SUMMARY---JUNE 2012


The month over large sections of Britain was truly appalling & for some,even disastrous, as depression after depression passed over us, with the jet stream steering these systems much further south than normal.
Excessive amounts of rain, including some violent storms & high rainfall intensities, affected a number of regions, resulting in flash floods & landslides.
Parts of Scotland, notably the far North West, avoided much of this misery. Stornoway had only 34mms of rain, whereas the average over England & Wales was 157mms, around 230% of average.
PITLOCHRY saw only 20mms of rain in the first 20 days of the month, though this total swelled to nearly 68mms by the close, just 10% above the long-term average.
Temperatures here, were below average, particularly by day(down 1.9 degrees) & the highest temperature only reached 20.5---which was well exceeded on 7 days towards the end of May!
There were no air frosts & only 2 ground frosts during the month. No thunder was heard nor hail seen at this site & all in all, we escaped the worst of what was on offer during June 2012.       Barry (01/07/12)