Annual Weather Summary

The annual weather summary was a feature in Hallmark, by Bill Cleaver (Bill & Madeline Cleaver) in the following years :-

1995. Each month seemed to try to break some record or other. For the gardener it was the warmest and driest growing season, April to August, since 1976, and for the holidaymaker August was as warm and sunny as the Mediterranean. October 1994 to October 1995 was the warmest 12-month spell on record. Crops of berries were unusually heavy - an excellet sloe-gin vintage.

January, wettest for over 50 years over much of southern England, but 1988 was even slightly wetter in Lacey Green. February frost-free. March cold with a snowy start. April brought high pressure and drought, with another drought and cold snap mid-May, and yet another drought in June. The third warmest July this century was followed by a hot, sunny and very dry August, then September was the wettest since 1976 (which had also had a very hot summer). Warm weather returned for October, warmest since 1923, and about 6 degrees F warmer than 1994. Strawberries were flowering until a sharp frost on the 17th November, and 'Autumn' was the warmest this century. Cold and dull weather prevailed in December, with dangerous ice and freezing rain all day on the 30th.

Annual rainfall was 27.3 inches.