Keswick basked in another swelteringly hot and sunny month in May to round off spring 2020 which brought an amazing 70 predominantly dry days throughout the season.
Just 40mm of rain fell in the town in May – barely half the local average for the month of 79mm – with none or just a trace of the wet stuff recorded on six of the 31 days.
Temperatures for the month reached a maximum of 26C (78.8F) last Friday (29th May), which is more than 10C above the May average daytime temperature.
“May was another very dry month overall,” confirmed the Keswick Reminder’s weather watcher Lorna H G Holden. The Met Office had earlier announced that the UK had its driest May in 124 years and the sunniest spring since records began.
Keswick’s statistics for May came after the town had an even drier April when just 17mm of rain fell, less than a fifth of the local average for the month. April had just four wet days and with March having had 12 more, that gave a spring total of just 22 without rain from March to May.
All this came after Keswick had endured its wettest ever February when 493mm of rain fell – nearly 20 inches and more than four times the average for the final winter month.
Reflecting on Keswick’s May weather, Lorna added: “Daytime temperatures averaged out at 17C, though it will be the heat of the last few days of May that will be remembered.”
