Two remarkable British summers - 'perfect' 1911 and calamitous' 1912

摘要

The contrasting summers of 1911 and 1912 were remarkable not only for their individual characteristics but the fact that they occurred in successive years. The hot, dry summer of 1911 saw the third driest July in England and Wales in over 200 years and the UK's highest monthly sunshine total on record. During the August heat-wave, a UK temperature record was set which stood for almost 80 years. The cool, wet summer of 1912 was significantly wetter even than summer 2007. This was the wettest summer inover 200 years for England and Wales, with only summer 1879 coming close. August 1912 was the coldest August in the CET series from 1659 and the wettest in the EWP series from 1766.