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 20 May in ...

1909
One of the largest diurnal temperature ranges for any month. The morning minimum temperature was 2.5 C while the maximum temperature was 24.4 C, a range of 21.9 degC.