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 1 July in ...
- 1914
- The temperature reached 32.2 C today, yet just 7 days ago the minimum temperarure was just 5.2 C, some 27.0 degC lower.
- 1924
- One of the coldest July nights on record with the minimum temperature falling to just 5.3 C and with a slight ground frost. Pressure was fairly high and winds were light this morning.
- 1968
- One of the warmest July nights on record with a minimum temperature of 18.9 C. In warm sunshine the temperature then rose to over 31 C in the afternoon. Earlier in the day, a shower a dust (red, pink, beige and rust coloured according to press reports; fawn-coloured according to the pocket register) fell. This shower, timed at 0600 GMT according to the pocket register, was of Saharan sand.
- 1983
- The maximum temperature of 20.0 C today was the lowest maximum temperature of the month - one of only five months when 20 C has been reached every day.
- 1986
- One of the sunniest July days on record with 15.3 h of bright sunshine observed. With warm air pushing N'wards to the E of England it was a warm day in Reading.
- 2015
- July began with hot weather. After an overnight minimum temperature of 18.5 C, the temperature climbed rapidly to 30.6 C by 0900 GMT on the 1st; this was 2.2 degC higher at that time of day than had ever been recorded previously at the university in any month. By the end of the day (the 1st) the temperature had reached 33.5 C.