June 1997: wettest June since 1879

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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.

 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

Edited October 25, 2012 by Weather-history

[I remember Atlantic 252]

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

[Thundery wintry showers]

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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13th June 1997

14th June 1997

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15th June 1997

16th June 1997

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17th June

18th June

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19th June 1997

Michael Fish says a record breaking low for June: 20th June

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21st June 1997

22nd June 1997

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23rd June

24th June

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A really poor spell for late June

25th June

26th June

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ITN report on the washout and the Glastonbury mud bath

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Wed and Thur was the wimbledon washout 25th & 26th

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Piers Corbyn being interviewed by ITN

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27th June

28th June

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29th June

30th June

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ITN report of 1st July 1997 on the wet June

1st July 1997: David Braine on how wet June was. The figure was actually the wettest since 1879

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Edited October 28, 2012 by Weather-history