WEATHER ANALYSES FOR 2008
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MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEWS AND CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARIES
Headline: Very mild with no snowfall recorded at Pitsford and only brief air frost. Above average rainfall.
Headline: Windy at either end of the month, but mainly anticyclonic and very dry. The driest February since 1998. Headline: Unsettled. Frequently very windy with outbreaks of rain, hail, sleet and snow.Headline: Below average temperatures for a large part of the month. Frequent showers
Headline: High pressure dominated the weather for much of the month giving a protracted dry spell for the first fortnight. Most of the month’s rain fell in a few days towards the end of the month linked to a slow moving depression to the south-west
Headline: A fairly average month temperature-wise, despite a notable warm spell during the second week. Drier than normal and sunnier, but still rather changeable at times.Headline: Cool and unsettled at the start, becoming drier and very warm at times later.
Headline: The dullest August in Northampton since 1986. Frequent showers and longer spells of rain made it also the wettest August since 2004.Headline: A month of two halves: cyclonic at the start with frequent showers and some torrential downpours of rain, then a prolonged spell of dry and settled weather as high pressure remained resident across the UK.
Headline: Becoming mild with a short Indian summer experienced around the 12th, but becoming bitterly cold towards the end with some unusually early snowfall.
Headline: Unsettled during the first part of the month with rain, heavy at times, and a mild south-westerly airstream. Turning much colder later and ending the month raw.December