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June 1997: wettest June since 1879


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  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam
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We thought that June was bad, it was not compared to June 2012 and to June 2007 at that.

For England and Wales, June 1997 was the wettest June since 1879 with a total rainfall of  132.2mm. The second half was very wet with the rain wrecking the 2nd Lord's Test England v Australia, causing Wimbledon to play on the middle Sunday which is a rest day normally and turned Glastobury into a mud bath.

  The period 24th-26th was especially wet and the 26th was cold with maxima in some places sub 10C.

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 England and Wales rainfall and CET trackometers

1.   0.0 13.7

2.   1.0   14.3

3.   1.1   14.3

4.   1.3  14.3

5.   6.1  14.8

6.   13.8 15.2

7.   15.6 15.7

8.   17.1   15.8

9. 17.3 15.6

10. 26.9 15.7

11. 40.4 15.9

12.  42.0 15.8

13.  45.0 15.8

14. 46.3 15.6

15. 46.4 15.4

16. 47.1 15.3

17. 47.4 15.2

18. 51.8 15.1

19. 55.6 15.0

20. 65.4 14.8

21. 73.4 14.7

22. 76.9 14.7

23. 78.2 14.6

24. 85.1  14.5

25. 100.6 14.5

26.  113.5 14.3

27. 119.7 14.2

28. 121.8 14.1

29.  123.5 14.1

30. 132.2 14.1

June 1997 rainfall totals and % of compared to average

Abbotsinch: 68mm (114%)

Durham: 190mm (380%)

Ringway: 112mm (167%)

Elmdon: 112mm  (196%)

Cambridge: 151mm (302%)

Hastings: 164mm (328%)

Heathrow: 79mm (154%)

Here are forecasts from this June

10th June

11th June

12th June

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Posted
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
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I remember the class match between Henman and Haarhuis on middle sunday 29th June, something like 16-14 in the 5th to Henman!

was a very disrupted wimbledon

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
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In the Tyne and Wear/Northumberland/Durham area June 1997 got off to quite a "summery" start, reminiscent of the previous three summers. The 1st and 2nd were plagued by low cloud off the North Sea but the easterly wind eased on the 3rd-5th which allowed dry sunny weather to take over, and it became quite warm. The 6th-10th were showery but quite sunny and warm, with most of the showers restricted to the evenings, and the 7th had some thunder. But then from the 11th onwards the weather turned progressively cooler, cloudier and wetter (I think the cooler weather didn't spread into central and southern England until around the 14th/15th) and it then became exceptionally dull, cold and wet from the 25th June to the 1st July inclusive, with only about ten minutes of sunshine in that 7-day period and frequent moderate to heavy persistent rain.

Statistics will show that June 1997 was considerably wetter than the Junes of 2007 and 2012 in the Tyne and Wear/Durham/Northumberland area, but not quite as dull. However NE England was particularly heavily hit by the persistent frontal rainfall and lack of sunshine from the 25th onwards and most other parts of the country were drier and somewhat less dull than in June 2012.

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