24
November 2008
A clear rainbow could be seen from Adur Civic Centre.
Adur
Weather 2008
Link to the Shoreham Weather Reports for 2007
29
December 2008
The
air temperature fell to minus 1.5 °C at
8:00
am and there was a thin layer of ice over
my small duckweed-covered
fish pond in my garden in Corbyn Crescent,
Shoreham.
25
December 2008
Christmas
Day was cold and clear, a change from
the usual drizzle in previous years.
24
November 2008
A
clear rainbow
could
be seen from Adur Civic Centre.
4 -
7 September 2008
There
was more atrocious weather with heavy rain intermittently on all four days.
August
2008
The
poor weather continued for the whole month to be the worst August
in my lifetime of over fifty years.
14
August 2008
Rain
showers and imminent rain for most of the day prevented any excursions.
13
August 2008
A
persistant Strong Breeze at Force
6 for most of the day gusted regularly
to Gale Force 9
blowing the large tree branches around throughout the daylight hours. The
maximum gust was 52 mph.
Beaufort
Scale
12
August 2008
A
Strong Breeze at Force
6 for most of the day prevented any excursions.
6 August 2008
This photograph by James George (Jimbo) tells its own story
1
- 5 August 2008
It
was too breezy and overcast to assess the Chalkhill
Blues on Mill
Hill.
6-10
July 2008
Four
days of continual gales and heavy rainfall prevented any outside trips.
On the fifth day the planned trip was interrupted by a heavy rain shower.
11
May 2008
The
air temperature recorded at 24.5 °C at
3:00
pm, no wind and the warmest day of the year
so far.
10
May 2008
It
was a rather sticky 23.7 °C
at 3:00 pm, the
warmest day of the year so far.
7 May
2008
The
air temperature rose to 21.9 °C
at 4:00 pm, the
highest this year.
5 May
2008
On
Bank
Holiday Monday, it felt warm for the first
time this year as the temperature reached 20.0
°C at midday.
The wind was from the north at 13 mph (Force
4).
Met
Office Shoreham Weather
| 13
April 2008
I got caught out in a particularly heavy and sustained hail shower for about ten miniutes after 11:00 am. |
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7 April
2008
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Virtually all the snow has melted, although there was some ominous black clouds to the north, over the downs.
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A surprise
snowfall
continued through the morning to a measured depth of 75
mm on the pavement outside my home in residential
Shoreham. The Met
Office recorded temperature plummeted from 4°
C at 9:00 am
to 0° C freezing point
from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm,
rising to 3° C
by 6:00 pm. My
quick temperature reading was 5.5° C
at 10:00 am.
As
the temperature rose during the day most of snow in town melted leaving
a patchy and thin layer on the downs, all
the snow fell from the trees, although on the downs there was a remnant
of snow on north facing trunks in the afternoon.
North
Lancing Snow Gallery
10
March 2008
It
is blowing a gale for most of the day. At 8:00
am the southerly was blowing steadily at Gale
Force
8 gusting to
64 mph, Storm Force 11. At 2:00
pm the SSW was recorded at Gale
Force 8 gusting to Storm
Force 10. There was mid-morning lull when
the wind speed fell to Force 5
at 10:00 am.
The barometer read 972 hPa at
9:00
pm.
One
tree had broken its trunk and left as a stump in St.Mary de Haura churchyard
in central Shoreham. All the trees in Buckingham
Park, Shoreham, remained intact.
Met
Office Shoreham Weather
18
February 2008
The
temperature at 7:00 am
was recorded at minus 3° C
which would be the lowest this millennium at Shoreham.
Met
Office Shoreham Weather
5 February
2008
There
was the continual rain throughout the day, with very brief interludes.
There is no rainfall data at present for Shoreham.
4 February 2008
With Cumulus clouds like this, I expected rain. This may be Cumulus castellanus suggesting it would transform into a rain producing cloud.
Clouds
for Kids
Cloud
Types for Observers (Met Office)
Cloud
Index (Met Office)
3 February
2008
In
the early afternoon I cycled into the strongest east wind I have ever encountered
and I estimated a Force 7. The Met
Office Shoreham Weather recorded a SSE
37 mph (Force 7).
31
January 2008
In
the early afternoon the winds were recorded at Shoreham at a steady 40
mph (Gale Force 8) gusting to 55 mph and 60 mph (Storm Force 10).
No damage was seen in Shoreham town.
Met
Office Shoreham Weather
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Scale
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