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Min. Temp Minus 9.1C Feb 17th 2008 |
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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. The flat valley floor is in places only 50 metres in width. The valley is notable for its large diurnal temperature ranges with some particularly low night minima. There are several reasons for this including a railway embankment which crosses the valley and ponds the cold air.
The valley lies only 15 miles from Central London yet rivals the Highlands of Scotland for extremes.
Examples include:-
July 21st 1996 Max 31.8, Min 6.1C April 4th 1996 Max 10.2C, Min –9.2C June 1st 1994 Max 25.2C, Min –0.1C Apr 16th 2003 Max 26.7C, min –0.4C
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Chipstead Valley-Surrey. |
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Phone: 01737 554869 |
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On 9th June 2001 Min. –0.4C Max on 26th June 32.4C Warmest and coldest on COL Network for June 2001 in UK.
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Temperature on morning of 12th Jan 2003 fell to minus 9.8C Max on 10th August 03 37.1C. Min on 18th Feb minus 9.5C. Range of temperature 24.7C On 23rd March, a March record for station. Air minimum of minus 5.1C and a max of 19.6C. |
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Air Frosts in 2005 75 Air frosts in 2006 63 Air Frosts in 2007 62 Air frosts in 2008 76
Air frosts in 2009 To Oct 31st 55 |
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Sunset in Chipstead on the 19th Aug. 2000. Upper cloud lit edge of front. |
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CHIPSTEAD
Jan 7th 2009 minimum minus 12.5C recorded, the coldest January temperature since 1987.
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The Chipstead Valley Dec. 2001 Weather station in middle distance |
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Max on 19th July 2006
36.1C. This exceeded previous UK record for July
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