Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767

• Part 1: Oxford's weather and climate


• 1: Oxford: Its regional, economic and climate setting


• 2: Weather observation in Oxford


• 3: Oxford's urban growth and its potential impact on the local climate


• 4: Oxford weather in its regional context


• 5: Long-period weather observations elsewhere in the British Isles and Europe


• Part 2: Oxford weather through the year


• 6: The annual cycle


• 7: January


• 8: February


• 9: March


• 10: April


• 11: May


• 12: June


• 13: July


• 14: August


• 15: September


• 16: October


• 17: November


• 18: December


• 19: The calendar year


• Part 3: Oxford weather through the seasons


• 20: Winter


• 21: Spring


• 22: Summer


• 23: Autumn


• Part 4: Long-term climate change in Oxford


• 24: Climate change in Oxford


• Part 5: Chronology of noteworthy weather events in and around Oxford


• 25: Chronology


• Part 6: Oxford weather averages and extremes


• 26: Warmest, driest, sunniest...


• 27: Earliest and latest dates


• 28: Droughts and wet spells


• 29: Oxford's 'top ten' extremes


• 30: Notable heatwaves and cold spells, sunny and dull periods, in Oxford since 1815


• Appendices


• 1: Metadata: Meteorological observations at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford 1776 to date


• 2: The Radcliffe Observers


• 3: Climatological averages and extremes for Oxford, since records began


• 4: Climatological averages and extremes for Oxford, since records began


• 5: Monthly rainfall totals for Oxford 1767-1814


• 6: Monthly and annual summaries of Oxford's weather by year, 1813-2018

Stephen Burt retired from the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in 2018. His career began in the Met Office in 1977, since when he has published widely on many and varied aspects of British climatology, including case studies of notable weather events such as the 'Great Storm' of October 1987, heatwaves, snowstorms and extreme rainfall events. He holds an MSc in Applied Meteorology and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Chairman of the Climatological Observers Link and a member of the American Meteorological Society and the Scientific Instruments Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Reading.

Tim Burt retired in 2017, after 21 years as Master of Hatfield College and Professor of Geography at Durham University. Before that, he was Lecturer in Physical Geography at Oxford University and a Fellow of Keble College (1984-96) and Director of the Radcliffe Meteorological Station 1986-96. Tim has run the Durham Observatory weather station since 2000. He has published widely on the Oxford and Durham records as well as in other areas of physical geography. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the British Society for Geomorphology. He was awarded the Cuthbert Peek Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 1994 and the Linton Award of the British Society for Geomorphology in 2017. He is now an Emeritus Professor at Durham University, a Visiting Professor at Bristol University and a Collaborating Research Scholar at Keble College, Oxford. An undergraduate at Cambridge, Tim has an MA from Carleton University, Ottawa, and PhD and DSc from Bristol.

The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford has one of the longest unbroken weather records for any single place in the world...The history of the observatory weather records is told in remarkable detail. Paul Simons, The Times