LONDON – Britain's meteorological service has confirmed what most people cooped up at home during the coronavirus lockdown may have guessed — May was the sunniest month on record.
The Met Office said Monday that there were 266 hours of sunshine during the month, beating the previous record of June 1957 by one hour.
Records go back to 1929. The forecaster also said that May was the driest May in England on record, and the second direst in Wales, in a rainfall series that goes even further back, to 1862.
The warm and dry weather has raised concerns over whether it may make a potential second spike in the country’s coronavirus outbreak more likely especially now that all four U.K.