July 1934

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July 1934 was an interesting month with a heatwave and plenty of sunshine during the first third, a thundery spell during the middle third and a windy spell during the last third.

High pressure dominated the early stages of the month, CET up to the 13th was 19.2

Kew data (first value:maximum; 2nd value:sunshine hours)

1st: 78f, 13.7hrs

2nd: 78f, 11.0hrs

3rd: 77f, 8.9hrs

4th: 80f, 12.1hrs

5th: 77f, 14.8hrs

6th: 79f, 13.9hrs

7th: 82f, 14.1hrs

8th: 83f, 15.2hrs

9th: 80f, 12.3hrs

10th: 81f, 14.9hrs

11th: 83f, 14.0hrs

A total of 144.9hrs of sunshine in the first 11 days. (281.3hrs in total)

It was hotter in other places

8th

Cheltenham: 88f

9th

Rhyl: 88f

10th

Collumpton: 90f

Bath, Chester and Southport: 88f

11th

Sealand: 89f

Pressure from the 11th onwards and there were notable thunderstorms on the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st and 22nd

Thunderstorm reports

12th

Bettws-y-Coed, 3.18 inches in under 2 hours.

Trowbridge: 1.88 inches

Frinton (Suffolk): 2.7 inches

13th

Gorleston: 3.32 inches

17th

Fleetwood: 2.2 inches

18th

Lutterworth, Leicester: 1.05 inches in 30 minutes, 0.7 inch hailstones

Castleton: 2.15 inches in one hour

Kew: 1.07 inches in 16 minutes.

22nd

West Wickham (Kent): 4.55 inches in 1hrs and 40 minutes

61mph gusts were recorded on the 28th at Liverpool in a WNW flow

The CET for the month was 18.2, the warmest July since 1921

From the Times of July 1934

Edited June 28, 2009 by Mr_Data

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From Guardian of 7th July 1934

[SummerShower]

Looks like Northern and western areas favoured for heat in the 1st part of the month?  Might well have been a very easterly period

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From 9th July Guardian

[damianslaw]

Great article. Suspect the synoptics was a scandi high and light east drift. Hence the very warm temps I'm the west as opposed to the East. Nice to see Ambleside and Grange-over-Sands on the healty resort list.

 

[Alexis]

It was a 1025 high over the UK with an easterly component in the south. 850s were 16 in the south west, 10 into Scotland.

Edited July 4, 2021 by Alexis

[Timmytour]

Imagine high pressure like that staying on the scene all year.....it could provide us with a rerun of 1962-63   (Weather's  equivalent of "it's coming home!")

Alternatively it could slip south  provide us with one of the warmest Decembers ever, such as happened later in the same year when December 1934 came up with a mean CET of 0.4C above anything else that had been previously recorded for a December, and a record that was not beaten until 2015.

 

[Weather-history]

From 12th July 1934 Guardian

 

 

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The breakdown

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Fylde peninsula hit by a spectacular thunderstorm

 

Lightning but no thunder

Edited July 6, 2021 by Weather-history