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Saturday May 15th 2021.

Rain during Saturday morning will give way to sunny intervals and some showers and they could be heavy and inclyude some hail and lightning. It is going to continue cool with a max of 13C to 15C with avariable wind that could be quite gusty near and heavy showers. Overnight the showers will die down somewhat and the temperature will fall to 8C wih perhaps some misty conditions around dawn. 

Sunday will be similar- sunshine and heavy showers.

Current weather May 14th  2021 at our Heath Common weather station, W Sussex for 17.00 hrs. BST: Temperature 12.6C. Weather-Cloud.  Rain so far this month 33.6mm up to 17.00hrs BST on 14th May.

Air pressure 1009 mb (hpa)- Now falling. 

Stay safe, stay well.  Listen out for me on Sunday May 30th 2021 on BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex, at the new time of 13.10 hrs on the 'Dig It' show. I will look back on May's weather and give a forecast for the whole of June. If you have a weather question contact the programme. Check the time as schedules could change due to the current medical emergency.

See Also  'On This Day'  in the Publications section.

The Coming Week from 

Weather Centre

The Chipstead Valley weather station lies within a dry, chalkland valley on the dip slope of the North Downs. The valley is around 60 metres deep.

Read about the Chipstead Valley Station

On This Day- April 26th 1818

At about 12.30 PM a tornado struck the Stanmore area of Middlesex. It levelled fruit trees, demolishing the side of a house smashing down walls and sucked out by the roots a large beech tree. A gardener was rolled over and over by the vortex. There were greenhouses left untouched but just a few yards away bushes and shrubs torn up.

In 1809 Extensive flooding at Windsor and Eton, Berkshire. In the Cotswolds farmers lost many animals from both heavy snow and then a sudden thaw which caused severe run off. 

The 1986 nuclear explosion at Chernobyl put 100 times more radiation into the atmosphere than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Winds from the east sent clouds of radiation across northern Europe.  

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