David Buttery wrote in
.145:

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Secondly, a Canadian friend pointed me at the following earlier today
in order to illustrate a point they were making (that, slightly to
their surprise, no August snow has been recorded in Saskatoon). This:

http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec..../results_e.htm
l?StnID=3328&autofwd=1

Is there anything easily and freely available online that approaches
that for British locations? The nearest I can think of is the
Weatheronline.co.uk History section, but that's still nothing like
as good as the Canadian site.

Hmmm. Nobody has answered this part of my question, so I strongly suspect
that the answer is "no", and that the Met Office's answer would be "ha ha
ha, unless you have large sums of cash about your person". Looks like
Weatheronline and Weather Underground are the best I'm going to get.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.