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across England; one from the West Midlands to Lincolnshire, the other from Morecambe Bay to north-east England. These brought torrential downpours, hailstones large enough to damage greenhouses and cars, and intense lightning activity (over 50,000 strikes were recorded across the UK through the day
. Highest Maximum Lowest Maximum Highest Minimum Lowest Minimum Lowest Grass Minimum Most Rainfall Most Sunshine Highest Gust Highest Gust (mountain*) Greatest Snow Depth at 0900 UTC 32.2°C on 10th at Chertsey, Abbey Mead P Sta (Surrey, 12mAMSL) also on 25th at Coningsby (Lincolnshire, 6mAMSL) 10.2°C
record. Summer temperature The fourth warmest summer in the series for the UK was underlined with temperatures in excess of 40C recorded in the UK for the first time. Coningsby, Lincolnshire, recorded the highest temperature, with 40.3C exceeding the previous UK record by 1.6C. The hot period
/12/1994 100 Cromer, Norfolk 12.8 31/12/2021 12.7 01/12/2001 85 Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 12.6 31/12/2021 12.5 12/12/1994 81 Waddington, Lincolnshire 12.7 31/12/2021 12.5 05/12/1986 72 January - highest min Sheffield, South Yorkshire 11.5 01/01/2022 10.6 16/01/1990 137 Bradford, West Yorkshire 10.7
temperatures rising by a similar amount. UK Heatwave Records The UK has experienced several notable heatwaves, with record-breaking temperatures: England: 40.3°C on 19 July 2022 at Coningsby, Lincolnshire Wales: 37.1°C on 18 July 2022 at Hawarden Airport, Flintshire Scotland: 34.8°C on 19 July 2022
rainfall, with the exception of parts of East Anglia and the Home Counties, western and northern Scotland and Shetland. Dr Mark McCarthy added: “It was a particularly wet year across parts of central and northern England—notably Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Cheshire
. This was the highest gust recorded in north-east England since 89Kt (102) at Lynemouth (Northumberland) on 16 January 1984. Donna Nook (Lincolnshire) recorded 80Kt (92) on 30 October 2000, and 74Kt (85mph) was recorded at Loftus (North Yorkshire) on 12 February 2014 – during a sequence of severe winter storms. 68Kt
on the 13th, 88.4 mm of rain fell at Glen Nevis (Inverness-shire). Wind gusts of 58 knots (67 mph) were observed at Weybourne (Norfolk) and Donna Nook (Lincolnshire) on the 25th. Weather impacts On the 2nd in Scotland, there was flooding on the A75 near Auchenlarie, with ScotRail reporting disruption
of the country was very warm and sunny, with Treknow (Cornwall) reaching 25.8°C on the 19th, and East Malling (Kent) had 14.1 hours of sunshine on the 21st, but it was often cooler near the east coast with fog slow to clear in parts of Lincolnshire. The temperature fell no lower than 13.8 °C at Blencathra
% of average, and it was exceptionally wet in parts of the Midlands, Lincolnshire, north-east England, and eastern fringes of Scotland, with more than twice the normal rainfall in places. In contrast, it was exceptionally dry in parts of north-west Scotland. Sunshine was 84% of average, and was generally
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