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Weather in brief
Yesterday
Wednesday 11 November 2026
A grey, damp Wednesday: 4.6 mm of rain and no sunshine.
Rain: 4.6 mm, over double the 2.2 mm normal for the date and the wettest day of the month so far. It was the second-wettest 11 November since 2009, behind 12.3 mm in 2017. The peak hourly fall was 1.2 mm.
Temperature: 6.6 °C to 9.9 °C (mean 8.5 °C), close to the 1991–2020 mean of 8.3 °C. The daytime maximum ran 0.8 °C below normal, which makes it the 11th day in a row with a maximum below normal.
Sunshine: none at all, against a normal 2.8 hours.
Temperature: mean 8.3 °C, 0.6 °C below the 1991–2020 normal, and the 5th-coldest start since 2009. Maxima have averaged 10.4 °C (1.2 °C below normal), the 3rd-lowest on station record. The coldest night was 2.1 °C on the 9th.
Rain: 9.0 mm, just 37% of the normal to date and the 3rd-driest start since 2009. Half of it fell on the 10th and 11th, and the 11th (4.6 mm) was the wettest day so far.
Sunshine: 10.0 hours, 31% of normal and the 3rd-dullest start since 2009, with 6 sunless days. The best day was 3.2 hours on the 7th.
2026 is the warmest and sunniest year to date since 2009 so far, with rain a little below normal.
Temperature: mean 14.2 °C, 2.1 °C above the 1991–2020 normal and the warmest start to 11 November on station record. The year's highest temperature was 35.8 °C, reached on both 26 June and 13 August, and the lowest was −4.0 °C on 06 January.
Sunshine: 1,800.9 hours, 122% of normal and the sunniest on station record for this span (the previous-years average is 1,433 hours).
Rain: 481.2 mm, 93% of normal, with 75 rain days of 1 mm or more. The maximum hourly rate of 32.0 mm was the second-highest since 2009.
There were 10 air frosts, and snow fell on at least 2 days. Fog was noted on at least 8 days and thunder on 5.
October 2026: sunniest October on station record, with a wet second half and record early warmth
153.6 hours of sunshine (130% of normal) beat 2018's 153.0 for the sunniest October since 2009. 04 Oct (9.3 h) and 17 Oct (7.6 h) set date records.
Mean 12.9°C, 1.2°C above normal and 7th-warmest of 18 station Octobers. Highs ran 1.8°C above. 04–06 Oct each set a date record, peaking at 22.5°C on the 5th, and 15 Oct set date records for both max (21.2°C) and min (13.9°C). The coldest night was only 6.0°C (21st), the mildest monthly minimum since 2009, with no air frost.
Rain 89.6 mm (138% of normal), 7th-wettest since 2009. A 9-day wet spell (16–24 Oct) ended with 23.8 mm on the 24th, a date record. 07 Oct (7.4 mm) also set one.
Fog was noted at 09 on the 30th. Gusts reached 42.6 mph on the 25th, the 2nd-highest October gust since 2009.
Mean pressure (1019.3 hPa) was the 2nd-highest for October on station record.
