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May.—Similar conditions prevailed throughout the opening
days of May, a gale being experienced on the English and
Irish coasts between the 1st and 3rd. After the 4th a
brief improvement took place, but between the 10th and
16th very unsettled conditions were occasioned by a
complex barometric depression which extended over the
United Kingdom from the Southward; thunderstorms,
accompanied in many instances by heavy falls of rain,
commencing in the South.West of England on the 10th,
and afterwards extending over nearly the whole country.
For the remainder of May the weather was mostly fair,
warm, and dry, but thunderstorms of considerable severity
occurred in many districts between the 25th and 27th,
and again on the 31st. Between the 29th and 31st the
thermometer rose to 80° and upwards in many parts of
the United Kingdom.
Mean temperatures : Highest, 68.1° ; lowest, 46.3°.
Rainfall at Leyton, 1.0 inches.
June.—The early part of June was mostly fine and warm, but
thunderstorms occurred in the South.Western districts on
the 8th. After a spell of cool Northerly winds between
the 12th and 14th, when ground frosts of destructive
severity were experienced in many parts of the country,
the weather became very changeable generally, the wind
being mainly from the West or South.West, and often
strong in force. Heavy rain fell in the West of Scotland