Bats32 last summer was combined with an el nino though.. Did that play a part in summer last year going down hill in mid July? That won't be a factor this year.
Wasn't 2007 and absolute shocker from around 2nd May through to August Bank Holiday? With heavy torrential rain most days including two or three serious spells of rain in June and July. I remember a dam nearly bursting in Sheffield and people being air lifted from a flooded retail park on the 25th of June. Tewkesbury cathedral was flooded in July. Can't say I've seen any of that this year nor is it being forecasted.
Didn't a low get stuck over Iberia recently in May and June ?, how about that low stuck over Italy in early May ? Or the one that was stuck over Germany in July 2021 that caused their worse floods ever (at the same time it was a scorcher in the UK).