In a country where it is possible to experience four seasons in one day, it is no surprise that the weather is a conversation chart topper.
So there are plenty of talking points in a new book which draws on the weather and climate in Durham over the past 180 years.
Durham Weather and Climate Since 1841 taps into one of the longest continuous series of single-site weather records in Europe. The book describes how the records were collected and looks at the people who compiled them, while examining monthly and seasonal weather patterns and extremes across almost two centuries.
