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 15 January in ...
- 1918
- The wettest January day on record as 29.0 mm of precipitation (including some snow) fell. An additional 25 mm fell in the next three days
- 1946
- One of the highest 0900 GMT January pressure readings occurred to day - 1046.3 mb as a large anticyclone persisted over the North Sea.
- 1970
- A seven day sunless spell started today.
- 1982
- One of the coldest nights on record for any month with the minimum temperature down to -13.4 C; one of the lowest January grass minimum temperatures on record at -17.5 C. Fog and rime was observed at 0900 GMT and there was 9 cm of snow lying on the ground.
- 2022
- In the evening, at about 1900 GMT, and also the following morning at about 0800 GMT, there was a noticeable fluctuation in air pressure due to a very large air-wave that resulted from the eruption of a volcano on Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.