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in Scotland with some areas seeing an annual increase of more than ten days. An increase of 12 days for the city of Glasgow contrasts with just one day in Cambridgeshire. The locations seeing the greatest annual percentage increases in sunshine have been in north-eastern and eastern England (increasing

at Faversham on 10 August 2003.  The dry spell has been most prolonged in East Anglia and Southeast England. Most especially much of East Anglia and Cambridgeshire, extending through Essex into London and also around Bournemouth and Southampton.  Parts of the Midlands have also been very dry. The last day

with parts of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland seeing snowfall on the 25th. Rainfall All regions of the UK received more than their expected average rainfall with some eastern areas actually exceeding their normal December rainfall by the middle of the month. South England

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

July, a temperature that is currently the July all-time maximum record. The all-time record in the UK is 38.5° C at Faversham on 10 August 2003. The dry spell has been most prolonged in East Anglia and Southeast England. Most especially much of East Anglia and Cambridgeshire, extending through Essex

of Wight. Details of the temperature records broken are given in the following table, with most of the stations having over 70 years of data: Station County August 1990 Maximum temperature (°C) Date Previous record Cheltenham Gloucestershire 37.1 3 35.9 Cambridge Botanic Gardens Cambridgeshire 36.5

of 25.6°C set at Mepal, Cambridgeshire on 29 March 1968. The table below lists long-running stations which recorded their highest March temperature on record (including several with 100+ year record lengths). Many other stations with 50+ year records also recorded their highest March temperature

. The all-time record in the UK is 38.5° C at Faversham on 10 August 2003.  The dry spell has been most prolonged in East Anglia and Southeast England. Most especially much of East Anglia and Cambridgeshire, extending through Essex into London and also around Bournemouth and Southampton.  Parts

Eastern England: climate The area comprises the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire The altitude of much of the area is below 60 metres and the Fens has the largest tract of low, flat land

an outbreak of duckweed on Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo. The lake is brackish, connected to the Caribbean Sea by a narrow channel.  During heavy rains, mixing of the fresh rain water with the salty lake water can cause the duckweed, already present in the lake, to rapidly increase in amount giving