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<\/p>\nBritain’s soggy May washout and persistent gale force winds are thanks to a jet stream from Greenland.<\/p>\n
This year’s unusually wintry spring has inconveniently coincided with the long-awaited lifting of lockdown restrictions after months spent largely indoors.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Met Office\u00a0said up to Saturday the UK had seen an average of 109.3mm of rainfall \u2013 157 percent of the average for the usually dry and sunny month.<\/p>\n
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This makes it the 10th wettest on record, with nine days still to go.<\/p>\n
Meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: \u201cIf you enjoy warm and sunny spring\u00a0weather, I am guessing you have not been a fan of this May so far.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no denying it\u2019s been wet. Some places have had two times their usual total May rainfall \u2013 and that\u2019s only up to May 18.<\/p>\n
\u201cA far cry from April, which this year was the sunniest April on record.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although April was cold, a blocking anti-cyclone near the UK helped divert the jet stream, taking cloud and rain away.<\/p>\n
Aidan said: \u201cMay\u2019s weather has also been down to a blocking anti-cyclone \u2013 but this time, it\u2019s over Greenland and that helped push the jet stream to the south.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the dip of the jet stream lingers, low pressure moves in and mills around for several days, bringing rain.<\/p>\n
However, hope is coming as a long-awaited\u00a0heatwave could well be on the cards with temperatures as high as 24C from June 1.<\/p>\n
Forecasters say the heat will begin in the south and gradually rise in the first week of the next month.<\/p>\n
Kent, London and parts of the south are all braced for temperatures in the mid-twenties for at least the first few days of next month.<\/p>\n
Then there’s the possibility of a 16 day scorcher from June 15 to July, thanks to a 700-mile wide “heat bubble”, say some forecasts.<\/p>\n
John Hammond, of Weathertrending said: \u201cSome warmer days are in the offing, with temperatures in the 20s.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added the conditions would be \u201cvery pleasant\u201d.<\/p>\n
Britain’s soggy May washout and persistent gale force winds are thanks to a jet stream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n