June 2010 produced some real summer weather, particularly during the latter half of the month. There were a few cool days, notably at the beginning and middle of the month when the maximum was several degrees below the average but the last ten days compensated with days of hot, dry weather and often cloudless blue skies from start to the finish of the day. The maximum of 27.8°C was recorded on the 26th but in contrast we had the coolest night since 2001 when a minimum of 1.4°C was noted in the early hours of the 20th. The wettest day occurred on the 7th with 14.7mm, almost half the total of 36.0mm for the month. There were three days with maximum sunshine of 13.5 hours and five of 13.3 hours.
The mean temperature was 0.6°C above the long-term average, principally due to above average maxima. With 22 totally dry days it was a very dry month, 36.0mm was 65% of the long-term average. It was the fifth driest January – June period on record. Due to the high temperatures the evapotranspiration total was 114.8mm, thus more than three times the moisture returned to the atmosphere than fell in rainfall.
