By IRNA
London : The weather during June, July and August and September are expected to be a ‘typical British summer,’ according to the latest long-range forecasts issued Thursday.
Summer temperatures across the UK are more likely to be warmer than average and rainfall near or above average for the three months of summer, the Met Office said.
The main feature of summer 2007 in Britain was the high rainfall experienced in many regions, especially during June and July. For parts of England and Wales, it was the wettest summer since the national and regional rainfall series began in 1914.
But the Met Office said that the risk of exceptional rainfall on the same scale as the summer of last year remains a “very low probability.”
Government Services Director at the Met Office, Rob Varley said that long-range forecasts are proving useful to a range of people, such as emergency planners and the water industry, in order to help them plan ahead.
But Varley also warned that they were “not forecasts which can be used to plan a summer holiday or inform an outdoor event.” Last week, the Met Office revised its predictions for the remaining months of spring, said the mean temperatures was more likely to be either near average or above average, after the country suffered spells of snow and high winds.
The cooler weather compares with the warmest on record for the UK in Spring 2007 when the mean temperature was 1.7 degree centigrade above the 1971-2000 average.