Armagh Observatory reports that the weather in June was much wetter, duller and slightly warmer than average.
Rainfall amounted to 133.3 mm (5.25 inches), which is more than twice the monthly average.
Thus last month was the wettest June since 1958 and the fifth wettest since records began in 1838.
The number of hours of sunshine was 125.1, which is about 25% less than the average. The mean monthly temperature was 14.5 degrees Celsius (58.1 Fahrenheit), which is nearly one degrees higher than average.
The maximum temperature recorded was 25.3 degrees Celsius on the 11th of June.
Thus far July has been a wet one too - with average rainfall up by 243%. Met office experts say we're experiencing autumnal weather due to a confluence of atmospheric events, including a peculiar jet stream direction and the bumping together of high pressure over mainland Europe and low pressure sitting over the British Isles.
The El Nina effect from the Pacific ocean is also in the frame.
Who would have thought the weather could be so interesting? It's all anyone's talking about this "summer".
