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pressure continuing to dominate, with outbreaks of heavy showers and thunderstorms across the UK. Some surface water impacts were observed, including short-term closures of roads and rails in parts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire on the 26th and over north-east

show that record temperatures for July were not confined to London or other major urban centres but extended across northern England. Notably, Stonyhurst, Lancashire (a CET station) recorded its highest temperature on record for any month (in a 70+ year recordlength) by a margin of nearly 1 °C

with some low cloud near eastern coastal fringes. 16.4 hours of sunshine was recorded at East Malling (Kent) on the 2nd, and at Morecambe (Lancashire) on the 4th. The hot dry sunny weather continued over much of the country between the 5th and 8th, but scattered thundery showers broke out on the 5th, mainly

for November was provisionally 1.1 °C above the 1981-2010 long-term average, and the positive anomaly was generally a little higher by night than by day. Rainfall was 101% of average, and it was a dry month in a band from Lancashire across the Midlands to Norfolk but it was notably wet in much of Devon

and spread south-eastwards through the country on the 26th, though tending to break up as it moved further south-east. Apart from some low cloud overnight in places, most areas had near-unbroken sunshine from the 27th to 31st inclusive. Morecambe (Lancashire) recorded 15.6 hours of sunshine

sunny day for most with 12.2 hours of sunshine at Morecambe (Lancashire). 28th to 31st A northerly outbreak on the 28th and 29th brought much cooler weather, with increasingly wintry showers spreading southwards through central and eastern counties on the 28th, and wintry showers persisted in the east

of the south-west. Preston Cove House (Dorset) and Morecambe (Lancashire) both recorded 12.5 hours of sunshine. A belt of wet and windy weather spread eastwards on the 2nd, giving 65.2 mm at Mickleden (Cumbria). The rain became light and patchy by the 3rd as it slowly moved south-eastwards through

(Lancashire, 95mAMSL) 61Kt 70mph on 3rd at Capel Curig No 3 (Gwynedd, 216mAMSL) 99Kt 114mph on 2nd at Cairngorm Summit (Inverness-shire, 1237mAMSL) No non-zero values. mAMSL refers to station elevation in metres above mean sea level. *Mountain stations are above 500mAMSL. Monthly maps These maps

from flooding in parts of Lancashire. The heavy and persistent rainfall from 6th to 7th across Scotland caused widespread flood impacts. In Argyll, the A83 was closed due to a landslip with ten people airlifted from their vehicles and several other major trunk roads were also closed. Rail services

to 13th Following another widespread frost, the 8th was sunny in the south-east but cloudy with patchy rain and drizzle elsewhere; heavy rain spread east into the north-west by dusk, and this gave 26.1 mm at Hazelrigg (Lancashire). Rain in the north and south-west moved south-east on the 9th, with sleet