Issued 6 September 2007
Summer 2007 summary
The main feature of the summer was the high rainfall experienced in many regions especially during June and July. It was the wettest summer for the whole of the UK since the rainfall series began in 1914. For England and Wales as a whole the summer has been the wettest since 1912. However, parts of north-west Scotland have been drier than normal.
The UK mean summer temperature was 14.1 °C which is the same as the 1971-2000 average. The UK average daily maximum temperature was just below average, whilst average daily minimum temperatures were just above average. It was the coolest UK summer since 1998.
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