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Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Here in the UK talking about the weather is already a national pastime, but this month

the water cooler weather chat has ramped up a notch as rain, gray skies and biting

temperatures have put summer firmly on hold.

Change in the weather patterns is on the way, but I suspect it's a change that won't be

widely popular.

I could see some thunderstorms and potentially up to 40 millimeters of rain

building up. But although June has been a little chillier than normal, it turns out the average

person may not be the best judge of what normal weather is. Often our feelings, our perceptions of things are actually quite a poor guide to the reality of the way things actually are.

We become a climatized to this new heat so the average periods feel cooled. We need to be guided by data and not by not by

feelings. And of course our unseasonably wet June is nothing compared to the extreme heat and

floods other parts of the world have experienced lately,

but they're part of the same pattern of increasingly unpredictable weather

which will become the norm as the climate crisis intensifies.

Globally, I think every month over the last year has been record-breaking.

So even if things have seemed sort of average in the UK globally the picture is very much of a

warming climate. So today we're asking why is June such a washout? Is the weather actually as unusual as it seems and can

UK forecasters see any sun on the horizon? I'm the Guardian Science editor Ian's

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