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On the 4th and 5th south-eastern England experienced travel disruption, with delays and multiple accidents on the M20 and delays to rail services between Hastings and Eastbourne. In Northern Ireland, there were some accidents on the M2. The north-east of England and Scotland saw some road closures
52.583, 0.348 Manual Donna Nook No 2 England 53.475, 0.155 Automatic Dunkeswell Aerodrome England 50.86, -3.239 Automatic Durham England 54.768, -1.585 Automatic East Bergholt England 51.959, 1.025 Manual East Malling England 51.287, 0.45 Automatic Eastbourne England 50.759, 0.285 Manual Edenbridge
, but some sharp ones developed over East Anglia, locally thundery in Suffolk. The 4th was sunny in the south-east with 13.9 hours of sunshine at Eastbourne (East Sussex) but cloudy and windy elsewhere, with rain from the Midlands northwards clearing north-eastwards but more rain moving across Cumbria
Barrow (Devon). A wind gust of 64 knots (74 mph) was recorded at Needles (Isle of Wight) on the 27th. Weather impacts The spell of settled weather was broken around the 8th when there were thunderstorms in very warm and humid air. Damage was caused in Eastbourne on the 10th due to a lightning strike
& Cromarty) on the 10th. Weather impacts There were thunderstorms in parts of England on the 2nd, 7th and 17th. The last of these covered south-eastern counties, with reports of flooding in Hythe, Folkestone and Eastbourne, while a water pumping station was struck by lightning causing damage and a power
behind), and the least in December. The highest known monthly sunshine totals in the area are for June 1925 when 334.8 hours were recorded at Long Ashton and 381.7 at Pendennis Point in Cornwall. The highest UK monthly total is 383.9 for July 1911 at Eastbourne, only a few hours above the Cornwall
383.9 hours Eastbourne (Sussex) July 1911 Wales 354.3 hours Dale Fort (Pembrokeshire) July 1955 Scotland 329.1 hours Tiree (Argyll & Bute) May 1975 Northern Ireland 298.0 hours Mount Stewart (Co. Down) June 1940 Table 23. Highest monthly sunshine totals for locations in the United Kingdom. Country
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