...The reason for the on-going poor weather has been the unusual positioning of the jet stream, which continues to be too far south than normal.
This point is graphically illustrated by the fact that June has been in the top 3 most cyclonic (low pressure) Junes in 140 years of records.
And there's still a chance that when official Met Office statistics are published later today or tomorrow, that averaged across the UK as a whole, June 2012 has been the wettest on record.
It's also been cold - with June the coolest since 1991 - and one of the dullest on record too.
Of course June has just seen a continuation of the cool and wet weather which began at the end of March.
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At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, for example, April, May & June combined have been the wettest on record (data back to 1939), with the wet spell only punctuated by one spell of fine warm weather towards the end of May.
And for those of us desperate for a change to more settled weather, there is little to suggest an improvement anytime soon.
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