Examples of what we hold
- The original Beaufort Scale
- Weather reports for the UK every day from 1 January 1869 to the present, and from around the world
- The great early writings on meteorology from such pioneers as Aristotle to Robert Boyle, Francis Bacon and Luke Howard in our collection of historical meteorological literature maintained in co-operation with the Royal Meteorological Society
- Marine weather logbooks - worldwide records from merchant and Royal Navy ships, including those from historic voyages such as of the HMS Prince of Wales when she attacked the Bismarck in WW2
- Registers of meteorological observations and autographic records for approximately 1,000 sites - dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. These cover temperature, wind, rainfall, solar radiation, snow and sunshine
- Upper-air data from radiosonde and pilot-balloon ascents
- A number of the earliest weather diaries dating back to the late eighteenth century (our earliest diary is from Rye (Sussex) for 1730-33)
- Historic images
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