Two remarkable British summers – ‘perfect’ 1911 and ‘calamitous’ 1912

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Recent work by the Met Office National Climate Information Centre (NCIC) to extend the monthly temperature and rainfall series
for the UK from 1914 back to 1910 drew two remarkable British summers to our attention.
The ‘perfect’ summer1 of 1911 was one of the warmest on record. It included the driest
July over England and Wales in the last 100 years, an exceptionally sunny July and
one of the warmest Augusts. In marked contrast, the ‘calamitous season’2 of summer
1912 was the wettest in over 200 years and included the coolest and wettest August on
record.

Kendon_et_al-2011-Weather.pdf