Need Some Help And Advice Please.

[Keraunic]

(I think I posted this in the wrong forum earlier today. So re posting here. Hope that's ok)

Hi all. This is a long shot but I guessed this was the best place to ask this question. I have a blog about thunderstorms, a very amateur affair, but I need some help. Where would be the best place to get information about weather conditions in the York/Yorkshire area for the years 1959/62?

Somebody (over 50) from that area may remember a particularly violent thunderstorm, I know it was August, it lasted all Saturday night and into Sunday morning. I was only a child but I remember our house being flooded and the lights dimming, but I do not know the year. It was roughly as above as I was very young.

Oh, and there was torrential rain.

As I say, it's all a bit vague but I hope someone can help perhaps in pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance

Jess.

[Keraunic]

Am I posting this in the wrong place. Is there anyone who can tell me where I might get this information? Anyone?

[johnholmes]

sorry I have no idea and I'm unsure who might be able to help unless you ask the Met Office?

[Terminal Moraine]

I don't know either. You could try contacting Paul Hudson, the 'Look North' forecaster, it's a long shot but he might know someone who knows someone.

[Keraunic]

Yes, it is a bit of a long shot. *sigh* but anyway, thank you for your replies. Much appreciated. I'll try both.

[Keraunic]

Update on above query. I have been in contact with the met office and they got back to me very quickly. The question was forwarded to their archive and library and they will get back to me ASAP.

Thank you guys. I suppose that should have been my first logical port of call but ah, well.

Jess. ;D

[johnholmes]

ggod luck Jess, I have data for RAF Finningley day by day for rainfall totals 1942-1995 but did not fancy trawling through several years to be honest. If they tie the date down for you ask again and I can give you rainfall totals for any day but not whether that was a thunderstorm?

[Keraunic]

Aww, thank you John. That's kind of you. I'll let you know when they get back to me either way.

[Keraunic]

Well, I got in touch with the Met Office and bless em, they've been digging in the archives and found what I wanted. The storm in question was on September 2/3 1961 in York and it WAS as I remember it; Saturday night and right into Sunday morning. There was also very heavy rain. not a bad memory to say I was only five at the time.

It was a real humdinger of a storm. Even the statue of poor old George Leeman was struck and too this day carries the scorch mark. ( well he did up to the day I left York eleven years ago)