Driest start to September for over 50 years
Paul Hudson
Driest first half of September for over 50 years
Figures released by the Met Office have confirmed how exceptionally dry the first half of September has been.
With high pressure dominating for virtually the whole of the month so far, rainfall across the UK has totalled just 6.7mm.
This makes it the driest first half of September since records began in 1960 and is just 7% of the monthly average of 96mm.
It has also been warmer than average, with the UK mean temperature 1.3C above normal.
And there’s little change expected, with high pressure forecast to remain with us well into next week.
Record global temperature for August
According to the NASA GISS global temperature data set, August was the warmest globally since records began 130 years ago.
This follows May and June which, on this particular data set, were also the hottest on record.
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