Thunderstorms in Oxford, 1828-2019

Dataset 1 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.Dataset 2 contains the monthly and annual frequencies of thunder heard in Oxford 1828-2019. This series is believed to be complete, as monthly totals for the Radcliffe Meteorological Station site 1936-70 are available within the University of Oxford.For more information on the sites used and the records, please see Burt, S., 2021: Two hundred years of thunderstorms in Oxford. Weather, doi 10.1002/wea.3884 (in press as at 8 Dec 2020). Please cite this paper if using these datasets in any published work.For more information on the long meteorological record at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford (since 1772), see Burt, S. and T. Burt, 2019: Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767. Oxford: Oxford University Press 544 pp.