Wettest June

The wettest June has followed the warmest April.

It’s official: it was the wettest June on record in England,.
The unprecedented rainfall of the past four weeks and the floods which have followed have affected 27,000 homes and 5,000 businesses, causing damage likely to top £1bn, the Association of British Insurers said yesterday.

The Met Office have confirmed that the June rainfall record for England was broken: 123.9mm of rain was recorded by 10am 29 June, compared with the record of 121.2mm set in 1997 (in a list going back to 1914).

For the UK, 119.8mm was been recorded by yesterday, compared with the June record of 121.2mm set in 1988,