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[jean91]

As posted earlier i will always recall 1995 as i was in uk studying and working, one of best time in my young days but long gone though!!!!!!!!And thanks for Thundery Wintry showers and your number 17 post .In my entire life it was the first time i realized i could bear cold much better than hot weather.
I think it was just a training for what was to come : August 1997 more unbearable as hotter as more sticky and humid ( but some good thunder storms) and then the famous August 2003 .

[Gavin P]

Easily the best summer of my life and I'm not just talking about the weather.

[Thundery wintry showers]

As an additional note, I remember that I quite often had trips out to the sea front at South Shields and Seaburn during July and August 1995, and this in spite of frequent sea breezes. It got quite hot at times on the sea front during the period 11th-23rd August 1995 (not quite as hot as inland, but a few days got to around 27C there), and the second half of July 1995 was also pretty hot there with frequent SW winds fending off the sea breezes.

In some summers (like, ahem, last year's) it can be a struggle to find even a single day when it's worth a trip out to the sea front in Tyne and Wear without being discouraged by a chilly wind of some kind.

[danm]

Aah what a summer that was! I was only 9 at the time, but remember day after day of hot and sunny weather throughout that summer.

[Mr_Data]

Here's the 15th August 1995 forecast. Unfortunately the video quality is poor but Bill Giles mentions how exceptional that summer was giving temperature and rainfall figures

[cheeky_monkey]

Have to say i think 1995 was the best summer hands down..better than 1976..and way ahead of 2003 or 2006..mind you 1989 often gets overlooked as a good summer..also July 1994 is often forgotten as a hot month....and my favourite June 2005 superb summer month.

[Mr_Data]

First of a series forecasts from that amazing summer of 1995. It didn't start off too well with the first half of June is the east being particularly cool.


Here's the forecast from the 6th of June 1995

[Mr_Data]

Here's the 7th June 1995 and the deepening of the North Sea low increasing the northerly flow over the UK

[Thundery wintry showers]

Again thanks for these- I was particularly interested in seeing the background to that particular event. My weather records from Cleadon suggested a day of sunshine and showers on the 7th, a cloudy and very windy day on the 8th with showery rain, and then a brighter (though still windy) day on the 9th with light showers late on. I have vague recollections of some quite potent convection on the 7th, but don't have any 'photographic' recollections of subsequent days.

Presumably the occluded front on the 9th ended up just to the south-east of Cleadon, which would tally with Philip Eden's comment in Weather Log about Norwich having only 4 hours' sunshine from the 8th-15th June inclusive. However the subsequent period 10th-13th was also markedly cold, grey and drizzly over north-east England.

[Mr_Data]

Here's the 12th June 1995 forecast, just 11C for Leeds that day



Here's an ITN report on the cool suumer weather from 13th June 1995

[danm]

Such a poor June but an amazing July and August. The fickleness of British weather!

[Optimus Prime]

danm, on 28 March 2012 - 10:20 , said:

Such a poor June but an amazing July and August. The fickleness of British weather!

Was actually a very decent June. The last week of June was exceptionally warm. The 30th had a mean England temperature of 29.1c and was the 8th hottest day of the summer. The first half was rather cool but the second half was very warm.

The 13th had a mean at 14.0c. Only around 3c below normal.

[Mr_Data]

Here's the forecast from the 14th June 1995 and Michael Fish mentions how hot it has been in Russia, a sign of things to come for the UK

[danm]

Optimus Prime, on 28 March 2012 - 15:05 , said:

Was actually a very decent June. The last week of June was exceptionally warm. The 30th had a mean England temperature of 29.1c and was the 8th hottest day of the summer. The first half was rather cool but the second half was very warm.

The 13th had a mean at 14.0c. Only around 3c below normal.

True, the last few days of June were hot, but much cooler earlier in the month.

[Thundery wintry showers]

The first half of June 1995 had a strong west-east split as many of those forecasts illustrate- many western parts had some dry sunny interludes with maximum temperatures near normal and chilly nights, but it was cool and cloudy in the east- exceptionally so for East Anglia and south-east England. I didn't know that the negative anomaly for London was around 5 degrees though! It does highlight the warmth of the second half too, considering that Heathrow's mean temperature for June 1995 ended up very close to the long-term normal.

[Mr_Data]

Here's the 23rd June 1995 forecast, the start of a hot spell.

[Mr_Data]

From the 26th June 1995, a very warm working week of weather

[Mr_Data]

Here's the 28th June 1995 forecast.

[Mr_Data]

Here's the 30th June 1995 forecast and that cool plunge



The 8th July 1995 forecast and the warmer weather is back

[Mr_Data]

Here's something that was fairly unusual for the summer of 1995 and that was a thundery forecast. Thunderstorms were not common during this summer.