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 16 April in ...
- 1942
- The lowest April relative humidity at 0900 GMT on record - 34 %. High pressure covered the British Isles with a tongue of mild air extending NE'wards into Ireland.
- 1943
- One of the warmest April days with the maximum temperature rising to 25.5 C as an area of warm air spread E'wards across the UK.
- 1945
- One of the warmest April days with the maximum temperature rising to 25.8 C. This was the second of six warm days.
- 1949
- The warmest April day on record; the temperature reached 26.2 C during the day. This was a bright warm day with SE'ly winds. The 26.2 C today came just 6 days after a minimum temperature of -0.8 C (a difference of 27.0 degC).
- 2003
- One of the warmest April days with 25.7 C reached in the afternoon as Reading lay on the edge of a large area of high pressure over northern Europe. Yet only seven days the minimum was a rather low -2.6 C (28.3 degC lower).
- 2010
- The first of 10 consecutive days each having at least 9 h of sunshine; 11.3 h were measured today. Air pressure remained generally high during this period.