Caporegime
Wrong.
UK last month
July 2019
July began with a cool, showery north-westerly flow over the UK, but for most of the first half of the month high pressure was close to the south and west and this brought mostly dry weather with plentiful sunshine for much of England, especially the south-west, and also south Wales, but elsewhere cloud was more variable. The second half was generally more unsettled with frequent westerly and south-westerly winds, but with an exceptionally hot spell from the 22nd to 26th which saw record-breaking temperatures in many parts of the country, including a new record for the UK as a whole, and also widespread thunderstorms.
The provisional UK mean temperature was 16.4 °C, which is 1.2 °C above the 1981-2010 long-term average, making it the equal 8th warmest July in a series since 1910, though not as warm as July 2018. The mean minimum temperature was the equal 4th highest in the series. Mean maximum temperatures ranged from over 1.5 °C above normal in the south and east to around 0.5 °C above in some western coastal areas. Mean minimum temperatures were over 1.5 °C above average in much of the north and east, but less than 0.5°C above in the south-west. Rainfall was 114% of average, but was very variable across the country, with below-average rainfall over most of Wales and the south-west, but more than twice the normal amount from Manchester to Leicestershire. Sunshine was 100% of average, and amounts were above normal over the south-west but below normal over most of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/summaries/index
See that, 100% of sunshine. Unless the met office is wrong?
