Stowupland's weather reports
Mention of the weather is occasionally found in the documents in our possession, some of these will be recorded here.
This view of Stowupland’s Holy Trinity Church was published in the Suffolk Mercury Newspaper in January 1985 and donated to our Archives by a local resident.
1982
A Correspondent in the local paper wrote about The Remarkable Summer 1868 and 1911. Referring to July weather he wrote ‘ So far as our memory serves there has been nothing like the present season since the famous hot summer of 1868. Our impression is that the drought and heat of that year were less continuous. But there are no local records to which we can appeal.’
He went on to add that he had kept a record for a village in East Suffolk, ‘the month of June (in 1868) gave only 0.88 ins against 3.02 ins in 1911. and in June 1868 there were 6 days on which the shade temperature exceeded 80 deg,(26.7 ° C) whereas this height of the thermometer in the present year was not reached till July 6th.
In 1911 The Birmingham Daily Gazette reported on August 9th that in London on July 2nd the thermometer in the shade reached 89°F (i.e. 31.5°C.)
1983
A winter of snow and ice
Heavy rains were reported that caused flooding on the Green and at Crown Farm House. The flooding was blamed on ‘the filling in of ditches and the blocking of drains.’
1985, Jack Carter recorded that snow fell in January
