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It rains on fewer days every month throughout the year than the rest of the UK, and rainfall totals are less in every month, with the driest month, May, averaging 58.4 mm (2.30 in). [3] The climate of south-west England displays a seasonal temperature variation, although it is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom with milder winters ...
150. Cairn Gorm, Scottish Highlands. 20 March 1986. Shetland holds the unofficial British record for wind speed. A gust of 197 mph (317 km/h) was reported on 1 January 1992. An earlier gust in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph (285 km/h), both at RAF Saxa Vord. [12] However, it is expected that higher gusts than those reported would have been ...
As of 2022, 1976 has the 13th hottest day in UK history. In the Central England Temperature series, 1976 is the hottest summer for more than 350 years. The average temperature over the whole summer (June, July, August) was 17.77 °C (63.99 °F), compared to the average for the unusually warm years between 2001 and 2008 of 16.30 °C (61.34 °F ...
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June 2022 United Kingdom heatwave. Peak temp. On the three days from 15 June to 17 June, temperatures in Kew, London, reached at least 28 °C (82 °F), the official heatwave threshold at that location for that time of year. [ 4] On 17 June, a high of 32.7 °C (90.9 °F) was recorded in Santon Downham, Suffolk.
25 July 2021. Peak temp. 32.2 °C (90.0 °F), recorded at Heathrow Airport, London on 21 July 2021. The 2021 Britain and Ireland heat wave was a period of unusually hot weather in July 2021 that led to record-breaking temperatures in the UK and Ireland. On 19 July, the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning for parts of the UK.
The winter of 1962–1963, known as the Big Freeze of 1963, was one of the coldest winters (defined as the months of December, January and February) on record in the United Kingdom. [2] Temperatures plummeted and lakes and rivers began to freeze over. In the Central England Temperature (CET) record extending back to 1659, only the winters of ...
And while those wet conditions are expected to give way to a warmer spell this week, the Met Office has poured cold water on the prospect of an extended heatwave stretching into the bank holiday ...