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Forecast for the Southeast. 

Weds 20th Sept. 2017.

 A good deal of cloud although a few sunny intervals. Feeling quite warm with ligh to moderate south west winds. There will be some areas of light drizzle or light rain especially on the Downs though many places could stay dry. Ovenight mild but for much of Thursday dry wih some sunny intervals. Later in the day cloudier conditions will spread east and it will be rather damp during the evening and night with some light rain and mist on hills. Mild by day and night ranging from 19C down to 12C.

For weekly forecast see page 3 Forecast Section.

 Ian's eye on the Weather. A daily chat. 5th September 2017

 August was rather cooler than par here at Coulsdon with the rainfall around 46 per cent above average but around 80 per cent of the monthly rainfall total fell on just two days. This was a theme for the summer as a whole with some large daily totals but quite a few dry days. Summer rainfall amounted to 51 per cent above par. There were were 37 rain days out of the 92 days of summer.

The summer in Coulsdon was a degree above average and overall the Southeast did fairly well out of this summer compared to places further north.

A good idea for a present this New Year is a pack of Weather eye magazines. Special New Year offering of a pack of issues worth £22 for just £5 and £3 post and packing. A great gift and a good  read. Includes the latest issue. I am working on Issue 38, any articles and photographs please send them in for further issues. I am awaiting the design and pagination back from the printers to add captions and do any corrections.Hope to finish everything in next few days.

Listen out for me on BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex just after 0945 hrs on Sunday 1st October on the 'Dig It' show giving a look back on September's weather and a forecast for October. 

 Have you tried Weather eye magazine. Give it a go. I will send you the latest issue post free and at a reduced price of £2.50- that's got to be a bargain.

 Altocumulus perlucidus taken by Ian Currie from Coulsdon around 19.30 hrs on the 25th August 2017. 

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

The Coming Week from Saturday 26th August 2017.

It is going to be warm and quite sunny at times today through to Monday and then a blip on Tuesday with some light rain AM but overall quite a bit of dry weather for the rest of the week. Although Tuesday will be cooler and Wednesday too it will warm up for the second half of the week lasting over the Weekend.

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- Sept 12th 1911

The  summer of  1911 was extremely warm and it continued into September with 30.6C at Tunbridge Wells and Margateon this day.

In 1921 violent thunderstorms occurred in London with many places such as Wimbledon and Hammersmith  having  over 25mm of rain amounting to over 10 per cent of rainfall recorded in what was the driest year on record. In North London there was over 50mm.

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