A year that will be remembered for the more for the lack of rain from February to August rather than it's warmth. The year featured regularly in the top twenty driest months from March to August with July just missing out as did February. Spring was the 4th driest on record followed by 5th driest Summer. Autumn was by contrast the 5th wettest on record. A hosepipe ban was issued by Yorkshire water lifted in December and somehow they got idea that it was the driest Spring for 132 years however checking the met office data shows no basis for this claim. I asked for clarification of this media release and haven't got a reply back. I wonder if they used the period from February to June and mixed up the seasons. Even then it's still very questionable. Temperature wise it was the joint second warmest on record hitting 11C tying with 2022. The average autumn killing any chance of a new record although December tried and failed to push it over the line. The mild December normally means there is very little chance of a cold winter. The other notable feature of the year was the lack of any wind storms with 50mph only been reached on two days only during the entire year. The days of lying away listening to the wind or hunkering downstairs as it was so noisy seem to be long gone.
January: January for once didn't follow the rule that a 6C plus mild December meant that the following months for winter would be either average or above average. January came in at below average, featured some proper snow and was very wet. Storm Éowyn arrived didn't do a lot gusts just reaching 50mph and very little rain. The big feature of the month was the Snow which laid from the 5th to the 13th. Wet Snow fell on the evening of the 4th and again during the 5th with a total water content of 57mm Overnight rain did little impact on the 10cm of Snow just adding to the water content. A few light Snow showers on the 7th and a thaw took the depth down to 7cm. Temperatures stayed below normal until the 13th when it turned milder. The Snow depth was at it lowest on the 8th at 6cm. The Snow was actually nearly all ice so helped by very old nights the ice began to expand taking the depth back to 10cm by the 12th. This was something I've never seen before and probably won't again. Milder air on the 7th reduced the depth to 7cm and by the 8th it had all gone. That was the last of the Snow for January. For once the mild spell couldn't cancel out the cold spell which lasted from the 2nd to the 12th although it did try. Days were mild to very mild from the 14th to the 16th with the mildest day being 16th with 13.5C being the high. However the night was clear and temperatures fell to 1.4C. Temperatures reached double figures again on the 23rd to the 24th with 10.5C and 10C respectively. The cold spell at the beginning of the month produced the coldest day of 1.2C on the 8th and 1.3C on the 5th. The coldest night was the 9th when -4.0C was reached. The month produced a run of 8 consecutive air frosts and total of 11 air frosts.An average run of temperatures ensured the month was a rare below average one.
More than 50% of the months rain fell on two days the 4th and the 5th. 15.2mm and 41.8mm. Add on 3.2mm and 0.6mm for the 6th and 7th this brought the total to 60mm out the 106.4mm that fell overall. From the 8th till the 19th only only another 0.4mm was added. Storm Éowyn added very little to the total with a mere 3.3mm but 17mm fell on the 26th the third time only that double figures had been passed. The month finished on 106.4mm the 16th wettest on record.
Winds reached 50mph on the 24th. This being courtesy of Storm Éowyn. January continued the drift towards less stormy weather that we have seen in recent years.
Snow fell on four days then got rained on and turned mostly to Ice make very hard to measure. Since it was mostly pure ice it slowly expanded as night temperatures dropped towards -4C.
February: The month was an average month temperature wise and a dry month as well coming in well below average although it didn't make the top twenty driest.
The month started on a mild note with mild conditions for the first five days before fairly long rather cold spell started which lasted from the 6th to the 18th. The mild start and the spring like end were strong enough to cancel out the cold spell. The weather turned colder on the 6th with the first air frost of the month that night. Despite being rather cold it was the wettest period of the month with the only Snow falling on two days these being the 15th and 16th. The snow didn't settle though so no depth. The coldest day was the 13th with 3C being the low while the coldest night was on the 18th with -2.7C being the low. The rather cold spell came to an end on the 19th when temperatures reached 10.2C. Despite the warmth by day temperatures still had a low of -2.5C this would have been from the day before. The 20th reached 14C yet still had an air frost the last of the month. The warmest day was the 21st when 14.6C was reached followed by the warmest night of 9.1C. The next seven days saw double figures reached again with 13.3C being the high on the 22nd. The cold spell produced at total of five air frosts.
The month was a dry one with rainfall failing to reached double figures the highest being 9.2mm on the 23rd while the next highest was 6.5mm on the 10th. The first 10 days produced only 11.9mm while the wettest period was the last ten days which produced 17.6mm.
The month was a quiet one and didn't feature any wind storms nor any Met Office named storms. 49 mph was the highest gust on the 21st and the highest average 10mph on the 21st and 27th.
January and February: made sure that winter 2024/2025 clocked in with an average temp of 5.1C joint 10th warmest on record. Winter 24/25 was just above average in regards to the rainfall so there was no reason why there was a shortage of water in 2025.
March: Spring already arriving in February 2025 one would expect this to continue into March and it did so, March being the 8th warmest on record coming in at 7.7C. It was the 8th driest on record.
The month continued where February left off with the 3rd and 4th warmest days occurring in the first ten 10 days. Temperatures peaking at 17.5C on the 8th and then 16.9C the day after. Nights weren't a particularly mild mainly due to the dry conditions. The weather returned closer to normal from the 11th to the 17th with temperatures in single figures the coldest day being the 13th with 6.3C being the high. Nights got near zero with the first air frost of the month on the 16th with -1.3C being the low. It tuned warmer again from the 18th to 22nd. The 2nd warmest day with 18.2C was on the 20th yet overnight low was -2.3C which was from the day before. This gave a range of 20.5C which is quiet impressive. There was a one day cool snap on the 23rd but then the warm spring continued with 18.4C being the high on the 31st. The warmest night was on the 23rd with 6.8C being the low. The coldest nights strangely were during the warmest spell as with -2.0C on the 18th and -2.3C on the 19th and 20th.
The month was very dry being the 8th driest March on record. If it wasn't for 17.4mm on the 22nd the month would have been driest on record. The next highest was 3.4mm on the 12th. They were 16 days without any measurable rain and four days with a trace condition so a total of 20 without any measurable rain. Only 7.8mm fell through the first 15 days and apart from 17.2mm on the 22nd not a lot more in the 2nd 15 days either.
March didn't see any storms or any windy conditions as the weather continued is recent fairly quiet weather of recent years.
April: April was yet another dry month, the 6th driest on record and another warm one. The month becoming the 4th warmest on record with summery weather being recorded on a few days.
The month only had one chilly day with 9.6C being the high on the 16th. The first 9 days were on the warm side with temperatures mid teens or higher although the nights were on the chilly side with two air frosts -0.7C on the 7th and -0.2C on the 8th. Summer arrived on the 10th with 20.3C and very warm 23.3C on the 11th. The 12th saw 20.1C then a return mostly mid teens temperatures bar the hiccup on the 16th, until the 27th when summer returned again. The 30th seeing 25.8C follow-on the 23.9C the day before. The 28th was very warm as well when 22.7C was reached. The warmest night was 30th when 10.3C was the low. Cold spell wise there weren't any at all during the month.
Rainfall wise well it was a case of what rain. The heaviest rainfall was on the 21st when 6.6mm fell. The next highest was 2.9mm on the 15th. The first 14 days saw no measurable rainfall. The month closed out on 8 dry days Overall five days had trace conditions and four days had measurable rainfall.
The month didn't see any windy weather at all or any storms at all.
May: May was another warm month the joint 5th warmest on record. Temperatures just over 1.4C above normal, this courtesy of day time temperatures being 2.4C above normal as summer arrived early once again. Night s due to dry conditions were closer to normal.
May like last year saw the warmer temperatures in the first half of the month by day while the warmest nights nights were reserved for the end of the month. The warmest day was on the 1st when 26.3C was reached however it soon cooled down and cool spell ran from the 3rd to the 8th with the coldest day on the 4th when 12.6C was the high. The coldest night was the 6th when 1.1C was the low. Indeed single figure digits for nights lasted from the 3rd to the 24th with notable cold nights on the 9th and 23rd with 2.8C and 3.1C being the low. Summer returned from the 9th to the 13th with 25.4C being reached on the 12th. After the 18th temperatures only reached the lower twenties on 5 days. Another cool day was thrown into the mix on the 27th when 14.5C was the high. Summer returned from the 29th with temperatures around the 21 to 22C degree mark with the warmest night being on the 30th with 13.3C being the low.
Rainfall was well below average once again with just 31.9mm being recorded. This being the 16th driest May on record. The final total helped by 12.9mm falling on the 27th and 9.1mm the day before. The first 19 days saw no measurable rain this following on from 8 days from April also being dry. A run of 27 days with no measurable rainfall.
There wasn't any Thunderstorms in May. There were some breezy days an average of 15mph was recorded on the 25th and there was a nagging breeze towards the end of the month which came a feature of summer for a time.
Spring: Overall was the warmest on record coming in at 10.7C beating last years by 0.4C and 1.7C above the seasonal average. If it wasn't for the overnight lows this could have been even higher. It was the 4th driest spring on record.
After mild winter and Spring everyone was getting ready for a hot summer. Summer this year obliged being the hottest on record. It was also the 5th driest on record.
June: June was the joint warmest on record coming in at 3C above normal. It was the 13th driest on record and features a disaster of a warning by the Met office for severe Thunderstorms when all we got was a few drops of rain.
The first half of the month was fairly none de-script once again with temperatures in the upper mid teens so the month was literally a slow burner. The coldest days were the 7th with 15.3C and the 8th with 15.5C. Night times were in signal digits between the 3rd and 8th and again for the 11th and 12th. The coldest night was on the 11th when 7.4C was the low. Summer finally got going on the 11th when 25.7C was reached. It was warm to very warm until it turned hot and unpleasant from the 19th with temperatures hitting 28.7C and then the 2nd hottest of 29.5C on the 20th. The 21st saw 29.1C. Temperatures dropped away for the next three days with 18.8C being the high on the 23rd. Summer wasn't done and it turned very warm to hot again from the 27th to the 30th with the hottest day being 31C on the 30th. Night time temperatures were too bad luckily with the highest being 16.9C on the 29th.
Rainfall was below average with the highest rainfall of 7.3mm on the 3rd and the next highest 6.8mm on the 5th. There was a run of 11 days from the 10th to the 20th which saw no rainfall. Only 13 days saw any measurable rainfall.
There weren't any Thunderstorms and the severe storm forecast produced 0.1mm of rain. This continued the decline in Thundery weather for the region and the UK as a whole.
Not a windy month but there was a nagging breeze for most of the month.
July: Was another warm month the 11th warmest on record being 1.4C above average temperatures wise with below average rainfall.
The month featured only a brief spell of very hot unpleasant weather this being in the 1st half of the month. The hot spell lasting from the 10th to the 13th. Temperatures on the 10th reached 29.9C followed by the warmest day with 32.3C followed by 29.1C the day after. Otherwise the temperatures were lower to id twenties and quite pleasant perfect summer weather. Night times saw 9.5C being the low on the 8th but otherwise low to mid teens so again quiet pleasant. The warmest night was on the 1st of the month when 17.8C was the low. Normally you would see more of a variation when the average temperatures is so high.
Rainfall reached double figures once on the 6th when 10.1mm was the total. 9.9mm on the 20th was the next high. The low dry spell was seven days between the 7th and 13th.
July saw another thunderstorm warning go tits up on the 19th when zero were recorded for the country. There was some isolated Thunder on the 20th but another storm free month.
July saw the end of the nagging breeze that featured in the last couple of months.
August was another warm month coming in at the 7th warmest on record and again a dry month the 4th driest on record.
August: The Month despite being a warm month only saw five days that were hot to very hot which again is surprising but also meant August was quiet a pleasant month overall. The hottest weather occurred between the 11th and 15th with 32.9C being recorded on the 13th following on from 28.6C the day before. 27.9C was reached on the 15th. The next hot day was the 25th when 28C was reached. The coolest spell was between the 18th to the 22nd the coldest day being the 19th with 17.3C being the high. Nights were quite pleasant again with the coldest night being 9.9c on the 17th. The warmest night was on the 15th when 16.8C was the low.
The month was very dry again with heaviest rain being on the 30th when 4.9mm was the total. The first 25 days brought just 5.4mm.
Distant Thunder was only head on one day.
Summer: was the warmest on record tying with 1995 at 17.7C. It was the 5th driest on record with 87mm of rain. Overall one of the better summers on record where the extreme days were less.
Would Autumn follow summer and come well above average and dry?. saw a sudden reversal to wet conditions and average temperatures.
September: overall came in with temperatures just slightly below normal but within the 1C margin so basically counts as average. This was a complete change from summer which was above normal. The month didn't feature any named storms despite a wet day on the 20th.
Temperatures by day were fairly uniform with only 8.2C difference between the coldest day 14.5C on the 14th and the warmest day 22.7C on the 7th. Temperatures passed the 20C mark only on 8 days. The warm spells were from the 6th to 9th and from the 17th to the 19th. The second warm spell saw 22.6C as the peak. The warmest night fell just outside the last warm spell when 14.4C was the overnight low. The main driver of the slightly below average figure were the nights with signal digit numbers form the 9th to 15th and again from the 21st to the end of the month. The coldest night was on the 23rd with 3.6C which just failed to produce a ground frost. The night before reached 3.9C so notable cold nights for September.
The dry weather came to an abrupt halt with 30.6mm falling in the first four days. Rainfall returned to small amounts until another wet spell from the 14th to the 17th added another 32.1mm. This basically brought us to average rainfall by the middle of the month. However a lot more was needed and the 20th produced 42.2mm of rain. The taps were then turned off again after that with only 6.9mm on the 27th and 0.6mm on the 30th being added. However this did mean the month cracked the 100mm plus only the 2nd month to do it this year and also became the 8th wettest September on record. Not bad for a month which saw the 10mm broken only twice.
The month was a quiet month again in regards to the wind with a peak gust of 45mph on the 15th and the only day to reach a moderate breeze at the time of recording.
Thunderstorms the rare beasts actually turned up on the 3rd. The only storms of the autumn.
October: saw average temperatures and average rainfall. The were two named storms for October Amy on the 1st and Benjamin on the 22nd. Amy was a total none event here hardly tipped disturbed the rain gauge and the cobwebs stayed on the anemometer. Benjamin again really zero impact just 11.6mm of rain and max gust a pathetic 20mph.
October came in with average temperatures following Septembers example. Temperatures were slightly above by 0.6C but again this is within the 1C region so again considered average. The driver this time was the night time temperature mainly due to cloud cover especially round the middle of the month. The coldest night was the 26th with 3.9C followed by 4.7C on the 27th. The warmest night was on the 7th with 11.7C being the low. There were 9 days in double figures for the month. The day time temperatures again showed very little variation. The warmest day was 18.4C on the 11th and the coldest 10.3C on the 25th.
October looked to be a dry month once the first four days had gone which brought a total of 25.2mm. From the 5th to the 18th only a further 1.4mm. Just when it looked like being a very dry month heavy rain arrived on the 19th with 15.3mm 11.6mm on the 22nd and 15.8mm on the 31st. Amounts outside this were fairly small but the final total of 81.9mm was close to average. However we needed more rain than average to get the hose pipe ban lifted.
The month didn't see any Thunderstorm’s but that is to be expected for this time of year.
The month produced the windiest weather outside of any named storms with the first and only 50mph gust of the autumn on 4th as stormy weather continues it's decline in the region.
November: was a very wet month the 2nd wettest on record while temperatures came in at 7.7C +0.7C so falls within the average category.
The was a month of two halves with a very mild first half followed by a cold 2nd half which just failed to cancel out the mild first half although it had a good go at it. The first half was Indian summer like in regards to temperatures however the rainfall made it feel and look cooler than it was. The warmest day was on the 5th when 16.4C was the high however the 3rd with 15.2C and the 6th with 15.7C deserve a mention as well. They were four double digit nights in the first thirteen days with the warmest night being the 5th with 12.3C being the low pipping the 11.8C the day before. By the thirteenth it was looking like we were going to heading off towards a record warm November however things changed from the 14th as temperatures fell away with the coldest day on the 19th with 3.2C being the high. The 20th also recorded 3.9C. The coldest nights and the first air air frosts were recorded in this period. The coldest night being the 20th and 22nd when lows of -0.9C were recorded. Temperatures headed by to normal or above normal from the 26th to 28th and if wasn’t for these three days we might have got down to average. Overall there were four air frosts this month.
Rainfall wise November went hunting for new records but failed in it's attempt but made 2nd place. Considering at one time we were going for the driest year ever the reversal in the last three months was quiet remarkable. Storm Claudia was responsible for a good part of the final total of 176.9mm when it brought 61.1mm on the 14th. At one time the record of 90+mm was possible but on the day the rainfall couldn't maintain itself ending up being the 7th wettest 24hour period on record. Rainfall reached double figures on the 13th with 13.4mm and again on the 28th and 29th with 14.4mm and 10.8mm. More rain was added on the night 30th.
.There were a few days of wintry weather in November when a little sleet fell on the 19th and a few flakes of snow on the 20th. There was more sleet during the evening of the 29th.
The month was a quiet one in regards to winds. The winds hitting 39mph on the 28th during a rare squall.
Autumn: Autumn was average in regards to temperatures while it was the the 5th wettest on record but the hose pipe ban stayed in force.
The question now would December be a winter month or more like late Autumn or Early Spring. Needless to say December was another mild cookie with temperatures in the range of death for Winter which once again looks to very likely to be mild again.although at the time of writing it looks like January is going to try and buck this trend again.
December: Once more December was a very mild month with just above average rainfall. By breaking the 6C mark by hitting an average of 6.9C means that winter isn't going to be cold one unless it bucks a long time based trend.
The month began with temperatures mostly above normal the mild weather lasting until the 23rd so for once we skipped a month of two halves. Even after the 23rd temperatures were close to average so no real wintry weather. There were two days which were on the cold side the 3rd and the 4th when 6.5C and 6.6C were the highs. Temperatures were in double figure 6th until the 11th with the warmest day being the 9th with 13.8C being the high. The 1st was saw temperatures above 12C when 12.4C was reached and same for 7th when 12.9C was the max. Temperatures remained on the mild side until the 23rd when they returned to average. Night time temperatures were also well above average with a complete lack of air frosts. The warmest nights again were in the period from the 7th until the 12th. The 10th saw a low of just 9C after a fairly mild night the day before when 8.7C was reached. The coldest night was on the 17th with rather unimpressive 1.6C being the low. The final seven days were either cold to rather cold or average despite the NE winds. This was due to a lack of cold air over the continent. Fairly cloudy conditions also prevented any major low night time temperatures right up until the months end. This allowed the month to end as the 7th warmest on record. For us it also meant it wouldn't be the warmest year on record however it settled comfortably in 2nd place. The mild nights were the main driver of the month being above average being +2C above normal.
December was a wet month with above average rainfall but didn't make the top twenty wettest Decembers on record mainly due to the dry final third of the month. There weren't any particularly large falls of rain not a single day reached double figures but it rained on most days. The wettest day was on the 21st when 12.5mm fell while the 2nd wettest day was on the 8th with 9.9mm of rain. The 8th was due to storm Bram which had little impact here. Rainfall after the 21st tapered off and there was very little addition to the final total as the month ended dry and rather cold with just over a 1mm added. If the month hadn't ended dry we could well have hit 100mm.
December continued the decline in windy weather and was another was quiet month with winds only hitting the 40+ mark on one day. This was 41mph on the 9th. Considering it was a fairly active Atlantic during the first 2/3 of the month this was a bit of a surprise.
There wasn't any Snow or even sleet in December even in the colder end to the month. Frosts were rare but we didn't manage three air frosts through the month.
The year 2025 was the joint 2nd warmest on record bucking the national trend and tying with 2022 at 11C. Although a warm year it was more noticeable for more prolonged warmth rather than record breaking runs of temperatures with the year only topping one month as the joint warmest which was June. Worryingly this was despite the year being a weak La Nina. However the Tonga eruption which was predicted to take us to the 1.5C barrier which has happened should slowly be working out of the equation. Although the effects of Tonga were discounted due to it inputting large amounts of water and not CO2 into the atmosphere this ignored the fact that water is itself a very good greenhouse gas. Other interesting work on the effect of Aerosols on climate by Hansen is also being discounted as a possible reason for accelerated warming as this again doesn't fit into the CO2 only.
Next year 2026: The next year sees a weak La Nina early on before turning neutral later on in the year. The warming effects of the Tonga eruption should be less as well in theory so not such a warm year as 2025 but probably coming in the top five warmest. Stormy weather is likely to continue it's slow decline so fairly few Thunderstorms if any and few wind storms as well so another quiet year is likely.
| Averages for 2025 Including the Highs and Lows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Average Winter Temp 4.7C | The 2024/25 Winter Average 5.1C | Difference from average 0.4C |
| Average Winter Max Temp 7.4C | The 2023/24 Winter Max Average 7.6C | Difference from average 0.2C |
| Average Winter Min Temp 1.9C | The Winter 2023/24 Winter Min Average 2.5C | Difference From Average 0.6C |
| Average Spring Temp 9.1C | This years Spring Average 10.7C | Difference From Average 1.6C |
| Average Spring Max Temp 13.4C | This years Spring Max 16.2C | Difference from Average 2.8C |
| Average Spring Min Temp 4.5C | This years Spring Min 5.1C | Difference from Average 0.6C |
| Average Summer Temp 16.0 C | This years Summer temp 17.7C | Difference from Average 1.7C |
| Average Summer Max Temp 20.6C | This years Summer Max 22.6C | Difference from Average 2.0C |
| Average Summer Min Temp 11.4C | This years Summer Min 12.8C | Difference from Average 1.4C |
| Average Autumn Temp 10.5C | This years Autumn temp 10.7C | Difference from Average 0.2C |
| Average Autumn Max Temp 13.9C | This years Autumn Max Average 14.0C | Difference from Average 0.1C |
| Average Autumn Min Temp 7.0 C | This years Autumn Max Average 7.5C | Difference from Average 0.5C |
| Average Yearly Temp 10.0C | This Years yearly Average 11.0C | Difference from Average 1.0C |
| Average Yearly Max Temp 13.8C | This Years Yearly Max Average 15.0C | Difference from Average 1.2C |
| Average Yearly Min Temp 6.3C | This Years Yearly Min Average 7.0C | Difference from Average 0.7C |
| Highest Gust 50 MPH on Jan 24th & Oct 4th | Highest Average 18 MPH on the 30th of Mar | Number of Gusts > 50 MPH 0 Days |
| Average Winter Rainfall 227.1mm | This Years Winter Average 260.9mm | Percentage of Average Rainfall 114.9% |
| Average Spring Rainfall 176.3mm | This Springs Average 71.6mm | Percentage of Average Rainfall 40.6% |
| Average Summer Rainfall 209.6mm | This Summers Average 87.0mm | Percentage of Average Rainfall 41.5% |
| Average Autumn Rainfall 236.9mm | This Autumns Months Average 384.0mm | Percentage of Average Rainfall 162.8% |
| Average Yearly Rainfall 849.9 mm | This Years Average 790.4 | Percentage of Average Rainfall 93% |
| Days of Snow Falling 7 Days | Days of thunder 2 Days | |