Cool and wet month with a lion’s share of the wind

12:12pm Friday 18th April 2008

MARCH kept to tradition by coming in like a lion.

Illusions of summer by day but not in the earth

2:08pm Friday 21st March 2008

SUDDEN and extreme swings in the weather, characteristic of the past year or so, were again in evidence during February. This time there was a mild, wet and windy start and finish, either side of a dry, calm, clear and frosty interlude lasting over a fortnight.

None of us escaped a new year drenching

12:43pm Friday 15th February 2008

ACROSS the region, it was widely the wettest January for more than 25 years, apart from along the coast. Rainfall varied between 150 per cent and 250 per cent of normal from east to west. Accumulations ranged from about 90mm (3.4in) to almost a staggering 300mm (12in) up in the Dales, where one or two places suffered their worst drenching in any month since at least 1960.

A warm, wet and windy December

1:03pm Friday 11th January 2008

THE statistics for December show it to be a very average month but conceal the two highly contrasting weather types that we encountered.

Late rainfall brings end to driest autumn in 25 years

12:23pm Friday 14th December 2007

THE late summer and autumn dry spell lasted until November 17.