Weather records (FOI)

​Request

Since the year 2000 can you please list every weather record broken in Jersey “since records began”. This would include such records as hottest year, hottest day, longest drought period, most rainfall for a day / month and so on.

For clarification please also include records even if they were exceeded, for example 2015 was the hottest year on record but this was then exceeded in 2016. Jersey Meteorological Office regularly communicates these “since records began” type records to the public on social media but it would be good to have a consolidated list of them all for the period.

Response

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 because the information is already accessible to you by other means.

Specific weather information can be requested directly from the Meteorological Section of the Department by email:

Email Meteorological Department

Enquiries cost £205.00, plus GST and a further £27.00, plus GST for each year of data requested.

Based on the criteria set out in your current request (weather events from 1894 to the present day, a total of 123 years) the estimated cost of providing this information would be £3526.00, plus GST.

Exemptions applied

Article 23 – Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.