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2004 monthly weather summary

JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH

Another mild month across the UK. Rainfall was above average across most areas, with eastern areas receiving well above average. The best of the sunshine was in the south and east, with northwestern having less than average sunshine.

28 cm of snow was recorded at Glenlivet (Moray) on the 29th. Scampton (Lincs) reported -8.0 °C on the 28th.

A very mild and wet start to the month, but ending cold with widespread frosts and snow, in most areas. Very sunny across most of the UK, except for parts of south-east England and the Northern Isles which had around average sunshine.

Capel Curig (Conwy) registered 260 mm in 48 hours during the 3rd & 4th. Gravesend (Kent) recorded a high of 17.9 °C on 4th, whilst Sennybridge (Powys) recorded a low of - 10.9 °C on 27th. Durris (Aberdeenshire) reported 25 cm, and Glenlivet (Moray) reported 18 cm, of lying snow on 28th.

Another month with above average mean temperatures, across the whole of the UK. Most areas experienced below average rainfall, and it was much sunnier than average across northern and western areas.

Northolt (London) recorded a temperature of 20.1 °C on the 31st. Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) recorded a temperature of -12.0 °C on the 2nd.

APRIL
MAY
JUNE

A wet month across the majority of the UK, with the exception being parts of N Wales and NW England, which experienced less than average rainfall. Another month of well above average temperatures across the whole of the UK. However, many northern and western areas experienced well below average sunshine.

Sennybridge recorded a low of -4.0 °C on 9th, whilst central London reached 23.4 °C on 24th. Sheffield recorded 33 mm of rainfall in an hour on 26th, and near Worcester, 43 mm fell in 2 hours overnight 26/27th.

A dry month across most parts of the UK, with the main exception being the far south-east, which experienced more than average rainfall. Sunshine was close to, or above normal across all areas. Mean temperatures were again above average across the whole of the UK, with the highest anomaly over Scotland E.

Temperature ranged from -3 °C to 20 °C at Altnaharra on 27th. London Weather Centre recorded a temperature of 25.3 °C on 19th.

Above average rainfall totals across most northern parts of the UK, with the south and south-east receiving below average rainfall. Mean temperatures were above average, despite a cool second half of the month. Above average sunshine over southern and south-western England.

Cambridge recorded a temperature of 31.5 °C on 8th. The maximum temperature was only 9 °C on 19th at Aviemore. The central pressure at 0600 on the 23rd was 982 hPa, making it one of the deepest depressions recorded in June over England and Wales. Wettest June at Kinloss, since records began in 1951.

JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER

The UK as a whole, experienced close to average mean temperatures, rainfall and sunshine. However there were large variations in rainfall, with some areas of eastern England receiving well over double their average rainfall, whilst some places in Scotland had less than half of their average rainfall.

Wittering recorded 108 mm in the 24 hour period to 5 p.m. on the 8th, with 51 mm recorded in just two hours. Central London recorded 30.1 °C on 29th.

   
   
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