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Date Highest monthly total (UK national average) [11] 266 hours UK (national average) May 2020 Highest monthly total (England) [2] 383.9 hours Eastbourne, Sussex: July 1911 Highest monthly total (Northern Ireland) [2] 298 hours Mount Stewart, County Down: June 1940 Highest monthly total (Scotland) [2] 329.1 hours Tiree, Argyll & Bute: May 1975
Coldest summer (month of July in the Northern Hemisphere): −33 °C (−27.4 °F); Summit Camp, Greenland on 4 July 2017. [ 293 ] Lowest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere : −69.6 °C (−93.3 °F); Greenland Ice Sheet , Greenland on 22 December 1991.
Month Date Location pressure (hPa) ref Notes January 3 January 1841 Reykjavik 1058.0 Calibrated to 1058.5 in some publications. [18] February 14 February 1892 Akureyri and Stykkishólmur: 1051.8 [19] March 6 March 1883 Vestmannaey settlement 1051.7 April 16 April 1991 Egilsstaðir: 1050.8 May 18 May 1894 Akureyri: 1045.0 June 11 June 2019 ...
The driest year recorded in Ireland was 1887, with 356.6 mm (14.04 in) of rain recorded at Glasnevin, County Dublin. The longest drought in Ireland occurred in Limerick between 3 April 1938 and 10 May 1938 (37 days). The greatest monthly total was 790.0 mm (31.10 in); recorded at the Cummeragh Mountains, County Kerry, in October 1996.
The project involved the transcription of 130 years worth of handwritten rainfall records – more than five million individual observations.
The 1906 British Isles heatwave occurred across the British Isles in August and September 1906. The heat wave had a comparable intensity to the 1990 heat wave. [2] From 31 August to 3 September, the temperature in the UK exceeded 32 °C (90 °F) consecutively over much of the UK.
Data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service last week showed that March of 2023 was the planet’s second-warmest month in recorded history, registering average global temperatures 0.92 ...
Northern Ireland is drier and has fewer rainy days than Scotland throughout the year, except in May, when it rains on more days. Northern Ireland is also drier than Wales in every month, yet it rains on more days. The rainiest month is January, when 17.8 days have more than 1 mm (0.04 in) of rain on average. [20]