp frost for April last Thursday night, down to -6c at Llanwnnen. Coventry had as much rain on Tuesday and Wednesday as it did in the whole of March. Rugby was even wetter receiving a very useful 24mm in the bid to prevent a hosepipe ban this Summer! These parts also saw a little snow for a while. West Wales has only had small amounts of rain of late, although this will change in the coming we
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Weather Guide Sunday April 1st To Easter Monday 2012 (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: Welcome rain, with hill snow possible Tuesday. Cool, sharp frosts mid to late week, mostly dry. Unsettled Easter[/b] Quite a week just gone, with Winter and Summer in a day, from scraping the ice off to sunbathing a few hours later. Hard to better for prolonged warmth and sunshine in March, even if the Welsh and English records remained in tact. Most of us saw 20 or 21c; with Llanwnnen having 4 consecutive days above 20c, while Coventry had it's warmest March day since 1965. For
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Weather Guide Monday 26th March To Sunday April 1st (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[b]Headline: More dry, very warm and sunny weather. Much cooler next weekend.[/b] All of us have seen very warm, sunny conditions over recent days, Saturday was exceptionally warm in west Wales, with most of Ceredigion reaching 20 or 21c, this being 9 or 10c above the late March average! Sunday is similarly Summer-like. More dry, very warm and mainly sunny weather for much of the coming this week. High pressure is currently centred over the North Sea dragging up this warm continental air f
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Weather Guide Sunday 18th To Saturday 24th March (west Wales And Central Midlands Specific)

[color=#000000] [b]Headline- Mostly dry: rather cloudy early on, then improving mid- week onwards to warm sunny spells for most. [/b][/color] Although mainly dry this past week, the high pressure which suggested some warm, and at times sunny weather, in reality contained a lot of quite cool, moist air. At least around Lampeter we did see a few very mild and sunny afternoons last week, however the Cardigan Bay coast and central MIdlands saw plenty of cloud and mist, with temperatures restri
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