Jump to content
Snow?
Local
Radar
Cold?
IGNORED

25th July-22nd August 1995: Hot, dry and sunny!


Recommended Posts

Posted
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine and 15-25c
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)

Have to say i think 1995 was the best summer hands down..better than 1976..and way ahead of 2003 or 2006..mind you 1989 often gets overlooked as a good summer..also July 1994 is often forgotten as a hot month....and my favourite June 2005 superb summer month.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Again thanks for these- I was particularly interested in seeing the background to that particular event. My weather records from Cleadon suggested a day of sunshine and showers on the 7th, a cloudy and very windy day on the 8th with showery rain, and then a brighter (though still windy) day on the 9th with light showers late on. I have vague recollections of some quite potent convection on the 7th, but don't have any 'photographic' recollections of subsequent days.

Presumably the occluded front on the 9th ended up just to the south-east of Cleadon, which would tally with Philip Eden's comment in Weather Log about Norwich having only 4 hours' sunshine from the 8th-15th June inclusive. However the subsequent period 10th-13th was also markedly cold, grey and drizzly over north-east England.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)

Such a poor June but an amazing July and August. The fickleness of British weather!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: G.Manchester
  • Location: G.Manchester

Such a poor June but an amazing July and August. The fickleness of British weather!

Was actually a very decent June. The last week of June was exceptionally warm. The 30th had a mean England temperature of 29.1c and was the 8th hottest day of the summer. The first half was rather cool but the second half was very warm.

The 13th had a mean at 14.0c. Only around 3c below normal.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)

Was actually a very decent June. The last week of June was exceptionally warm. The 30th had a mean England temperature of 29.1c and was the 8th hottest day of the summer. The first half was rather cool but the second half was very warm.

The 13th had a mean at 14.0c. Only around 3c below normal.

True, the last few days of June were hot, but much cooler earlier in the month.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

The first half of June 1995 had a strong west-east split as many of those forecasts illustrate- many western parts had some dry sunny interludes with maximum temperatures near normal and chilly nights, but it was cool and cloudy in the east- exceptionally so for East Anglia and south-east England. I didn't know that the negative anomaly for London was around 5 degrees though! It does highlight the warmth of the second half too, considering that Heathrow's mean temperature for June 1995 ended up very close to the long-term normal.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

I do remember one big thunderstorm in the middle of that summer which hit in the evening and seemed to go on all night. It may have been on the above date, but I don't remember.

There was an even bigger thunderstorm here on the night of 4-5th September, not long after the hot dry summer finally broke. I usually sleep through thunderstorms but this one woke me up. It was quite scary actually. The next day everywhere was flooded.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

I always associated Summer 1995 with a relatively thundery July (essentially a hotter, sunnier and less thundery version of July 1994) but much below average thunder activity in June and August. In Tyneside thunder activity was about normal with storms on the 11th/12th July, a weaker one on the 15th July, and hail and thunder from a north to north-westerly regime on the 27th August, though many other regions did fall somewhat short of the normal, particularly East Anglia.

Those 10th/11th July forecasts have a lot of nostalgic value as I remember watching the synoptics closely, being quite excited by the showery thundery period being forecast up to the time of the British Grand Prix (16th July).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Posted
  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam

Here's that scorching Countryfile forecast again of 30th July 1995

Here's the 2nd August 1995 forecast and a hint of some relief from the hot weather. I remember a couple of small thunderstorm during this period. They developed over the Pennines and pushed westwards on the flow.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • UK Storm and Severe Convective Forecast

    UK Severe Convective & Storm Forecast - Issued 2024-03-29 07:13:16 Valid: 29/03/2024 0600 - 30/03/2024 0600 THUNDERSTORM WATCH - FRI 29 MARCH 2024 Click here for the full forecast

    Nick F
    Nick F
    Latest weather updates from Netweather

    Difficult travel conditions as the Easter break begins

    Low Nelson is throwing wind and rain at the UK before it impacts mainland Spain at Easter. Wild condtions in the English Channel, and more rain and lightning here on Thursday. Read the full update here

    Netweather forecasts
    Netweather forecasts
    Latest weather updates from Netweather

    UK Storm and Severe Convective Forecast

    UK Severe Convective & Storm Forecast - Issued 2024-03-28 09:16:06 Valid: 28/03/2024 0800 - 29/03/2024 0600 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH - THURS 28 MARCH 2024 Click here for the full forecast

    Nick F
    Nick F
    Latest weather updates from Netweather
×
×
  • Create New...