Oxford Weather and Climate Since 1767 - Hardcover

This hugely impressive and extremely well researched book illustrated throughout, charts the history, science and people involved in running one of the longest operating meteorological observatories in the World and makes an important addition to any book collection. (Richard Griffith, Royal Meteorological Society)

Probably the most detailed analysis of any one city's weather and climate ever published. Over the course of its 544 pages every imaginable weather statistic is sliced and diced into an array of permutations, all beautifully illustrated in charts, tables, maps, and photographs, many in full color (the production quality of the book is outstanding!). (Christopher C. Burt, WeatherUnderground.com)

An absolute gem of a book, full of weather but also warm humanity and institutional insights, this 500-page volume is crammed with immeasurably valuable meteorological data, as you might, but it's presented so imaginatively that you're left in a reverie of memory, whether for the day you rode a bike through a Port Meadow flood or the day you chilled half to death in the Bodleian. (Richard Lofthouse, QUAD Magazine)

The British have always been obsessed by the weather. Thomas Hornsby, who founded the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1772, began weather observations at the site. They continue daily to this day, unbroken since 14 November 1813, the longest continuous series of single-site weather records in the British Isles, and one of the longest in the world. Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767 represents the first full publication of this newly-digitised record of English weather, which will appeal to interested readers and climate researchers alike. The book celebrates this unique and priceless Georgian legacy by describing and explaining how the records were (and still are) made, examines monthly and seasonal weather patterns across two centuries, and considers the context of long-term climate change. Local documentary sources and contemporary photographs bring the statistics to life, from the clouds of 'smoak' from the Great Fire of London in 1666 to the most recent floods. This book explores all the weather extremes, from bitter cold winters to hot, dry summers, bringing to life the painstaking measurements made over the last 250 years.