Local Weather Diary 2025-
2025
Winter 24-25 here was fairly mild and dry, but not exceptionally so. The most notable feature of winter was the absence of snow: there were no days with snow cover (defined as covering at least 50% of the ground at 9 am) - the only time this has happened. Will we ever see a good snowfall again? Overall, 2025 was the second warmest (+0.8C, just after 2003) and the fifth sunniest in my records (106%) in my 30 years of records. The sunshine total is all the more remarkable given autumn and early winter were dull, with December remarkably so. It was also a dry year (719 mm, 88%, 7th driest); it was very dry up to October.
January 2025
January 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was cool but quite sunny and rather dry, in spite of a wet spell towards the end of the month: most of the month's rain fell over the "long weekend" of the 23-27th. There was a notable gale (Storm Eowyn) bringing the rain on the 24-25th. Although there wasn’t too much damage locally, this storm brought some of the highest wind speeds since Arwen in November 2021, and before that the storm of 5 December 2013.
The first 11 days were very cold, but then it became much milder as winds changed direction. The second half of the month was more unsettled with average temperatures.
Overall mean maximum temperature 5.1 (-0.7C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 0 (-0.7)
Overall mean temperature 2.5 (-0.8, =7th coldest in last 29 years)
Highest maximum temperature 11.7 on the 15th
Lowest maximum temperature: 0.2 on the 11th
Lowest minimum temperature: -6.7 on the 11th (lowest January temperate since 2018)
Rain total: 37.8 mm (50%, 6th driest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 13.4 mm on the 26th
Fog mornings: 3
(Numbers in parentheses are deviations from the 29 year area mean; remember rounding errors can affect averaged deviations.)
1 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 16 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 22 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 1 gale
Sunshine 77.2 hours (120%, 9th sunniest in last 22 years)
That is now nine consecutive months with beneath average rainfall.
5 January. We have severe weather warnings for snow - and have none.
11 January The minimum of -6.7 is the lowest in January since 2019.
14 January The minimum of 8.9 is the highest January minimum since 2013.
24 January Storm Eowyn brings strong gusts of wind to the area bringing down some trees and fences.
February 2025
February 2025 in Newtyle was another dry month - we have now had 9 consecutive drier-than-average months. It was also dull with average temperatures overall: daytime maxima were slightly lower than usual, but were more than made up for by high nighttime minima. There weren’t many frosts and no severe frosts. The month overall was anticyclonic. It was fairly cool until the third week when it became much milder, although temperatures gradually dropped away again. What a contrast it was taking Beau out for his morning walk on the 20th.
Overall mean maximum temperature 6.9 (-0.2C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 1.7 (+0.6)
Overall mean temperature 4.3 (+0.2 12th mildest in last 29 years)
Highest maximum temperature 12.3 on the 21st
Lowest maximum temperature: 3.1 on the 10th
Lowest minimum temperature: -2.9 on the 7th (highest February minimum since 2017)
Rain total: 49.2 mm (78%, =14th driest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 10.0 mm on the 10th
Fog mornings: 2
2 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 10 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 14 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 0 gale
Sunshine 53.4 hours (64%, 3rd dullest in last 20 years)
March 2025
March 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was very dry, warm, especially in terms of daytime maxima, and quite sunny. That is now 10 consecutive months with beneath average rainfall. The rainfall total for this period is 454 mm (62%), the lowest such total since 2004.
Overall mean maximum temperature 11.4 (+2.1C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 2.8 (+0.7)
Overall mean temperature 7.1 (+1.4 6th warmest in last 29 years and warmest since 2012)
Highest maximum temperature 17.5 on the 31st
Lowest maximum temperature: 6.1 on the 17th
Lowest minimum temperature: -4.5 on the 19th
Rain total: 24.8 mm (46%, 2nd driest, after 2012)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 9.0 mm on the 22nd
Fog mornings: 3
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 10 air frost nights, 9 frost days, 14 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 0 gale
Sunshine 139.9 hours (114%, 8th sunniest in last 26 years)
17 March. The lowest maximum of the month, 6.1, the highest lowest maximum on record.
25 March. At 17.2C, the warmest dy of the year so far and the first day over 15C.
31 March. Even warmer at 17.5.
April 2025
April 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was dry, warm, and sunny. April is usually the driest month of the year here, but this month’s rain total was very low, and now with 11 consecutive months with beneath average rainfall things are starting to look serious. Trees are coming in to full leaf, drawing even more water, and with late spring insolation the ground will dry very quickly after anything but the heaviest downpour. However there are little signs of heavy rain for at least the next two weeks or so. The maximum of 24.8 C on the 30th is easily the highest temperature I have recoded in April. Once again it was the maxima that were particularly high.
Overall mean maximum temperature 14.6 (+2.5C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 3.8 (+0.2)
Overall mean temperature 9.2 (+1.3 =4th warmest in last 29 years and warmest since 2011)
Highest maximum temperature 24.8 on the 30th
Lowest maximum temperature: 9.6 on the 16 & 17th (highest lowest May maximum on record)
Lowest minimum temperature: -2.6 on the 5th
Rain total: 18.8 mm (42%, 8th driest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 4.0 mm on the 13th
Fog mornings: 3
(Numbers in parentheses are deviations from the 29 year area mean; remember rounding errors can affect averaged deviations; some distributions such as rainfall are highly skewed)
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 5 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 9 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 0 gale
Sunshine 189 hours (122%, 4th sunniest in last 23 years)
11 April. The winds change from the east to the west and temperatures sore to 21.9º, the highest temperature of the year so far. The humidity is also very low: 33%.
30 March - 12 April. Drought.
30 April. Today's maximum of 24.8 C is easily the highest temperature I have recorded in April
May 2025
May 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was another extraordinary month. It was exceptionally sunny, and quite warm and dry. In fact it was the sunniest of any month in at least the last 29 years, with a total of 294.5 hours easily beating the previous record, April 2015 (245.1; previously sunny May 2018 (239.6). Such a margin of increase is phenomenal (I’m running low on superlatives here).
Overall it was a warm month, but the maxima were record-breakingly high; minima were beneath average, with some frosts at the beginning of the month. A range like this is to be expected when it is sunny all day because the air above the ground cools quickly at night with radiative cooling.
It was a dry month. However the drought of 22 days at the start of the month was the new record longest period in my records, and all the rain fell in the final nine days, with a much than expected fall on Friday 30th.
Overall mean maximum temperature 18.5 (+3.5C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 5.5(-0.8)
Overall mean temperature 12.0 (+1.2 =3rd warmest in last 29 years behind 2024 and 2018)
Highest maximum temperature 24.8 on the 17th
Lowest maximum temperature: 12.8 on the 4th
Lowest minimum temperature: -1.9 on the 5th (lowest May minimum since 2020)
Rain total: 51.2 mm (82%, 11th driest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 19.4 mm on the 30th
1-22 May. Drought - the new record longest drought in my 29 years in the Sidlaws so far.
June 2025
After the excitement of recent months, June 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was rather more average. Overall it was very warm and dry, but the sunshine total was slightly lower than average. There were no notable extremes within the month.
It is now though 13 consecutive months with beneath average rainfall. The first half of this year has seen 226.2 mm of rain. This is just 62% of average and the lowest in 29 years. The driest year in my records was 2003, and even that had seen 261.6 mm by this point.
It doesn’t look like anything exceptional is on the way in the near future. There are signs that an Azores High Extension might build in a week or so, which would bring us fine, sunny, warm (but not at first hot) weather. There is however something in forecasting called “the ten day high”: models in summer like to predict areas of high pressure building, but always ten days in the future. We shall see, but there’s always something happening in the wonderful world of the weather.
Overall mean maximum temperature 18.5 (+1.1C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 9.8 (+0.6)
Overall mean temperature 14.1 (+0.8 =4th warmest in last 29 years)
Highest maximum temperature 26.1 on the 20th
Lowest maximum temperature: 12.8 on the 4th
Lowest minimum temperature: 3.5 on the 8th
Rain total: 44.4 mm (69%, 9th driest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 11.0 mm on the 14th
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 0 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 0 ground frosts
1 thunder days, 0 gale, 1 fog morning
20 June. A hot day, at 26.1; the hottest since September 2023, and the hottest June day since 2018.
July 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was overall mostly an average month, although it was quite warm, and there was one day with a very high rainfall total for July.
The rainfall so far this year is running at just 65% of what we would expect.
Overall mean maximum temperature 20.9 (+1.5C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 11.9 (+0.9)
Overall mean temperature 16.4 (+1.2, 7th warmest in last 29 years)
Highest maximum temperature 29.6 on the 12th (second highest July maximum, only 2022 was hotter)
Lowest maximum temperature: 13.3 on the 2nd
Lowest minimum temperature: 5.2 on the 3rd (lowest since 2012)
Rain total: 74.8 mm (97%, 9th driest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 39.6 mm on the 18-19th (second highest July daily total)
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 0 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 0 ground frosts
3 thunder days, 0 gale, 2 fog morning
Sunshine 147 hours (97%)
12 July. 29.6C on the 12th (second highest July maximum, onlyin 2022 was there a hotter day)
19 July. 39.6 mm on the 18-19th (second highest July daily total)
August 2025.
August 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was warmer, drier, and sunnier than average. It was the warmest August since 2003. The rainfall so far this year is running at just 67% of what we would expect.
We are always promised thunderstorms but they rarely materialise. This month showed how sheltered Newtyle can be. On two occasions (Thursday 14th and Tuesday 26th) there were some very heavy showers around us but very little here. On the 15th there was flooding in Dundee with hailstones the size of pound coins; I recorded just 2.0 mm. I have screenshots of the rainfall and lightning radar for that day showing just how surrounded we were, with a little break right over us. On Tuesday 25th I was near Forfar and had to stop driving in the heavy rain with thunder; several millimetres fell in an hour there but back home there had been just 0.2 mm.
Summer 2025 was the second warmest in my records (15.6, +1.4, only beaten by 2003).
Overall mean maximum temperature 20.6 (+1.7C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 11.6 (+0.9)
Overall mean temperature 16.1 (+1.3, 4th warmest in last 29 years and warmest since 2003)
Highest maximum temperature 28.8 on the 13th (new record highest August maximum)
Lowest maximum temperature: 16.6 on the 5th
Lowest minimum temperature: 6.8 on the 20th
Rain total: 54.0 mm (67%, 8th driest, driest since 2016)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 15.4 mm on the 3rd
4 August. Storm Floris brings very strong winds, unusual for August, and much local disruption, including brances and some trees down.
13 August. At 28.8ºC my new record August day and the sixth highest oveal in my records.
14 August. There were some severe thunderstorms nearby with flooding in Dundee centre and hail the size of pound coins, but at home I saw no lightning and just 2.0 mm of rain.
September 2025
September 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was quite cool, quite wet, and very dull. Minimum temperatures were particularly low. It was the first month since April 2024 with significantly higher than average rainfall. There was though a relatively settled, dry third week which seemed to me to be particularly autumnal. The last few remaining house martins (which are usually adults) left around then.
Overall mean maximum temperature 16.2 (-0.4C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 7.9 (-1.1)
Overall mean temperature 12.0 (-0.8, 16th coolest in last 30 years)
Highest maximum temperature 20.2 on the 9th (first time September didn’t exceed 21C since 2018)
Lowest maximum temperature: 13.1 on the 29th
Lowest minimum temperature: 1.0 on the 29th
Rain total: 79.0 mm (116%, 11th wettest
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 18.0 mm on the 14th
Sunshine 105 hours (85%, 3rd dullest in 21 years)
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 0 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 5 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 0 gale, 2 fog morning
October 2025
October 2025 here was mild, dull, and quite wet.
Overall mean maximum temperature 12.9 (+0.4C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 6.9 (+0.7)
Overall mean temperature 9.9 (+0.5, =10th warmest in last 30 years)
Highest maximum temperature 18.9 on the 10th (warmest October day since 2015)
Lowest maximum temperature: 7.3 on the 26th
Lowest minimum temperature: -0.4 on the 30th
Rain total: 102.2 mm (106%, 14th wettest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 34.2mm on the 19th
Sunshine 78 hours (89%, =12th dullest in 22 years)
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 1 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 4 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 1 gale, 4 fog mornings
3 October. Storm Amy brings heavy rain (24.2 mm) and some strong winds.
19 October. A very wet day, with 34.2 mm of rain (28th wettest day in last 30 years).
30 October. The first air frost of the year (-0.4), a few days earlier than average.
November 2025
Quite wet and dull but with average temperatures overall.
Overall mean maximum temperature 9.0 (+0.3C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 2.9 (0)
Overall mean temperature 6.0 (+0.2, 16th warmest in last 30 years)
Highest maximum temperature 15.3 on the 3rd (warmest October day since 2022)
Lowest maximum temperature: 3.1 on the 18th
Lowest minimum temperature: -3.3 on the 26th
Rain total: 99.6 mm (119%, 10th wettest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 13.6 mm on the 9th
Sunshine 56 hours (77%, =5th dullest in 21 years)
(Numbers in parentheses are deviations from the 30 year area mean; remember rounding errors can affect averaged deviations; some distributions such as rainfall are highly skewed)
2 snow day, 1 days snow lying, 10 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 14 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 1 gale, 5 fog morning.
December 2025 in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland, was somewhat wetter and duller than average, but the outstanding feature was its record-breaking dullness: it saw the least sunshine total of any months in my 30 years of local records. The first three weeks were very unsettled, with wind and rain, but were also very warm and extremely dull, with just under 7 hours of sun; there were 8 consecutive days without sunshine from the 21st to the 28th. The final week was dry, brighter, and much colder.
The lowest temperature of -6.2 on the night of 30th to 31st was curious because it happened before midnight. (The meteorological observing day is 9-9 GTM, with minima being ‘thrown forward’ to the following day.) Wind and cloud associated with a front caused the temperature to rise after midnight, and it is interesting to speculate how low the temperature might have dropped had the conditions remained clear and calm.
Overall mean maximum temperature 7.3 (+1.1 C)
Overall mean minimum temperature 2.8 (+1.8)
Overall mean temperature 5.0 (+1.4, 5th warmest in last 30 years)
Highest maximum temperature 12.7on the 9th
Lowest maximum temperature: 1.0 on the 29th
Lowest minimum temperature: -6.2 on the 31st
Rain total: 83.0 mm (107%, 9th wettest)
Highest daily 9-9 GMT rainfall: 18.4 mm on the 5th
Sunshine 22 hours (42%, dullest of any month in 21 years)
(Numbers in parentheses are deviations from the 30 year area mean; remember rounding errors can affect averaged deviations; some distributions such as rainfall are highly skewed)
0 snow day, 0 days snow lying, 7 air frost nights, 0 frost days, 10 ground frosts
0 thunder days, 1 gale, 4 fog mornings, 15 days with no sun
Numbers in parentheses are deviations from the 30 year area mean; remember rounding errors can affect averaged deviations; some distributions such as rainfall are highly skewed)