The Met Office has released the weather stats for spring; all UK countries have enjoyed great weather and recorded their sunniest spring on record stretching back to 1929.
It has been the eighth warmest spring on record for the UK, with both England and Wales having their fifth warmest spring on record. Some counties in north east England and eastern Scotland also recorded their driest spring in a rainfall series from 1862. but generally it has been the fifth driest spring for the UK overall.
The map above shows the sunshine duration for spring 2020 - relative to the climate average - and you can see some impressive anomalies there with an increase of over 135% in many places.
The first couple of days of June continued with the very warm and sunny weather from May, but a big change will come in towards the north or north east winds spread to all parts of the country by the middle of the first week of the month.
There will be a noticeable drop in temperature together with much more cloud cover compared to recent weeks. Areas of low pressure will become established across most of mainland Europe with one centred in the North Sea and other over northern Italy. This weather pattern will bring below average temperatures combined with above average cloud, rain and wind speeds to large areas of Europe for the first half of June. Around the middle of June we'll see a low pressure anomaly to the west of Ireland.
Much of Iberia will stay cool for the time of year, whereas the temperatures will be on the rise across the north east of Europe and it should become quite hot in northern Germany, Poland and Lithuania, with daytime temperatures returning to about 25 Celsius.
The MetDesk map in our main page image shows the forecast weather pattern for Europe between the 13th and the 17th of June; the blue colours indicating below average temperatures, while the orange and reds indicate above average values.
Confidence is very low for the last 10 days of June, but there are some signals for a return to a ridge of high pressure. This should bring some pleasant, warm summer weather for most of us, but the possibility ofa heat wave seems quite low.
We'll be back in a few weeks to check on the forecast and let you know how the signals are panning out for July.
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