THE SPRING OF 1990 IN THE UNITED-KINGDOM

Spring 1990 was warm, sunny, and very dry in southern areas but wet in western Scotland. Although May was dry over Scotland, March was the wettest in the Scottish rainfall series beginning in 1869, giving a generally wet spring with more than one and a half times the normal rainfall in all but some eastern areas. Over England and Wales all three months were drier than normal resulting in the driest spring this century. However, there were thundery outbreaks during May with heavy thunderstorms moving across Wales, northern and western England and southern Scotland. It was the sunniest spring over England and Wales since 1948, but dull wet weather over north-western areas in March brought Scotland's sunshine closer to the average.