| Summary: | This chapter places Oxford’s climate in its regional context, including urban weather and ranging in scale from the Thames Valley and south-east England to the influence of the North Atlantic and the European continent. Oxford’s weather does not happen in isolation. Aside from perhaps the most local of rain showers or thunderstorms, the origins of the atmospheric conditions resulting in any particular day’s weather in Oxford may lie much further afield. For this reason, any particular day or spell of weather as experienced at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford will normally share some characteristics with the weather recorded tens if not hundreds of kilometres distant from Oxford. In the chapter, use is made of weather indices, including Lamb Weather Types and the North Atlantic Oscillation index. In addition, reference is made both to Oxford’s synoptic climatology as well as to notable spells of weather.
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