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UK last month

June 2025

June overall was warmer and sunnier than average. The month started on a cool note, with low pressure dominant and unsettled weather, in a sharp change from previous months. A series of Atlantic weather systems brought rain in the first week, at times heavy. Temperatures began to increase in the second week and high pressure returned to bring more settled conditions, although there were still some showers and isolated thunderstorms. There were extensive thunderstorms mid-month, especially across England and Wales. The high temperatures reached heatwave thresholds for many across England and Wales between the 16^th and 21^st before breaking with thunderstorms and showers. A few days of unsettled weather followed, before temperatures again rose towards the end of the month, resulting in another heatwave for some parts of central and eastern England.

This was provisionally England’s warmest June on record, with a mean temperature of 16.9°C (2.5°C above the long-term average). The UK saw its second warmest June, while Wales saw its third warmest. 30°C was reached and exceeded on several occasions in parts of central, southern and eastern England. Areas of southeastern England saw provisional mean temperatures over 3°C above average, and many counties including Greater London, Essex and Kent recorded the warmest June on record. Rainfall for the UK was slightly above average, with the UK provisionally recording 79.5 mm of rainfall (103% of the long-term average). However, there was a strong regional divide to the country’s rainfall, with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all seeing well above average rainfall but England, and especially southern England, seeing well below average rainfall. While Orkney provisionally recorded its wettest June and Cumbria saw its fourth wettest, counties including Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Bedfordshire saw less than half of their average June rainfall. Although the UK overall recorded above average sunshine hours for June, provisionally seeing 192.1 hours (112% of the average), much of this was in England along the east coast. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all recorded slightly below average sunshine hours, while East Anglia provisionally recorded 141% of the average sunshine.

The UK monthly extremes were as follows: A maximum temperature of 33.2°C was recorded at Charlwood (Surrey) on the 21^st. A minimum temperature of 0.0°C was recorded at Braemar (Aberdeenshire) on the 8^th. In the 24 hours ending at 0900 UTC on the 28^th, 70.9mm of rain fell at Brothers Water (Cumbria). A wind gust of 61 knots (70 mph) was recorded at Capel Curig (Gwynedd) on the 3^rd.

Regional values for May 2025