Monsoon June
Daily Star|June 21, 2021
● Torrential rainfall ● Stormy fortnight ● But July scorcher
Alistair Grant
Monsoon June

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.

This story is from the June 21, 2021 edition of Daily Star.

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