UK: latest weather

UK last month

June 2010

For most of the month, rain-bearing Atlantic weather systems were absent and pressure was relatively high. This meant that June saw plenty of dry, sunny weather, especially in the second half when it became very warm over England. Any widespread rainfall was largely confined to the second week. The weather also turned unsettled from the west and north towards the end of the month, with the warm, fine spell becoming confined to eastern England. Mean temperatures were above average in all areas, ranging from about 1 °C above close to the east coast to about 2 °C above over Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Daytime maximum temperatures were well above normal, by about 2.5 °C in many western and central areas. June saw below-average rainfall across almost the whole UK, with less than 50% of normal in many areas including much of Scotland, south Wales, north-west England and southern England. Sunshine totals ranged from about 25% below normal across much of northern and eastern Scotland to about 50% above in south Wales and south-west England, where June was the third-sunniest in a series from 1929.

A maximum temperature of 30.9 °C was recorded at Gravesend (Kent) on 27th. A minimum temperature of -0.1 °C was recorded at Cromdale (Highland) early on 15th and at Carterhouse (Borders) early on 20th. In the 24 hours ending at 0900 on 11th, 44.0 mm of rainfall was recorded at Manston (Kent).

Monthly assessment | Regional values