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Get the London, England local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
England is also sunnier throughout the year, but unlike Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the sunniest month is July, with an average of 193.5 hours. 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).
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
14 August 1975 Highest 180-min total 178 mm (7.0 in) Horncastle, Lincolnshire: 7 October 1960 Highest 24-hour total 279 mm (11.0 in) Martinstown, Dorset: 18 July 1955 Highest total in any 24-hour period (1800-1800) 341.4 mm (13.44 in) Honister Pass, Cumbria: 5 December 2015 Highest 24-hour total (UK national average) 31.7 mm (1.25 in)
Over the last couple of days, the UK has been battered by rains and thunderstorms with the Met Office ... — Met Office (@metoffice) August 14, ... The warmest weather is anticipated on Friday ...
The UK could be set for the warmest day of the year so far this week, according to the latest forecast by the Met Office, ahead of the predicted arrival of a so-called “African plume” heatwave ...
Winter of 2010–11. The winter of 2010–11 was a weather event that brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It included the United Kingdom's coldest December since Met Office records began, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the ...
Although 14 August was the final day of the extremely hot weather, temperatures remained above the seasonal average into the following day. On 15 August, heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across the UK. The Met Office issued three days of weather alerts for 15, 16 and 17 August, warning of a risk of flash flooding in some areas.