This month isn’t but over however to date it has been the driest July in England since 1911 and the second driest since information started in 1836, say climate consultants.
Only 15.8mm (0.6 inches) of rain fell on common as much as 26 July, in response to the Met Office.
The company says that is simply 24% of the quantity which might be anticipated in a mean July.
Figures additionally present England has had the driest eight-month interval from November 2021 to June 2022 since 1976, when the nation struggled with extreme drought.
Over that interval, simply 421mm (16.6in) of rain has fallen throughout England – lower than three-quarters (74%) of the 1991-2020 common of 568mm (22.4in).
It comes as water chiefs are making ready for drought with officers on the Environment Agency (EA) transferring water to low working rivers, rescuing fish and reoxygenating water, whereas water corporations are implementing the early levels of their drought plans.
And the Royal Meteorological Society advised Sky News that drought was now “very likely” for almost all of the south of England and Wales.
The Met Office stated at this stage within the month, the nation would have anticipated properly over three-quarters of the month’s rain to have already fallen in a mean July.
As for the UK image as an entire, the state of affairs is just a little higher however this July to date remains to be the driest since 1984 and the eighth driest since 1836.
An common of 37.7mm (1.5in) of rain has fallen within the UK this month as much as 26 July, says the Met Office.
There remains to be time for issues to alter barely over the remaining days of the month.
But climate consultants have warned there may be little vital rain forecast for southern and japanese England, so there may be not a lot probability of an enormous enchancment within the subsequent week or two.
Scotland has had nearer to the typical rainfall within the north and west, however there have been drier circumstances in south and east Scotland.
Overall, Scotland has had 71% of the typical rain for the month, Wales has had 39%, and Northern Ireland 43%.
The most excessive dry circumstances are in East Anglia and southeast England.
There have additionally been above-average temperatures for a lot of this month, together with heatwave circumstances round 10-13 July and from 16 July, with distinctive warmth throughout 18-19 July when temperatures soared above 40C for the primary time on report.
‘Increasing development in the direction of hotter and drier UK summers’
Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, stated: “Met Office climate change projections highlight an increasing trend towards hotter and drier summers for the UK, with the driest regions anticipated to be in the south and east.
“While developments in summer season temperature and heatwaves are very obvious within the local weather information of current a long time, the big variability in our rainfall implies that it’s too quickly to have the ability to detect the sample in summer season rainfall.”
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