Do you need old copies of the data shown on these pages?

Please note that the data on these pages are available for general use - however an acknowledgement of the source would be appreciated in any publication to which they contribute.

The data are gathered as part of my hobby - not my job - and consequently I am limited in the amount of data that I can archive in perpetuity. Nor is there any guarantee that any archive will be kept indefinitely.

Consequently, should you think that you will need any of these data it is best to do the following:

  • Identify your requirements at the outset - before the data are produced.
  • Then, either, Download the data yourself in realtime - some data files are replaced with new versions every 3 hours, for example, or
  • Contact me and ask for (hopefully limited) amounts of data/files to be saved temporarily by me.

Don't contact me after the event and generally expect to be able to find copies of old data - current exceptions to this are 12-hourly surface analysis charts, 12-hourly UK/Ireland extreme temperature/rain.sunshine plots, and the basic information from decoded SYNOP reports.

In particular, many plotted charts are not kept in my archive, and many archives of text files are wiped out automatically at at the end of the month. Other text files are partially wiped out from time-to-time.

Finally, if there is anything that you think I could produce pertaining to UK observation data, but not, please let me know. I may be able to generate it quite easily.


Other useful links

My homepage/surface charts
Local weather:
Maidenhead's recent weather and climate
Reading's climate, 1991-2020
Current UK/Ireland weather information:
Maps:
Current temperature
Current weather
Plotted daily extremes
Monthly summaries:
The month so far - text
Last month - text
The month so far - charts

August 2016: Details and order form for this new book about weather observing.

Details and order form for this limited edition publication.

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My publications
Maidenhead weather
Current, recent and historical weather in Reading, Berkshire
East Berkshire temperatures
Maidenhead (Berkshire) rainfall
UK weather diary
Reading weather 'on this day in ...'
World weather news stories
Met-Jobs mailing list

Read about and order this NEW book about the weather of Reading.

See also

Royal Meteorological Society

Make your own weather observations? Then see the Climatological Observers Link

The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation

UK/Ireland synoptic station locations: