Flaming June

It is not usual for June to be as cool as this, and for all the outside events planned for these weekends it must be disappointing. As K and I cycled in the Vale of Clwyd yesterday we were bombarded with torrential rain and hailstones. The current outside temperature (time of writing is 13.30) is just 8.6 degrees. The outlook is for the cool unsettled conditions to last for days to come. The pattern of our summers seems set at glorious spring weather and then high summer dominated by successive Atlantic low pressure systems.