Thunderstorms in Oxford, 1828-2019

<b>Dataset 1</b> contains the date of every day when thunder was heard in Oxford from 1828 to 2019, excluding 1936-70 for which daily records are not yet available (owing to coronoavirus access restrictions on the Met Office archives). The missing years will be added once archive access has been restored.<br><b>Dataset 2</b> contains the monthly and annual frequencies of thunder heard in Oxford 1828-2019. This series is believed to be complete, as <i>monthly </i>totals for the Radcliffe Meteorological Station site 1936-70 are available within the University of Oxford.<br>For more information on the sites used and the records, please see Burt, S., 2021: Two hundred years of thunderstorms in Oxford. <i>Weather</i>, doi 10.1002/wea.3884 (in press as at 8 Dec 2020). Please cite this paper if using these datasets in any published work.<br>For more information on the long meteorological record at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford (since 1772), see Burt, S. and T. Burt, 2019: <i>Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press 544 pp.<br>