Weather
Santon Downham

We're too small to have our own weather forcast so here are the ones for Brandon and Thetford - take your pick - whichever is better or Check somewhere else at Metcheck

Although we don't have our own forecast we do actually have one of the Met Offices weather stations where they record temperature etc.

(Temperature graphfrom weathercast)

As a consequence we hold the dubious record of the all-time coldest June temperature of -5.6C, shared by Dalwhinnie in Scotland in 1956 and Santon Downham in Suffolk in 1962.

2002 Saw a notable hailstorm in July as recorded by the Metoffice and featured on the front page of the local newspaper (Bury Free Press),

19th to 25th More changeable during this period with southern areas staying mainly dry apart from the odd outbreak of light rain or drizzle. A small active low crossed central Britain on the 19th to 20th bringing heavy rain at times to the Midlands and northern areas. At Sutton Bonington, Notts, 25 mm fell in 2 hours overnight. A severe hailstorm was observed at Santon Downham on the 20th, while East Anglia, Lincolnshire and east Kent had thundery showers later. Some hill and coastal fog affected south-western parts during the 25th.

May 2010 also saw new records with the coldest temperature in the UK (since 1996) being recorded in Santon Downham as reported in the Daily Express  and the Daily Star

A low of -4.2C being recorded on the 12th followed by an East of England high the next day of 13.7C.

The 3rd of June saw a low of 1.7C. BBC Weather

2010 continues to be a year of extremes with the 22nd of July being notable for 30.8mm of rain in Santon Downham.

While the previous day the 21st saw us with the highest temperature in the UK of 23.6 BBC Weather

The  night of the 27th of Novermber 2010 saw many places with a new record low for November. Northern Ireland reached a new low of -8.6C (17F) at Aldergrove, in Belfast, while in Sennybridge, in Powys, the record was broken with -14.3C (6F). Santon Downham had it's own low of -5.8C recorded by one of it's residents - with it still being -5.5C at 10:00am the next day.

 

The forcast for early November 2010 looked bleak with expected windspeeds over 300mph. Alas I suspect it was just a fault with the website. (See picture above/right)

2010 continues to be a record breaking year. A low of -8.9 being recorded by residents of the village. (Watch this space as December is not yet over and many consider January and February to be Winter proper).

2011 started well with Santon Downham recording the warmest temperature in the UK of 23.9C on 6th April and featuring on the BBC weather and numerous national newspapers. According to the Telegraph it was the warmest 6th April on record.

The previous highest temperature in the UK on this date was 23.3C (73.9F) in Southampton in 1892.

But in typical Santon Downham form we also recorded the lowest overnight temperature (in England) on the night of the 10th of April at -1.3C

SD narrowly missd being the hottest place in the UK on the 27th of June with a creditable 32.5C just below Gravesend at 32.8C

October 2nd Santon Downham shared a new record with Cambridge of 29.3C, which made it the hottest October 2nd since 1908. (The previous day was the hottest October day ever with 29.9C recorded at Gravesend).

Our fame spread as far as the Washington Post (only their weather blog).

Not soon after setting a record for being the warmest place we also picked up another for being the coldest. Sunday the 16th of October saw early morning temperatures drop to -1.9C.

The coldest temperature measured in the U.K. during October was -3.3°C at Santon Downham, Suffolk on October 20th. (as reported on http://www.wunderground.com)

November continues to be very mixed, but we picked up the UK lowest night time minimum of 4.1C on the 10th.

2012

Despite the mild start to 2012 Santon Downham continues to be one off the coldest places in the UK. Overnight on the 18th of January it was the coldest at -4.2c. While on the same day Exeter airport recorded a temperature of 13.9c.

You can also look at what the weather/traffic is like in nearby Brandon and on the M11 via Traffic Cams

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