Reading Uni Weather

Weather updates, statistics and forecasts from students in the Meteorology Society at the University of Reading. All views are our own.

[Reading Uni Weather @RUWeather_]

6 hours of sunshine for 1st-10th November this year; it's the fifth dullest start to November on record for here in Reading.
The 1991-2020 average (although repositioning of the sunshine recorder may skew this a little) is 24.3 hours. 2024 holds the record with zero hours.

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Reading's 29th of September date maximum record is 26.8ºC in 2011, tomorrow looks to be close with a maximum of around 26ºC expected based on current model output.

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Nice temperature drop since sunset - clear skies and a cessation of wind all helping

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All gone a bit quiet here, can only apologise but I’m now back in the area 😉
~ Jamie

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Intensifying thunderstorm just north of Reading, very active

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36.1ºC on the automatic station in the Reading observatory - hottest day of the year and one of the hottest days on record.

[MetJam @MetJam_]

It was the hottest July on record for mean temperature and mean maximum temperature in Reading since records began in 1908. By mean temperature, it is also the hottest month on record since 1908. Extraordinarily sunny too, with just over 358 hours recorded.

[Reading Uni Weather @RUWeather_]

After today, it seems almost certain to be the first month on record to exceed 350 hours of sunshine on the Campbell Stokes recorder

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It's now the sunniest month on record in Reading - 345.6 hours beats the old record of 345.1 hours in May 2020, with continual sunshine records going back to around 1956. There are some earlier records of sunshine, but it still falls short of the record here.

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That was good whilst it lasted

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Reading is currently at 0.4 mm this month, and with nothing in the forecast (barring any rainfall at the 09 UTC obs), it could very well be the driest month on record (since at least 1908). The current driest looks to be 0.5 mm in June 1925* or 0.8 mm in Apr 1912 & Sept 1959

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303.5 hours on the Campbell Stokes recorder in the observatory to the 26th - the sunniest July on record at the university since records began in 1956. Leighton Park School recorded 344.5 hours in July 1911; it would require at least 8.3 hours a day to exceed this by month's end.

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Still a way off any rainless day record - 34 days is the record with nil rainfall from 20th Feb to 25th March 1953, or 37 days with trace rainfall from 15th Aug to 20th Sept 1959 and 21st July to 26th Aug 1976. We're up to 24 currently

[Reading Uni Weather @RUWeather_]

Reading is currently at 0.4 mm this month, and with nothing in the forecast (barring any rainfall at the 09 UTC obs), it could very well be the driest month on record (since at least 1908). The current driest looks to be 0.5 mm in June 1925* or 0.8 mm in Apr 1912 & Sept 1959

[Reading Uni Weather @RUWeather_]

Reading is currently at 0.4 mm this month, and with nothing in the forecast (barring any rainfall at the 09 UTC obs), it could very well be the driest month on record (since at least 1908). The current driest looks to be 0.5 mm in June 1925* or 0.8 mm in Apr 1912 & Sept 1959

[Reading Uni Weather @RUWeather_]

34.1°C maximum temperature on the 09 UTC observation this morning at the observatory is the highest June temperature on record since records began in 1908.

[MetJam @MetJam_]

33.9°C in Reading this afternoon, 0.1°C off the June record

[Reading Uni Weather @RUWeather_]

This is arguably the most insane weather forecast I have seen from the Met Office for any location in the UK, and it's in Reading. It is likely overdoing it slightly, but the all-time record of 37.6ºC could be exceeded on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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AROME 12z has 36.6°C for Reading on Tuesday, would be decimating the old June record by 2.6°C.

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@J4sper_ They are mainly focused on the B in Maths over anything - that’s the reason numbers are so low but yeah otherwise I think you’re in with a good shout!

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Climate stripes for Reading #ShowYourStripes

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List of models used (largely with the help of Meteologix): ECMWF (0/6/12/18), ECMWF (0/12), GFS, ICON, ICON-EU, ICON-D2, HARMONIE (DMI), UKMO, UKV, GEM, ACCESS-G, Norway-ECMWF, Swiss-MRF, SwissHD 4x4, DWD-MOSMIX, MULTI-CEUR, MULTI-GLOBAL, ARPEGE

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It seems increasingly likely that Reading will break its all-time June record of 34.0°C from 1976, based on this multi-model ensemble suite, where the median sits at exactly 34.0°C on Tuesday and Wednesday with a higher envelope of potential temperatures exceeding 36 or 37°C.