As we attain the half-way level of 2022, June continued the run of every month thus far this yr reporting above-average temperatures, as heat and dry circumstances reigned for a lot of the month.
Based on provisional Met Workplace figures, June 2022’s common imply temperature* for the UK was 13.9°C, which was 0.6°C above the long-term common (1991-2020). Most temperatures have been additionally above common for the month, with 18.6°C the typical each day excessive, some 0.9°C above the long-term determine. This was spurred on by a heat spell in the midst of the month, when temperatures peaked at 32.7°C on 17 June at Heathrow Airport and Santon Downham, in Suffolk. Day by day minimal temperatures have been considerably nearer to common for a lot of.
Nevertheless, June’s warmth wasn’t unfold evenly throughout the UK, with the best departures from common alongside jap coasts of England and Scotland. England and Scotland each noticed common most temperatures 1°C greater than their long-term averages, at 20°C and 16.6°C respectively, whereas Wales and Northern Eire have been a lot nearer to their averages, with 18°C and 17.1°C respectively.
Dry, however not for everybody
Regardless of some durations of late-month rainfall for a lot of the UK, figures are nonetheless round 1 / 4 under their common for the month. For the UK, a mean of 59mm of rain fell within the month, which is 24% lower than the long-term common. Areas in England and jap Scotland have been significantly dry, though not sufficient to hassle any information. Nevertheless, Northern Eire did breach its long-term common determine, with 84.7mm of rain being 4% greater than their common, thanks largely to some bursts of rain late within the month.
Solar shines for many
Sunshine figures for the month have been largely above common, with a mean of 195.8 sunshine hours within the UK, which is 14% greater than the long-term common for June. Nevertheless, as with temperature and rainfall, the sunniest circumstances have been within the east which means Northern Eire was the primary exception with simply 108.1 hours of sunshine – which is 28% lower than the long-term common.
Dr Mark McCarthy of the Nationwide Local weather Data Centre mentioned: “Wanting on the climate and local weather figures for June 2022, it has been a reasonably unremarkable month, albeit with a very hot spell in the midst of the month and a reasonably dry and sunny month for many.
“With the warmest, driest and sunniest climate to be discovered within the east, Northern Eire was the outlier for a number of of the statistics, with a number of interludes of cloud and rain which means there was a comparatively uninteresting month, with sunshine in brief provide within the west of Northern Eire.”
| Provisional June 2022 | Imply temp (°C) | Sunshine (hours) | Rainfall (mm) | |||
| Precise | Diff from avg (°C) | Precise | % of avg | Precise | % of avg | |
| UK | 13.9 | 0.6 | 195.8 | 114 | 59 | 76 |
| England | 14.9 | 0.5 | 220.9 | 118 | 45 | 69 |
| Wales | 13.5 | 0 | 190.7 | 107 | 71.5 | 78 |
| Scotland | 12.5 | 0.8 | 170.2 | 116 | 74.7 | 80 |
| N Eire | 13.4 | 0.4 | 108.1 | 72 | 84.7 | 104 |
Local weather change
With June proving to be hotter than common in line with imply temperature, 2022 continues a run of months since September 2021 being hotter than common, that’s regardless of a change to a brand new meteorological averaging interval which displays the UK’s altering local weather on account of human-induced local weather change. Even with this current shift within the averaging interval, which demonstrated a rise in common UK temperature of 0.8°C in comparison with an earlier 1961-1990 interval, 2022 has thus far been larger than the typical for each month, in addition to the closing three months of 2021, even when measured in opposition to the most recent averages.
Mark continued: “It’s maybe noteworthy that 2022 thus far hasn’t had any month report below-average imply temperature. After all, short-term climate will at all times lead the path of month-to-month statistics, however even with the change in averaging durations to replicate our altering local weather, 2022 has had a run of comparatively gentle or heat climate, which means that the January-June interval for 2022 has been within the prime 5 warmest for the UK in a sequence from 1884. This doesn’t imply that cooler months received’t nonetheless happen, such is the pure variability of the UK local weather, however a warming pattern for the UK over an extended interval is according to what we’ve seen in our local weather figures.”
*Imply temperature is calculated by the distinction between the typical each day most and common each day minimal temperature.
