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UK last month

July 2022

The weather during July was dominated by dry spells and generally above-average temperatures. The south-east was particularly dry. Record-breaking temperatures were recorded on the 18th and 19th.

The provisional UK mean temperature was 16.6 °C, which is 1.3 °C above the long-term average. Temperatures were highest relative to average in eastern areas, particularly for maxima which were 3 °C above average in East Anglia. It was provisionally the UK’s seventh warmest July in a series from 1884, and very similar to 2021. Rainfall was slightly above average in parts of north-west Scotland, but other areas had a drier than average month, with less than a quarter of the average south-east of a line from Lincolnshire to Cornwall; the UK had 56% of average. It was a sunnier than average month in the south and south-east, but north-western parts of the UK were rather dull, with an overall figure of 103% of average.

The UK monthly extremes were as follows: A maximum temperature of 40.3 °C was recorded at Coningsby (Lincolnshire) on the 19th. A minimum temperature of 2.3 °C was recorded at Tyndrum (Perthshire) on the 27th. In the 24 hours ending at 0900 UTC on the 24th, 70.4 mm of rain fell at Magilligan (Londonderry). A wind gust of 51 knots (59 mph) was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch (Ross & Cromarty) on the 11th.

Regional values for July 2022