Another afternoon of sunshine and showers ☔
These turning heavy at times, especially in the east, with flashes of lightning, hail and rumbles of thunder ⛈️
Feeling cool and staying breezy ⤵️
Extremes for West Midlands on 09/06/2026
Highest max temp Pershore College 18.6 °C
Lowest max temp Pennerley 13.3 °C
Lowest min temp Keele 6.2 °C
Highest rainfall Astwood Bank 3.2 mm
Sunniest Wellesbourne 8.1 hours
After a cool start, Wednesday will be another changeable day with a mixture of cloudy periods, sunny spells and scattered showers🌦️
The showers will turn increasingly heavy and locally thundery through the morning, but as is the nature of showers, some places will remain dry⛈️
On this day in #Coventry archives 1892-2025
10th June 2023
It was hot on this day three years ago today, but we still haven't reached the iconic 30C threshold on the 10th June yet.
Warmest days on this date:
29.0C.....2023
28.1C.....1925
28.0C.....2006
26.4C.....1900
26.1C.....1902
***only four days on this date have touched 80F in the past 134 years***
30-year Daily averages in #Coventry 1991-2020
10th June
Mean maximum temperature....18.8°C
Mean minimum temperature.....10.7°C
Grass minimum temperature.....8.8°C
Average rainfall.......2.8mm
Average sunshine....4.9hr
#Bablake data
The next couple of days will be mixed and rather cool with sunshine and showers🌦️
Turning even more unsettled on Thursday as a frontal system pushes east bringing a wetter and windier day🌧️
Extremes for West Midlands on 08/06/2026
Highest max temp Pershore 20.1 °C
Lowest max temp Pennerley 13.8 °C
Lowest min temp Pennerley 9.2 °C
Highest rainfall Wellesbourne 10.6 mm
Sunniest Shobdon Airfield 8.2 hours
On this day in #Coventry archives 1892-2025
9th June
On average (1991-2020), this is the driest day of June with barely 1mm of rain recorded at #Bablake.
It is also one of the driest days of the whole year; on average, only 4 days of the year have recorded less rainfall.
In fact, we have to go back to the first day of the First World War to find the wettest day on this date!
Wettest days on this date in the past 133 years:
1914.....31.2mm
1896.....27.7mm
2010.....23.4mm
1941.....17.0mm
1960.....16.8mm
30-year Daily averages in #Coventry 1991-2020
9th June
Mean maximum temperature....19.7°C
Mean minimum temperature.....10.0°C
Grass minimum temperature.....7.8°C
Average rainfall.......0.7mm
Average sunshine....7.1hr
#Bablake data
Often wet in southeast England and East Anglia at first this afternoon with some heavy rain, easing later🌧️
Brighter skies further north and west with some sunshine but heavy and blustery showers developing in Northern Ireland and western Scotland🌦️
Feeling cool for June🌡️
Climate Statistics week 23 in #Coventry
Monday 1st to Sunday 7th June 2026
Mean temperature 15.3C (+1.0C)
Mean maximum 19.0C (+0.3C)
Mean minimum 11.5C (+1.6C)
Total rainfall 31.4mm (190%)
Total sunshine 16.0hr (38%)
comparison with 30-year Bablake averages
in brackets
Week 23 at #Bablake was the
Warmest since 2023.......(15.6C)
Wettest since 2017.........(35.2mm)
Dullest on record.......previously 20.9hr in 2001