June was mainly anticyclonic although there were brief cyclonic episodes from 1st-15th, 13th-16th, and 29th-30th. Mean pressure was 1 to 2mbar above normal over the British Isles with a weak south-easterly anomalous flow. The main feature of the anomaly chart is the region of well-below average pressure in the western Atlantic. The first five days of June were cool, cloudy and very unsettled as a complex low pressure area, initially west of Scotland, transferred slowly eastwards to the Baltic.

Rain was heavy and persistent in northwestern Britain, and Broadford (Skye) collected 51mm on the 1st-2nd; there were thunderstorms over much of England on the 3rd and further heavy rain in northeast England and southeast Scotland on the 4th. The most noticeable weather features of the month was the highest recorded night minimum temperature on the 19th June, where thermometers never dropped below 18.4°C. The highest day temperature was recorded on the same day at 29.5°C. Given the anticyclonic conditions and one extreme thunderstorm activity at the end of the month, the sunshine figure of 195.5 hrs was 97% of the average for June.

The 24th June was a particularly damp day, where Lyneham was recorded as the wettest place in Britain, we had a heavy persistant downpour, 30mm of rain in the 24-hour period. Extreme thunderstorms and lightning activity, disputed many power lines in the area, resulting in many local towns being without electricity for several hours. The flash floods ended the period of warm weather more..