LONDON WEATHER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 7

LONDON WEATHER

EXTREMES DURING JUNE WATER GETS IN THE BEER London, July 9. Only 11 days after the coldest June; day for five years, London had its hot- ' test June day on record. The first ten. . days of June were miserably cold and j vet, until on 11th June the minimum ' temperature as recorded in Regent I Street dropped tc 45 degrees, the lowest for June since 1936. On Sunday, 22nd June, the maximum ! temperature recorded in Regent Street was 91 degrees. Not 'or nine years has there been such a hot day, and then it , was in August, not June On the same night one of the bigj gest storm 1 ever to break in north-east J England ribbed thousands of Tyne (aiders of their Sunc.uy evening’s drink, ; Public houses were closed and cus j tomers turned away. The beer barrels I in the cellars were covered by water. The storm followed days of brilliant 1 weather and lasted three hours, when hundreds of gardens and allotments were ruined; hailstones as big as marbles fell; floods ripped up roads and pushed down brick walls; and a thunderbolt tore off thousands of chimneys and slates. People had to wade thigh deep in water to get home. Transport services were cancelled.