UK Weather - past and present
Month of May
Mushroom Garage, Rotherham 28th May, 2005 at 3.41 p.m.
21st May, 2005 at 21.25 p.m.
Thunder and lightning, May 1811
In Sheffield in May, during a tremendous storm, accompanied with thunder and lightning, the streets were covered with hail-stones from 3 to 5 inches in circumference, and much damage was done to the fruit trees, hot-houses etc; on the premises of 32 persons, no fewer than 10,710 panes of glass were destroyed. Source:History, gazetteer, and directory, of the west-riding of Yorkshire
Comment about the UK Temperature in May, 1843
Variations in Temperature, 1861
On May 11th 1861, the highest temperature at Clifton Station was only 41 degrees and on May 16 it was as high as 75.3 degrees. a remarkable difference as 34.3 degrees between two maxima, only 5 days apart.
Snow in Wales
During the week ending 25th May 1863, it was extremely cold in different parts of Wales with snowfalls. The snow was ankle deep on the Merioneth Hills
Yorkshire Floods in May, 1886
On Thursday morning alarming reports, revealing serious damage in South Yorkshire, were received at Barnsley. Along the whole route from Barnsley to Doncaster the river Dearne had overflowed its banks, inundating lands and houses in the low-lying districts. Several highways in the Wombwell and Wath districts were impassable. Rain fell without intermission in the Sheffield and Rotherham districts until noon on Friday. The damage done is enormous. Steel and iron works, paper mills, and flour mills have been stopped, and hundreds of men thrown idle. Railway traffic was closed to several districts, Rotherham Station platform being flooded. Many highways were impassable, and the houses inundated, the people taking to the upper rooms. In the valleys of the Don, Dearne, and Rother the country was a series of vast lakes.
At Eyam, Stoney, and Middleton grave loss has also been sustained. The river at Stratford-on-Avon overflowed its banks, submerging all adjacent fields and roads. Several low-lying parts of Wallsall were flooded by the river Tame, and the railway station and lines, for the distance of 3 or 4 hundred yards, presented the appearance of a vast lake.
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