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wettest winter on record. Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Rutland’s winter season average rainfall all ranked as second wettest. Winter sunshine The record-breaking rainfall brought plenty of cloud for the winter season, meaning sunshine hours for England and Wales have been relatively low. Wales
(for example parts of Hampshire, London and Cambridgeshire) less than 1mm – ie essentially no appreciable rain. The June rainfall map below shows large parts of southern England recording less than 5% of the June average rainfall, with some places less than 2%. Southern England recorded its driest
, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland seeing snowfall on the 25th. However, snow days are becoming increasingly rare in the UK; bad news if you enjoy a white Christmas. Only four Christmases in the last 50 years have recorded widespread snow i.e. at more than 40% UK weather stations. July saw
. Counties for which Spring was the driest of any three-month period. County March rainfall (mm) April rainfall (mm) May rainfall (mm) Spring rainfall (mm) Previous driest three-month period Cambridgeshire 4.0 3.4 17.6 25.0Feb - Apr 1938 (28.2 mm) Essex 8.6 3.6 12.7 24.0Feb - Apr 1938 (32.8 mm
trees affected road travel in Hampshire, and there were reports of stranded cars in Surrey after surface water flooding. A short hot spell in southern and southeastern England on the 11th and 12th led to the hottest day of the year so far (34.8°C reported in Cambridgeshire), but the transition back
temperature records Although sitting outside the top ten warmest years in the series (all since 2002), 2019 was most remarkable for setting four UK high temperature records, including: A new all-time record (38.7° C) 25 July, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens (Cambridgeshire) A new winter record (21.2
trees affected road travel in Hampshire, and there were reports of stranded cars in Surrey after surface water flooding. A short hot spell in southern and southeastern England on the 11th and 12th led to the hottest day of the year so far (34.8°C reported in Cambridgeshire), but the transition back
was 71% of average, and it was locally a very dry July, most especially in parts of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, but most places were not exceptionally dry. Sunshine was 138% of average and it was provisionally the sixth sunniest July in a series since 1929, and sunniest relative to normal in England
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
the Turkish border), one can also make out Lake Urmia, a highly salty lake in which the water appears as both green and red. The lower image, taken from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite at a similar time and using similar wavelengths, shows this lake in more detail. Here we can clearly see that the water
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