As well as being the Late Spring BH w/e (& PH w/e in some parts of the
UK), this year it is also the Whit weekend.

In 1967 (40 years ago), when the first 'Late Spring' BH was held
(replacing the Whitsun / moveable feast holiday), the Whit weekend fell
13th - 15th May. That weekend's weather was also dominated by a cyclonic
pattern ( with rain, heavy at times in the southeast, particularly so on
the Sunday/14th ), and a tendency for the windflow to come out of the
north or northeast! Apparently, Kew Observatory had its wettest Whit
Monday since it's records began. Rain lasted through the night
(14th/15th) & and for much of the 15th.

The actual holiday weekend that year occurred 27th - 29th, but that
weekend too was hardly spectacular, with large amounts of cloud and
periods of heavy rain, though the Monday was brighter. Unlike the Whit
w/e though, the general flow was broadly S/SW'ly so temperatures not
depressed so much as they were a fortnight before, or indeed as they
will be this year.

By the EWP series, May 1967 was the third wettest such-named month, only
beaten by 1773 & 1782!

--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

On 27 May, 19:44, "Martin Rowley"
m wrote:

In 1967 (40 years ago), when the first 'Late Spring' BH was held
(replacing the Whitsun / moveable feast holiday), the Whit weekend fell
13th - 15th May. That weekend's weather was also dominated by a cyclonic
pattern ( with rain, heavy at times in the southeast, particularly so on
the Sunday/14th ), and a tendency for the windflow to come out of the
north or northeast! Apparently, Kew Observatory had its wettest Whit
Monday since it's records began. Rain lasted through the night
(14th/15th) & and for much of the 15th.

The actual holiday weekend that year occurred 27th - 29th, but that
weekend too was hardly spectacular, with large amounts of cloud and
periods of heavy rain, though the Monday was brighter.

Hi Martin

As a complete co-incidence, I've also recently been looking at May
1967 data for Coventry, especially these rainfall events from 40 years
ago.

In the periods you mention, I found that both 12th and 14th May that
year recorded 21.6mm of rain, with 30.5mm of rain on 27th.

The monthly total in Coventry during May 1967 was 174.9mm, the second
highest monthly total in our region since 1870, behind October 1875
which had 179.7mm.

Quite a month!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk