Daily weather observations at the University of Reading date back to 1901. Here are a selection of weather news stories for Reading since they began - with one or two earlier, newsworthy, items. They will be updated each day. Please let us know if you have any other snippets of news/information.

Any mention of a record refers to observations at the University of Reading - elsewhere in the United Kingdom values may have been higher or lower.

In Reading on 14 July in ...

1983
The first of 7 consecutive warm nights, each of which remained above 15 C. This was one of the warmest months on record and the temperature reached 30 C on some of these days.
2006
The first day of an 8-day spell with each day having at least 9 h of sunshine. Only 2013 was sunnier in July between 1968 and 2013.