Monsoon June

● Torrential rainfall ● Stormy fortnight ● But July scorcher

- Alistair Grant

Summer has gone AWOL as four 500 mile-wide Atlantic buffetings bring a two-week June monsoon.

After a soggy summer solstice today, the rest of June looks flaming wet rather than flaming hot.

Al fresco Euro 2020 football fans better invest in a poncho.

Forecasters said the “European Monsoon” phenomenon is seeing wet Atlantic winds hit – despite summer having started with a heatwave.

Washout

Three inches of rain are due in the next fortnight in the west, with an inch in the east.