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The year 2006 was an unusually warm one. Although the year started off cool, from April the weather stayed warmer than average. July was the hottest month on record for the United Kingdom. [15] (The summer of 2022 has since reached 40C in some areas.)
It rains on fewer days every month throughout the year than the rest of the UK, and rainfall totals are less in every month, with the driest month, May, averaging 58.4 mm (2.30 in). [3] The climate of south-west England displays a seasonal temperature variation, although it is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom with milder winters ...
The works passed into the hands of Salis Schwabe (1800-1853) in December 1832, who built up what according to the ODNB was "the largest calico-printing complex in Britain, covering an area of 31 acres, famously boasting the tallest factory chimney in the industrial north (some said in Europe), and employing a labour force of more than 750."
1983 – United Kingdom experienced a heatwave during July 1983. This was the hottest month ever recorded until it was beaten in August 1995. Temperature difference in Europe from the average during the European heat wave of 2003. 1987 – prolonged heat wave from 20 to 31 July in Greece, with more than 1,000 deaths in the area of Athens.
Last month was officially the hottest May on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA tracked temperatures 1.57 degrees Fahrenheit above the worldwide average ...
Greece faces seventh day of fires as temperatures surged to 46.6C in the south on Sunday
Temperatures to remain high in Italy, Greece and across the Balkans even as heatwave eases in France and Spain
Location 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 ...