Personally i rate 2005 as a 9/10
some great snowfall early in the year, big storms in summer
with one that developed in 1hr giving an awsome lightning display.
To end it all off an ice day with lots of snow!


se england
herne

Neil,

I think you have been lucky. At Guildford, we have only had 1-2cms last
Feb/Mar, with no Summer Storms (they all went to the W or E of us)
Still waiting for a 'snow-event' which will happen one day.

Phil
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Personally i rate 2005 as a 9/10
some great snowfall early in the year, big storms in summer
with one that developed in 1hr giving an awsome lightning display.
To end it all off an ice day with lots of snow!


se england
herne

I'd rate 2005 as a 8/10

February only delivered a few flakes (my only flakes of the entire
winter)

May Night-time Storm - suddenly springing up over the south-west and
taken completely by surprise at 11pm - very high lightning activity,
but almost a dry storm, just a few spots of thundery rain

24th and 28th June Storms were excellent and very active.
I got excellent sound recordings of the thunder, and some very close
C-G strikes

25 November - Heavy Settling Snow Showers - the quickest i'd ever seen
the landscape turn white. With the showers rolling down the Irish Sea
and picking up moisture

29 December - Short lived surprising snowfall, with very large wet
flakes giving a temporary dusting

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:35:55 +0000 (UTC), "nguk" wrote:

Personally i rate 2005 as a 9/10

At my age, any year is 10/10!

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm
Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/

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Personally i rate 2005 as a 9/10
some great snowfall early in the year, big storms in summer
with one that developed in 1hr giving an awsome lightning display.
To end it all off an ice day with lots of snow!


se england
herne


Pretty ordinary year here nothing special.
I'll give it 5/10 thanks mostly to the snow in November.
Would put quite a number of years well ahead of it since 1960!
--
Graham

Not bad. In Southampton it seemed to be dryish but not as spectacularly
dry as places further east. No individual month appeared to be
extremely dry, and some (April, July, October) seemed wetter than
normal.

January produced nearly constant drab weather (so what's new), the 18th
consecutive without proper widespread snow in central southern England.
On the plus side it was drier than normal.

February was more interesting with frequent snow showers towards the
end but it never settled. Probably an average February in the pre-1987
sense.

A fairly average spring and early summer, in other words quite pleasant
with a good number of bright days. No spectacularly warm spells - one
notable thing was the frequency of sunny days with temperatures a
little below the average, particularly in May and early June, quite
rare in the summer half of the year.

Quite a good summer, not spectacularly hot and no long lasting highs,
but rather a series of short lived highs with little in the way of
protracted bad spells. Sun without very high temperatures was another
notable feature particularly in August. This last feature made it quite
an unusual summer.

Autumn was fairly average on the whole, a typical mix of mostly-dry
September and mostly-wet October. The persistent warm temperatures in
October were notable though.

Most of November and December have been pleasantly dry.

Sadly the 2005/06 transition appears to be like the 2003/04 transition,
2004 being one of the poorest years for weather in the area in recent
history.

Nick

Pretty much the same here - very average except very, very dry. Today is one
of the wettest days of the year.

Dave, S.Essex
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Not bad. In Southampton it seemed to be dryish but not as spectacularly
dry as places further east. No individual month appeared to be
extremely dry, and some (April, July, October) seemed wetter than
normal.

January produced nearly constant drab weather (so what's new), the 18th
consecutive without proper widespread snow in central southern England.
On the plus side it was drier than normal.

February was more interesting with frequent snow showers towards the
end but it never settled. Probably an average February in the pre-1987
sense.

A fairly average spring and early summer, in other words quite pleasant
with a good number of bright days. No spectacularly warm spells - one
notable thing was the frequency of sunny days with temperatures a
little below the average, particularly in May and early June, quite
rare in the summer half of the year.

Quite a good summer, not spectacularly hot and no long lasting highs,
but rather a series of short lived highs with little in the way of
protracted bad spells. Sun without very high temperatures was another
notable feature particularly in August. This last feature made it quite
an unusual summer.

Autumn was fairly average on the whole, a typical mix of mostly-dry
September and mostly-wet October. The persistent warm temperatures in
October were notable though.

Most of November and December have been pleasantly dry.

Sadly the 2005/06 transition appears to be like the 2003/04 transition,
2004 being one of the poorest years for weather in the area in recent
history.

Nick