It wasn’t until the last six days of the month arrived that the island saw consistent sunshine, high temperatures, sparse rain, and over 10-hours of sunshine each day.  

Temperatures in the second half of the month helped to offset what was an otherwise foggy, dull and cooler period. 

It was a story of low-pressure hovering over Britain in the first weeks that brought the unseasonal weather. 

“Low pressure remained the driving force across the British Isles, centred off the northwest coast of Scotland, with bands of showers running across the country. Down in the Channel we managed to avoid the bulk of those showers, but an open wave depression developing out in the near Atlantic brought renewed outbreaks of rain and drizzle together with mist,” it said. 

“At the halfway point of the month rainfall was already some 12mm above the average total for July, sunshine was rather lacking, and the mean temperature was a whole degree below the long-term average.” 

Temperatures peaked on 31 July with highs of 26.6c beating cooler day-time temperatures of 16.2c on 8 July. 

There was warm respite on 18 July, before cooler air rolled in from the Atlantic bringing showers and hill fog.  

Mixed conditions continued before a battering of rain on 25 July before clearer skies prevailed. 

“Rain, persistent and occasionally heavy, drizzle and mist from just before sunrise progressively worsened, with fog from mid-morning which plagued the islands for much of the day. We did see a clearance just after 21:00 that evening but with 17.1mm of rain and no sunshine it certainly wasn’t a day worth writing home about.”