DID YOU KNOW? BET YOU DIDN'T


500 million litres of rain can fall in a single thunderstorm.

The longest drought in the UK occurred in Sussex and lasted 60 days between 17th March and 15th May 1983.

In terms of annual average rainfall, the driest recorded place in the UK is not Hartlepool but St Osyth, Essex, with just 513 mm.

The heaviest rainfall in one year in the UK is 6528mm recorded at Sprinkling Tarn, Cumbria, in 1954. (Hartlepool must have come a close second this July)!

You think it gets cold here! The lowest screen temperature recorded in the world is - 89.2 degrees C at Vostok, Antarctica on 21st July 1983.

In terms of annual average temperature, the warmest place in the UK is Scilly, Cornwall with a mean temperature of 11.5 degrees C.

Braemar, Aberdeenshire is the coldest low-level place in the UK, in terms of annual average temperature, with a mean temperature of 6.5 degrees C.