Wanstead Meteo

The mean temperature for July so far in Wanstead stands at 22.2°C, that’s 4.6°C above the 1961-90 average.

The temperature of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham, Suffolk, represents a new June maximum record for the UK just a day after a new record of 36.7°C was recorded at Merryfield, Somerset, It is also now the 6th hottest day ever recorded, beating the 1990…

Britain’s capital is often the location of the UK’s hottest weather but a look back to 1911 shows it is often elsewhere the mercury is highest.

I noticed the first drops of rain from this event riding back over Wanstead Flats from the Holly Tree around 10pm, thoughts of Messi’s majesty in Argentina’s win against Austria fast being replaced by watching clouds bubbling overhead.

It’s 10 years tonight that this station recorded over 60mm of rain in 24 hours.

Years on from this blog and there’s still no 30C on the 13th.

This winter since the turn of the year has been remarkably snowy for locations above 500m.

Below is a number of GIFs that illustrate snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere during the late winter of 1947.

The opening week or so of 2026 has already seen 30 per cent of frost hours recorded locally in an average year.

The mean temperature for 2025 finished 12.2C, 0.2C above the most recent 10-year average and just 0.01 warmer than 2024.