Here are some of the key Weather events & extremes experienced in 2005, across the UK

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2005 

January

• 7-8th January- a major storm developed over Ireland and rapidly developed as it moved across S Scotland into the N Sea towards the Baltic. There is evidence of a 'sting jet' giving winds up to 104mph at St Bees Head and causing widespread destruction and flooding in the UK and parts of N Europe.
• 11th-12th January: Another major depression (as low as 937mb) developed and ran across the far NW Isles of Scotland giving storm force winds and some damage across parts of the N of Ireland, N Ireland and the N and NW of Scotland and the Shetland and Orkney Isles. A gust of 134mph was recorded at the remote island of N Rona, the second highest gust ever reported in the lowland UK.

February/ March 

• 20th February- 4th March: A cold spell persisted across much of the UK for this period.  It was notable for its length and the frequency of which snow fell, rather than severity; in some parts there were 15 consective days with snowfall reported. A more detailed report of this spell can be found here. 

April/May

• 30th April-1 May: Severe overnight storms affected parts of the south and Midlands and Wales with heavy hail and a lot of mid level lightning reported. A detailed analysis of these storms, by Paul Blight, can be found here     

June

• 19th-20th June (also see here) A spanish plume event led to temperatures as high as 33.7C at Wyton, Beds and 33.1C in central London with very high dewpoints and numerous thunderstorms during the latter part of the 19th across the west and north of the UK, including a flash flood around Helmsley in Yorkshire. For details see the article on this site by Dave Jamieson just here.  A detailed synoptic discussion of the storms development by Paul Blight can be found here. Further storms broke out in the SE early on the 20th and moved NE into East Anglia during the late morning and early afternoon.
• The 24th-29th June saw a further period of thunderstorms develop rather widely across the southwest, south, east and central parts of England as warm tropical air moved northeast.  

September 

• The period from the 9th-11th September saw some severe thunderstorms with significant heavy rain and flooding develop across parts of London, the Home counties, E Anglia and the the SE of the UK.
• The 24 hours from the 13th-14th September saw very heavy rainfall locally in NW Scotland- Skye reported 130.6mm

October

• The period 10th-12th October saw very warm temperatures followed by heavy rains and flooding along with a damaging tornado..

November

• Two notable storms with rapid deepening occurred on the 7th-8th November & the 11th-12th November, along with damaging winds, locally gusting to over 100mph in the far NW Isles
• A notable settled spell along with near record November sunshine amounts occurred across parts of the UK from the 12th- 24th November, ending as unsettled colder weather swept south on the 25th. 
• An early snowfall affected parts of the SW of England, Wales and Scotland causing power cuts and traffic problems locally on the 25th-26th November partly caused by the 'Pembrokeshire Dangler' affect.

December

• A stormy wet spell occured on the 1st/2nd December as a relatively deep depression tracked through the southwest approaches and across southern England during the latter part of the 2nd.

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