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DoncasterWx Records Since June 2007
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Daily reports
Click on a month to open the report.
Snow records
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Date |
Depth daily mm/inches
(T
= trace) |
Total Depth mm/inches
(Snow depth on
ground) |
Precipitation in mm
(water content) |
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23/11/2007 |
T |
T |
0 |
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03/01/2008 |
T |
T |
0 |
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21/03/2008 |
T |
T |
0 |
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22/03/2008 |
T |
T |
0 |
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23/03/2008 |
80/3.15 |
80/3.15 |
6 |
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24/03/2008 |
T |
T |
0 |
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The chart above shows recorded snow
fall for 24 hour periods Depth is the
total snow fall for 24 hours. Precipitation is the water content depth
after melting the snow & ice fall during 24 hours. Total depth is the
average depth of snow measured at observation time, including any
previous snow which is still present. |
UK Records
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Temperature Records
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Highest
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38.5 °C
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Brogdale
near Faversham (Kent), 10 August 2003
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Lowest
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-27.2 °C
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Braemar,
Aberdeenshire, 10 January 1982 and 11 February
1895
Altnaharra, Highland, 30 December 1995
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Rainfall Records
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Highest
24-hour total
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279 mm
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Martinstown, near Dorchester, Dorset, 18 July
1955
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Highest
5-min total
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*32 mm
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Preston,
Lancashire, 10 August 1893
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Highest
30-min total
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80 mm
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Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, 26 June 1953
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Highest
60-min total
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92 mm
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, 12 July 1901
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Highest
90-min total
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117 mm
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Dunsop
Valley, Lancashire, 8 August 1967
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Highest
120-min total
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#193 mm
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Walshaw
Dean Lodge, West Yorkshire, 19 May 1989
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Highest
120-min total |
#155 mm
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Hewenden
Reservoir, West Yorkshire, 11 June 1956
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Highest
155-min total
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169 mm
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Hampstead,
Greater London, 14 August 1975
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Highest
180-min total
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178 mm
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Horncastle, Lincolnshire, 7 October 1960
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* Approximate value
#Reservations about Walshaw value, Hewenden value is next
highest accepted value.
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Sunshine Records
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Highest
monthly total
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384 hours
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Eastbourne
and Hastings, Sussex, July 1911
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Lowest
monthly total
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0 hours
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Westminster, Greater London, December 1890
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Highest Gust Records
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Low-level site
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123 knots
141.5 Mph
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Fraserburgh,
Aberdeenshire, 13 February 1989
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High-level site
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150 knots
172.6 Mph
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Cairngorm
(1,245 m AMSL), 20 March 1986
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Did you
Know |
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The lowest temperature
ever recorded on Earth was –89.2°C
at Vostock, Antarctica on 21st July 1983.
In August 1846, a hailstorm in London destroyed 7,000
panes of glass in the Houses of Parliament. The temperature was approximately 32°C.
The coldest air temperature ever recorded in Britain
was -27°C (10 January 1982 in Grampian).
A raindrop is neither spherical or tear-drop shaped.
It is in fact shaped like a burger bun and it falls flat side down.
The temperature of lightning is approximately 7,760°C
In Antofagasta, Chile, the average rainfall is less
than 0.1mm a year.
One billion tons of rain falls on the earth every
minute
Eighty four percent of the people struck by lightning
are male |
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