July was driest month in southern England since records began

Per the Met Office, July twenty twenty-six was the driest month in southern England since records began nearly two hundred years ago. England and Wales also recorded their driest July since eighteen thirty-six. Wales saw its joint warmest July on record for mean temperature, while England recorded its second warmest July, combining drought with unusual heat.

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