{"id":10516,"date":"2012-07-04T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2012-07-04T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:27:37","slug":"rain-rain-rain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/rain-rain-rain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Rain Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, even I&#8217;m getting fed up with it now. What has happened to our summer? \u00a0June was the wettest June on record apparently with double the average rain falling during the month, the Met Office has said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Provisional figures showed the UK received 145.3mm (5.7 inches) during June, beating the previous record of 136.2mm (5.4 inches) seen in June 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>June was also the one of the dullest Junes on record, with just 119.2 hours sunshine, only slightly less miserable than June 1987 when a record low of 115.4 hours was recorded. 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